week 3 mentally, or the other hand, if you, if you will, have the unlucky of being not lights up there at the same time being dense with, with suspicion you can lose your liberties, lose you lose your job, and the government would back that up. and that's why people are now are, and we how this person has been allowed to lead to one of the to were loose on the sweet despite his rock record. this 2nd point, and i think your correspondence may be off got to mention it is that the heavy a police presence is the new norm in france. there government is a highly of barbara know if you'd like and say about any demos version. think he plays the especially in the heart of berries just a couple of months ago. the government issued a 38000000 euro tender to renew police equipment including up 212-0000 deer gas grenades. 90. how can i help you save 90 bullet proof of the course for these demonstrations?

so it's not like the that it is happening in a country where in all relationships are relations are busted by. they are not. and the, all the, and the author with darwinism of the government will make it, that any event to our public anger, it is expressed. we lead to such demonstrations that this is again, the new norm, as there is no, no reason to be surprised about it. okay, we'll leave that for a moment. stay with us. as we look at these continuing traumatic pictures from paris as a se, protests in paris against the deaths of 3 people in a shooting on friday has turned violent. thousands are on the streets voicing their anger. and violence follows a demonstration, organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. many in the kurdish community believed they were deliberately targeted in friday's attack. these have

arrested a 69 year old man with okay, we're gonna speak again and some of in the chat window correspondence in paris. a sama, this angle has always see been simmering for some time. absolutely . and as these boots just continue behind us, are the paramedics who've been able to take in at least one protester who has been injured. and you can see the plumes of smoke good through that area that's coming to woods us. now this is a new site, it's street adjacent to it is where the protestants have been going back and forth and flashing with the police authorities here are telling us that they're trying to block them from going into that area and they're not allowed to go away from the republic square unit visit kurdish culture center. lita says that they said the tv

there was a shooting. it wasn't, it was a terror attack. this is not an extreme right or racist attack. it is an attack against the code of the human di, in this neighborhood. there are plenty of other migrants, but the attacker chose 3 specifically kurdish shops. so as you can imagine, this has been something that we've been hearing from our courtesy protested since last night. there this did not happy with how the police has handled this so far and add that in public square. there have been gathering in their hundreds saying that the government needs to not just do more. but as a stud declared, this as a terrorist incident, they're not satisfied that the government just calling it a racially motivated attack. and they're saying that the government is dragging its feet. because this is an attack aimed at a minority whether it was not them. this would have been declared a terrorist attack almost immediately, and this is why the government has not been able to calm things down since last night. even when the french interior minister came down to the site of the protests

. because these protest as i just are satisfied with the steps that have been taken so far of, with the force that they've been met with as they tried to protest vote last night . and today as well, where these dramatic scenes of violence, as you can see, a. busy broke out and they believe that the government has to do more. the government has to be proactive, not just to protect them, but to provide them justice as well as sama. okay. stay with us. we're going to cross again to yasser lou artie political analyst in harris sir. where can we go from here then looking at the future, what actually needs to happen? oh, that's, that's quite a question. a sir. to undo the past 20 years, or 2 or 25 years of inciting and hatred against minorities since especially the year 2002 where sharma, he'd have been the father of mine, the fed and the founder of the national front to day. according to the national

righty, since he made it to the 2nd round of on the presidential election, we have seen tremendous increase in the normalization of racism under governments from the right. you could a soco z and jack chicago to name a few, but also the left with the apostle, awkward order, and to day with him. mighty widow cole, who drenched will be neither from the right, neither from the left. so really how to undo it. what has been done in the past 20 years or? yeah, exactly 20 years. and that's gonna take a tremendous we wiring of all the french public opinion 1st. we live in a time where it is still impossible for people to understand that terrorism has no religion. it is not the monopoly of one specific group of people or another so much so that despite this men being gord, william, being french, being wife,

having french papers, etc. national news outlets like see news. they tried to frame it as an is slightly motivated attacking when they went live last night. and they said, all went in france, similar ways to attacks that, that usually take place in on fridays right after the muslim of friday prior. so in this environment, we helped with the bunk, this idea that, you know, terrorism in france is this sort of product of muslim erotic, or is it is to this perceived and proven to be a product of the far white a 4th. and this i don't, i'm not very up to miss to be honest with you that we would see that to happening under emmanuel mccall. because as your correspondent has said a couple of minutes ago, the government does not want to lay, but it a terrorist attack, because that would go against the narrative. they have been pushing for the past of 5 to 6 years. that's, it's not mixed. terrorism is the main problem in front,

and that's why the government is going and get as shooting in reese, this incident, but faded, affords the sharp of going and get a service advocate. now we have a problem not only with the media that are suffering from the hyper concentration of ownership. we've been are pushing as specific agenda, but also we know policy makers a we're not being ahead accountable. unfortunately, we cannot attack this erases ideology only by policy. french people, how to understand that france is not a sorely white con, sleep. there are people who are not white, who are us french as the white people of this country. at this, again, we require that french identity is revisited. in light of the contribution of black bron list him and no catholic, joseph, a rule, my people who have been part of this country for centuries. but unfortunately,

as long as we push the narrative, that france is a white citizen or a white guy, sort of being a victim of the i saw to from visa, minorities, it will have cost at the see. these are docs and the government's refraining from acting. the scoring system, for example, hostile, acknowledge the contribution of minorities in order to if, if i can say of the dates, the software of a french identity. and we have to turn our but was on for warn who the idea that to fight terrorism starts by fighting muslims and fighting minorities. okay, yes sir. lottie, thanks very much. indeed for joining us. as we see those dramatic pictures coming out of paris.

what albany is now at least 8 people have been killed in a rush and strike in southern ukraine. 50 others were wounded in the attack in his son, the city was retaken by ukrainian troops last month. the major set back. but russia suffered in its war against ukraine. let suspect now to charles stratford, whose falling developments from kiva. charles, what can you tell us? yes, that's right. that's what we're hearing to at least 8 people fits dead. at least 58 injured 18 of which 18 with whom are in a critical condition that's according to the local civilian administration. in san we're expecting potentially that death toll to rise. what we're being told is that this attack happened around about 11 am local time. this morning, heating a central area of the city, a shopping and residential area, the local authorities. they're telling us that is around about $70000.00 people in

the city. as we speak, many people had returned to the city. many more people returned to the city in the immediate few days all was liberated around november, the tenths or the 11th. but then when shutting started, they moved out again. the civil administration also telling us that some of the worst areas in these daily shelling daily attacks are in a neighborhood on the, immediately on the northern banks of the denita river population in those neighbors of around 8000 people. the authorities there saying that there are constant sniper and shelling attacks in there, but the kind of severity of the attacking the central area of the city is very worrying date. of course, the russians i'm the ukrainians always deny that they are targeting civilian infrastructure. civilian areas,

we do know that both sides use occasionally abandoned civilian buildings to to base troops, chrome. so this is obviously as you can imagine, worrying development. a terrifying, terrifying experience for, for the thousands of people inside care of some, the civilian ministry. and also saying that there are regular power cuts, some of the areas along the river have got no power, no heating. what? so ever they say that incredibly, they're all full hospitals. 3 in the city and one in one of the surrounding areas. but in the region that we understand some of these wounded are being treated in. but as i say, a devastating attack and an indication that see me, russia has no intention of giving up the fight to re take this city. that as you know, was, was liberated by the ukrainians last month. and charles,

what more can you tell us about the fighting in this strategic city of back move what we understand that that intends battle in the mood goes on. we've seen video of basically st. why st. close quarter combat trenches, dog through the outskirts of the city at the moment, still the ukrainians, still managing to keep what they describe as probing russian attacks on a daily basis from advancing further. ukrainian authority saying that the russians are trying to circle the city coming in from the north and the south. it's all known exactly how many civilians are still in the city, but it could be at least a couple of 1000. we know that most of those civilians refuse to leave. normally the reasons i gave is because they have nowhere else to go and they're terrified about losing their properties. interestingly,

also we're getting more reports of increasing or intense fighting to the north of back moves along. the borders of the donates and ganske region around the town of camina and more intense fighting to the south of that in the city of the game. strategically important, very close to the russian occupied city of donna sca coming on the heavy shelling and we understand pretty close call to come back going on there to charles for las vegas in keith. thank you. without update, russia launched his invasion of ukraine in february, a 10 months storm. there's no end in sight to the fighting. and then the ukrainians are enduring. a dark and cold winter were 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 was clear. months of

military filled up. be no plot. this was a russian invasion from 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 revised. my heart being torn apart when i'm sorry. it's tough. when family, the 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 who described to me what it had

been like moment of the home of 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 a week 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 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. do you feel when you the use of it all this bullet 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 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 retook 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, wide spread blackouts in sub 0. temperatures are a challenge for everyone, particularly those without much money. that 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 off pretty much any ukrainian what they expect for 2023. and they only have one answer victory where we, shannon's out 0 give or plenty. morehead, on the news, our including many ram bouquet led the qu in v g. it's 16 years ago, now he's back in power after a close election rates plus collapsing, state institutions, and an economy in free fall. we look back at a year of turmoil in lebanon. ah,

are these 20 people have died after fire swept through a nursing home in russia? he happened in the siberian city of camera, but investigated suspects of 40 heating. boy, that was the cause. the private home is reported to have been operating illegally. a criminal investigation is underway. a gas tanka has exploded in the south african city of box berg leaving 9 people dead. emergency services say a fire fight was among several people who are injured. the cause of explosion is not yet clear. blacksburg is an east of the economic hub of johannesburg, near the international airport. and thousands of supporters of india's main opposition party marching through the capital, new delhi. they've been crossing the country for more than 3 months now in what's seen as a show of strength by the indian national congress. the party was once the largest, but now governs only 3 of the $28.00 states. march is expected to continue until february. hadley metal has more from the deli. oh,

how does the people have gathered to join one up in just most powerful men on these, the side of just me national opposition party, the indian national congress. any has been walking thousands of kilometers across india. he says his goal is to unite the country called the rise by the governing gucci. it comes as the congress. it's toggling to survive. it's down to one. if it's lowest tardies in parliament, i'm only going to see state, meanwhile, prime minister in the movie and the beach if he remains incredibly popular and on challenge dislike, growing criticism. there are concerns about the flight of minority drinking space for descent, as well as the government handling of the pandemic and the economy. analysts say that the call is in ability to be an effective opposition and hold the government accountable, have contributed to the b, j. b, unprecedented success, not india is heading into national general elections in 2024. that's about 16 month

old analysts say that the owners to challenge the bgp and hold that accountable. now lies with smaller regional parties, which i've done sorry. as a journalist on political commentator, he says the march shows signs of reinvigoration, the opposition party. it has certainly succeeded in reinvigorating the congress cater. there is a certain time now an essential purpose as far as the congress workers are concerned. but really, the bigger question is really this and who's young that one witnesses on the seat convert itself into words, because certainly jenny hogan this image. the pgp used to use to say that he could, he cannot spend more than a month in india and love to travel abroad, and he doesn't have it in him to to last last the distance where he's put in the hard yard. he's done on the 5 days from the rose from 6 am to the late to the

evening. that's know it out. so it has done is image a good, it's read the greater the party. but will this converted to what? that's the big challenge for the congress spot. the leaders are still fighting the factional battles each trying to put down the other. so the challenge will be to try and find, translate this into jasmine towards and because the yacht tra, auto walk at all, can do invigorate the character, but it cannot build an organization. and that is the work that the new president of the party, mr. bulk argent. or read to support of the god. these are the other leaders need to get down to because of the congress. like how much produce is shawn if rather states where the congress can get its act together. it says more than challenged to the b g. p. city of any rom, luca has been confirmed as fiji is new, prime minister, ending days of political deadlock parliament narrowly voted in favor of the former cou leader off an inconclusive election. earlier this month from booker has served

as prime minister twice his last government was toppled by outgoing the the frank miranda, who had been in power for 16 years. now heads a 3 party coalition. well they say my phone is the fiji correspondence for a b, c. news, australia. she explains what people's expectations are from the new government the hope now. so most people is that this will be a stable government given that the last 2 years has been one of the one that most people here in fiji. see as having been, dictate your, with human rights records that were not exactly admirable. and with a history of not really comes out to the public or the other side of parliament. so there is a lot of hope amongst vgm here in the country as well as outside that this will be a government of national unity. one that has more than one party, which already makes it very different from the really did you 1st party that had

the g? i'm under it's some for 16 years. he has said to australia and media as well as an international and you dealing media that he is likely to go with its traditional partners, be just traditional partners are across the street and zealand and by extension, the united kingdom and united states of america, he did however, say at the end of a very long explanation as to his foreign policy, that he is likely to hold on to our sovereign power, which shouldn't be a little bit disconcerting for those watching the geopolitical developments here in the pacific. now not tech blast is affecting millions of people in north america, winter storm and it is enveloping much of the us and canada. it's religious or calling it up once in a generation event where it stretches from the east to the west coast and north to south covering more than 3000 kilometers from the us. mexico border up to quebec.

well than 200000000 americans are on the severe weather, advisories one, at least one warning has been issued in every canadian province and territory. more than $8000.00 flights have been cancelled due to strong winds and heavy snow disrupting holiday travel plans or co snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub temperatures or rat feather knows it's expected to drop below minus 17 degrees celsius temperatures. in some areas, a forecast to drop as low as minus $45.00 celsius. will experts warn this crudely to frostbite in the 5 to 10 minutes? doesn't jordan reports 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 an hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter y'all and call their please am i pose 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 and the arctic, the vortex has been displaced. the question is why? and there's really 2 schools to plot one is that this is clearly a climate change related phenomenon because the arctic is warming so fast and the

other school says, all this is natural, variability as flight cancellations pile into the thousands travelers say 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 sammy connected. so it's, it's really important. ah, trying to stay focused on the reason for the season in the face of intent. seasonal weather, rosalyn, jordan al jazeera when b c's, shaquille, brewster has more now on the severe conditions from the u. s. state of michigan. here in bent 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. last time for that all important weather forecast has everton. hello, we've got a sad but the weather in the forecast for the middle east. over the next couple of days, you see this large band of cloud. it brought around 6 months worth of rainfall to northern parts of saudi arabia. and that where to where the sweeping across iraq towards key wait easing into that so western side of iran attorney to snow over that higher ground here. so it does stay disturb you see how the wet weather becomes a little more expansive as we go through sunday, right up towards all about some wet weather sliding its way through here, syria, lebanon, jordan, all saint cloud and right. pushing in from the atlantic. nothing further east was

so heavy downpour, certainly a possibility, some snow over the turkish mountains in some rain, even here in casa. so we may say a little bit of wet weather as we go through monday and temperatures struggling to get to around 20 celsius. staying little on the overcast side, over the next couple of days, a few showers to into the northeast of africa. much of north africa will be dry and settled at risk when they the hum a time when bringing some 50 dust and sand, there's dust haste. they're just around nisha. pushing towards more tavia, premier showers across central parts of africa through the tropics. some big down pulls down towards malawi, or wonder wendy, seeing some heavy showers more. it whether the south africa was sort ahead here on al jazeera, soaring energy costs in europe, are threatening the future of aluminium smelters increase. i'm in the future of nigeria as movie industry to the eyes of one of the new generation of filmmakers. ah,

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watching out as a reminder of our top stories this out, french police have fired tear gas at a demonstration, organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. thousands of people are riding against the shooting of 3 people at a kurdish cultural center in paris. on friday. at least 8 people have been killed and a russian strike consult the ukraine. 50 others were injured in the attack, and chris on the city was retaken by ukrainian troops lost a major setback. russia suffered in this war against him. crime. millions of north americans are under severe weather. warnings as an arctic blast envelops and large sways of the us and canada. flights have been cancelled, roads are blocked. my snow drifts and hundreds of thousands of households have no power. well, the coal stretches further south to migrants hoping to cross into the u. s. from mexico are battling temperatures well below freezing and waiting for the u. s.

supreme court to lift trump error restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum when the limits on the border crossings were set to expire on wednesday. but an extension was granted. i'm going every day. they're going to see a day woo from the coastal earth, venezuela. lots of sun and the weather here. fix us a little israel called us, right? know we are having a bonfire. it's our muscles level of loser. it's going to come down to almost $23.00 degrees to night and there are some of them. there's been nitrogen, it's been so called that people i step outside and they say police are let me. and even if they're standing room only, i don't even have to phone a place on a floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in and is more extreme weather in other countries in iraq heavy rainfall as cause flash flooding in several cities the capital baghdad is among the air is affected. the government is facing criticism for failing to prepare for extreme weather. and in japan are

record breaking. snow storm has blanketed parts of the northwest, leaving at least 8 people dead. its lead to traffic chaos, disrupted railway services and cut power to thousands of homes for casters are expecting more storms in the coming days. akin a far so has ordered the united nations coordinator in the country to leave barbara man's. it was declared persona non grata after she decided to withdraw non essential un staff from we could do the west african nation is on the military rule or to to come this year when the government said mans is moved, discredited, security efforts. if you knew we had heard, and mrs. barbara predicted chaos in broken affairs in the 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 supported structure, not an organization that advocates this tell me of the country. report by if you

can investigate it has blamed a software failure. the crash of a boeing 737 max plane in 201957 people were killed when the pin airlines jet crashed minutes off the take off from out of the findings correspond with previous investigations which blamed the models empty stall system. it was the 2nd crush of its kind within months and forced boeing to ground all 737, max plains, worldwide. as 2022 comes to an end, lebanon that was without an executive authority. straight institutions are collapsing and politicians have failed to mitigate the impact of an economy in free fall. fund holder takes a look back at the past 12 months. on the surface, business appears to be booming, but this is only part of lebanon's reality. income inequality is not new in a country where the riches 10 percent of the population owns almost 70 percent of

the total wealth. but now, the economy has collapsed, making the poor even more vulnerable. it's being blamed on a system put in place by the political and business elite who are refusing reforms to fight corruption. the state is nearly bankrupt. the public sector right now, it has no revenue. and you know, you need to pay saturdays to public employees for them to go to work. we are witnessing increasingly closing down off public institutions. professors at 11 is universities are no longer going to work. people are desperate. some have stormed bank at times, armed, demanding their own money. their savings have been trapped by informal capital controls. since the onset of the economic crisis, level financial crisis entered is 4th year with losses amounting to more than

$70000000000.00. the world bank says the countries current and future states on the assets public real estate potential but uncertain oil and gas revenues combined are worth only a fraction of that. the political paralysis hasn't helped a fragmented parliament, hasn't been able to elect the president since november. and without the head of state, a government can't be formed. it's an unprecedented vacuum that delays efforts to revive the economy. at the shop, there are people who are sleeping without dinner. they don't have money to buy food . there are no jobs graduates or trying to find a way out of the country. there's little to show for the billions of dollars spent over the decades. that's apart from the chronic mismanagement. remember that nothing will change, even if the elective president, because the same politicians responsible for running the economy into the ground

are still in power. there's been no accountability for a crisis that destroyed the lives of so many. instead, lebanon has become a failed state senator. their elders, eda, beirut, the travelers across the u. k. o, being warned about disruptions, israel workers, and to the secondary strikes, military personnel were called to provide services at train stations in airports to minimize it in a well, this will count as part of a nationwide movement which has seen workers across all sectors striking throughout the month of december. the union, boston, u. k, is one that strikes by a border for staff could go once a month. hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are facing holiday disruption and delays a security stuff begin 8 days of action pulled, brennan has more. 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 to we are marginally above the national minimum wage margin in lake. just a has whiskey. i don't think people really appreciate just how far lately fallen is that of staffing these possible control desks? it effort arrivals. $1000.00 quarter force offices have begun an 8 day walk out of a pay, pensions and redundancy terms. 6 airports and one seaport are affected. the board will strike one effect 99000 in bond 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 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 at the strikes and insist pay rises would only feel further inflation. it was, 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 has 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. who brennan al jazeera, he threat allen, any man zinc smelt his across europe are causing for duck. so, closing down altogether, the global energy crisis has made electricity at the power hungry factory is too expensive. in france and germany, government subsidies are kicking in to rescue the metals industry from collapse. but in greece, that hasn't happened. as john srp, this reports from athens. this is one of europe's biggest, elemental producers, but it's days could be numbered. greek, heavy industry overseas electricity at fixed prices for a few more days. on january the 1st contracts expire and prices will float at market rates of more than $300.00 per megawatt hour. compared to half that in northern europe, which is being subsidized. this plant may have to close unless the government steps

in the industry association says factory closures would also be a setback for the fight against climate change. if we lose methods in europe, these metals are going to be important. the important metals will be produced mostly by countries that use cold as a fuel. some use oil and definitely they have a much heavier footprint than european companies. that's why for the self sufficiency of europe and for the global, the carbon position. we've received the european metas industry. aluminum smelting requires vast quantities of electricity. it's only profitable if the power is cheap and the ukraine war has caused the prices of coal, oil, and gas to saw. a quarter of a 1000000 people working at non 1st metals plants across europe are at risk of

losing their jobs. higher energy costs are having a ripple effect. many butchers which depend on refrigeration are being forced to shut their doors. and there's notice says electricity costs have doubled monsieur reaku or civilian. we're talking about small family businesses here. we try to keep our costs low so that we can stay open, that our last electricity bill was more than $9000.00. and we paid $6000.00. the government subsidy certainly helps profit margin to tiny, but we are viable. so the question is, how long will the subsidy last? agriculture and transport costs are also up more industries that depend on government support. the government is spending more than $5000000000.00 subsidizing electricity bills for households and businesses this year. and energy producers are being forced to spend twice that amount from the excess profits. all of that money

together represents as much income as greece made this year from tourism its primary industry. so even if individual enterprises survived the energy crisis, greece as a whole is losing enormous amounts of money. the ukraine war is speeding up investment in renewable energy, but for now, governments are forced to offer fossil fuel subsidies to preserve jobs and livelihoods. jobs are open. close alger 0, athens are still ahead. heroin altos air ah will be live in bethlehem, where palestinians are celebrating christmas and again un classified as a dead list and it is very occupied territory since 2006. ah, we town,

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marching bands are filling the streets as scores of pilgrims and worshippers look on, but celebrations are muted this year following months of violent confrontations with israeli forces which the un is calling as a dead list since 2006. well, let sir speak to, i need there abraham in the bathroom. so neither what's been taking place. well, i can tell you that it looks a lot like christmas to day in bethlehem despite it being a difficult year for palestinians, the deadliest in 16 years. as we've seen more than 230 people being killed by israeli forces fire in the occupied territory, people are telling us today that they're trying to seize any opportunity to celebrate. they were counting a lot on this season because they believed that this season was going to be the best. because after years of closures, because of the pandemic of, of in 19,

the tourism that muslim, have many, the patterns on really took a hit. so palestinians were saying that even through that pain, despite those difficulties, despite this being a difficulty, are they still want to celebrate? we've seen many here gather to celebrate the last and patriarch of jerusalem yet, but the step, it's a bad law. he talked about the need for peace. he said that bethlehem and the holy names are in ultimate need for peace. it's. he was here in bethlehem gathering and looking how people were preparing for christmas in town. ah, from bethlehem to the world palestinians say the christmas message of hope started from their small city. they believed 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 heavily on tourism, but it's taking a hard hit in the past few years. due to the pandemic from charlotte collins and a paradox. we suffered economically because of cobra. closures this year is better because more tourists were allowed in. hopefully it will pick up the up or 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've offered questions used to make up 11 percent of the palestinian population and 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. while by to had this festive mood is one way of maintaining the christian presence here. we're also working with the world's churches to help. christian stay is rose, doing everything to kick us out,

but we count about to keep christian palestinians in their lands. this 4th must come lathrop milady here. mm hm. hello. yes, affording today you 1022 wide and sadly in the occupied was banking with people years they that bit these in a joy, them with their struggle. desperate as 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 half to take a pause. the deed was supposed to make its way to the city of am allah! a general strike was announced to mourn the death of a palestinian prisoner in his ready jail across palestine. people remembered the loved ones, they lost this year. more so around the holidays at i'll just eat those offices. this is the 1st christmas without veteran deported shitting

a barclay. she was killed by israeli forces while on assignment in jeannine in may . bell. ethan is take pride that jesus was one of them. unlike to celebrate his birth, in the hope that one day they'll have peace. and joining me here at the manger squid in bethlehem. mister george, a smile we, he's the director general of the palestine heritage trail. we've been getting figures from the minister of tourism saying that there are more tourists now. this sector is picking up after suffering. october. 19th closures has. have you seen the city flourish now with tourists coming in? merry christmas. everybody. greetings from home to the water leaking from the get or back to the war. yes, indeed. tourism ice cream, picking up more stories that we have. like tonight. i think we have a close 100 percent occupancy in the hotel,

so we have high demand now for the coming good 2023 for hotels and all the people have been investing in hotels. they are building more and finishing their hotels as well. we have and we have sure that we don't have enough for human resources to work. and those restaurants are the moment due to the high demand that we are expecting in 2023. just picking up, there has been a lot of preparedness between the private sector, administer of tourism and repairing. punish, sorry during work for a copay, done everything else and continue the marketing efforts globally to have people coming and visit the site. this resulting with high demands of dollars a month or more much. so you're talking about how demand people coming in the sectors flourishing. can you tell us about the challenges that challenges are huge? in fact, most of all, when speaking about christmas sister city,

jerusalem is completely surrounded by israeli. up on an extraction was that is still more of the biggest majority of our empty vacant land where we can expand our due investment rate occupation has been complicated. i want to go to everywhere. spike in different places. we want to downs and cities are densely crowded. does operate agent. for example, today we want to come marian, georgia coming from nazareth. there was no place in the end because we have high density population. i am not expecting much i thought tonight because those are your points. so we do have a lot of issues. some of the issues that, you know, driving start is facing a lot of issues like in the transportation we have not allowed to go to draw sort of pick up orders from the airport. we have lots of other difficulties. only $47.00 policy new guides from the west bank and dick towards everywhere is rated guides or have access everywhere to palestinians don't have to have. we have

a lot of issues that we are facing an audition for confiscating us geniune. go to 100 is like lately, a finding not far from here, a few kilometers from here, confiscated by those leaders. we're in order to have flourishing 2nd tourism sector . we need to be able to have control of our culture heritage. freedom of axis on freedom of movement and free access to the site. this is very, very important. that's why we will continue having what we have when, when you're facing those im difficulties. as long as there is an occupation and other people who watch our shows, our news, they said that it seems that palestine is a place that has a lot of conflict violence and you are working in tourism. you are trying to get more people to come visit through the palestine. heritage trail is palace that a safe place for people to come. definitely. palestine is a safe destination for come and walking and directing in palestine discovery and

cultural heritage really from the people from the local community. it's, it's experiencing the diversity of the senior people who have the cultural diversity, human diversity, and that their versity of the landscape of florida are foreigner and have an email or them selves with the people and lead to understand what's really happening here . and people of the culture and people are policy and family a long couple us you want to just stay in that this gives people an opportunity to have to walk an exchange. thank you so much, mr. george just smiles. he's the director general of the palestine heretics trailyn with bean menu to it's gotten to palestinian families and it with them. it's flora gay. so with that, so it's for palestinians despite the difficulties this wide, the challenge is one word that they want the world to know. and one word that i've heard many palestinians talk about is resilience. that people are going to continue

to stay steadfast in front of the challenges and the fact that they live under and israeli military occupation. okay. need to abraham there in bethlehem. thank you very much. indeed. we're going to go to some more pictures in paris which are going to have a lot more of in the next half hour. so protests in paris against the deaths of 3 people in a shooting on friday, which turned violence. well, thousands have been on the streets voicing their anger. the violence follows the demonstration, organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. men in the current community believed they were deliberately target in friday's attack. a man has been arrested ah, genuine. oh, now to sierra, almost a decade after joining the e. u croatia, adults the euro, despite fears,

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