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going nowhere fast 1000 stuck at home in the us as an arctic blast threatens to make it the coldest christmas eve on record. ah. how much of room this is abs you relied from door ha. also coming up. they want it declared a terrorist attack. the fiery aftermath from killings that a kurdish cultural centre in the french capital blue condemned as killing for pleasure. several people die in russian shelling of a busy market in a city recaptured by ukraine. aghast anchor explodes outside a hospital in south africa leaving a trail of destruction. ah,

a deep freeze, smothering the united states looks like it's lingering through the festive holiday season. at least a dozen people have been killed in blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures. more than 1700000 homes are without power. the storm is almost unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the great lakes near canada to the rio grande day along the border with mexico. 2 thirds of the country is under weather warnings. high winds saw the mercury plunge to minus 18 degrees celsius on friday, and el paso, texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. the coldest place in the u. s. was the remote montana town of hovering, which hit a low of minus 39 degrees, rising to minus 28 just before noon. she harbor tonchee reports the. the bronze of the storm on saturday was hitting upstate new york and the great lakes with snow full and high winds, many enough strand in their homes for christmas. i lived in what you might call the

stereotypical american suburbs. you can picture that and i cannot walk to the sidewalk in front of my house about 20 meters from my front door. thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state has lost power for a period of hours. and they are just coping with extra blankets. and lots of christmas sweaters disliked individual ban on driving in some areas. there were is that many had ventured up anyway, but the worst was over only to get stranded. this may turn out to be the worst storm in our community history. there are still likely hundreds of people still stuck in vehicles including individuals who tried to drive out in the late night hours last night. this is the festive season in the us, one of the busiest travel periods of the year. and even though thousands of flight delays and cancellations were reported, some passengers were determined to complete the holiday travel. our whole airport

shut down. so we drove to omaha, nebraska, got on a flight there. then then d. c. delayed in d, c. an hour here. even though winter storm has moved way to the north, it's also a freezing temperatures mean cities from pennsylvania to florida being told to expect the coldest christmas on record. although climate scientists say it's difficult to ascribe a single weather event. the climate change, what we are seeing is in keeping with the modules they've been moving about for years. a warming object disrupting the jet stream and plunging polar southwards, more and more frequently. and just in general, an increase in a variety of extreme weather events. she ever time. see al jazeera washington earlier, we heard from andy parker, a meteorologist in buffalo, new york, which has been hit hard by the storm arctic plunge, pursed,

pushed across lake erie. and as it did it scooped up a lot of moisture and created a very small scale effect called lake effect snow. it's where a band of snow develop that is only a couple of miles wide. but within that, anyone experience is what we call snow blindness or white outs, where you can't see the front of your car. if you're in it to drive at that point, people can't figure out where to go. they become stranded and rescue is not possible either because the vehicle is there, no one can see it. and even the e m ts and emergency medical staff can't get around. this band is continuing for now over 24 hours. it is going to slide and pack different communities, it went just to the north of buffalo, and that's where it's dropped more than 2 feet of snow. and a lot of this is going sideways in 60 miles our width. that's what creates that white out condition or snow blindness. and it also takes bad 2 feet of snow and turns them into 8 foot drifts, which makes getting through roads almost impassable. one of the small scale effects

of this where it may be okay where you are. but once you begin to travel, if you become stuck in this, that's when you're trapped and you can't get out. we're finding that a lot of folks are trying to be rescued, but their cell phones are starting to fail after 12 hours of being trapped in their vehicle. so they're reaching out any make any way that they can. and we're finding that as this begins to clear, one area folks are getting out and trying to find these people who are in their cars. the pattern of cold for western new york is going to last into about mid week next week. and then the nation as a whole, fine to bounce back. the death toll is rising from heavy snow in japan. at least 13 people have died since mid december with another 80 injured areas across the north, east and west have been blanketed by snow, paralyzing traffic. and causing power blackouts, where the 10000 homes have no electricity. there's been a 2nd day of unrest on the french capital after the fatal shooting of 3 people at

a kurdish cultural center. demonstrators wanted declared a terrorist attack. investigators questioning a 69 year old suspect are considering the possibility of a racist motive, but some a bunch of aid reports from paris. yet battle ground parish. robbery police in brutus is charged against each other in the french capital. your dish demonstrate as they're 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 better attack? and why wouldn't security provided to the coaching center offered it had earlier been asked for a few months on ripples. we've been working on the 10th anniversary of the killing of all 3. come right. 10 years later we the kurdish women are still asking for justice and now again, blood is spilled in france. we are angry and the french state is responsible to little c double. oh,

it used to remain confined to one square where the police allowed them to protest. goodish demonstrate to see the bullets fired the attack were filled 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 the public square to bethune square. but the anger in the streets of paris video is more video of the murder from witnesses. social onlookers overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of rounds of ammunition units witnessed the attacker targeting the coaches, center a restaurant and then above his shop he says, the 69 year old man you where he wanted to open fire. donkey will escape want us to believe it's a resist attack, but the guy was released from detention 10 days ago. in 10 days. you found guns and came here the door. we want to know something we want the state to answer. don't be

sure. the killings have placed the nerve among frances, my good community, protest in other cities as well. they want to know why an attack on a minority community isn't being designated. it tells the time how these goods planted in called revenge. and unless the government can satisfy their demands, the anger is unlikely to go away from them very well. the 0 yes sir. the warranty is a political analyst and civil rights activists. he says the unrest exposes the shortcomings of french government policy the 10 years and the presidency of emmanuel mccoy. has it further exacerbated social pensions and seems like this one are not a surprise, a given to how things the situation is in france. and the fact that the attack was carried in broad daylight embarrassed despite france having passed the most stringent counter terrorism laws of the past 20 years,

it to no avail. and on top of it, the government does not want to acknowledge that this is in fact a super weak attack being carried by a person who ideas to forward ideas. this same idea have been promoted by emmanuel michael for the past 5 years. the further a for vacation of the amok whole government was to in fact ascending massey, the police presence as people tried to gather in the aftermath of the doctor. please commemorate the death of 3 kurdish persons ukraine's president has condemned a russian shelling of a busy market in fair san as killing for pleasure. at least 8 people died and 58 others were injured in the attack in the southern city. her son was retaken by ukrainian troops last month in a major set back from moscow. charles stratford is wanting developments from keith

. what we're being told is that this attack happened around about 11 am 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 have returned to the city. in the immediate few days all through, 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 need for river population in those neighbors around 8000 people, the authorities. they're saying that there are constant sniper and shilling attacks

in there, but the kind of severity of this attacking them will 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 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. russian authorities are demolishing the remains of murder you paul's historic theatre. hundreds of civilians are believed to have been killed. they're in a russian air strike in march when they were using the theatre as a bomb shelter. ukraine says the demolition is an attempt to remove evidence that civilians were targeted. russia captured the southern port, city of money you fall in may. ukraine's president has called for unity in his

holiday address to the nation. the lot of his lensky says residents will create their own christmas miracle by showing they remain strong in the face of russian attacks, jointly drawn a kimmy godson, no chemicals, you drones can extinguish the christmas dawn. we will see its glow even under ground in a bomb shelter in sibley. we will fill our hearts with warmth and light up pull. no missiles can hurt them, not. they will break against our steel spirit and our fight will continue unabated . when islam it's not threatened by planned or emergency blackout soccer, and we will never feel a lack of courage and invisibility language. but more than one is that shot the so we will celebrate shall holidays. as always, we will smile and rejoice as always. the difference is one god, we will not wait for a miracle because we will create it ourselves. secondly, at least 22 people have died after a fire at a nursing home in russia. it happened in the siberian city of camaro vall,

investigator suspect a faulty boiler was the cause. the nursing home was reportedly operating illegally . a criminal investigation is underway. still ahead on al jazeera, another show of defiance by protesters in afghanistan as the taliban announces new restrictions on women's rights. plus a christmas plea from pope francis in defense of the victims of one lot of ground to cover in your americas update. hi there, thank you so much for joining in. so still lake effect snow for western new york breezy conditions there as well. and cold air is punched as far south as southern florida. these are your wake up temperatures on sunday, 7 degrees in miami,

dark of the blue, the lower the temperature, even for the gulf states, we've got sub 0 temperatures. miami, you'll bounce back to 14, but it dismal. they, there was some showers in this cold air is rushing out of the us across the gulf into mexico. here's your wake up temperatures on sunday, mexico, city 5. you've got some showers there through the u content. heavier bursa brain though for western cuba. pushing into believe on sunday. so quite a picture though for the southwest l. a high temperatures here at 27 degrees and is series of weather disturbances will crash into the pacific northwest in western canada. but because you, temperatures are high, it's going to be falling as rain off to south america. an area of low pressure around bolivia is going to amplify rainfall amounts here through pedro. and that western side of the amazon basin. it's a breezy day though, across the river plate region, this band of rain moving away from months of the day and closing in on porto lake ray on sunday. that sure weather update catcher later.

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you're watching all the 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour. at least a dozen people have been killed and blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures. gripping large parts of the us or the $1700000.00 homes are without power. thousands of flights have been cancelled. there's been a 2nd day of unrest in the french capital after the fatal shooting of 3 people had a kurdish cultural center. police fought with protesters who accused security forces of not doing enough to prevent the attack. at least 8 people have been killed by russians shelling in the southern ukrainian city, of course, on the president accused moscow of killing for pleasure. ukrainian troops retook the city last month. a major setback for russia. 10 people have been killed and several others injured. after a gas tank or exploded near the south african city, a box burg emergency services say they're investigating the cause. it caused widespread damage. so yeah, go reports. the moment

a gas tanka stuck under a bridge exploded into flames. it was outside the tambo memorial hospital. inside the impact collapse, the roof and left day be strewn around the emergency room. nearby homes were also damaged, as flame spread from the site of the exclusion. residents from a ne, by elderly care home were evacuated. it was more like a bomb. will you say the i was been eat happy in that gain? that bomb. they knew it out. we like what's going on there? when we saw the was flames? we so fire that the bridge like how what was going on? what's going, when did we saw it's income, which was banning tonka had been reportedly delivering gas to the hospital when it got stuck under a low bridge. the box big burner crew responded speedily and on of i voted from the dark. but those were the lights. they tried to fix

the fire, but unfortunately the tanker exploded and seek, so the fire fighters were injured and then a no number of bystanders were or to 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 gaggle al jazeera, the army of the democratic republic of congo, has labeled as a sham the pledge by him 23 rebels to retreat from a strategic frontline position. the armed group says it will give up the town of cuba near the eastern city of gama, as a good will gesture. but the congolese army says the move is designed to distract and stead rebel forces are reinforcing their positions elsewhere. in 23 has made significant gains in the east since taking up arms again. last year. burkina faso

has ordered the senior most un official in the country to leave. barbara massey was declared persona non grata after she decided to withdraw non essential you and staff from the capital. why do go the countries foreign minister says monsey had raised security concerns without providing evidence. the west african nation is under military rule after 2 coups this year. the government is battling groups linked to al qaeda and i. so if you knew we had heard in mrs. barbara predicted. cale seems like in a 1000 to coming month, we do not know what basis she can do this, especially since on the security side are still major efforts underway. and in this matter, the united nation should be supported structure, not an organization that advocates to still me of the country. so there are reports that libyan warlord leaf a huff tar has announced a final chance to hold elections. media quoted, huff tars calling for a new road map for a vote. bible factions agreed to hold an election a year ago, but the process fell apart. half to us army previously waged war against the you

and recognized government in tripoli. afghanistan's taliban government has banned women from working for agencies. it says some workers weren't following dress coach . it comes just days after a ban on female students at universities, sparked protests and a global outcry. in the latest demonstration security forces used water cannons to disperse women, protesting in the western city of herat. i, we have come to day to demand a right to education. we and not caring in the 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 right school as a drawn, as a former afghan youth representative to the united nations. she says the international community must maintain pressure on the taliban. a gender up happening and then it's done. it begun when the tyler bond doesn't allow women to

show up in their work. this is last year and it continued when the thought of on shut down the female can recount. and then following those degrees, the dollar bonded and allowed they didn't allow the women to show up in public places parks or other places. and unfortunately to yesterday and to the, to more it is coming, which is very, very disheartening. it means that dollar bond totally erasing a woman from society, from public eye and from human life. and there is a hardening because it doesn't affect us in long term. and short term struction williams is happening in denison and strips avoidance, usually you decide to, to be witnessing out the protests are being seated in

a very violent way by the female producers are being arrested in protest or are being arrested and assaulted bytes. so all of these incidents are an indication that we are going to a very dark future. and moreover, i believe that the time has come the international community, especially the marsh, stop releasing and sending $40000000.00 to have denison. i think the time has come to take a tangible, serious action against a dollar bon b. iran supreme court says it will accept an appeal from rapper salmon. say the scene. he's facing a death sentence after participating in anti government protests. yes, seen wraps about inequality, oppression, and unemployment. he's accused of trying to kill security forces and setting a rubbish. been on fire. he denies all charges. protests were triggered by the

death of a 22 year old woman in police custody in september. as 2022 comes to an end, lebanon is without an executive authority state. institutions are collapsing, and politicians have failed to mitigate the effects of an economy. in freefall, santa holder looks 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 the lebanese universities are no longer going to work. people are desperate. some have stormed bank at times, armed, demanding their own money. their savings have been trapped by informal capital controls. since the onset of the economic crisis, level financial crisis entered is 4th year with losses amounting to more than $70000000000.00. the world bank says the countries current and future states on the assets public real estate potential but uncertain oil and gas revenues combined are worth only a fraction of that. the political paralysis hasn't helped a fragmented parliament, hasn't been able to elect the president since november. and without the head of

state, a government can't be formed. it's an unprecedented vacuum that delays efforts to revive the economy 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, hong kong is fully reopening its borders with the rest of china for the 1st time in 3 years, despite the mainland surgeon, cobra, 1900 cases. media in the city of ching dow quoted health official saying there are

around half a 1000000 infections a day. the report was quickly censored, the official figure for the region is only 31 time this health ministry recorded 4100 case of nationwide on friday. there are reports of medicine shortages packed hospital wards and backlogs, had crematorium and funeral homes. passengers in the u. k of had to scramble to catch their last trains as further strikes caused commuter disruption. on christmas eve. people are being urged to travel only if absolutely necessary as thousands of rail and transport worker staves to walk out on saturday night rail operators or warning travelers to avoid trains until january. the nice christmas festivities are likely to be subdued in peru after 2 weeks of political and social turmoil, the violence is affected sales, especially small businesses, and millions of people who wants their jobs during the pandemic are still struggling. arianna sanchez reports from lima. oh,

what one renew 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 li 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 blamed the wave of protest that spread across bay due to the impeachment and arrest of former precedent? is augustine a day before christmas. diana, when this says she hasn't sold any of her, nit, were designed to make the semi 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 in many stores closed during the rest of her. you said the rober, 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 legally or shut his door. as a result, he says, sales are 40 percent lower than they were last year. i know they say the feeling of instability, refrains consumers from buying too many products. people prefer to buy food and keep their savings untouched. with coven 19 they make left nearly 4000000 people without a job. the association of small businesses former proceed in bins. augusta, you didn't implement any support measures. and now the last more than half a $1000000000.00 in christmas sales business owners are calling for urgent

assistance. they once proceed in dinner, we wanted to focus on a contingency plan to counter their losses. for now, most of the protests have quieted down for the deeply religious country. it is a break and an opportunity to celebrate liliana such as se the lead hope frances has warned of the consequences of greed during a christmas eve mass. the head of the roman catholic church says the weak and vulnerable are victims of the pursuit of wealth and power. $7000.00 people attended the service saint peters basilica in the vatican. thousands more are expected for mass on sunday. in saint peter square. pinky to remind us turner consumer and she will while animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world in their hunger for wealth and power, consumed their neighbors, their brothers and sisters. how many wars and how many places even to.