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ah, hello, i am sammy's a dan. this is the news out live from dull ha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. ah, a community on edge calls for justice in the french capital a day off to 3 people, a shot dead at the kurdish cultural center. 8 ukrainians are killed in a rush and strike in the southern port. city of have san we'll have a live up date. the arctic fries still hangs over north america. travelers brave the cold for the holiday season. and the future of nigeria is film industry comes into focus with the help of one of its generation of filmmakers. ah, now french police have fired tear gas at

a demonstration organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. thousands of people are rallying against the shooting of 3 people at a kurdish cultural center in paris on friday. they want the authorities to declare the shooting a terror attack and not a racially motivated incident. thank for targeted or they have arrested a 69 year old man. let's cross over to us our been j 8 in pass to some of us. stop by talking about the shock. this is sent. no doubt, not only through the kurdish community, but what is the why the immigrant community feeling that shock has been spilling over onto the streets of paris in the last 24 hours. you can see the police presence behind me. they've been able to clear out the republic square where you were seeing those dramatic scenes earlier on from today.

we've seen dozens and dozens of rounds of tear gas fired. and as far as you can see, there is police security and 1st responders present. been a few people who were injured as the gas was being fired on them. and those protected resistance insisted that they want to continue to move away from the public square to words westfield square. and that is something which has infuriated them. that is something that is 1st frustrated them even further, that when they were asking the police to respond, it took them 40 minutes according to them. and when they came out to express anger, at what had happened to their community in what they say it target a deliberate attack. the police came out in 44, so it has sent shock waves, not just through the kurdish community, but at the migrant communities. as well, because they feel that they are on the receiving end, this particular cultural center had identified itself to the police, told them that this is an area where they need to send reinforcement and secure it

further. and now it has come under attack. she kurdish refugees are dead and according to the kurdish protest, as the police has always been there, just to stop them, not to secure them. of some is this being investigated as a terror attack? what so far? it is not, and that is one thing that has caused this tension to flared up because in the past, if you remember attacks that have been carried out against the wider community where the attacker was not somebody from a minority group, they have been immediately almost labeled as terrorist attacks, either by the media or the government. and here in this incident, this attack a 69 year old man who had a previous history of violence against my guns. he carried out at multiple attacks last year. he wounded 3 people with swords and was jim for a year. and just the week he was able to come out and carry out this. the tag was

able to procure weapons as an automatic gun with dozens and dozens of the kurdish community is angry thing. why is the government not calling it a terrorist attack when it is done so in the past for something even miner than this? and it is something that we've been hearing for, not just the kurdish trim interview, but the why the, my community here in paris, who feels that the government has not done enough one to stop attack from happening . so this is a person who they knew about and he just came out a week ago, one able to procure everything and they're still calling it in on both attacks, so to speak. and the community here is not convinced that it was. and the 2nd point is that it was not just protection when also justice, where the government needs to call out for what it is and make sure that the perpetrator and perpetrators, according to this particular community, need to be brought to justice. so anger has subsided for now because the police came out in full force. busy and pushed everyone out to the square. but that does

not mean that the underlying cause of this anger has been addressed. and according to some activists, these protests are going to continue until they get justice. all right, thanks so much sound binge of 8 all an elizabeth firm with a is a journalist and columnists for the telegraph joins us now from france. good. have you with us? so 1st of all, with more, more information coming out about the suspects about allegations of, of his past involvement or links in other acts of violence was there is a security failure here. i think there was a security failure because of the man whose or he was just out of jail. he been in jail. he left jail after spending one year, one year in jail for having attach a camp of my routes with assault. that not everybody has got sold at home and, and 2 weeks later he perpetrated that having said that, 1st of all,

there was no evidence of radicalization in the classic mold. and he does not seem to have the contacts and the police are going over his contacts as computers, everything with a fine, calm, tooth comb. i mean, they've started since yesterday. his own family has disavowed him. his 19 year old father said, my son has become crazy and he's obsessed. oh and it's it's, it's very complicated because you do, you can't find ties. you can't find so far and they might discover something. and you can't find something with, for instance, i'm in the, in the instance of a movement against an attack against the kurdish center. what happened exactly 10 years ago? well, 10 curves were killed in paris, which is something that is a commandeered moralist. bye bye, bye bye. turkey who will not admit to it, which all kurds will tell you this is, this is how those things happen. and in this one, this is a man who's a pensioner. his 69. people who actually saw him when he came and he pulled

a gun out of the the travel bag he was carrying. they said, i mean, he looked almost like one of the older homeless people, more than anything else. and they are working on this. you have members of the terrorism unit of the french police who are following the inquiry so far the inquiry is within the producer. and if the police would you see or decide that this is linked to terrorism, then they will switch it over. um, in terms of what your husband can jump in there and also question though, cuz you made a really interesting, i think, important statement that it doesn't fit the classic mold. is it time perhaps to review the classic mold? a given that this, i mean, he's already been in joe for one incident suggestions that he may have been alleged to have been linked to other incidents. is it time to to broaden the mold, has, has the molding too much cost to focus too much simply on looking at people

with mostly more immigrant back backgrounds as the predominant threat that actually i mean that has started because there have been more extra harddrive groups that have been at chico bidden, and rosa have been muslim organizations and, and the government is, i mean get it wherever. now in the past you presidential elections, the adversary of the president is not from the hard left, but from the hard. right. and there's a great deal of concern for us that there's much even worse radicalization that is born out of a sort of general move up that the countries opinions do the right. but he has, there's not a single sign that he had a link with right wing groups and he doesn't fit that. he doesn't fit that mold either. he greedy, he's radius graham character. if it doesn't mean that he was not instrumentalist, but because it prompts her felt endanger, it is perfectly perfectly understandable. it is true that the girls found shelter in france from the 1920s. when the great powers who redraw redrew the, the,

the with borders in, in, in various faces, but including the middle east. i forgot to give boulders, to call this down of ram realty pressure, and not did not create a call to stand and from the 19 twenties and thirties onward. up till now, a most french governments have actually supported the kurds are short of getting into hot water with turkey. and that's really, that's the gist of it is. do we want to get right now? do we want to get into trouble with the turkish government, assuming that they're involved with this at a time with it at all times? turkey is an important power in a mediterranean, but especially now that turkey can close off the boats of grain that comes from ukraine. or russia ry are we, we should also point out with so far for his haven't said that the attacker was in any way linked to the turkish government. so we need to make that distinction clear . perhaps here this point, or is it time perhaps for the right and the far right in france, in europe to reflect on some of its rhetoric coming when you have

a situation. let's face in france where a presidential candidate can even go on tv and talk about immigrants as murderers, rapists and thieves. doesn't that help build into this dehumanization of immigrants, or people with migrant or immigrant backgrounds? well, that's it. at the end of the day that particular candidate told 7 percent of the votes. it wasn't efficient enough, obviously and good. ah, but there had been members of even marine la pens, party who did very well in the elections. a gregory the saw know the screaming things like curb back to africa as a black and p member of parliament spoke. so it's a bit broader than eric or more, isn't it? we're, we're getting into something else. and there's a discussion about that m p. so i'm not going to go into it, but certainly there is a rhetoric about immigration, but the thing about the cause is the colonel's having had an existent in france for a very long time at the right at the beginning, when the police came on on,

on where, where the shooting happened. and the so happened by the way that there was a police patrol in the neighborhood and they didn't wait 40 minutes to come. the fast responders were there in 2 minutes because they were just in the next street. but it's not the same thing in the 1st thing that the, that the girls who were around the capsule santa sub, as we need more police, they didn't say we don't one police, which is what you find very often in other demonstrations these, sir. no, i mean we are, we're friends for most of them have francois sports and, and we resolve protection by the police, which is it's a different start from what you've, when you've seen. but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't sort of look hard at some of the things that are being said today in the public discourse. i totally agree or i will leave it there. thank you so much for your thoughts on that. or at least 8 people have been killed in a rush and strike in southern ukraine. 58 others were injured in the attack in

hudson. the city was retaken by ukrainian troops last month. and what was a major set back for moscow's war in ukraine? charles stratford has the latest from keith. what we're being told is that this attack happened around about 11 a. m local time this morning, hitting 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 to return to the city. in the immediate few days, all it was liberated around november, the 10th, or the 11th. but then when shelling started, they moved out again the civil administration also telling us that some of the worst hit areas in these daily shelling daily attacks in a neighborhood on the, immediately on the northern banks of the denise river population in those neighbors

around 8000 people, the authorities, they're saying that there are constant sniper and shelling attacks in there. but the kind of severity of this attacking the central area of the city is very worrying date. of course, like the russians and the ukrainians always deny that they are targeting civilian infrastructure. civilian areas, we do know though that both sides use occasionally abandoned civilian buildings to, to base troops from. so this is obviously, as you can imagine, a worrying development, a terrifying, terrifying experience for, for the thousands of people inside care of sun. plenty more still ahead on the news hour, including sid if any rum. booker let a qu in fiji, 16 years ago. now he's back in power after a close election,

race class. a gas tanker explosion in south africa leaves 8 people dead. aah! an arctic blast is affecting millions of people in north america. winter storm elliot is enveloping much of the us and canada meteorologists calling it a once in a generation event. or it stretches from the east to the west coast and from north to south covers more than 3000 kilometers from the us mexico border right up to quebec. more than 200000000 americans are under severe weather advisories, while at least one warning has been issued in every canadian province and territory . the called snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. for the north,

it's expected dropped below minus 17 degrees celsius. and temperatures in some areas are full cost to drop as low as minus $45.00 celsius experts. a warning this could lead to frostbite. in 5 to 10 minutes. rosalyn 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 frost fight 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 name 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 board tech's has been displaced. the question is why? and there's really 2 schools, the 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 where from an eminence family and like my parents and their siblings moved 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 elsie's 0 spring in shebra tansy is live for us now from the east coast of the us in washington dc. so she had how disruptive is it proving the people's lives so far? well i can bring out today with some of the the numbers that rosalyn was mentioning . and in her story the right just checks. currently a $2352.00 total flight delays. 1718 flight cancellations and causes the festive period. so yes, very disruptive, and you can imagine that because of these if the, the paths and the guide is of the slow, a knock on effect for flights for, for many, many days, 2 thirds of the us suffering from this arctic show where the actual brung to the

storm now is further north in upstate new york and the great lakes are it's still snowing with a still very, very strong winds. it's pretty chaotic up there for the rest of us. it's left this enormously cold atlas. here we were told that several cities from pennsylvania to florida are being told that they might have a cold as christmas eve on record here in washington. colds chris's, he may still remain 1989, but it's still pretty cold. currently, it's minus 12 degrees centigrade here, but the wind chill is making it feel like minus 20 degrees centigrade. i. however, unlike yesterday, we only have a mere wind speed of her 1430 or 14 miles for our yesterday on friday. rather, we were, we were suffering 55 miles per hour, wind speed at with a minus 20 wind show, which is very brutal. it's not much better 14 miles for i. i can tell you at what, oh, certainly around us on the east coast around washington. we're not gonna get about freezing until monday, monday at the earliest. but yeah, it's,

it is immensely cold with the actual storm itself. now is moving further and further north. my day does still look cold out there. so when i let you get some cover, thanks i, she have migrants hoping to cross into the us from mexico, our enduring temperatures below freezing there, waiting for the us supreme court to lift trump era restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum limits on border crossings were set to expire on wednesday with an extension was granted. now my at brittany, they'll be going to see how do we from the coastal rules, venezuela? little sun and the weather here fix us a little is very cold, right? no, we're having a bonfire. so i will myself look a little closer. it's going to come down to almost $23.00 degrees tonight. and there are some of them. there's been nitrogen, it's been so called that people i step outside and they say, please let me. and even if they're standing room only, i don't even have to find

a place on the floor to sleep as long as you just allow me to come in on the gas tank has exploded in the south african city of box berg leaving ain't people dead. emergency services are at the scene and say, a fire fighter is among several people who are injured. the cause of the explosion is not yet clear box burgers. in the east of the economic harb of johannesburg, near the international airport, it was more like a bomb. you know, these atm guys, so we like i this is 50 if they are busy with the manual, 20 to all these things all week notes. will you say the i was been eat happy that gain that bomb venue went out? we like what's going on there? when we saw the was flames, we saw fire and at the bridge like what was going on, what's going on? then we saw your tank at which was painting travelers across the u. k, a being warmed about disruptions, israel workers into their 2nd day of strikes,

military personnel will call to provide services, train stations, and airports to minimize the delays. the walkout is part of a nation wide movement, which is seen workers across all sexes striking throughout the month of december. our union boss in the u. k. is warning strikes by board of falstaff could go on for months. hundreds of thousands of airline passengers are facing holiday disruption and delays. the security staff begin 8 days of action poll brown has war. why do we have to say, why did we right now in a torrential rainstorm? just after dawn, the picket line took shape as an insight into how determined and dest with these workers, our willingness to stand, the 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 margin. only 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 apple to rivals. 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 and bone 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 debt. 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 dest appears to have minimized the disruption so far. on social media, some passengers reported no queues quicker than usual and passing through border control in the quickest time in 10 years. but as a growing wave of industrial unrest across several different groups of public sector workers. while the u. k. government is refusing to enter negotiations with

the unions. prime minister wishes to knock has expressed disappointment at the strikes and insists pay rises would only fuel 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 as listened to. you know, i dodge everybody who's traveling at the moment to just please check before you make your journey. so you know, what's public sent him a public support for the strike as 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. open and al jazeera, he threat. now albania, man, zinc, smells his across europe. a cussing production or closing down altogether. the global energy crisis is made electricity at the power hungry factories too

expensive. in france and germany government subsidies kicking in to rescue the metals in the street from collapse. but in grace that hasn't happened as jumps roblis reports from athens. this is one of europe's biggest elementary and producers, but it stays 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 physician received the european metas industry. ela, minium 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 fact. many butchery which depend on refrigeration are being forced to shut their doors undress. notice says electricity costs have doubled this year because

of where the aqua or for venue we're talking about small family businesses here. we try to keep our costs low so that we can stay open. that's our last electricity bill was more than $9000.00, and we paid $6000.00. the government subsidy certainly helps profit margins a tiny bit. 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 their excess profits. all of that money together represent 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 al jazeera athens, all that i had on al jazeera, a show of strength. india's main opposition party varies thousands of supporters in new delhi after a 3 month long march collapsing, state institutions and economy in free fall. we look back at a year of turmoil in lebanon. ah, hello, we got some lively weather across so many parts of the america's at the moment in south america. this bolger cloud, just making his way across, paraguay will slide farther northward into bolivia,

some heavy burst dufrane coming through here in just a round of a plate to looking a little disturbed as we go on 3, remained recessed a and on into sunday. sunday says that where to where the popping up across the western side of the amazon more have examples to northern bolivia, showers pushing up towards the door, easing up towards southern parts of columbia. not too bad here though. not too bad . a cross sigma part of venezuela. these, the laws of the caribbean ferry quite nicely, but this large band of cloud here is to sliding its way across northern cuba. right across into the competence there. well that's is the a trailing system that comes off that nasty storm has been rolling across the us. cool, wet, windy weather, sinking by the south was, as we go on through the next couple of days, is it for these not as long as you try with a good deal of sunshine, or we will see more sunshine sparkling sunshine. it that's it's still very cold. course much of north america as push further north up towards the lakes up towards ontario. quebec more. very heavy snow coming in here as we go through sass day on into sunday. another. so system makes its way through the plains and rank to the

west. ah, it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but its greatest rival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between fans formed from a close divide, sustained over generations. most bulky, junior supporters are born into these club colors. in an epic feud of rich versus poor, the fans who make football on al jazeera with

lou ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera time to recap the headlines, french felisa fired tear gas at a demonstration organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. thousands of people are rallying against the shooting of 3 curds in paris on friday. millions of north americans on the severe where the warnings says an arctic last envelopes laud hearts walls rather of the us and canada. fights have been cancelled. roads are

blocked by snow drifts and hundreds of thousands of households have no power. at least 8 people have been killed and 58 injured in a rush and strike the southern ukrainian city of have san ukraine re took report last month in the major sat back from moscow. 10 months after russia invaded ukraine, there's no end in sight to the fighting. many ukrainians are in during a dark and. busy cold winter, or a challenge looks at the events that have shaped the conflict. ah, february the 24th 2022. the day everything changed for ukraine. a through the chaos. one thing was clear. months of military filled up. that would be no blow. this was a russian invasion. why 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 bit. i'm sorry. it's tough. 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 eager. he helped defend ear pin a key of suburb that so fierce fighting. he who described to me what it had been like moment after a home of war. i had no fear. i don't know why we were all determined not to give up our land. we understood, our weapons were weak against their armor, but we had motivation because of fierce ukrainian resistance.

russia invasion wasn't going well. at the end of march, after huge losses of men and machinery, russia abandoned as attempt to seize, give what they left behind, shot the world future. 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 anastasio and her grief through spring summer, autumn. and now to winter. when the russians abducted her son, it didn't take him far. just 200 meters down the road to the pig farm for his body was found this week. no. but we're truly a q. we will be through the window. i saw him been taken out. it's good. there was a car outside. they've taken from one of the villages to actually you live on this

bullet when they put him in and laughed. i didn't know where 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 as of 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 russia's bridged 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. that miller lives in a smoke blackens bomb damaged apartment block in the pin. yet she still counts a self lucky or hear from a 3rd. to be honest, my heart bleeds seeing these ruins, but we are alive. we covered the windows with foam, we had hope because we have something live at the last, every. as 2022 ends, ukrainians leave behind them a year of indescribable suffering. but they take with them a unity and a will to win that this country admiration from around the world. there are still many people who doubt that ukraine can ultimately prevail against the might

of russia. but few, if any, him come from this country off pretty much any ukrainian what they expect for 2023 . and they only have one answer victory for we. shannon's al jazeera kiff, thousands of supporters of india's main opposition party marching through the capital. new delhi had been crossing the country for more than 3 months, not seen as a show of strength by the indian national congress. the party was once india's largest, but now governs only 3 of $28.00 states. march is expected to continue until february. poverty mid town has more from new delhi houses. the people have gathered to join one of in just most powerfully. men are gone. 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 corner rides by the governing. did you see it

comes as the congress? it's toggling to survive. it's down to one if it's lowest tardies in parliament and only goblin c states. meanwhile, prime minister, the rainbow, the and the beach empty roommate incredibly popular and on challenge dislike, growing criticism. there are concerns about the flight of minorities drinking space for descent, as well as the government handling of the pandemic and the front of me. analysts say that the congress 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 months. oh, well analysts say that be on is to challenge the b g p and go to the accountable, now lies with smaller regional parties job with on, sorry, as a journalist and political commentator, he says the mart show signs of reinvigoration of the opposition party. it has

certainly succeeded in reinvigorating the congress coder there is a certain momentum now an essential purpose as far as the congress workers are concerned. but with the bigger question is really this enthusiasm that one witnesses on the seat convert itself into words because certainly jane you hold on these image. the pgp used to use to say that he, 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. well, he's put in the hobby arms. he's done on the 5 days from the rose from 6 am to the late to be evening. that's no easy task. so it has done his image, a good, it's read bigger, it took the party, but will this cover towards that's the big challenge for the congress. 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 home can do invigorate the cater, but it cannot build an organization. and that is the work that the new president of the body, mr. college and career are read to support of the god. these are the other leaders need to get down to because of the congress, like how much produces shawn, if rather, states where the congress can get its act together. it says more than a challenge to the b. j. p. 2022 comes to an end. lebanon is without, an executive authority stays, institutions collapsing and politicians have failed to mitigate the impact of an echo of an economy and free for their 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 richest 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 employ use 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, 11 or 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 i'm sorry, been 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 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 senate. their elders eda beirut, who has more extreme weather in other countries in iraq. heavy rainfall is caused flash flooding in several cities. the capital bank that is among the areas effective. the government is facing criticism for failing to prepare for the weather. and in japan, a record breaking snow storm is blanketed parts of the north west, leaving at least 8 people dead, sled to traffic chaos, disrupted railway services and comp power to thousands of homes for cost as are expecting more storms in the coming days. city ban here in boca has been confirmed, this. fiji is new prime minister ending days of political deadlock parliament. now they voted in for more of the qu, leader after an inconclusive election earlier this month. and boca has served the

prime minister twice before. the last government was helpful by outgoing lead, a friend of mine, and my rama who had been in house and 16 years now. heads a 3 policy coalition of a future of fiji relations with china will be in the spotlight from book and takes charge during his freed assess his reign, begging sign, trade and security deals hoping to extend its influence in the pacific. but rom, because previously signaled he could pivot away from china early this year, china signed the security packed with the solomon islands. a move that alarmed the stray leah. and this month, campbell assigned a similar agreement with van watt to the same one over now is the fiji corresponded for a b c news a straight here. she explains what people's expectations are from the new government. well, the hope now. so most people is that this will be a stable government given that the last 2 years has been one and one that most

people here in p g as having been dictators 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 the genes 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 some for 16 years. be just traditional partners. are of course, a story 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. the irony of the fact that the government before this one is one been trying to install a national identity for subject gm give them we have had racial tension in the past. we are the only country in the pacific region that is not homogeneous. we have a multitude of races and so it was really important that a new government coming in is one that could give reassurance to the other races g . that is our descendants of indian labors. he had a british colonial rule as well as that this is a government who is likely to take care of everyone, while of course, holding on to the platform come in on and that's to protect the rights of indigenous people. our report by ethiopian investigators has blamed a software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max plane in 2019 a 157 people were killed when these european airlines jet crashed minutes after the

take off from addis ababa, the findings correspond with previous investigations which blamed 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. world wide. nigeria has one of the world's largest film industries, productions have steadily grown in scale since it started in the 19 sixty's. well now it produces thousands of features every year. but as one the young filmmaker told al jazeera, it's more about quality than quantity. i am toying, danny, you am 31 years old and i am a filmmaker in lagos, nigeria. i think that i am right from when i was very young. i've always liked the median. my father was a journalist, so i mean a prince journalist. but then i would watch the tv and, you know,

tell myself i wouldn't be on tv like this person. none of that letter she does for fuel making, then it's about story tenant. i always get inspiration to tell stories and they come to mean different formats. so, you know, there's some stories they'll come to you and you know that this can work for radio, for example. he has to be on t v, or he has to be a documentary that some stories they'll come to you. and then, i mean, it will just be a feel. so it was, that was how it started the year of us are one of like the largest stakeholders under major and film industry. so i think that the europe as ah, it's, it's a cultural thing. we have this very beautiful culture. we have dads, we have drama, we have, so it is natural that's, you know, would want to do films. if you look at how the current industry developed, it was just about volume people just kept creatine and creeds, and people loft, entertainment. people wanted to watch it. you have a lot of filmmakers as well now, who wanted to be standard, like we wanted to go places we wanted to have, you know,

so to have the proper structure. but then we are also have few makers who think that or who want our fumes to cross, you know, to the tilt. so the global or north and you know, for the war to see because we now need the, the exposure. we need the film industry to be developed to that will have, you know, people can actually get paid and be able to leave off their earning as creators for me or my hopes and dreams for my career in the industry would be that festival . to tell stories that fairy, you know, genuine, to me, it's very important for me to tell stories, i feel it to be seen by the walt mckenna, far so as ordered the united nations coordinator in the country to leave. barbara massey was declined persona non grata after she decided to withdraw non essential un staff from my good to go. the west african nation is under military rule officer to cruise this year. government said man seized, moved,

discredited security efforts. if you knew we had heard him, mrs. barbara predicted chaos in broken affairs in the coming months. we do not know what basis she can do this, especially since um the security side. there are still major efforts underway. and in this matter, the united nation should be a supportive structure, not an organization that advocates this tell me of the country that at least 20 people have died after fire blazed through a nursing home in russia. it happened in the siberian city of camaro. val investigates the suspects of faulty boiler, was the cause private home was reportedly operating illegally. a criminal investigation is now on the way still, i had an al jazeera ah palestinians in bethlehem celebrate christmas in a year. the un classifies as the deadliest in these re the occupied territories since 2006

ah. as 2022 jewels to a place. we reflect on the major stories did she tell? join al jazeera for series of in depth reports. looking back at this year and to head to 2022, we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it will bring you the news and current affairs that mattel to you, the new horizon for visually impaired to your keys. they finally have their own football team. training course, launching in october in the city of karbala. this specially designed to both was donated by japanese charity. it creates a cracking sound to allow players to locate it. these players hope to join football

clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have their own teams because there are only 5. elise specially design balls. lou ah christmas festivities are likely to be subdued in peru after 2 weeks of political and social turmoil. violence has affected sales, especially small businesses, and millions of people who lost their jobs during the pandemic. a still trying to make ends meet or other sanchez reports from lima. now i think one

donor is trying to attract customers and given to the festive spirit. he hoped to sell his robot with some divine intervention. ah, sales are very low. they've gone down, but with god's blessing, everything is possible. o lea must chamber of commerce as christmas. sales are down 33 percent. it's a blow to the economy in the biggest shopping season of the year. how many people believe the wave of protest that spread across bay due to the impeachment and arrest of former precedent. it'll costume a day before christmas, diana, when this says she hasn't sold any of her, nit were designed assembly bothering if sales have been very low in the past few weeks because of the qu, prices have gone up, the economy is very bad. and so our sales, political and social turmoil had dampened festivities. highway blockades,

cost transport costs to increase in many stores closed during the and red. or is that the warbler? there's been a lot of uncertainty and fear. people don't go to shop. we had to close the doors because of people who wanted to loose legally or shut his door. as a result, he says, sales are 40 percent lower than they were last year. analysts say the feeling of instability, refrains consumers from buying too many products. people prefer to buy food and keep their savings untouched. littlewood maintain pandemic left nearly 4000000 people without a job. yes, so see ation of small businesses says former precedent bills august to your didn't implement any support measures. and now they've lost more than half a $1000000000.00 in christmas. sales business owners are calling for urgent

assistance. they want to proceed in dina will wanted to focus on a contingency plan to counter their losses. for now, most of the protests have quite and down for the deeply religious country. it is a break and an opportunity to celebrate my innocence, us out us either lead money 2022 are 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 they remain under a decades long, military occupation. neither abraham reports from bethlehem and the occupied west bank. ah, from bethlehem to the world palestinians 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 towards different palestinian cities. it starts the journey from bethlehem. a city that depends heavy on tourism, but it's they can afford to 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. hopefully we'll pick up the csc up on here. so the political situation is difficult. they cannot mix situation, is even worse. but we are the people of the land and will remain steadfast in it. if we've offered 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. 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 christians stay. it's rose, doing everything to kick us out, but we count about how to keep christian palestinians in their lands. this person has come back to lobby here. and how much did you, according to that you 1022. other than that definitely. of mindy occupied was banking with people years they that bit these in a joy, them or struggle. the spirit 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 hard to take a pause the day it was supposed to make its way to the city of ram a loss. a general strike was announced to mourn the death of a palestinian prisoner in his ready jail across palestine. people remember the loved ones, they lost this year. more so around the holidays at i'll just eat offices. this is

the 1st christmas without veteran deported sharing a barclay. she was killed by israeli forces while on a fine man in jeannine in may. palestinians take pride that jesus was one of them and like to celebrate his birth in the hope that one day, then half peace did that for him. and just either ye occupied westbank that brings us the end of this show. but the good news is humpy back in a moment with another full bulletin. so thursday with us here on al jazeera ah ah

and a in depth analysis of today's headlines from around the world. what it did was i said to them they have to sign because they didn't, they wouldn't get in front assessments. do you think diplomacy still spend the chance? i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody to read. everybody's on tick tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have a winter, it's going to be whole there. pretty soon. insight story on al jazeera talk to, i'll just see a woman of a guy that was somehow abandoned by the international community. we listen, we have a huge price for the rural, i'm going to terrorism that's going on for money. we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. january. oh no,

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