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with warnings to beware of frostbite and hypothermia as the us and canada and your extreme sub 0 temperatures. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera la you from dough are also coming up. ah, anger in the french capital of the 3 people are killed in a suspected grace's attack on the kurdish community. rebel fighters say they'll retreat from a strategic frontline town in the democratic republic of congo as a goodwill gesture. plus what a terrible year it's been for ukraine. russia's invasion is brought, indescribable suffering, but also grit and determination on role reach helen's in ph later in the program. i'll be looking at what ukraine has lost in 2022. and what it hopes to win back in 223.

ah, welcome to the program. a bitterly cold storm is threatening to disrupt holiday travel plans for millions of americans. the arctic blast known as elliot is in developing most of the us and canada. full causes are calling it a once in a generation weather event. more than 200000000 people, that's about 2 thirds of the u. s. population. and now under weather warnings, more than 4000 flights within into or out of the u. s. have been canceled on friday because of high winds and heavy snow, and more than 700000 homes have already lost power mostly across tennessee, north carolina, virginia and maine. will a cold snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare? for the north it's expected a drop below minus 17 degrees celsius, and some areas of focus to get as low as minus 45 celsius experts warm. this could

lead to frostbite in 5 to 10 minutes was in jordan reports with dreaming of a white christmas sounds romantic for song. but for millions of people in the west this holiday weekend, it's more like a nightmare. a massive winter storm from canada has brought sub freezing temperatures and heavy snow to most of the country, as well as nationwide flight disruptions. power outages and pipe breaks and the thrive from spite an hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. yahoo! alan called there pretty much close on. i think most winters we unfortunately do lose some of our neighbors who are living outside the weather against volleyball. that's it's a sad thing happens every year, deteriorating road conditions and melting power outages have led some of fish to

declare a state of emergency. the best thing you can do is stay off the roads, stay inside the storms. intensity has experts debating whether global warming is to blame, so really cold because the very cold air and the arctic, the vortex has been displaced. the question is why? and there's really 2 schools of thought. one is that this is clearly a climate change related phenomenon because the arctic is warming, so best. and the other school says all this is natural, variability, as flight cancellations pile into the 1000 traveler. st going home just isn't an option of where from an eminence family and like my parents and their siblings move to the u. s. many years ago. but every year we try to spend christmas or thanksgiving or something like that together. just you know, to keep the family connected. so it's, it's really important trying to stay focused on the reason for the season in the face of intent. seasonal weather, rosalyn,

jordan al jazeera nbc shaquille brewster has more on the severe weather conditions . dear invention, harbor, michigan, which is essentially right across the lake from chicago. we're getting all of the impacts of this massive winter storm. you see the snow that's coming down? well, they're expecting the snow to continue possibly for more days. it's this lake effect snow. some areas expecting more than 2 feet of it to come by the time we get to christmas, but it's not just the snow. it's also the wind. at some points there are breaks in the snow, but you can't tell because of the wind whipping the snow around the toughest when the strongest wind is expected to come later this afternoon, up to 60 mile an hour wind gusts for this area, but the danger is and what you're hearing from a local authorities, local police authorities, is that you shouldn't be out on the roads. because what this, when does, is it whips around the snow that's already on the ground and on the road that

creates 0 visibility in those white out conditions at so many are concerned about some of the hundreds of migrants hoping to get into the u. s. from mexico are battling temperatures well below freezing to chance their luck. they're waiting for the u. s. supreme court to lift trump here a restrictions that prevent many of them from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings were set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was granted. now mine at bay this year we from the coastal venezuela. lots of sun and the weather here fix us a little is very cold, right? no, we're having a bonfire. so i will myself, a little bit looser. it's going to come down to almost $23.00 degrees tonight. and some of them, there's been nitrogen, it's been so called that people i step outside and they say, please let me. and even if they're standing room only, i don't even have to find a place on a floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in. heavy rain of course,

flooding across several iraqi cities, the capital baghdad is among the areas affected. the rocky government's been blame for being unprepared for extreme weather events. 12 people were killed this time last year of to flash floods in the northern city of at a bill. investigators in france saw considering a possible race. this motive, fresh shooting and paris does kill 3 people in a kurdish cultural center. a 69 year old suspect previously jail for attacking migrants has been arrested detached spot protest by members of the kurdish community. natasha, but the reports from the french capital. until the police and emergency wilkins cordoned off an area in central paris after a gunman went on a deadly shooting rampage, firing at people in a hair salon kurdish restaurant and kurdish community center. eye witnesses said people ran in panic. dalton, marcia de la helen, over walking down the street. we heard shots, we turned around,

people were running left and right. of course, after 5 or 6 minutes, we went to the hairdressers up and we saw people had stopped the man. he was quite all 3 people were injured, mozilla solander police arrested a 69 year old frenchman. he was known to authorities and had been previously charged with racist violence against migrant living intense in the city of cycle till the end of the jail may have attack. these tennessee and investigation started at the end of 2021, and the individual has greasy been released as news spread of the shooting paper from the cities kurdish community gathered to protest separate camara to random. the killer did it to scare the kurdish community. follow. we don't know how we will go on with nor kurdistan is dangerous, where we live in france in the capital. and now it's dangerous. here. frances prism condemned to what he called an odious attack against curds and france. earlier the interior minister had said to shoot his motivation was unclear,

pacific more point pure than he was clearly targeting foreigners. what we need to know from the judicial inquiry presided over by the public prosecutor, whether it was specifically for the kurds. but for the moment, there is no evidence to show that there was no doubt though in the minds of demonstrators angry and upset. they burned flat. and pluto literally moved in now to try and clear the protest because they only becoming quite while the preacher subsided, the police remained on standby and investigations been opened into the attack. interior, ministry, se security will be increased. it could you sites in the country for some they say it's a welcome measure, but one that comes to late natasha butler, al jazeera paris. not a report by ethiopian investigators has blamed a flight software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max passenger plane in 2019 a 157 people died when the ethiopian airlines jet crashed when it's up to take out

from addis ababa the findings correspond with previous investigations which blame the models, anti stall system for sending the plane and to an uncontrollable dive. it was the 2nd crash of its kind within months and forced bearing to ground all 737, max planes, worldwide. the m 23 arm group, which has seized territory in the democratic republic of congo, says it will retreat from a strategic frontline position fighter se there withdraw from the town of cuba in the northeast as a good will gesture. m. 23 is widely understood to be backed by rolanda and allegation that could golly denies. east african leaders have been pushing for an end to the conflict as force hundreds of thousands of people on their homes. since october volunteer kid. let them go through uh, welfare who shall do this. this is a good will gesture that the m 23 will make today. it is in the name of pillows and a gesture that is part of the recommendations of the many summit of heads of state

held in angola in november 2022 nissan. we hope that the kinshasa government will seize this opportunity to handles and work to bring peace to our country. are desirous malcolm web is monitoring developments from my robi. in recent months, the 33 armed group took control of several key towns in advance toward the regional capital of goma. the city of my sites have been photographed and filmed with rwandan soldiers among them quite to use london military equipment for everyone to deny the 23 is it proxy? now people in strategic cross calling, i have been demonstrating per month past the again, rwanda and uganda. they accuse of decades of military battling and aggression. they've also been protesting against the international community, particularly the u. k. and france for that silence on the issue in recent months. rwanda depends on a military aid from western countries, and the campaign is say,

it simply need the international community, the way in to stop one day from its military aggression. now, just 4 days ago, after months of silence from which is the key ally of rwanda and a military partner, france finally said that one that back in $23.00 in the land. and then just days later, we seeing that you turn on the ground with them 23, pulling back from territory. that is taken in recent weeks where the un peacekeeping mission in the d. r congo is the biggest in the world. but it hasn't prevented attacks by groups. m 23 is one of more than a 100 based in eastern congo. it emerge more than a decade ago in fantasies. the city of goma on the border with rolanda. they say they're defending the interest of the ethnic tootsie minority. in 2013, the companies army on un backed force is defeated in $23.00, and it's fighters fled to rolanda and uganda. and 23. they split into several

factions, but only this year. 2 of them united to launch the latest offensive. jo michelle land lose a congress research and activists based in belgium. he says, the conflict has made women and girls, especially vulnerable, is incredibly difficult for women or women are generally viewed as 2nd class citizens in that part of the world. and the weapon, as ational rate has been a female body, has only just increase the office. the suffering for women in eastern congress incredibly difficult place for women to live in by, by any standards. it's important to have a tribunal to stop this whole trav. impunity. doctor, dennis mccrae gay. who's them? who's the man who? 6 is women has been arguing that point for the last 20 years because it's awful. what's happening to convert these women? i have sisters, i have aunties, i have nieces and what's happening to the women in the eastern congo in congo,

in general. personally upsetting because it's as companies we see ourselves as one family. if the, if eastern congo is not healthy is it's like the whole body style. but also to come here and our job here, including body bags, mounting up fears. a lot more people will die in china surgeon, coven, 19 cases. and we bring the world's 2nd biggest film industry into focus with the help of one of its new generation filmmakers more than steamers. ah. with hello. let's check up on that. whether across north america, where the bitterly cold weather has set in across pretty much all of the u. s. is dive down to canada, pushed all the way down towards south seeing how the ice, the bars are lined up from north to south right away across florida. some parts of

the u. s. evenings and northern areas of mexico. i'll just take the cloud of the chart here so you can see how tightly packed and how many i survived the raw on the chart. hence that very, very strong winds. wind still gusting that says of 80 kilometers per hour, severe windshield interest windshield. and we are going to see even though the temperatures well there, on the improvements, we'll see temperatures around minus 17 celsius there for chicago. for friday, going on into sat there, there's temperature picking up at around minus 11 celsius. but with that strong wind, it will still feel bitterly cold. that dangerous wind chill, continuing right through the holiday period. but you can see how the mild, a rather less cold ash will call it. that is trying to push its way in from southern parts say, 10 which is minus 7 celsius there for chicago by monday afternoon. so that some kind of an improvement still plenty of snow. they're coming in across central parts of canada. lake effects. no, they're just around the great lakes. starting to retreat away. finally by sunday. ah,

it was supposed to be a refuse, but south korea's brother's home was allegedly the scene of torture, rape, and even murder one. 0, one east investigates the crimes. and those set to be behind on al jazeera. all you kind of do the cost getting more bang for your buck. the dollars been on the up in 20. 22. what's next? with the greenback. why gold hasn't been doing so well this year? i'm christian currency waltz. we're going to look at what's next by the industry as it struggles to regain trust. counting the cost on all just oh as

well. come back if you come out of the top stories here at this hour, more than 200000000 people in the us are under whether warnings as i bitterly cold storm sweets to north america. the arctic losses that hundreds of thousands of homes that a power of cause, major travel disruption been pro chest in paris after 3 people was shot dead near a kurdish cultural center. and he say, the suspect to choose to was previously jail for an attack on my breasts and m. 23 fighters of seeds, large part of the democratic republic of congo. a pledge to retreat from a strategic frontline position by to say they will get up the town of cuba to a regional commission as a good little gesture. now in february, russia launched a military invasion of ukraine 10 months on and with no end in sight to the fighting many ukrainian zone during a dark and cold winter out as he was where we challenged looks at the events that shaped the conflict. the february,

the 24th 2020 to the day, everything changed for ukraine through the chaos. one thing with clear months of military filled up would be no blood. this was a russian invasion batteries. southern russia and crimea troops, tanks and aircraft poured across the borders, fleeing the russian blitzkrieg civilians, crowded train stations and highways. hundreds of thousands of women and children headed abroad. men had to stay the device to my house being torn apart. i'm sorry. it's tough. when families are separated, it's very hard. ukraine was fighting for survival. as a sovereign nation, volunteers joined the army and territorial defense criticisms. one of those who

picked up a gun was e hall. he helped defend a pin, a key of suburb that saw fierce fighting. he had described to me what it had been like moment after the whole war. i had no fear. i don't know why we were all determined not to give up our land. we understood a weapons of weak against their arm or what we had modulation because of fierce ukrainian resistance. rushes invasion wasn't going well. at the end of march after huge losses of men and machinery, russia abandoned this attempt to seize cave. what they left behind, shops of the world who cher the most infamous, but civilian bodies were found in nearly every settlement. the russians had occupied, often showing signs of torture and execution. the seasons have carried on to see her and her grief through spring summer,

autumn. and now to winter. when the russians abducted her son didn't take him far. just 200 meters down the road to the pig farm for his body was found. you know, but we're to your cue, we will be through the window. i saw him been taken out. good. there was a car outside. they've taken from one of the villagers. do you feel when you the use of our disposal when they put him in and laughed? i didn't know where for which they were taken at half past 5 and shut immediately that evening. eagerly as if he were sleeping in the new spot. in the east, the battle for don bass became an attrition of grind to the south. russia had more to show for its efforts. mary, you pull on the sea coast finally fell to the russians in may. the city of 400000

people before the war lay in ruins. but ukraine was preparing to strike back. it reached the khaki of region and surprise, september counter offensive. that was followed by a strike on rushes bridged to crimea, and a forced russian retreat from the city of her son. he said this was moscow's response, running shows of military options, russia launch drones and cruise missiles at ukraine's energy grid. an attempt to freeze the country into submission as winter approached. widespread blackouts in sub 0 temperatures are a challenge for everyone, particularly those without much money. the miller lives in a smoke blackens bomb damaged apartment block in the pin. yet you still can't self lucky or hear from a 3rd. to be honest, my heart bleeds seeing these ruins,

but we are alive. we covered the windows with foam, we had hope because we have something live at the last every. as 2022 ends. ukrainians leave behind them a year of indescribable suffering, but they take with them a unity and a will to win that this country admiration from around the world. there are still many people who doubt that ukraine can ultimately prevail against the might of russia. but few, if any, him come from this country off pretty much any ukrainian what they expect for 2023 and they only have one on so victory. we, shannon's al jazeera give china is battling a wave of corona virus infections that's hit the elderly population hard. this video shows dozens of body bags piled up at a funeral parlor in the southwestern city of cha ching. but beijing as a porter, just a few, just a handful of decimal virus during the surge, had recently change criteria for registration of coven. 19 fatalities. with

a wave in infections has forced this hospital in chunk gym to use its main lobby. as a makeshift ward cases have been rising, since the government is restrictions this month, following widespread protests with china's top health authority says nearly 37000000 people may have been infected with coven 19 on a single day. this week the bloomberg news agency says minutes were meeting of the national health commission show that 248000000 people are thought to have contract of the virus in the 1st 20 days of december. that equates to about 18 percent of the total chinese population health officials but a $290000.00 co debts by april. if china adopts containment measures, but they expect 1600000 fatalities. if there are no new restrictions. we'll alley mocked out as an epidemiologist at the institute that release those figures. he says the chinese government needs to be more transparent that you want your public to stay at home. you need to tell them what's happening in their own community so

far. we don't see to ask the public to stay at home, why you're telling them that or not, no cases and no desk. i'm good with 19, nobody is when i listen and people are, when i come outside, you need to be transparent. then people will listen to you right now to cove the blog, but it will be impacted by china. what's happening in china? we have seen so far, billions of infections from on the clark. what spending right now in china is b one, b 2 and b a 5. we haven't seen so far, and immune escape fatty. and so that's the good news. so we're expecting about 1100000000 to be infected and china, hopefully none of the new finance or immune escape will appear. so that's what we're looking at from the economy standpoint. china is a major producer of house goes. that can be a lot of shortage because chinese will keep them supplies that come will not export . what they bring. india is gearing up for a possible surgeon. covered 19 infections as cases spread across china. flights between the 2 countries are still operating. the government has asked health

officials to step up surveillance, panama t. r reports from new delhi. it's the holiday season, and it's back in full swing. for the 1st time since the pandemic began. but the looming threat of another croon of ice outbreak could spoil the festive spirit faster for the other dung guardian. i think our lives are more precious than the festivities we have to prioritize done. it all comes down to people's awareness. india had rollback most restrictions after the rate of infections load in the past few months. most people have software in math, even in carter places such as markets. but the outbreak in china and i've taken several other countries, has prompted me as another wave could be devastating for an undeserved health care system and is struggling economy. some pandemic protocols have returned. travelers need to be fully vaccinated against cove 19 and found the screenings will take place at airports. the government says about 2 percent of international travelers

are being tested upon arrival, and some tourist attractions are testing visitors before they enter. parliamentarians are wearing masks and encouraging people to do the same, cannot accost aid in southern india, has made faith coverings, compulsory indoors. and i don't, bobby, we have asked states to become more vigilant and increased genome sequencing of all positive cases. if we have a new variant in india, we can identified in advance because of the festive season and new year. we have asked this to ask people to use masks and sanitizers and encourage social distances . this also renewed focused on vaccines. why 90 percent of eligible people are fully vaccinated against coven? 19 only a quarter have received a booster shot epidemiologist. the immunization is crucial to managing a virus that you had to stay. i'm not thinking you need to get up because the situation in india is very different from that. in china and india, we have had exposure to the wireless and radius form,

including on the chrome or the in january of this year. and we are quite a fair amount of immunity because of the exposure to different brush of the wireless. while the government is often people not to panic, it's preparing more guidelines for the holiday season. several hospitals nationwide will conduct drills next week to ensure they're ready to handle an influx of patients should the need to rise off new metal al jazeera, you deli, today when he ran bouquet has been confirmed as fiji new prime minister ending days of political deadlock parliament now and he voted in favor of the former military strong man. after this month inconclusive elections. marks a combat for ram boca who served twice as prime minister. his last government was toppled in a qu by the outgoing lead up front bind in my rama was been in power for 16 years. ron buchanan has a 3 party coalition. oil giant shell has agreed to pay nearly $16000000.00 to nigeria and communities affected by leaks and its pipelines. the company sent the

settlement for oil spills between 200412007 is not an admission of liability. it says the pipeline was sabotaged. dutch appeals court rule lossy in favor of farmers in the niger river delta, up to 13 years of legal battles. nigeria has one of the world's largest film industries productions of steadily growing in scaled since its origins, back in the 1960s. we're now it turns out thousands of features every year. but as one young filmmaker told al jazeera, it's becoming more about quality and quantity. i am towing in ghana. you 31 years old and i am a filmmaker in lagos, nigeria. i think that some right from when i was very young, i've always liked the media. my father was a journalist, so i mean a print journalist, but then i would watch the tv and, you know, tell myself i wouldn't be on t v like this person. you know that that letter should go for few making then it's

about story tenant. i always get inspiration to tell stories and they come to mean different formats. so, you know, there's some stories they'll come to you and you know that this can work for radio, for example. he has to be on t v or he has to be a documentary that some stories they'll come to you and then, i mean, it would just be a feel. so it was, that was how it started. the year of us, i want to like the like to stick hoarders in the major and film him industry. so i think that the europe as ah, it's, it's a cultural thing. we have this very beautiful culture. we have dads, we have drums, we have so it is natural that's, you know, would want to do films. if you look at how the current industry developed, it was just about volume people just kept creatine, and creeds, and people loved entertainment. people wanted to watch it. you have a lot of filmmakers as well now who wanted to be standard, like we wanted to go places we wanted to have, you know, to,

to have the proper structure. but then we also have few makers who think that or who want our friends to cross, you know, to the tilt. so the global or north and you know, for the war to see because we now need the, the exposure. we need the film industry to be developed to that will have, you know, people can actually get paid and be able to leave off their earning, asked creators for me or my hopes and dreams for my career. and the industry would be that 1st law to tell stories that very, you know, genuine, to me, it's very important for me to tell stories. i feel it to be seen by the world. the american and russian space agencies are facing a dilemma. but how to get several astronauts home that's after a russian saw your spacecraft spring a leak last week. it's dr. the international space station. 7 people on board, but they're not in danger. the craft might not make the trip back to earth as scheduled in march. instead, russia may need to send another spacecraft.