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warnings to beware of frostbite and hypothermia is the us and canada endure extremes sub 0 temperatures. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up and during the friends capital up to 3 people are killed in a suspected racist attack on the kurdish community. a show of political force from india's main opposition party, thousands of supporters and for the capitol. after a 3 month march plus what a terrible year it's been, the ukraine, russia invasion is brought, indescribable suffering, but also grits and determination. i'm rory challenge in here and later in the program, i'll be looking at what ukraine has lost in 2022. and what it hopes to win back in 2023. a.

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. a full causes a 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 the cold snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare and further north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 celsius and some areas of focus to get as low as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. experts on this could lead to frostbite in just 5

to 10 minutes. wasn't jordan ripples 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 frostbite and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. yahoo! alan called there please my toes 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 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 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 immigrant 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 elgin's era

and be see shaquille. brewster has more now on the severe weather conditions. tier 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 that so many are concerned about

. well, some of the hundreds of migrants hoping to get into the u. s. from mexico are battling temperatures well below freezing to chance. they luck and waiting for the u. s. supreme court to lift trump the restrictions that prevent many of them from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings were set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was brought i'm wearing at bay. they're going to see a day. we from the coastal ill venezuela. little sun and the weather here fix us a little. is really cold, right? no, we're having a bonfire, it's our muscles level of loser. 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 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 as cause flooding across several cities in iraq. the capital baghdad is among the air is

affected. the rocky government has been blamed for being unprepared for extreme weather. events told people were killed this time last year after flash floods and the northern city of at a bill. investigators in france are considering a possible racist motive for shooting in paris that's killed 3 people in a kurdish cultural center. a 69 year old suspect previously jail for attacking migrants has been arrested. the attack spark protest by members of the kurdish community. natasha battle report on the french capital. elise and emergency workers cordoned off an area in central paris after a gunman went on a deadly shooting rampage, firing it, people in a hair salon kurdish restaurant and kurdish community center. eye witnesses said people ran in panic or downtown marcia, the loan officer 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. 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 migrants living in tents in the city of cycle till the end of the jail may have attack these 10. an 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 comma 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. we live in france in the capital, and now it's dangerous. here. frances prison condemned to 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 is no evidence to show that there was no doubt though in the minds of demonstrators angry and upset. they've been flagged for approval. attorneys that moved in now to try and clear the protesters because they only becoming quite while the protest subsided. the police remained on standby and investigations been opened into the attack, and the interior ministry says security will be increased at code your sites in the country. for some they say it's a welcome measure, but one that comes too late. natasha buckler, al jazeera paris. now after crossing india for more than 3 months, thousands of supporters of the main opposition party are marching towards the capital. you deli, it's billed as a show strength by the indian national congress led by rob gandy. it was once the country's largest party, but now and he governs 3 of the $28.00 states. the march will continue until

february, up natal joins us live now from new delhi putney. so how important is this march then for the congress party and while they doing it in just mean opposition party is trying to revive it says, and this has major implications for the political landscape of the was largest to see now roughly gandhi is the most recognized face of the party, he is the scion of the party, and he has been marching for several weeks, thousands of kilometres. he says, his goal is to unite a country that joined under b gps. when has become increasingly motorized, it's also a way for the party to connect with the masses at a time when it's tally in the parliament is down to one of its noise levels and is only in a government in 3 states in india. as far as wides, relevant is the since the election, a prime minister there in the mo,

the in 2014 the b j. b has redefined indian politics almost 8 years later. there is no politician of political party that comes even close to challenging the party on its politics. despite increasing criticism, there is concern about the flight of minorities concerned about shrinking space or descent, and also criticism of against the way of the pgp has handled the pandemic as well as the economy and political. i'm the say that the congress is inability to be an effective opposition, both electoral lead, but also chattering this criticism and boarding the government accountable party responsible for the b j fees. unprecedented success and kept me in there holds elections in 2024. so could this march, have any impact on the prospects of both gabby's congress party on the routing b j. b, which you just mentioned?

ah, so you can see around me that the houses of people who attended this valley and they have of all these weeks in various locations across india. in fact, many celebrities have also joined ramadan. the not they don't necessarily mean vote for the congress. but what is it is that they are, you know, supporting be ideal for song or opposition, but it is obviously too early to take because elections are just 16 months away. and also the congress as well as gandhi, have categorically said that this is, there is no electoral motive over. yup. but as far as the competition goes, i find that gender election goes. i'm going to say that the onus on hole jing of the government accountable. now lies with small to reach your party at the state level because it is dead that the b j. b is facing competition and put a different bar. he's in some opposition that is holding the government accountable

. the best apartment to live for. stay in any pub. thank so so, so to come here now to 0, including body bags, mounting up c as a lot more people will die in china. search in code 19 cases. why the latest public sector strike in the u. k. could spoil christmas plans for hundreds of thousands of air travelers mana steamers. ah hell i we got some rather wet weather. the forecasts. a part of the middle east over the next couple days. maybe the cloud moving across north passport, 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 here in carter temperatures at around 20 celsius, a little cold as you go on into sunday temperature at around 23 degrees, hoping little dry then as well for iran. meanwhile,

we will see some wet weather coming in to lou levant, syria, lebanon jordan, seeing some model the weather for a time, and went whether to 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 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, they are just around the southern sections of the harbor for much of west africa. it is dry and fine. the showers continue. meanwhile, across the tropics, them a 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 sunday. i also noticed some very wet weather coming in across much of that eastern side of south africa. ah, the african narratives from african bridge. spect,

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the arctic bloss has left hundreds of thousands of homes without power and caused major trouble disruption. there been protest in paris up to 3 people was shot dead near a kurdish cultural center, and he said a suspected shoot. i was, he was to jail for an attack on michael's and supporters of india's main opposition party marching towards the capital deli builds a show of strength by the indian national congress that my ra gundy will continue across the country. until february, the m $23.00 armed group which sees territory, the democratic republic of congo, which says it will retreat from a strategic frontline position fighter, se they able to draw from the town of cuba, the northeast as a gesture of goodwill. m. 23 is widely understood to be backed by rolanda and allegation get up to golly denies. east african leaders that been pushing front end to the conflict that's forced hundreds of thousands of people from the home since march volunteer kid. let them go through the fail blueshield do. 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 mini summit up heads of state health in angola it, nope, it but 2020 to me. so we hope that the can shall said. government will seize this opportunity to handles and work to bring peace to our country. malcolm wipers, monitoring developments from nairobi. in recent months, the 23 armed group took control of several key towns in advance toward the regional capital of goma, the city of goma slices of inside the grass and filled with rwandan soldiers among them quite as usual under military equipment for everyone. the denied 3 is it proxy, you know, people in cities across i've been demonstrating for a month 1st the, again, rwanda and uganda. they accuse of decades of military battling and aggression. and they've also been protesting against the international community,

particularly the u. k. and france for that silence on this issue in recent month. one of the depend on a, the military aid from western countries. and the campaign is say, it simply need the international community to way in to stop one day from its military aggression. now, just 4 days ago after month, the silence from which is a key ally of rwanda and a military partner. frank finally said that one day back in 23 in the land. and then just days later, we seeing this, you turn on the ground with them 23, pulling back some territory that is taken in recent. well, the un peacekeeping mission in the d. r congo is the biggest in the world, but it hasn't stopped attacks by on groups. the m $23.00 is one of more than a 100. based on eastern congo, it emerge more than a decade ago when fi to see the city of goma on the border with rolanda. they say

they're defending the interests of the ethnic tootsie minority. in 2013 the company is army, and us back to force is defeated in 23 and it's fighters fled to rolanda and uganda . m 23. they split into several factions, but earlier this year, 2 of them united to launch the latest offensive was the show. michelle land, who is a company's research activists based in belgium. he says the conflict as made, women and girls, especially vulnerable, is incredibly difficult for women. and women are generally viewed the 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 truth. impunity doctor, dennis mccrae, who's them, he'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 come with these women? i have sisters, i have on peace. 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 a report by if you open investigators is blame software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max passenger plane in 201-9100 57 people died. when the ethiopian, the airlines jet crashed just minutes off the take off from about. the findings correspond with previous investigations which blame the models, anti 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 737, max planes worldwide. china is battling a wave of corona virus infections that has 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 as reported just

a handful of death from the virus during the search. it recently changed criteria for registration of cobra. 1000 fatalities. well, the wave in infections as forced this hospital in challenging to use its main lobby . as a makeshift ward cases have been rising. since the government is restrictions this month, following widespread protests, or china's top health authority says nearly 27000000 people may have been infected with coven on a single day. this week the bloomberg news agency says, minutes meeting of the national health commission show that 248000000 people are thought to contract the virus in the 1st 20 days of december. that equates to about 18 percent of the total chinese population. health officials, but 290000 cobra debts by april. if china adopts containment measures, but they expect 1600000 fatalities if there are no new restrictions. well, alley mocked out as an epidemiologist at the institute that release those figures.

he says, the chinese government needs to be more transparent. if 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 it to ask the public to stay at home while 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 gonna come outside, you need to be class bad and 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 done on the car. what spending right now in china is b one, b 2 and b a 5. we haven't seen so far an immune escape value. and so that's the good news. so expecting about 1100000000 to be infected in china, hopefully none of the new finance or 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 goodness that can be a lot of short dish because chinese will keep them supplies that come will not

export done. now in february, russia launched a military invasion of ukraine and 10 months on with no end in sight to the fighting many ukrainians on during a dark and cold winter 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 rushing, blitzkrieg civilians crowded train stations and highways. hundreds of thousands of women and children headed abroad. men had to stay the

device, my house being torn apart. but 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 haul. he helped defend in a key of suburb that saw the fierce fighting. he had described to me what it had been like moment after a 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. rush's 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 us 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 you, 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 though he said when the the use of all this bullying, they put him in and laughed. i didn't know where for which they were taken at half past 5 and shot immediately that evening,

eagerly as if he were sleep 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 everything 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, ask pretty much any ukrainian what they expect for 2023, and they only have one answer. victory, bori shannon's al jazeera, gives

a union boss in the u. k. as warn that strikes by border falstaff could go on for months. hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are facing a christmas of destruction and delays a security stop again. 8 days of action. the army has been drafted in to help minimize delays at major airports as pull brennan ripples. why don't we have? what is the way 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 and protest in these condition speaks volumes u. 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, marginally just a heads whiskey. i don't think people really appreciate just how far lately poland is that of staffing. these passport control desks at airport arrivals. 1000 water 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 worst 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 effected 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 there's 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 union. prime minister richie cynic, has expressed disappointment of the strikes and insist pay rises would only fuel further inflation. it goes, 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 up like, 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 whole brennan al jazeera. he threat. the american and russian space agencies are facing a dilemma. how to get several astronauts home. that's after russian sawyer spacecraft sprung a leak last week. it dr. the international space.