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ah ah, a 2nd day of caches in paris between police and kurdish activists, demanding on says over the fatal shooting of the members of that community on friday. ah, no, i, mariam noisy. in london, you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. sissy's across the u. s. on course for that coldest christmas eve on record is an arctic blast cause is power outages and travel cables . ukraine accuses rusher of killing for pleasure after a missile kills at least 8 people in the hearts of recently we captured harrison city. the gas tanker explodes in south africa,

killing 10 people off to getting stuck on the road bridge through the ham streets of busy again as the town welcomes back christmas tourists and pilgrims after 2 years of coven restrictions, ah hello, welcome to the program. french police of fi, tay, gas, a demonstration organized by kurdish activists and anti racism groups. thousands of people have been riling against the facial shooting of 3 people or kurdish cultural center in paris on friday. they want the authorities to declare the shooting a terror attack. a not a racially motivated incident, sang codes were deliberately targeted. police have already arrested a man in his sixties, a some of bon jovi reports now from paris. yet, but he groan parish. what i was police in protest as charged against each other in the french capital. goodish demonstrators are angry at authorities response to the

attack on friday, which killed 3 refugees. they want answers from the police. why did it take so long for them to respond to the attack? why have they not designated this it terrorist attack? and why wouldn't security provided to the coaching center or for it had earlier been asked for your number represent on son jordan. we've been working on the 10th anniversary of the killing about 3 comics. 10 years later we the kurdish women are still asking for justice and now again, our blood is spilled in france. we are angry and the french state is responsible double. oh, refuse to remain confined to one square where the police allowed them to protest. goodish demonstrate to see the bullets fired and the attack were felt by every member of the community as the protest. her calm down here in paris, the police and security services are out enforced. clearing the protesters from the

street. they're going from republic square to basil square, but the anger in the streets of paris continues is more videos emerged from witnesses? some sure onlookers overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of rounds of ammunition units witnessed the attacker targeting the coastal center a restaurant. and then above his shop, he says the 69 year old man knew where he wanted to open fire elect ocoee will escape want us to believe it's a resist attack. but the guy was released from detention 10 days ago. in 10 days he found guns and came here. they do we want to know we want the state to answer? don't be sure. the killings have pushed the nerve among frances, my good community protests in other cities as well. they want to know why an attack on a minority community isn't being designated a terrorist attack. good,

talented and cold for revenge. and unless the government can satisfy the demand wrangler isn't likely to go away from the era. yes, a lot. he is a political analyst in civil rights activists. he says the french government is helped to normalize racism within years and the presidency of money. well, my cause further exacerbated social tensions and seems like this one are not a surprise, a given how to the situation is in front. and the fact that the attack was carried in broad daylight in various despite front flooding, but the most stringent counts or theories and the laws of the bus at 20 years to no avail. and on top of it, the government does not want to acknowledge that this is in fact a timber attack being can read by a person who idea is a 2 forward ideas. this same idea have been promoted by him. by the way, my call for the past year is the further location of the mac or government,

or was to in fact ascending my see the police present as people try to gather in the aftermath of the talk to a police commemorate the death of 3 or the persons ah, finding blizzards, freezing, rain and life threatening cold of grips, large parts of the u. s. a storm is almost unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the great lakes near canada to the rio grande. along the border with mexico. 2 thirds of the country is under weather warnings. high winds or the mercury punched her minus 18 degrees celsius on fighting el paso, texas, where it sub 0 temperatures, obviously rare. the coldest place in the u. s. was at the remote montana town and of a have very which had to low of minus 39 degrees rising to just minus 20 a. that was before noon, at least a dozen people have been killed nationwide. where the,

where the predicted to become even more severe on saturday, more than 1700000 homes without power, a major energy or for a to serving 65000000 households in the eastern u. s. is warning that the grade is under severe strain. roughly 12000 flights have been canceled since friday, with millions of americans struggling to travel ahead of christmas day on sunday. be sure to make your holiday plans for another time if you not already united with your family because my mother nature through the kitchen sink at us. this time i said she throws everything but the kitchen sink. i am fully expecting to see the kitchen sink fall out of the sky because we've been hit with everything from wind and flesh freeze and unprecedented high la, 3 of women, almost 80 miles an hour in buffalo and other parts of the state. very high numbers, as well as the snow ice flooding. so it's been a very tough one. well deserve shebra tansy. he joins us live now from washington and shall we were just running through. some are some of the features of what's

happening, a quite remarkable to be having sub 0 temperatures in texas of all places. what's it been like where you are things are getting a little warmer. actually. when we 1st came out about 4 hours ago, it was i think my mind just doesn't want to process these numbers. so i keep forgetting them is minus 12 degrees centigrade. but it felt like minus 20 degrees centigrade because of the wind show that in the last we were up to minus 9 degrees celsius, but it felt like minus 16 and this i just checked where it's minus 8 degrees celsius, but feels like minus 14 day it is getting warmer here, we had the brunt of the, the really cold weather, but we're not going to get into positive territory until monday at the earliest were told. but as you said, across the u. s. and certainly from pennsylvania to florida,

they've been told to expect the coldest christmas in recorded in recorded history. the main thing out there is in areas where governor was speaking from, for example, upstate new york, buffalo, niagara falls, the great lakes region that's, that's the area where the snow and the wind is still pummeling pummeling the area. people are trapped inside the houses, and christy is out around the country just because we have over a 1000000 people, a 1000000 households without power. right now there's a real fair up in buffalo and then some of these great lakes regions. apparently, the lot of people thought may be the, there's a kind of a low friday night and people thought maybe the worst is over and it is the holiday season. people are determined to travel. and a lot of people think that's just hundreds of people, maybe stuck in that cause may have been stuck in that cause overnights and now in the mid afternoon, eastern standard sex, you know, people who and stuff, that's a real real, real concern. right, right now it has to be said, i can add some granularity as we like to say to those they slight cancellations because what we're also saying is despite that tale which is always increasing

flight cancellations, and delays. people are still going to the apple that determines to make that christmas and just tell them to see their families, i guess, and so on. so, but this would have said the optic there when we 1st started looking at the statistics this morning, there were $2352.00 flight delays that was going up in since iraq router 3 or 4 hours to $4599.00 and there were $1718.00 cancellations this morning. now that's up to 2062. you know, these numbers rule took your political that will then i will knock on a foot in the coming days. as ross travels concern to us, the aeroplanes were in the wrong place and so on. okay, thank you very much. advertising washington. heavy snow as well in japan. it's now killed 13 people since the middle of december, 80 others have been injured by this areas across the country's north, east and west have been blanketed, paralyzing traffic and causing large scale power cuts. more than $10000.00 homes

are also without power. we go to ukraine now at least 8 people have been killed in a rush, an air strike in the southern part of the country, 58 others were injured in the attack on harrison which ukraine's government as condemned as killing. for pleasure, city was retaken by ukrainian troops last month in a major setback for moscow's war. video, released by harrison officials showed forties yet to be recovered, and emergency workers tending to the injured in the streets of the city. charles stratford has more 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 there's around about $70000.00 people in the city. as we speak, many people had returned to the city. many more people would return to the city. in the immediate few days off or it was liberated around november, the 10th,

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 neighborhoods of around 8000 people, the authorities saying that there are constant sniper and shilling attacks in there . but the kind of severity of this attack in the central area of the city is very worrying date. of course, most the russians and the ukrainians always deny that they are targeting civilian infrastructure. civilian areas, we do know though that both sides use occasionally a band and 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. meanwhile, russian authorities demolishing the remains of mary paul's historic theatre hundreds of civilians, a believe to been killed by russian as strike in march when they were using the theatre as a bomb shelter would. children had been painted in russian letters and from to the building was reduced to a roofless rubble filled shell. ukraine says the caring of the site is part of an attempt by russia to remove evidence that civilians were targeted. russia captured the southern port city of morrow. in may. 22 people have died after a fire tall through a nursing home in russia. blaise broke out in the siberian city of cam rover. investigators suspect a faulty boiler was the cause of this. the private home is reported to have been operating illegally. a criminal investigation is underway. watching al jazeera life

am landon mo, still had on the afghan taliban use his voice, accounting to start women protesting and female employees and local government organizations from going to high school. no president, no government and an economy in free fall. we look back at the past year, lebanon. ah, it's the weekend. here's your forecast on sunday. for europe in africa, more rain comes pouring in to flood hit areas of portugal. the worst of it will be less been to porto, moves into western spain on sunday, still drawing up warm air for the west of europe. so, you know, the other day across france, something like more than a 100 weather stations, a reporting temperatures above 20 degrees, central europe,

your and this is haul care temperatures are above average. so that means anything falling from the sky, likely to be rain or showers except for keith. we've got a rain snow combo there may even see some freezing rain showers are running through the boss 1st. that's impacting is stan bolt levin degrees have got some snow flurries and uncle rad 3 that's below average. and a lot of white weather comes crashing into the coast of the van. so aleppo bay route and ramallah ran in showers in the days to come. also, wet weather for the northeast of egypt, cairo at 18 degrees that slightly below average are harm that wind is picking up so some sand and dust storms. not too far away from engine nina, and the rain is filling in across at eastern side of south africa. same goes for sue to and eventually s y, teeny, but not a bad day in vinto sons out with the high of 32 degrees. that's it see later ah,

to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide and to reward merit and excellence. and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou ah, welcome back. look at the main stories who are following now. french police. if i take out a demonstration organized by coding activists and anti racism groups,

thousands of people have rallied against the shooting of 3 people at a kurdish cultural center in paris on 5 days. juniors was blinding blizzards, freezing right and life threatening. cold of gripped large parts of the united states. at least a dozen people have now been killed across the country with the weather predicted to become even more severe on saturday. and at least 8 people have been killed in a russian asteroids on the city of harrison in southern ukraine. government and key has condemned the killing as an attack. that's been done for pleasure that says we took care some loss. ma'am. 10 people have been killed after a gas tanker exploded near the south african city of box berg. the cause of this is not yet clear, but the explosion has caused widespread damage. so like a go reports. the moment a gas tanker stuck under a bridge exploded into flames. it was outside the tambo memorial hospital.

inside the impact collapse, the roof and left day re strewn around the emergency room. nearby homes were also damaged, as flame spread from the site of the exclusion. residents from a nearby elderly care home were evacuated. it was more like a bomb. will you say the i've been, you'd happy in that gain? that bomb venue went out like, what's going on there? when we saw the was flames, we saw fire under the bridge, like what was going on, what's going on? then we saw it's income, which was painting a tonka, had been reportedly delivering gas to the hospital when it got stuck under a low bridge on the box big choir. crude was formed at speedy and on the road they formed clark. but those were the lights. they tried to trick student

the prior, but unfortunately the term grades, bluetooth, and seek. so proprietors were injured to them. a no number of bystanders were or see the flames continued to burn for hours. railway lines have also been damaged. investigators are examining exactly how and why a routine delivery could have ended so tragically. sony guy. yeah, go out, is there up now to libya, the wall of cliff after is reportedly announced a final but soon as he told elections in the country, libyan tv quotes, the police and commander is wanting to drop a road map for the vote. your move comes a year after libya's rival factions agree to go to the polls. the it's that process fell apart. may be as little as i had little piece since the uprising in 2011 that led to the lasting of the former leader, monica duffy after his waged war on the factions in the countries west,

including the un backed government in the capital, tripoli. but i've got a sons, taliban government has ordered all local and foreign non governmental organizations to stop their female employees coming to work in its latest great down on women's rights. it says some and g o workers at night here to the taliban. interpretation of islamic dress codes for women. meanwhile taliban security forces of used water cannon sticks and patterns to disperse women protesting in the western city of herat. earlier this week, the government announced an immediate ban on women attending university girls and afghanistan of already been excluded from mo, secondary schools. i, we have come today to demand our right to education. we are not carrying any weapons, but the taliban forced us to come to this narrow street. and then they used water cannon on us. we all got wet and many girls fell down. they are scared of our voices. we want our rights. iran supreme court says it will except the appeal of rap, or some on said yes,

seen has been sentenced to death after participating an anti government demonstrations. but countries judiciary has confirmed the death sentence of another protest. her. your senior wraps about inequality, oppression and unemployment is accused of attempting to kill security forces and setting a rubbish, been on fire. he denies all the charges. his mother sent in a video pleading to save her son. 2 people linked to ongoing protests and ryan have so far been executed. demonstrations were triggered by the death of mass. i'm meaning in police custody in september, thousands of supports of and his main opposition party of marcia, the capital new delhi. they've been crossing the country for more than 3 months in what seem as a show of strength by the indian national congress. the party led by roll gandhi was once india's largest, but now only governs 3 of the $28.00 states. march is expected to continue until february. as 2022 comes to an end,

lebanon is without president or government. state institutions or collapsing. politicians have failed to deal with the impact of an economy in free fall. st holder looks 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 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 on 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 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 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 worship has a gathering to attend midnight mass at the church of the nativity in the palestinian town of bethlehem. thousands of pilgrims and terrace, of descended upon the biblical birthplace of jesus christ as it rebounds from. for the past 2 years, the towns economy has been badly hit as kind of kept the visitors away. this year

though large numbers of terrorist and local have been to manger square to celebrate christmas. and to him joins us live now from beth m. so very different kind of vibe and atmosphere this year. off to several years of coven restrictions. yes, this was the year that palestinians were looking forward to because this is the 1st year that the christmas season with happened without any cove in 1900 restriction. but it's been a year that has been marred with losses. those has been a lot of tension here in the occupied bank more than 230 palestinians were killed by israeli forces across all the occupied territory, including the besieged, gaza strip. so of course, that political situation, that tension the fact that palestinians feel that they don't have proof of that their life of ending the israeli occupation that has been lingering and has been in place for decades. i fucked. the celebration always been talking to people and

asking them where do they find hope amid these difficulties? and they tell us that part of their struggle is actually celebrating, they live in one of the holiest places in the world. bethlehem is known internationally because it is the traditional, a birthplace of jesus christ. they call themselves residents of the capital of christmas, and they tell us that they can always and only pray for peace. what was it like in times of visitors and tourists coming back? have been a big rush of people and what are the plans now for the next 24 hours? what can we expect to see investor him? we are expecting now the latin patriarch of jerusalem, who entered through the nativity church to the manger squared and was celebrated with people was his entrance was celebrated. we're expecting the latin patrick to

head to preside over the midnight mass. here. i've been at the church. he talked about the fact that this plays of old places in the world really need peace. so people were hopeful that this season would bring in more tourists. now we can say that we haven't seen any. we've seen people of the shop owners were telling us that they've seen people coming in from the philippines, from turkey, even from ukraine, but still the numbers. they're not compared to the pre pandemic people. we're hopeful that they're going to go back to normal that, that the numbers will be similar to those that we've seen in 2019. we're talking about 3500000 visitors who came to palestine in general in 2019. but we're talking about now less than $1000000.00 across or this year. so there is hope that these numbers will increase year after year. but also people here would tell you that they want the world to see that that there are people who are living under

israel's military occupation. thank you very much. i will check in with you a bit later on as well. had of midnight mass, bethany, annette abram, will christmas festivities are likely to be subdued in peru after 2 weeks of political and social turmoil. violence is affected sales as you'd expect, it's damage small businesses, millions of people who lost their jobs during the pandemic. a still trying to make ends meet i on a sanchez reports from lima. oh, but one go now 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. ah, lemme chamber of commerce says christmas sales are down 33 percent. it's a blow to the economy in the biggest shopping season of the year. how many people blamed the wave of protest that spread across video to the impeachment and

a rest of former precedent? little castillo a day before christmas day. and when this says she hasn't sold any of her network designs, this is them. we banning 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 have dampened festivities. highway blockades, cost transport costs to increase, and many stores closed during the unrest are you that the warbler? there has been a lot of uncertainty and fear. people don't go out to shop. we had to close the doors because of people who wanted to lose legal. happily or shut his door. as a result, he says, sales are 40 percent lower than they were last year. another say the feeling of instability,

refrains consumers from buying too many products. people prefer to buy food and keep their savings untouched. that coven 19 pandemic left nearly 4000000 people without a job? yes. so see ation of small business as says former president bill castillo, 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 medina, francis alto, cedar lima passengers in the u. k. a had to scramble to catch their last trained as further strides. cause can eat a disruption on christmas eve. persons where i should travel only if absolutely