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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 die from dough are also coming up anger in the french capital up to 3 people not killed in a suspected racist attack on the kurdish community. rebel fighters say they'll retreat from a strategic frontline town in the democratic republic of congo as a good will gesture. and we bring the future nigeria as film industry into focus for the help of one of its new generation. a filmmakers 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 eliot is enveloping most of the us and canada forecasters are calling it a once in a generation weather event. more than 200000000 people at about 2 thirds of the us population are under weather warnings. more than 4000 flights within into or out of the u. s. a been canceled on friday because of high winds and heavy snow. and more than $700000.00 homes have already lost power, mostly across tennessee, north carolina, virginia and maine. will the coal snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. for the north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 celsius. and some areas are full cost or get us know as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. experts warm this could lead to frostbite . in 5 to 10 minutes. rosen, jordan reports ah, 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 threat of frost fight and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. yahoo, alan called there pretty much close on. i think most winters we unfortunately deal is some of our neighbors who are living outside the weather against volleyball. it's, it's a sad thing that happens every year deteriorating road conditions and melting power outages have let some officials 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 in the arctic cortex 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 he arctic is warming so vast and the other school says, all this is natural variability as flight cancellation to pile into the 1000 traveler. st going home just isn't an option where from an imogen 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 intense seasonal with rosalind jordan, al jazeera and bessie shaquille. brewster has more on the severe weather conditions here in bench in 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 4 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 point, 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 that so many are concerned about . while some of the hundreds of migrants hoping to get into the u. s. from mexico are battling temperatures well below freezing to charge. they luck. they're waiting

for the us supreme court to lift trump clear restrictions that prevent many of them from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings was set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was granted. now mine at bay, they're going to see a day we from the coastal ero, venezuela. lots of sun and the weather here, fix us a little. it's very cold, right? no, we're having a bonfire. so i will myself a little bit closer. it's going to come down to almost $23.00 degrees tonight and there are some of them. there's been nitrogen, it's been so called that people i step outside and they say, please, i let me. and even if they're standing room only, i don't even have to find a place on the floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in. heavy rain, of course, flooding across several cities in iraq, the capital baghdad is among the areas affected. iraq government's been blamed for being unprepared for extreme weather events. an a record breaking snow storm as it

parts of north western japan getting at least 8 people. it's led to traffic calles disrupted, railway services, and cut power to thousands of homes. forecasters are expecting more severe weather in the coming days. investigators in france are considering a possible racist motive for shooting and paris that's kill 3 people near a kurdish cultural center. a 69 year old suspect previously jail for tracking migrants has been arrested. the attach spot protest by members of the kurdish community. natasha battle reports from pass until the police and emergency workers cordoned off an area in central paris after 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. downtown marcia de la helper was 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 who 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 my grants, living intense in the city of cycle till the end of the jail may have attack these tenderly and investigation started at the end of 2021 and the individual has greasy been released as news spread of the shooting people from the cities. kurdish community gathered to protest separate camara to ran down the killer. did it to scare the kurdish community? follow? we don't know how we will go on with north kurdistan is dangerous, where we live in france in the capital, and now it's dangerous. here. frances prism condemned what he called an odious attack against curds and france. earlier the interior minister had said the shooters 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 was no evidence to show that there was no doubt though in the minds of demonstrators angry and upset. they burned, flat, and fool literally moved in now to try and clear the protest. because the only becoming quite by the protest subsided, the police remained on standby and investigations been opened into the attack. the 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. i report by ethiopian investigators as blame the software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max plane in 2019 a 157 people died when the ethiopian airlines jet crashed minutes after take off

from addis ababa. the findings correspond with previous investigations which blamed the models empty stall system for sending the plane into an uncontrollable dive. it was the 2nd crash of its kind within months and forced boeing to ground all $77.00, max airplanes around the world. them $23.00 arm group which are sees territory in the democratic republic of congo, says it will retreat from a strategic frontline position by to say they will draw from the town of cuba in the northeast as a good will gesture. m. 23 is widely understood to be back by rolanda and allegation that to garley denies. east african leaders have been pushing for an end, the conflict as force hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since march volunteer to let them go through the phil who should do this. this is a good will gesture that the m 23 will make today. it is in the name of p loss and a gesture that is part of the recommendations of the mini summit up heads of state health and angola in november 2020 to me. so we hope that the kinshasa government

will seize this opportunity to handle us and work to bring peace to our country out there. as malcolm weber's monitoring developments from nairobi. in recent months, the 43 group took control of several key towns in advance toward the regional capital of goma. the city of goma fighters have been photographed and filmed with rwandan soldiers among them quite to use the military equipment for everyone to deny. the 23 is it proxy, you know, people in cities across town that i've been demonstrating for months. first, the, again, rwanda and you done the, 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 this issue in recent months. rwanda depends on a military aid from western countries and the campaign to say,

it's simply need the international community, the way in to stop one day from its military aggression. now, just 4 days ago, off the month of silent france, which is a key ally of rwanda and a military partner. france finally said that one day, back in 23 in the run the ship. and then just days later, we seeing this, you turn on the ground with them 23, pulling back from territory. that is taken in weeks and weeks. well, the un peacekeeping mission in the d. r congo is the biggest in the world, but it hasn't prevented attacks by our groups. the m 23 is one of more than a 100, based on the eastern congo. no merge more than a decade ago. when fighter sees the city of goma on the border with rhonda, they say they're defending the interests of the ethnic to see minority in 2013 the congress army and you and backed force is defeated in 23 and it's fighters fled to rolanda and uganda. m 20 feet and spit into several factions,

but earlier this year, 2 of them united to launch the latest offensive. jo, michelle and london, is a congress with search based in belgium. he says the conflict has made women and girls especially vulnerable. it's incredibly difficult for women and women are generally viewed as 2nd class citizens in that part of the world. and the weapon as ation already has been a female body, has only just increase the office the suffering for women in easton congress. incredibly difficult place for women to live in by any standards. it's important to have a tribunal to stop this whole trav. impunity. doctor dennis mccrae, 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 on teeth. i have nieces and what's happening to the women in the eastern congo in congo in general, personally upset and 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 is not healthy. they all, giant shell has agreed to pay it nearly $16000000.00 to nigeria and communities affected by meeks and its pipelines. the company says the settlement for oil spills between 20042007 is not an admission of liability. it says the pipelines were sabotaged. dutch appeals court ruled last year in favor of farmers in the niger river delta after 13 years of legal battle. so break here now to 0, when we come back body bags, mounting up, sears, a lot more people will die in china. surgeon covered 19 cases and why the latest public sector strike in the u. k. gospel christmas plans. hundreds of thousands of travelers. morning status. ah

ally, we got some rather wet weather, the forecastle parts of the middle east over the next couple days if maybe the cloud moving across north pass has brought some right into a rock. that rain will be setting in as it pushes across into iran snow. they're over the high ground, not bad in caught our temperatures at around 20 celsius. so little kudos to go on into sunday temperatures at around $23.00 degrees, hoping little dry then as well for iran. meanwhile, we will see some wet weather coming in to lou levant. serial lebanon, jordan, seeing some model weather for a time, and went by the 2 across northern and western parts of saudi arabia. rochelle is up with a little crop of showers, also affecting the sign up an inch to the far north east of egypt. seeing some wet weather, maybe even able to we'll see a north west as well. few showers still in place there across northern parts of libya. much of north africa is dry. the storms that just around the sun sections of the harbor for much of west africa,

it is dry and fine. the showers continue. meanwhile, across the tropics, some heavy burst of rain. they're just coming out of angola, zambia pushing into northern parts of mozambique more the same as we go on through sunday. the sunday i also noticed some very wet weather coming in across much of that eastern side of south africa. ah, talk to al jazeera. we also do believe that women of afghanistan was somehow abandoned by the international community. we listen, we have a huge price for the rural. i'm going to terrorism that's going on in some money. we meet with global news maintenance. i'm talk about the stories that matter. one out, you see there is no channel that covers world news like we do, we revisit places the state. i'll just really invest in that. and that's the privilege. as a journalist, lou

ah, welcome back to them out of the top stories here at this hour more than 200000000 people in the us under weather warnings as a bitterly cold storm sweeps from north america. the art to classes left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and cause major trouble with russia. they've been protest in paris after 3 people was shot dead near a kurdish cultural center. and they say, the suspect the shooter, was previously jailed for an attack on migrants. and m. 23 fighters with seas large part of the democratic republic of congo. a pledge to retreat from a strategic frontline position by to say, build you up the town of cuba, regional commission as a goodwill gesture. now china is battling a wave of

a corona virus infections that 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, beijing has reported just a handful of death during the current surge at recently change criteria for registration of cobit 19 fatalities. while the wave infections as forced this hospital and chunk ching to use its may not be as a makeshift ward cases have been rising. since the government is restrictions this month following widespread protests. and china's top health authority says nearly 37000000 people may have been infected with cobit 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 jeff contracted the virus in the 1st 20 days of december. that equates to about 18 percent of the total chinese population. the institute for health metrics and evaluation of products, 290000 cobra debts by april. if china adopts the contaminant measures that research

is expect, but they put at 1600000 fatalities if no new restrictions are adopted. but ali mocked as an epidemiologist at the institute that released those figures. he said the chinese government needs to be more transparent. if you want to the public to stay at home, you need to tell them what's happening in their own community so far. we don't see it to ask the public to stay at home. why you're telling them that are not no cases and no that's going to go, but nobody is going to listen and people are going to come outside. you need to be transparent, then people will listen to you right now to call the blog, but it will be impacted by china. what's happening in china? we have seen so far, billions of infractions from on the clock. what's threatening that economic? china is b one, b 2, and be a 5. we haven't seen so far an immune escape and so that's the good news. so we're expecting about 1100000000 to be infected and china. hopefully none of the new financed immune escape will appear. so that's what we're looking at from the

economy, stand on china as a major review sort of house goes that will be a lot of shortage because chinese will keep them supplies at home. will not explore done. now, after crossing the country for more than 3 months, thousands of supporters of india's main opposition are marching towards the capital . new delhi is being billed as a show of strength by the indian national congress that by ra gandy. it was once the country's largest party, but now only govern 3 of the $28.00 states. march will continue until february. afghanistan's taliban government has defended its decision to close universities to female students. ministers claim the ruling is partly due to women not adhering to the dress code. women across the country have been protesting against the policy. several have been arrested since the taliban returned to power last year, when effaced increasingly limited access to education and public life. or the un special envoy for global education and for my u. k. prime minister gordon brown says taliban not taking away women's right to

learn and the world can afford to stay silent. well this is one of the saddest days for all goes concerned about women's rights and girls rights. and the african girls and women bearing the biggest button in this struggle to persuade people that girls and women have an equal right to education and to other amenities. and we've seen this hits at women and girls not going to school, not going to university, not able to teach a university, not doing public sector job is being banned from many subjects that are taught already. and of course, what it means is that they have denied opportunity. what it means is that i've kind of stand will not be treating doctor's and teachers and research scientist and afghans economy will suffer in the long run. but in the short run, it means girls who are getting used to the idea before the taliban to that there would be educating for all of them who were at school and know what it's like to be

independent thinkers. who feel that oppression is something that they had got rid of around 2001 at no feel that they are facing a life where either they got to leave the country if they could have got to submit to these rules. and it's not surprising that there are protests, not just from girls and women, but from men as well. because this is not that you have canister. people displaced by monsoon floods in northern malaysia have started returning home to salvage their belongings, as waters were seed. tens of thousands of people up in force from their homes, emergency service to say at least 5 people have been killed drones to report some turn gone, who state one of the worst it reaches. these steps are all that's left of a family home that had stood for nearly 80 years. the water rose so quickly that people here say they barely had time to escape. when no,

sir idea been ti sally sought shelter and to relieve center but had to move again. but even that was flooded, she returned home as soon as the waters receded. not much can be salvaged. but mac app or laughing, i don't have the words to describe how i felt when i 1st saw the damage. it is so sad, nothing dis bad as ever happened to us in my house and everything in it was swept away with just like that. many say these floods are the worst in living memory. brick structure is fed much better. this house is still standing, even though it was almost completely submerged in flood waters. now if you take a look at the wall behind me, flood waters left a brown stain and that gives you an indication of just how high the water is reached. heavy rains last, we can cause this river to burst its banks. even homes on higher ground have not

been spared gourd diego by b, u. b. i iwatsu around 3 a. m. the reins in the river were very loud. i looked up my window and saw a part of the hillside had collapsed and i heard another sound. why it was only in the morning that i discovered my son's house had collapsed. bob. he's worried his house could be next. some authorities say the climate crisis has played a role in the severity of floods. but the one in the kitchen and president levels off and all huge that combined with our deforestation, all of our for us together with the lack of increase. i believe dana geneva geisha flooding is common in malaysia during the monsoon season, although it varies in severity. but without a long term mitigation plan,

people here will have to keep rebuilding their lives and their homes. year after year, florence louis al jazeera this, it turned out new state malaysia. so tiffany ram book has been confirmed as fiji new prime minister ending days of political deadlock parliament. now the voted in favor of the format military strong man. after this month, inconclusive election mobs come back for ambush, who served twice as prime minister as last government was toppling a qu by the outgoing leader. frank benjamin rama, who's been in power for 16 years from book and now had a 3 party coalition. a union boss in the u. k. has one that strikes by board for staff could go on for months. hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are facing a christmas of disruption and delays. a security start again. 8 days of action, military has been drafted into minimize delays at major airports for monday report . why don't we san jose, why does it weigh right now in a torrential rainstorm?

just after dawn, the picket line took shape as an insight into how determined and desperate these work is our willingness to stand. the protest in these condition speaks volumes you k price inflation is 10.7 percent. the government is offering these work as a pay rise of just who we are marginally above the national minimum wage margin. only just a has with get. i don't think people really appreciate just how far lately full, and instead of staffing these passport control desks, it effort arrivals. 1000 quarter force officers have begun an 8 day walk out of a pe, pensions, and redundancy terms. 6 airports and one seaport are affected. the board for strike will effect 99000 inbound flights carrying an estimated 1700000 passengers. the west effect it will be london heathrow with all $900000.00 passengers expected to be delayed during the strike days. but the impact will be felt nationwide. at manchester airport, more than a quarter of

a 1000000 passengers will be affected using military personnel to staff. the passport control desks appears to have minimized the disruption so far. on social media, some passengers reported no queues quicker than usual and passing through border control in the quickest time in 10 years. but as a growing wave of industrial unrest across several different groups of public sector workers. while the u. k. government is refusing to enter negotiations with the unions. prime minister wishes to knock has expressed disappointment to the strikes and insist pay rises would only fuel further inflation. it is difficult question of setting public sector pay. the government has acted fairly unreasonably in accepting all the recommendations of the public sector, pay review bodies. that's an independent process, the government as listened to. you know, i dodge everybody who's traveling at the moment to just please check before you make your journey. so you know, what's public sentiment, public support for the strikers could be crucial in the days and weeks ahead. at the moment it seems public support is with the strikers by

a small margin. more people blame the government for the ongoing disputes than the unions. additional public sector strike days have been announced with january. this is turning into a battle of attrition hold brennan, al jazeera he threat. no nigeria has one of the world's largest film industries productions and steadily grown in scale sensors origins back in the 19 sixty's. well now it turns out thousands of features every year. but as one and young filmmaker toll down to 0, it's becoming more about quality. the quantity i am towing in gainey. you am 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 to media. my father was a journalist, so i mean a french journalist, but then i, you, i would watch the tv and, you know, tell myself, i wouldn't be on tv like this person. you know, the fact that i should go for few making,

then it's about story tenant. i always get inspiration to tell stories and they come to me in 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 europe as i one of like the like to stick holders and the major in film 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 drama, 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 fumes 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 as creators for me. and my hopes and dreams for my career in the industry would be that festival. to tell stories that very, you know, genuine, to me, it's very important for me to tell stories i feel need to be seen by the world. the american and russian space agencies are facing a dilemma. how to get several astronauts home that's after russian and saw your spacecraft spring a leak last week. it's docked at the international space station, 7 people on board, but they're not in danger. russia may need to send another space ship to bring the crew back.