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going nowhere fall? stollins are stuck at home in the us as an arctic blast threatens to make it the coldest christmas eve on record. ah, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera la you from dough are also coming up guarding against the danger from above. we meet ukrainian troops on the lookout for russian drums. a gas tanker explodes outside the hospital in south africa, leaving a trail of destruction in blue and praying for piques the christmas hopes of worshippers. what's believe to be the birthplace of jesus? ah, a deep freeze mothering the united states looks like it's going through the festive

holiday season. at least a dozen people have been killed in blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures. more than 1700000 homes without power. the storm is almost unprecedented in its scope, stretching from the great lakes near canada, the rio grande along the border with mexico. 2 thirds of the country is under weather warnings, high winds, so the mercury plunged to minus 18 degrees celsius on friday. and el paso, texas, where sub 0 temperatures a read. the coldness space in the u. s. was the remote montana town of poverty, which had a low of minus 39 degrees, rising to minus 28 just before noon. shabbots, the 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 stranded in their homes for christmas. i lived in what you might call the stereotypical 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, thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state have lost power for a period of hours. and they are just coping with extra blankets and lots of christmas sweaters disliked and official ban on driving in some areas. there were is that many adventured 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 d. c. delayed in

d. c. an hour here. even though winter storm earlier has moved way to the north. it's also mouth of freezing temperatures. mean cities from pennsylvania to florida being told to expect the coldest christmas on record. although climate scientists, it's difficult to ascribe a single weather events, the climate change. what we are seeing is in keeping with the models 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 had time to see al jazeera washington when earlier we heard from the parker a meteorologist in buffalo, new york, which has been hit hard by the storm arctic plunge pers 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 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 packed 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 an hour 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 vehicles. 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. meanwhile, authorities and canada have warned people to stay in doors, a strong winds and a heavy snow sweep. the country power has been cut to more than 200000 homes and stops some into city trained services for cars to say the extreme weather will continue throughout sunday. that has 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 laudermill zalinski has condemned russian shelling of a busy market and her son as killing for pleasure. at least 10 people died and 58 were injured. in the attack in the southern city, our son was retaken by ukrainian troops last month and a major setback for moscow. and zalinski as call for unity in his holiday address to the nation. he says residents will create their own christmas miracle by showing the remains strong in the face of russian attacks. joy will drawn the gimme gods, no camera. kazi, drones can extinguish the christmas dawn. we will see its glow even under ground in a bomb shelter in some way. we will fill our hearts with warmth and light up pull. no missiles can hurt them, that they will break against our steel spirit and our fight or continue unabated. when islam it's not threatened by planned or emergency blackouts, soccer,

and we will never feel a lack of courage and invincibility language. but more than one is that the sweet we will celebrate our holidays. as always, we will smile and rejoice as always. the difference is one, we will not wait for a miracle because we will create it ourselves fully crane's western back as of cent sophisticated air defense systems to keep. but the army still largely relies on soviet era equipment to defend its cities. that's because it's taking time to train personnel to use the new weapons aren't as arrows. char stratford met members of ukraine's mobile air defense units in the cave region pointing skyward and on high alert. this 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 capitol, 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 butcher 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 the russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica, because affected, but i said you shaheed 131 and 136. kamikaze drones are low speed visible and loud, but they have a small heat signature. it can be difficult to lock onto the target and the missile might mess anti aircraft guns work most effectively against the shade, but they have a problem at the drone flies at night or conditions of poor visibility. russian forces have carried out at least a 1000 drawn 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. denounced 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

a 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. fis mobile a defense unit practices using machine gun the range below 3 kilometers. you can easily take down the chemicals, drones that fly around a 160 kilometers an hour. only get eyes on 1st. there are some of them as wide as their new york rooms 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. chance drafted al jazeera key of region. ukraine.

10 people have been killed and several others injured are for gas tank are exploded near the south. african city of box burg, emergency services say they're investigating the blast, which cause widespread damage. some of the egg, our report. 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 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? they knew it out. we 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 on? then 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 choir crew responded speedily and on. i brought a farm, good clark, but those were the lights. they tried to excuse me, there friday, but unfortunately the 10th grades floated and speak. so firefighters were injured in 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, sunny gaggle al jazeera was more so to come here, not just here, including anger boils over for a 2nd day in the french capital after kennings at

a kurdish cultural center. and collapsing state institutions and an economy in free for the back of a year of turmoil. and never, no more, not stay with ah, the who's off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. nice to have you along. this is a pitcher on sunday features, a lot of what, whether there's been some severe flooding in mecca and in north or in saudi arabia, we saw about half a years worth of rain within 24 hours. now for us around the gulf, specifically in though i think a bit more in the way of sunshine on sunday, but there was wind still blowing down from your dog. i think in the range of about 35 kilometers per hour, showers have driven down the temperature in light to 18 degrees on sunday and were waking up to single digits in karachi. sunday morning. i just 9 now throughout the

afternoon. we'll get you up to 27 degrees, showers streaming across. i've gone this down, but i think they'll fizzle out over the mountain. so a sun cloud combo for cobble, with the high 7 degrees showers rolling through the boss for some snow showers in anchor at 3 degrees that's below average. and look at all this weather crashing in to the coast of the levant on sunday. central africa. it's our usual plentiful showers and storms, but if we did further toward the south, it's that eastern side of south africa. that rain, really, pepin up through the su 2 and also a swat teenie up, but not a bad day in vin talk. coming in at 32 degrees, that's a snapshot of your weather see later. ah, the, there was a time to be direct there basically on the verge of a legalizing racial jerry battery to cut through the rhetoric. this isn't a universal death, totally crisis. the seems to be one of particular populations to dismantle the

sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth of the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're off of yet. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me markham on hill for up for what our 0, lou ah, welcome back to remind all the top stories here at this hour. at least a dozen people have been killed in blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures, gripping large parts of the united states. more than 1700000 homes are without power. thousands of flights have been cancelled. at least 10 people have been

killed by russians. shelling in the sullen ukrainian city of her son, ukraine's president accused the president of kenning for pleasure. his troops retook the city last month and a major setback. a mazda and a gas tanker has exploded, maybe some african city of boxborough, killing 10 people and leaving several others critically injured emergency services . now investigating the blast, of course, widespread damage to a residential area. there's been a 2nd day about arrest in the french capital after the fatal shooting of 3 people at a kurdish cultural center demonstrate as wanted to be declared as a terrorist attack. investigators questioning a 6 emanuel suspect are considering the possibility of a racist motive. a solid than j reports and powers. yes, battle ground, paris, robbery police in protest 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. we want answers from the police. why did it take so long

for them to respond to the attack? why have they not designated this a dentist attack? and why wouldn't security provided to the coaching center for it had earlier be the asked for a group. it is. we've been working on the 10th anniversary of the killing of all 3 comm rights. 10 years later we the could ish, 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 live a double oh, if used to remain confined to one square where the police allowed them to protest the dish demonstrate to see the bullets fired 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 in force clearing. the protesters are from the street. they're going from republic square to bethune square, but the anger in the streets of paris video is more videos. the mood can witnesses

. some show on lookers overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of rounds of ammunition units witnessed the attacker targeting the postal center 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. you found guns and came here. they don't, we want to know, we want the state to answer, don't be sure. the killings have placed 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 these goods planted and called for revenge. and unless the government can satisfy their demands, the anger is unlikely to go away from him very well, the 0 because his army has dismissed the pledge by m. 23 rebels to retreat from

a strategic frontline position, calling it a sham. the arm group says it'll give up the town of cucumber in the eastern city of goma as a good will gesture. the military says the movies designed to create a distraction to allow rebel fighters to reinforce their positions. and $23.00 has made significant gains in the east and taking up arms again last year. hong kong is tony reopening its borders with the rest of china for the 1st time in 3 years, despite the mainland surge and cobit 19 cases. media in the city of ching dow quoted, a health official saying there are around half a 1000000 infections a day. well, that report was quickly censored. the official figure for the region is just $31.00 . china's health when it's re recorded 4100 cases nationwide. on friday, there are ports of medicine shortages, packed hospital wards and backlogs. at crematorium and funeral homes. afghanistan's taliban government has banned woman from working for agencies. it says some workers

weren't following strict dress code. days after ban on female students at universities, spot protests and the global outcry. in the latest demonstration of security forces, you've water cannon to disperse women protesting in the western city of f. 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 gills fell down there scared of our voices. we want our right rom, supreme court says it will accept an appeal from the rapper some on saturday, a scene. he's facing a death sentence after participating in anti government protests is accused of trying to kill security forces and setting a rubbish, been on fire. now seen denies the charges. protests were triggered by the death of a 22 year old women in police custody in september. and i was 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 free fall out to 0 zanna how to look back on a turbulent year. 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 riches 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 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, 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 uncertain 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 will definitely shopped. there are people who are sleeping without dinner. they don't have money to buy food. there are no jobs. graduates are 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 good, awesome. well, nothing will change, even if the elect a president, because the same politicians responsible for running the economy into the ground are still in power. zalman. there's been no accountability for a crisis that destroyed the lives of so many. instead, lebanon has become a failed state. santa hood or al jazeera beirut passengers in the u. k. a that to scramble to catch their last trains as further strides caused commute a disruption on christmas eve. people ebay engaged would travel only if absolutely necessary. after thousands of rail and transport workers staged to walk out on saturday night,

christmas festivities are likely to be subdued in peru after 2 weeks of political and social turmoil. the violence is affected sales, especially for small businesses and millions of people who lost their jobs during the pandemic are still struggling. our da 0 is marianna sanchez reports la capital, lima. oh, what one go new 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 maybe some movie banning if sales have been very low in the past few weeks because of the qu, prices have gone up, the economy is very bad. and so our sales, political and social turmoil have dampened festivities. highway blockades, cost transport costs to increase, and many stores closed during the rest of your members that live over there. 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 loose 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 businesses. 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 once proceed in dinner, will work to focus on a contingency plan to counter their losses. for now, most of the protests have quietened down for the deeply religious country. it is a break and an opportunity to celebrate madana such as se the lead process, as warned 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 of saint peter's, the silica the vatican. 1000 more expected, a mass on sunday. in saint peter's square,

merely mining and as time consuming and she'll, 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, and how many places even to day are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt . as always, the principal victims of the human greed or the week and the vulnerable and thousands of people have gathered at was believe to be the birthplace of jesus for christmas eve, mass bethlehem. and the occupied west bank has been gearing up for a bustling season. not the 2 years of lockdown, but while tourist numbers are up there still well below pre pandemic levels. as did the abraham reports, ah, a prayer for peace in one of the regions that the most in board 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 was 3 years in the making. fifty's were admitted for the past 2 years. due to covered 90 locked downs 50. uh huh. 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 $3500000.00 to is to visited palestine in 2019 this year. the number of fir 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 ariba lives at the norfolk for palestine like the people who

lives in nazareth and to be around these people. they get came to buy in the game in big numbers because the borders were closed ah, out of the 900 palestinian christians in gaza is radio authorities only granted 600 of them permits to leave to bethlehem. her one person will be grant him up, 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. ah, with more than 220 palestinians killed by his ready forces this year, palestinians are reminded that they remain under israel's occupation. here say they tried to seize any opportunity to celebrate. they live under israel's military occupation until as they don't have much to do, but to pray for peace. me deborah him al jazeera.