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going nowhere foss thousands of stuck at home in the us as an arctic blast threatens to make it the coldest christmas eve on record. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera die. you from dell are also coming up guarding against the danger from above. we meet your cranium troops on lookout for russian drugs. a gas tank are explodes outside the hospital in south africa, leaving a trail of destruction. being blue, praying for piques the christmas hopes of worshippers. what's believe to be the birthplace of jesus christ. ah. a deep freeze mothering 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 $1700000.00 homes are now without power. the storms, 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 wind, so the mercury plunged to minus 18 degrees celsius on friday in el paso, texas. where sub 0 temperatures are rare because the space in the u. s. was the remote montana town of harvard, which hit a low of minus 39 degrees, rising to minus 28. just before noon jabber. chauncey report 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 still elliot 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 advertise, see al jazeera washington when earlier we had from the parker meteorologist in buffalo, new york, which has been hit hard by the storm arctic plunge person 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 develops. it is only a couple of miles wide, but within that, anyone experiences 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 empties 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 that 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, 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 finds a bounce back mineral authorities in canada. i've warned people to stay indoors, a strong winds and a heavy snow sweep. the country power has been cut to more than 200000 homes and stopped some into city train services forecast to say the extreme weather will continue throughout sunday. they're told, rising from heavy snow in japan, at least 13 people have died since mid december with another 80 injured arrows across the north, east and west have been blanketed by snow,

paralyzing traffic and causing power blackouts. more than 10000 homes have no electricity. ukraine's president has condemned russian shelling of a busy market in her son as killing for pleasure. at least 10 people died and 15 others were injured. in the attack in the southern city, your son was retaken by ukrainian troops last month. and a major setback for moscow will ukraine's western back as of sense sophisticated air defense systems to key. but the army still largely relies on soviet air equipment to defend its cities. that's because it's taking time to train personnel to use. the new weapons aren't as arrows. charles stratford read met members of ukraine's mobile air defense units in the cave reaches poaching sky wood and on high alert. the soviet anti aircraft gun was built in 1982. the men at its controls are members of a mobile air defense unit,

trying to protect the ukraine in capital and surrounding area from russian. so called kamikaze drone and missile attacks. some of the ammunition was taken from a similar russian weapon captured around boucher, the early days of the war. other soldiers carry portable heat seeking soviet post soviet and western stinger missiles. the commander says they are effective up to a range of 6 kilometers, but often find it difficult to latch onto the drones that russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica mcarthur 50th, but he said you shaheed $131.13 kamikaze drones are low speed visible and loud, but they have a small heat signature. it can be difficult to lock on to the target. and the missile might miss anti aircraft guns work most effectively against the shade, but they have a problem if the drone flies at night or conditions

a poor visibility. russian forces have carried out at least a 1000 drone and cruise missile attacks targeting energy infrastructure in the last 2 and a half months most like this one are intercepted but many gets through. so millions of ukrainians are suffering blackouts and poor heating in freezing winter conditions. ukraine's western backers have sent air defense weapons such as this ne, some system. and last week, the u. s. announced it is supplying a patriot missile system. but training how to use it can take months. one missile costs up to $4000000.00. the commander of this unit says it will be used to projects only the most important potential targets and cannot be deployed to intercept drones and cruise missiles.

as we were filming this mo bile, a defense unit, the sound of the siren can be heard in the distance. and as a result, as you can imagine, these men are now on the move. we will not allow to follow the soldiers because of the risk of giving away their locations, put in another field close to cave. this mobile a defense unit practices using machine gun the range of well 3 kilometers. you can easily take down the cam ecology, drones that fly around a 160 kilometers an hour. only get eyes on 1st. there are some other cost. why? there are no your drones are less difficult. the missiles are, but there are observational difficulties because they can fly over forests that hide them or over busy roads, whether approach noise is drowned out by traffic. despite the challenges they face,

there are hundreds of men like these across the country. constantly ready for a radio alert, focused on the skies. char stratford, al jazeera key of region. ukraine. russian authorities are demolishing the remains of mario paul's historic theatre. hundreds of civilians are believed have been killed there in a russian as strike in march. when they were using the theater as a bomb shelter, ukraine says the demolition is an attempt to remove evidence that civilians were targeted. russia capture the southern port city in may 10 people have been killed and several others injured. after a gas tanker exploded, near the south african city of box burg, emergency services say they are investigating it, cause widespread damage. san diego report the moment a gas tank 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 flames spread for 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 that gain that bomb venue went out like what's going on that when we saw the was flames? we so fire that the bridge, like what was going on, what's going when we saw your income, which was banning tonka, had been reportedly delivering gas to the hospital when it got stuck under a low bridge on the box. big fire proof responded speedily and on. i brought a farm, did clark, but those were the lights. they tried to excuse me. there friday, but unfortunately the 10th grades floated and speak,

so the firefighters were injured in an unknown number of bystanders, where odyssey into 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. sunny gaggle, al jazeera, for short break here now to 0. when we come back, anger boils over for a 2nd day in the french capital of killings and a kurdish cultural center, plus what things have gone off very expensive. most of kind of gone off. what do you mean by christmas? right now? we look at what's fueling runaway inflation in nigeria, more about stainless ah,

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 yo bounce back to 14 but a 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 hunt, sunday, mexico, city, 5, you've got some showers there through the yucatan, heavier bursa brain though for western cuba. i pushing into believe on sunday. said quiet pitcher though for the south west l. a high temperatures here at 27 degrees. and his series of weather disturbances will crash into the pacific northwest in western canada. but because your 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, so breezy day though, across the river plate region, this band of rain moving away from months of the dale and closing in on porto lay grey on sunday. fisher weather update catcher later. ah. paulding county, the cost getting more buying for you bought the dollars the loan up in 2022. what's next with the green guy? why gold has to be do so well this year? crystal currency, what we're going to look at, what's next for the industry as it struggles to regain trust, counting the cost on all just do what we do. and i'll just, sarah is trying to balance this story and he's the people who allow it into their lives. dignity and humanity for,

oh, oh, well, come back and pick them out about top stories here. this al, at least a dozen people have been killed in blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures. gripping large parts of the united states, hold on $1700000.00 homes are without power. thousands of flights been cancelled. at least 10 people have been killed by russians. shelling in these southern ukrainian city of hair san ukraine's president accused the kremlin of kenning for pleasure. his troops retook the city last month and a major setback from moscow. i gas tonka exploded near the soft can city of box, but kidding, 10 people, emergency services are investigating the blast. it calls widespread damage and a residential area on a 2nd day of unrest in the french capital. awfully fatal shooting of 3 people at

a kurdish cultural center. demonstrators wanted declared a terrorist attack. investigators questioning a 16 year old suspects are considering the possibility of a racist motive, or some of them. jervey reports from pears, battle ground parish. robbery, police and brutus discharged 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 or for it had earlier been asked for a few months on ripples. we've been working on the 10th anniversary of the killing of our 3 comrades. 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 to little, double use to remain confined to one,

wherever the police allowed them to protest. goodish demonstrate to see the billet spied in 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 commercial witnesses. social onlookers, overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of runs from the mission unit witness the attacker targeting the post center, a restaurant and then above the 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. we found guns and came here. they don't we want to know something we want the state to answer. don't

be sure. the killings have place to move among frances madden communities. protests in other cities as well. they want to know why an attack on a minority community isn't being designated a terrorist attack. these goods fronted and called for revenge. and unless the government can satisfy their demands, the anger is unlikely to go away from them very that the 0 often many people in nigeria, the prices of basic goods have doubled compared to a year ago. inflation has been made worse by flooding and the lack of security and some farming regions. for me, the miller reports from a boucher despite being one of the largest oil producers in africa, nigeria went through yet another fuel crisis. in early december. at times the price increased 300 percent instead of using a bus. so taxi alix gay bill uses the cheapest mode of transport. he can find from

here to my destination and he surely will ship to near or no, we are all 10171. he's also d, i headed over by drawbridge, off into saudi economy, and are you still in touch me on horses is very, very harsh. one was unreal. oh boy, it's very, very stressful. even though we don't even have, there's no place to buy big companies to buy food. so most of these company does, we just did that as advantage to export from people. the government subsidy program is meant to make fuel more affordable. but critics say it's corrupt an oil supply is say they've not been paid and months. many people here say the cost of traveling to and from work is far higher than what they earn. the high cost of fuel not only impacts the cost of transportation, but almost all aspects of daily life kristy akin. no, no buys groceries at this, a butcher market several times a week. lately,

the cost of living here has been very, very unbearable. things have gone up very expensive was were kind of gone off watching them by christmas right now, for example, things have gone up and we are very expensive and they're very old, unbearable to it. so it's, it's, i mean, funding becoming funny because it's been taught she's not the only one surprised by the rising prices. right now the crazy pardon offering me because i got apples. i didn't buy apples for on bread mare, which is one apple on right now. i just get to the markets, they end up telling me up with the 35. andre. i'm like how the lady was like, that's how deprive of things how so i'm close to bright sciences of warned that if nothing is done to combat climate change, things will only get worse. the flawed in their fair, whatever i chose for the flaw they made a far mark on alcorto production on job to discuss the turf pro dot turn to find

out that we have later resources to feed that the amount of supply was so very small. dock that the mob cannot afford to port chase in that local market. fighting between the military and armed groups and forming areas is also affecting food supplies, high government debt and rising inflation is putting the economy under pressure. and as nigeria hit to the polls in a couple of months, a worsening economy is likely to influence how people vote for me. to milan al jazeera, a boucher, afghanistan's taliban government disband woman from working for agencies. it says some workers weren't following strict dress code. comes with days after bad on female students that universities spot protests and global outcry. in the latest demonstration security forces use water cannon dispersed women, protesting in the western city of head up 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 right. but she told us that run as a former afghan youth representative to the united nation. she says the international community must maintain the pressure on the taliban. a gender up behind is happening and then it's done. it begun when the tyler bond didn't allow women to show up in their work. this is last year and it continued when the thought about shut down the female country schools and then following those degrees, 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's all

a bond, totally erasing a woman from society, from public eye and foot from human life. and there is a hardening because it doesn't affect us in long term. and short term struction orleans is happening in dennison and strips avoidance, usually you decide to to or died when you're witnessing out. the protests are being treated 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 have a very dark future. and moreover, i believe that the time has come the international community and 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 the taliban. b christmas hostilities are likely to be subdued. in peru, after 2 weeks of political and social unrest, the violence is affected sales, especially for small businesses and millions of people who lost their jobs during the pandemic. a still struggling marianna sanchez support from lima. oh and 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, we 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 we're design. i mean, 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 in many stores closed during the rest of your, of the legal brain. there's 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. another say the feeling of instability, refrains consumers from buying too many products. people prefer to buy food and

keep their savings untouched. with coven 19th and demick left nearly 4000000 people without a job. yes, so see ation of small businesses says former precedent 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 would like 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 mcgee, inoffensive. i'll just see that lima put frances as 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. at saint peter's basilica, the vatican. thousands more expected a mass on sunday. in saint lou square. picky minty. only man, even as tara consumer chill, 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 their sisters. how many wars and, and how many places even to day are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt . as always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and vulnerable and thousands of people have gathered at what's believes to be the birthplace of jesus for christmas eve, mass bethlehem, and the occupied west bank has been gearing up for a bustling season. other 2 years of lockdown, but while tourist numbers are up, they're still well below pre pandemic levels as needed. abraham reports ah, a prayer for peace in one of the regions that the most in board. oh oh,

the latin patriarch of jerusalem presided over the christmas midnight mass in bethlehem. nativity church christmas eve is the event bethlehem looks forward to all year long as celebrations, attract christians from all over the world to the traditional birthplace of jesus. but this season, with the years in the making devotees were limited for the past 2 years. you profit 90, locked down 30. there is a good turnout and tourism is picking out a table behind me as customers from turkey and others came from ukraine. so there are people coming on. the palestinian tourism ministry says that the sector is recovering with more than 500002 is visiting bethlehem in 2022 really nice atmosphere every feel at home. and it's the spirit of christmas compared to more than 3500000 to is to visited palestine in 2019 this year the number of put into this is just shy of 1000000. this is not the boost,

small shop owners were hoping for. for me, if you wanna talk about last year was much better than this year. last year i had a lot of work on the arab who lives at the norfolk for fullest. i like the people who lives in nazareth and to be around these people. they get came to by the game in big numbers called the borders were closed. ah, out of the 900 palestinian christians in gaza is ready authorities only granted 600 of them permits to leave to bethlehem. the $3.00 oh, $1.00 person will be granted a permit, but 2 others of the same family won't. they always leave some one out. so what happens is that the family ends up not traveling with more than $220.00 palestinians killed by israeli forces this year. palestinians are reminded that they remain under israel's occupation here say they tried to see any opportunity to celebrate. they live under israel's military.