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shot dead at the kurdish cultural center. ah, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up with a winter storm basses north america, leaving more than a 1000000 people without electricity a to ukrainians, are killed in a russian strike in the southern pulled city of cap san ah. and palestinians in bethlehem, prepared to celebrate christmas in the year. the un classified as the deadliest since 2006 ah french police. so 5 gas as a demonstration,

organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups thousands of people have been rallying against the shooting of 3 people at the kurdish cultural center in paris on friday. they want the authorities to declare the shooting a terror attack and not a racially motivated incident. i say could were targeted. police have arrested a 69 year old man without been jervey. there's been following developments from paris. 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 to been a few people who were injured as the gas was being fired on them. and those protested possesses insisted that they want to continue to move away from republic

square towards the steel square. and that is something which has infuriated them. that is something that is 1st frustrating them even further. that when they were asking the police to respond, it took them 14 minutes according to them. and when they came out to express anger and what had happened to their community in what they say, a target, a deliberate attack, the police came out in full force. so it has sent shock waves, not just through the kurdish community, but other migrant communities event 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. busy 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 of the police has always been there just to stop them, not to secure them in the past. if you remember the 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, the dublin, and here and this incident, this attack a 69 year old man who had a previous history of violence against migrant. he carried out multiple tags. last year he wounded 3 people with swords and jim for a year. and that he was able to come out and carry out just attacked, was able to procure weapons, an automatic gun with dozens and dozens of rounds. so the kurdish community is angry saying, why is the government not calling it a terrorist attack when it is done so in the past for something even miner than this? well, not close. if at all, louis a kurdish affairs sound less for the voice of america. he explains why this attack has hit the kurdish community so hard. this is not the 1st time attack has been happening in europe and in france, parties of europe. this is the 2nd time in almost a week is the 10th anniversary of and other shooting the high profile cody

women, murder. the people are very, very angry that they're not protected. the 1st attack has not been sold. this has encouraged the 2nd attack and they're worried that the committee that we have been talking with rudy. what is next? if they are not fit in in europe, how do they feel safe? that's why the angry. you see on that one of the leaders expecting government to be the effect methylation of rural for a tech. and because people don't you think you're, you're getting unsafe. they believe that the community leaders believe that this organized attack against the kurtz people. i think we emphasize that into the same . that is an ethnic move diverse part of party iranians

either. it's a new moral liberties, africa and other parts of african nations with only 3 kurdish latest attacks, one cultural center and 2 coding businesses. that's why they are called these, that this is a take a 2nd against them, and they feel that the french government is not doing enough to protect them. first label, just attack like debate. they see a protect 2nd, they're not doing enough to protect them. an arctic blast is affecting millions of people in north america. winter storm elliot is enveloping much of the u. s. and counted them meteorologist to calling it a once. in a generation event. more than 200000000 americans are on the severe weather advisories, while at least one warning has been issued in every canadian province in territory . more than 8000 flights have been cancelled due to strong winds and heavy snow disrupting holiday plants. the storm stretches from the east to the west coast and

from north to south. it covers more than 3000 kilometers from the us mexico border right out to quebec. dan higgins is an assistant professor of journalism at cassius college. he joins us now from the town of am hurst in new york and have you with us. so 1st of all, is it easy to stay warm? was the situation with you? hi, thank you for having me. fortunately, you can see from how i undressed. i am quite warm and comfortable in my house, just outside the city of buffalo, kind of famous for it snow. and that's because we have managed to keep the lights on our electricity hasn't gone out. and that's just a coincidence. that's just a lucky break for me and my family. many thousands of people in this area, including some of my neighbors nearby. i have lost power for a period of time. they're keeping warm with gas fireplaces. they which many people have, or wood burning fireplaces,

or some of them attract relatives houses before the storm got to impassable. what about power? do we know that some areas have been hit when it comes to that? how supplies was situation? how i was hoping with that? well, that's a tough one. and the reason why the power goes out during the storms is of course, because of our overhead electrical wires get blown down by the fierce winds. and i don't have the exact numbers for my area, but as you said before, in your introductory remarks of thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state, have lost power for a period of hours. and the way to cope is some of them is just a pile blankets higher and, and a family that i know friends of ours said it's 42 degrees fahrenheit in their home

right now. and they are just coping with extra blankets and lots of christmas sweaters. while you were talking that we were running pictures of the situation outside that a looks pretty rough. i mean, not only does it look like it's everything is covered in snow, but looks like the winds are pretty strong, doesn't look like nice conditions to go out. and i'm wondering what people doing for groceries. it doesn't look like you can pop out and grab a carpenter, milk or, or even have it delivered in this kind of condition. that's correct. i, we're in what you might call the stereotypical st american suburbs. if you can picture that and i cannot walk to the sidewalk in front of my house about 20 meters from my front door, much less get to a grocery store. we did have good warning about the storm and its intensity. show everyone i know myself and my wife included. got our groceries by wednesday and thursday,

and we just have done this before in buffalo. other parts of the country don't have to deal with this so often. but even for buffalo, this is very severe and we were glad to have all of our grocery supplies in before the storm really began on friday morning. let's hope everyone else. thanks so much, dan higgins. hope you make it through this tough weather situation. thank you very much, we just got to wait it out. indeed how the cold staff is even the thank thing. southern states such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures of rare for the north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 degrees celsius. temperatures and some air is a full cost to drop as low as minus $45.00 celsius experts warm this could lead to frostbite. in 5 to 10 minutes, rather than 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 and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. jagow and call their premium on toes on. i think most winters we unfortunately deal is some of our neighbors who are living outside the weather against volleyball. it's. it's a sad thing that happens every year deteriorating road conditions and melting power outages have led some officials to declare a state of emergency. the best thing you can do is stay off the roads, stay inside the storms. intensity has experts debating whether global warming is to blame. so really cold because the very cold air in the arctic, the port x has been displaced. the question is why?

and there's really 2 schools of thought. one is that this is clearly a climate change related phenomenon because the arctic is warming, so best and the other school says all this is natural, variability, as flight cancellations, pile into the 1000 traveler. say going home just isn't an option of where from an immigrant family and like my parents and their siblings move to the u. s. many years ago. but every year we try to spend christmas or thanksgiving or something like that together. just you know, to keep the family connected so it's, it's really important trying to stay focused on the reason for the season in the face of intent. seasonal with rosalind jordan, al jazeera and in japan, a record breaking snow storm. there is blanketed parts of the northwest, leaving at least 8 people dead. it's led to traffic chaos,

disrupted railway services and can't power to thousands of homes. forecasters are expecting more storms in the coming days. still hadn't al jazeera, a show of strength in the main opposition party rallies, thousands of supporters in new delhi, plus city of any ram book. her letter of qu in fiji, 16 years ago now is back in power after a close election race. ah, ah, hallow. we've got a fair bit of wet 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 wet weather sweeping across

iraq toward kuwait easing into that so western side of iran at 20 to snow over the higher ground here. so it does stay disturb you see how the weather weather becomes a little more expansive as we go through a sunday right up towards the levant, some wet with a sliding its way through his syria, lebanon, jordan, all saint cloud and right. pushing in from the atlantic. nothing further east was some 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 around 20 celsius. staying little on the overcast side. i will 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 hama time when bringing some, if the dust and sand this dust hayes, they're just around nisha pushing towards more. tavia, plenty of showers across central parts of africa through the tropic, some big down poles. dumped? was malawi, i wonder when they say some heavy showers more it whether the south africa

ah. as 2022 jewels to a place. we reflect on the major stories. did she tell julie now does even for a series of in depth of looking back at this year and to head to 2022. ah bonnie test of is more benefits. they don't come of your savings, like a back and neck program joining test. number one, medical aid for south africa. lou. ah,

welcome back here watching out. is there a time to recap our headlines now? french police are fighting gas at the demonstration organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. thousands of people are rallying against the shooting of 3 codes in paris on friday. at least 8 people have been killed and 58 injured in a rush and strike in the southern ukrainian city of san ukraine retook the port last month in the major sat back from moscow. millions of north americans around the severe weather warnings as an arctic blast envelopes lodge swirls of the western canada. flights have been cancelled. roads blocks and snow drifts left hundreds of thousands of households without power. all the cold stretches further south to migrants hoping to cross into the u. s. from mexico. a battling temperatures well below freezing the, waiting for the u. s. supreme court to lift trump era restrictions that prevented

many from seeking asylum. the limits on border crossings was set to expire on wednesday, but an extension was granted. i'm lying at bay. they're going to see had to move from the coastal areas venezuela. little sun and the weather here, fixed a little. it's very cold, right? no, we're having a bon fire, it's i will myself level of the producer. it's going to come down to almost $23.00 degrees tonight. and 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 of as more extreme weather in other countries to in iraq. heavy rainfall is caused flash flooding in several cities. the capital bank that is among the areas affected, the government is facing criticism for failing to prepare for the extreme whether

a gas tank has exploded in the south african city of box berg killing 9 people. several fire fighters were injured while battling the flames. the cause of the explosion is not clear. box berg is east of the economic hub 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 menu and try and see to all these consolidated notes where he said i was when it happened again that bomb. they knew it out. we like, what's going on there? when we saw the was plants, we saw fire and at the bridge like what was going on, what's going on? then we saw it think i, which was painting a report by the open investigators is blamed a software failure for the crash of a boeing 737 max plane in 2019 a 157 people were killed when the c o p and airlines jet crashed minutes off to take off from addis ababa. the findings correspond with previous investigations

which blamed the models and the stall system, sending the plane into an uncontrollable dive. it was the 2nd crash of its kind within month forced boeing to ground all 737 max planes worldwide became faster. has ordered the united nations coordinator in the country. to leave . barbara massey was declared persona non grata after she decided to withdraw non essential un staff from are going to go. the west african nation is under military rule, off to, to cooper this year. the government said man's these move, discredited security efforts. we had heard in mrs. barbara predicted calcium working in the coming month. we did 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 a supportive structure, not an organization that advocates to still meet over country. thousands of support

of india's main opposition party marching through the capital. new dally have been crossing the country for more than 3 months and was seen as a show strength by the indian national congress. the party was once india's largest, but now governs only 3 of the $28.00 states. march is expected to continue until february of them is how has more from new delhi houses that people have gathered to join one of in just most powerful men on these, the side of just me national opposition party, the indian national congress. and he has been walking thousands of kilometers across india. he says his goal is to unite the country toner rights by the governing gucci. it comes as the congress is toggling to survive. it's down to one if its lowest tallies in parliament and only governance the states. meanwhile, prime minister in the reigns movie and the beach, if the roommate incredibly popular and on challenge this by growing criticism,

there are concerns about the flight of minorities drinking space for descent, as well as the government's handling of the pandemic and 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 months. oh well. 8 analysts say that be honest to challenge the b g p and voted accountable, now lies with smaller regional parties. job it on sorry, as a journalist and political commentator, he says the mart shows signs the opposition party is getting people behind it. 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 really the bigger question is really this enthusiasm that one

witnesses on the seat convert itself into words because certainly janice hogan this 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 where he's put in the hard yard. he's done on 5 days from the rose from 6 am to the late to be evening. that's no even dot. so it has done his image, a good, it's really great at the party, but will this converted to what? that's the big challenge for the on the 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 of a yard or a 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 body. mr. college and got it, or 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 challenged to the b g. p. 2020 to come to an end level is without the executive authority state. institutions are collapsing and politicians have failed to mitigate the impact of an economy in free fall and 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 via on it 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 salaries 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, an oil and gas revenues combined are worth only a fraction of 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 or not, not 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. so there, osha, zita, beirut, o city veney, i'm boca, has been confirmed as fiji new prime minister ending days of political deadlock

parliament, now the voted in favor of the former crew leader after an inconclusive election. earlier this month. and booker has served this prime minister twice. last government was toppled by outgoing leader frank, by the man who had been in power of 16 years from book and now had to 3 parties coalition. lisa mazano is the fiji correspondence for a b. c news, a straight liam. she explains what people's expectations are from the new government. the hope now for 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 p g as having been dictate here 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 gm's 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 fiji under it some for 16 years. he has said to australia and media as well in international and new zealand media that he is likely to go with its traditional partner with b, just traditional partners are of course as true 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 part policy, that he is likely to hold on to our sovereign power. which should be a little bit disconcerting for those watching the geopolitical development. here in the pacific. 2022 is supposed to be the best year for tourism in the palestinian city of bethlehem since the pandemic. but while restrictions are no longer affecting the industry, how bostonians were reminded they remain under

a decades long military occupation. neither abraham reports from bethlehem in the occupied westbank. ah, from bethlehem to the world, palestinian say the christmas message of hope started from their small city. they believe that jesus was born here more than 2000 years ago. ah, this annual parade tells the christmas story and to his different palestinian cities. it starts the journey from bethlehem. a city that depends heavily on tourism, but it's taking a hard to hit in the past few years. due to the pandemic, fun jolla, corns and a 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 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.

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 a 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. and we're also working with the world's churches to help christians stay. it's rose, doing everything to kick us out, but we count about to keep christian palestinians in their lands. this christmas come lathrop milady here. mm hm. hello, video. according to the un to 1020 to one definitely in the occupied was banking with people. say 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 m a law. a general strike was announced to mourn the death of a palestinian prisoner in his re be jailed across palestine. people remembered the loved ones, they lost this year. more so around the holidays. at altos ito's offices, this is the 1st christmas without veterans reported shedding a barclay. she was killed by israeli forces while on a fine meant in jeannine. in may, palestinians take pride that jesus was one of them and lied to celebrate his birth in the hope that one day they'll have peace. me that for him and just either ye occupied westbank. ah.