missy go on through sunday to sunday. i also noticed some very wet weather coming in across much of that eastern side of south africa. ah, the latest news as it breaks this particular sub station. it's been here in 3 separate effects, quite 6 russians, we saw with detailed coverage. they had held that the us would relax water pandemic restrictions this week, which would likely have better there are of getting in from around the world. over 3000000 people spoke to the 3 m a, b, and the national v ah

ah, blown away a winter storm basses the united states, even more than a 1000000 people without electricity and disrupting holiday plans. ah. hello there, i miss darcy. hey, and this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up a show of strength. india's main opposition need a rally's thousands of supporters into new delhi. after a 3 month long march rebel, pfizer say they'll retreat from a strategic frontline town and democratic republic of congo. as a good will gesture, ah, and palestinians prepared to celebrate christmas in the occupied west bank after months of deadly violence due to attentions with israelis. ah.

now busily cold storm extending more than 3000 kilometers, is affecting millions in north america. the arctic, last known as elliot is envelope in most of the us and canada forecasters are calling this a once in a generation weather event. more than 200000000 people are currently under weather warnings more than a 1000 flights within into and out of the country been canceled usa, high winds and heavy snow destructing, holiday travel plans and canada, ontario and quebec, bearing the brunt of the snowy bloss. they're much of the rest of the country is also under extreme weather warnings. all the cold snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where some 0 temperatures are rare. farther north, it's expected to drop to minus 17 degrees celsius. temperatures in some areas of focus to drop as low as minus $45.00 celsius expense, one that this could lead to frostbite. and 5 to 10 minutes. rosen, jordan reports with dreaming of

a white christmas sounds romantic for song. but for millions of people in the us 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. yasamin called there please, my close. all right. think most winters we unfortunately do lose some of our neighbors who are living outside a weather against volleyball. it's, it's a sad thing that happens every year deteriorating road conditions and melting power outages have led 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 worked x 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. say going home just isn't an option of were 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 weather. ah, rosalind jordan al jazeera oh nbc is shaquille. brewster has one eye on those severe conditions from michigan. 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 we'll they're expecting the snow to continue. possibly 4 more days, this is lake effect, snow, some areas expecting more than 2 feet of it to come. by the time we get to christmas, what is 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 or offer more. now let's speak to our senior meteorologist everton, fox everson, these events in really, while temperature fluctuations. yeah, absolutely amazing temperature fluctuations. as you say, than stars here with, you know, we've been looking at temperatures falling as low as a minus $45.00 and then struggling to get anywhere near above freezing. and then as we go for the next few days, i think we have better uses should match the improve as that cold air. let me show you some pictures. you can see just how vast this whole system is. as he said,

we were looking at cit being something like 3000 kilometers wide, is absolutely enormous, with the worst of the conditions up around the lakes. and that's where the central, the storm is with the conditions being at that, that bad, around the lakes with a very high wind. you can see how white out conditions here. this is lake effect, snow in buffalo, new york. and you can think of lake effect, snow as swell is a bit like when you, you run a hot tap in a cold bathroom. you've got that cold air blowing across the relatively warm waters . off the air, the great lakes. it cools condenses and you get the cloud dumps a lot of snowfall on the other side. so that's why we're seeing huge amounts of snow in that particular part of north america. where you said that there is potentially some good news. how long should people expect us to convey? yeah, we should actually see much of north america getting back so much of the us getting back above freezing by the new year. so for to show the what's been going on here, we can see have the clouds in making its way further eastward that cold front exceed that blue line there that just runs right off the canadian maritimes. just

off the east coast of the u. s. to the south of miami, it's actually pushing into northern parts of cuba and we'll say later, this tongue, very cold air. and just look how tightly packed the ice bars or i'll just take the the cloud of this. you can just see how tightly packed those ice a bars are. this is why it's been called a bomb cyclone because as us develop very, very quickly up towards james bare there, you can see that, that blue l. there. that is where this deep area of low pressure is. that is storm elliot, tightly packed, i suppose, very strong winds coming right out of the arctic blasting it's way look at the temperatures here. and this is something of a recovery. actually look as we go through the next couple of days. just watch how the yellows start to push their way further north was minneapolis minus 15 celsius . bear that one in mind. to go on for the next couple of days, yellows a creeping further northward tuesday. going on in to wednesday. we're up to 900 celsius in dallas by that state in minneapolis, 3 degrees. not too bad. it does mean a rapid thorough course in terms of the weather. lots of snow,

just around the eastern side of the us at the moment. more that to come. it will gradually make its way through, but we are going to see a fair bit of flooding as it warms up the stars you have call us or hopefully no more to celebrate in the new year. thanks so much. everton now moving on and thousands of supporters of india's main opposition party marching through the capital, new delhi. they've been crossing the country now for more than 3 months. and what's seen as a show of strength by the indian national congress. the party led by roll gandhi was once the largest, but now governs only 3 of the $28.00 states. the march is expected to continue until february. well, let's speak to poverty missile. she joins us now from new delhi pub, may we know the congress tosh? he's been in decline for some years now. just how critical is this march for them? with

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the clock you much you didn't mention for the election beginning about in about one but the add that new bicycle thought the big with who have grown to be strong. the competition because of each of these very interesting. have me miss out there following that march forest and you get a thanks so much of having no city of any around. booker has been confirmed as fiji is new, prime minister, ending days of political deadlock, their parliament narrowly voted in favor of the former military strong man. after this month's inconclusive election, amongst a comeback for america, who has already said twice as prime minister. his last government was toppled in a coup by the outgoing lita franklin binding marana who has now been in power for

16 years. ran bouquet heads a 3 party coalition now became a faso, has ordered the united nations coordinator in the country to leave. barbara monsey was declared persona non grata after her decision to withdraw non essential you and start from work or do go. and the west african nation is under military rule after to cruise this year. the government says that man's ease move discredit security efforts. if you knew we had heard him, mrs. barbara predicted calles him broke in a 1000 coming months. we do not know what basis she can do this, especially since on the security side. there are still major efforts underway. and in this matter, the united nation should be as supportive structure, not an organization that advocates to still meet of a country where the n 23 armed group, which has seized territory and democratic republic of congo, says it will now retreat from a strategic frontline position fighter say their withdrawal from the town of k bomba and the northeast as a good will gesture. m $23.00 is widely understood to be backed by ro, wanda,

and allegation that can golly denies. east african leaders have been pushing for an end to the conflict that is forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since march long through q. let them go through it refilled blueshield do this, this is a good will. gestures that the m 23 will make today. it is in the name of appeals at a gesture that is part of the recommendations of the mini, sorry, took her to state hilton and go like november 2020 to me. so we hope that the kinshasa government will seize this opportunity to hands at work to bring peace to our country. or m. 23 is one of more than a 100 armed groups based and eastern congo, and emerged more than a decade ago when fighters seized the city of goma on the border with. we're wonder . they say they're defending the interests of the ethnic tootsie minority. in 2013 the congolese army and un backed forces defeated m 23 in its fighters fled to ro, wanda, and uganda, and 23. then split into several factions. but then earlier this year,

2 of them united to launch this latest offensive was on michelle lander. as the congolese researcher, who is 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 increased the suffers 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 gay. who's them? who's the man who fixes women has been on 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 upsetting because it's asking for these. we see our stuff is one family. if the, if east them congo is not healthy,

is it's like the whole body is not healthy. i still had here on out, is it? oh, anger in the french capital i suspected racist attack? cut his community. what a terrible year. it's been the ukraine. russia's invasion is brought, indescribable suffering, but also grit and determination. i'm re challenge in ph later in the program. i'll be looking at what ukraine is lost in 2022, and what it hopes to win back in 2023. as hell i, we've got lots of wet and windy weather there, sweeping into western parts of europe, at least bringing some much smaller air in from the atlantic. see the cloud just

trembling in from the west. there was a weather system showing up. temperatures will be about freezing for the most part, scandinavia still on the chevy side, has to be set for saturday. but even here, it warms up by christmas, stay tended to cool off in moscow they attributed here around minus 12 celsius is that mild air is that wet weather? pushing its way in from the west, then temperatures around 10 celsius there for london might see some would you rather just oper rather far north of scotland particularly around the island, sir. we have got some snowy weather, just making its way towards yas, but a lot of clout and right into central parts of europe. some wet weather coming into portugal, western areas of spain as well in some pieces, the cloud and right over towards yeast, turning increasingly wintery. here as we go on through christmas day through sunday morning weather coming into western parts for sunday, a wet christmas there because much of england and wales, northern parts of france pushing into the low countries still somewhere, whether they're into ports, go chassis, and whether to into the far north of libya,

northern areas of egypt, take it from much of north africa. it's fine. try and pleasantly warm. ah, with lou.

ah, you're watching out there and i'm the stars you take here and uh huh. let's remind you about top stories to give any round. booker has been confirmed. as fiji is new prime minister, ending days of political deadlock parliament, narrowly verses in favor of the former military strong man. after this month inconclusive election, thousands of supporters of india's main opposition party are marching through the capital. new delhi indian congress policy has been leading supporters across the country since september, and i hope to regain popularity. millions of north americans are under severe weather warnings as an arctic blast envelopes largest waves of the us and canada. flights have been cancelled. roads blocked by snow and power outages have been reported on the cold stretches farther south to migrants hoping to cross into the u . s, from mexico adapting temperatures. they're well below freezing. they're waiting for

the u. s. supreme court to lift trump arrow restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings were set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was granted. no morning at brittany this year from the coastal rules in his will. little son and the with the year for little is really cool. just right. know, we're having a bond fired so i will myself look a little closer. it's going to come down to almost 23 degrees tonight and her some of them others been nitrous, been so cold 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. or staying with some extreme weather and heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding and several cities in iraq. the capital baghdad is amongst the areas affected, some have criticized the government for failing to prepare for extreme weather

events. meanwhile, a record breaking snow storm has blanketed parts of northwestern japan killing at least 8 people. it's also led to traffic chaos, disrupted railway services and has cut power to thousands of homes. forecasters are expecting more severe weather as well in the coming days. i'm even on and investigators in france are considering whether racism was behind shooting and central paris. that left 3 people that a 69 year old suspect previously jailed for attacking a migrant camp has been arrested. the incident sparked protest by members of the kurdish community. natasha battle reports now from paris. this over the police and emergency workers chord and often 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. downtown marcia de la villanova was walking down the street. we heard shots, we turned around,

people were running left and right. i work 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. the zillow 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 circle till the end of the jill 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 random. the killer did it to scare the kurdish community pool. no, 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 what he called an odious attack against curds and france. earlier the interior minister had said to shoot his motivation was unclear pacific more portfolio 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 demonstrate angry and upset they, lance, lance, and fools. literally that 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 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 butler, al jazeera paris. well and said you're in russia launched a military invasion of ukraine. 10 months on and, and with no end in sight to the fighting. many ukrainians are enduring. a dark and cold winter where we challenge looks at the events that shaped this conflict. ah,

february the 24th 2022. the day everything changed for ukraine. oh, through the chaos. one thing was clear. months of military filled up. that would be no blow. this was a russian invasion from belarus, southern russia and crimea troops, tanks and aircraft poured across borders, fleeing the russian blitzkrieg civilians, crowded train stations and highways. hundreds of thousands of women and children headed abroad. men had to stay a little while my hands being torn apart, ribbons. i'm sorry. it's tough. scott, when families are separated, it's very hard. ukraine was fighting for its survival. as a sovereign nation,

volunteers joined the army and territorial defense group. one of those who picked up a gun was a horde. he helped defend ear pin, a key of suburb that so fierce fighting. he who described to me what it had been like moment a thorough home of war. i had no fear. i didn'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, they didn't take him far, just 200 meters down the road to the pig farm where his body was found. you know, but were to you, we will be through the window. i saw him been taken out, which good. there was a car outside they've taken for one of the villagers. do you feel when you look at all this bullet when they put him in and laughed? i didn't know where. so richard, they were taken at half past 5 and shut immediately that evening. lay 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. yes ma 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 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 of them come from this country off pretty much any ukraine, what they expect, but 2020 and they only have one on so victory will reach out and out a 0 here. now report by if your opinion investigators has blamed a software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max plane and 201-9850 7 people died when the job now instead crashed minutes after take off from us other by the findings correspond with previous

investigations which blamed the models, auntie stole system for sending the plane into an uncontrollable dive. it was the 2nd crash of its kind within months and forced boeing to ground old 737, max plains, worldwide. well 2022 is supposed to be the best year for tourism in the palestinian city of bethlehem since the pandemic. but while restrictions are no longer affecting the industry, palestinians were reminded that they remain under a decade strong, military occupation need. abraham reports now from bethlehem in the occupied westbank. ah, from bethlehem to the world, palestinian say the christmas message of hope started from their small city. they believe that jesus was born here more than 2000 years ago. ah, this annual parade tells the christmas story. and tours different palestinian cities. it starts the journey from bethlehem. a city that depends heavy on tourism,

but it's taking a hard hit in the past few years. due to the pandemic from charlotte corner paradox, we suffered economically because of cobra. closures this year is better because more tourists were allowed in the hopefully we pick up the cfc up on here. so the political situation is difficult. the economic situation is even worse. but we are the people of the land and will remain steadfast in it. we will offer questions used to make up 11 percent of the palestinian population in the 1920s. now they formed less than one percent. many here blame these really military occupation organizers of christmas parade. say it's one way the palestinian government is working to keep christians and their land as well by to had this festive mood. is one way of maintaining the christian presence here. and we're also working with the world's churches to help christians stay. it's rose doing everything to kick us out, but we count about how to keep christian palestinians in their lands. this is

a big movie when the one with joy don't, they're struggling. this spring is the result of 2 months of work. some of the carriages were brought from abroad, but others like this were made by artists from bethlehem. the parade has hard to take a pause. the day it was supposed to make its way to the city of ramallah. a general strike was announced to mourn the death of a palestinian prisoner in an israeli jailed across palestine. people remember the loved ones, they lost this year more so around the holidays. at l. jersey. those offices, this is the 1st christmas without veterans reported shooting of wallclear. she was killed by israeli forces while on assignment in geneva.