this year, the international union for the conservation of nature officially designated the migrating monarch butterfly as endangered experts say the use of pesticides along with the loss of habitat, are the biggest threats to the species. they may be difficult to see from a distance, but these trees behind us are absolutely covered in monarch butterflies. now tourists are welcome at this protected butterfly sanctuary here in central mexico. but visitors are asked to keep their voices down so as to not disturb the butterflies. for many the up close encounter with millions of these vibrant butterflies is a once in a lifetime experience experts in mexico see that despite the monarch being designated as endangered, there's evidence that conservation efforts are working. but ultimately, the future of this iconic insect depends on the continued protection of their natural habitat. ah,

going nowhere, foss thousands are stuck at home in the united states as an optic bloss threatens to make it the coldest christmas eve on record. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera alive from though i also had coming up, they wanted to class a terrorist attack the violent off the mouth and killings occurred as cultural center in the french capital. a gas tanker explodes outside the hospital in south africa, leaving a trail of destruction in blue and praying for peace. the christmas hopes of worshippers that what's believe to be the birthplace of jesus. ah, a deep freeze mothering 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 along the border with mexico. 2 thirds of the country is under weather warnings. high wind saw temperatures plunged to minus 18 degrees celsius on friday in el paso, texas. where it's rarely dipped below sub 0. the coldest place 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, shebra tansy 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 round 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 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 then d. c. delayed in d,

c. an hour here. even though winter storm 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 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 ever see al jazeera washington. well, earlier we heard from andy soccer, a mutual interest in buffalo, new york, which has been hit hard by the stone arctic plunged, pursed, pushed across lake erie. and as it did it scooped up a lot of moisture and created

a very small skill at back called lake effect snow. it's where a band of snow develops. it 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. t's and emergency medical staff can't get around this banded 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 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 vehicle. so they're reaching out any, 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 finds a bounce back mineral authorities and canada have warned people to stay in doors, a strong winds and a heavy snow sweep. the country has been cut to more than 200000 homes and stop some inner city train services forecast to say the extreme weather will continue throughout sunday. the debt tells 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 the west have been blanketed by snow, paralyzing traffic and causing major power blackouts. more than 10000 homes have no

electricity, has been a 2nd day of unrest in the french capital after the fatal shooting of 3 people that a kurdish cultural center demonstrate as wanted, declared a terrorist attack. investigators questioning a 6, an annual suspect, are considering the possibility of a racist motive, a solid bon jovi report and pass battle ground parish. robbery police in 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 terrorist attack? and why wouldn't security provided to the coaching center or it had earlier been asked for a few months on rivers. 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 jose double used to remain confined to one square where the police allowed them to protest. goodish demonstrate to see the bullets fired and 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 continues is more video of commerce come, witnesses? some show on lookers overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of rounds of ammunition units to witness the attacker targeting to close his center, a restaurant and then above his shop he says the 69 year old man, new where he wanted to open fire, elect ocoee will escape want us to believe it's

a racist attack, but the guy was released from detention 10 days ago. eaten days. he found guns and came here. he's all we want to know something we want the state to answer. don't be sure. the killings have picked the move 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 a terrorist attack these goods planted in called revenge. and unless the government can satisfy their demands, that anger is unlikely to go away from the very that the 0. the congolese army has dismissed a pledge by m 23 rebels to retreat from a strategic frontline position, calling it a sham. the arm group says it will give up the town of cuba in the eastern city of goma as a good will gesture for the military says the move is designed to create a distraction to allow rebel fighters to reinforce other positions. and $23.00 has

made significant gains in the east since taking up arms again. last year. 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 blast, which cause widespread damage. san diego 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 spray for the sight 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 bed bomb. they knew it 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. hancock which was banding with the tank

a had been reportedly delivering gas to the hospital when it got stuck under a low bridge. on the box spring by our crew responded speedily. and on our right road, they formed it dark. but those were the lights. they tried to excuse me, the prior, but unfortunately the 10th grade exploded 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 process is one of the consequences of greed june christmas eve mass. the head of the roman catholic church says the weak and vulnerable law,

victims of the pursuit of wealth and power. $7000.00 people attended the service at saint peter's basilica, the vatican. thousands more expected from mass on sunday in saint peter's square. pinky mutiny manning as tanner consumer. 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, and how many places even today are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt . as always, the principal victims of this human greed are the week and the vulnerable loss must come here and they are including god against the danger. from above, we meet ukrainian troops on the lookout for russian drones. things i've gone off very expensive looking up. what do you mean by christmas right now? and we look at what stealing runaway inflation in nigeria. well enough. i

choose off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. nice to have along. this is a picture on sunday features, a lot of what, whether there's been some severe flooding in mecca and in northern saudi arabia. we saw about half a years worth of rain within 24 hours. now for us around the golf, specifically in though i think a bit more in the way of sunshine on sunday, but there is 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 got to stand, but i think they'll fizzle out over the mountains. 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 get further towards the south, is that eastern side of south africa, that rain really peppy and up through the su 2, and also a swat teenie up, but not a bad day, and didn't talk coming in at 32 degrees, that's a snapshot of your weather see later. ah, ah, ah, ah

lou. ah, welcome back. a quick reminder, the top stories here. this at least a dozen people have been killed in blinding blizzards and life threatening temperatures, gripping large spots the united states. more than 1700000, the 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 at a kurdish cultural center at east fort with protest us. we're q security forces. i'm not doing enough to prevent the attack. a gas tonka has exploded near the south african city of box book coming 10 people and leaving several others critically

injured. emergency services are investigating the blast. it caused widespread damage to a residential area. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has condemned russian shelling of a busy market in her son as killing for pleasure. at least 10 people died and 58 others were injured. in the attack in the southern city of san was retaken by ukrainian troops last month. and a major setback for moscow. and zalinski is call for unity in his holiday address to the nation. he says, residents will create their own christmas miracle i showing. there remains strong in the face of russian attacks. joy will draw. ne, gimme god's no kamikaze. drones can extinguish the christmas dawn. we will see its glow even under ground in a bomb shelter. it's emily, 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 will continue unabated

. one is law, 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 their child the so we will celebrate our holidays. as always, we will smile and rejoice as always the difference as one. we will not wait for a miracle because we will create it ourselves. the cranes, western backers of sense sophisticated air defense systems to t, 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 out. a 0 charge stratford met members of ukraine's mobile air defense units in the cave region pointing 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 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 on to the drones the russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica, because affected, but he 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 with 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, air 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 were not allowed to follow the soldiers because of the risk of giving away their locations, put in another field, close the 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 do you sell 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. chaw strafford al jazeera key of region. ukraine, rattan authorities are demolishing the remains of mario paul's historic theatre. hundreds of civilians are bleach have been killed. they're in a rush, an air strike back in march, and 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. under these 22 people have died after a fire at a nursing home in russia. it happened in the siberian city of cam at oval investigator suspect. a faulty boiler was the cause. the nursing home was reportedly operating illegally. a criminal probe is now underway. iran supreme court says it will accept an appeal from rappa some on say to ya, sin he's facing a death sentence. after participating an antique government protests, who's accused of trying to kill security forces and setting a rubbish,

been on fire. yes, in denies the charges. protests were triggered by the death of a 22 year old woman in police custody in september. the european union now strongly condemned a ban on woman working for 8 agencies in afghanistan. taliban government says it was imposed because some workers weren't following strict dress codes. it comes just days after ban on female students at universities, spot protests and a global outcry. in the latest demonstration security forces use water, cannon dispersed, woman protesting, and the western city of hara i. we have come to day 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 school dad run as a former afghan youth representative to the united nation and she says the

international community must maintain the pressure on the taliban. a gender up or how it 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 lost here and it continued when the thought a bunch had to shut down the female going to school. and then following those degrees, the dollar bonded and allowed that they didn't allow the women to show up and public places parks or other places. and unfortunately to yesterday into the to more coming which is very, very disheartening. it means that dollar bond totally erasing a woman from society, from public i info 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 dial when you're witnessing out. the protests are being seated in a very violent way by the female projectors are being arrested in the mail projects 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 is the time has come that the international community, especially the marsh, stop releasing and sending $40000000.00 to have denison. i think the time has come to take tangible to its actions against it's all a bond. there are reports that live in warlord l. e for half to was announced a final chance to hold elections. media quoted have to, i was calling for a new roadmap for a vote. rival factions agreed to hold an election a year ago,

but the process fell apart. after was ami previously waged war against the un recognize government in tripling? not so 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 in some farming regions. freedom miller reports from to jeff. 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 initially was 15 here or no, we are a 10121. she's also d, i by job. we're so up into saudi economy. and are you still in custody on horses, which is very, very harsh room was unreal. all these boys very, very stressful,

even though we don't even have, there's no place to buy a big place to buy food. so most of these company does videos picked up 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 in 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. christy kim 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 kind of gone off once, even by christmas right now, for example, things have gone up. and we are very expensive. and every all on variable to it. so it is, i mean funny, i mean funny nicky,

it's been talked with her. she's not the only one surprised by the rising prices right now. surprises, not frankly, because i usually buy apples for on bread now, which is one on right now. i just going 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 household i'm thought to bite science as a wound that if nothing is done to combat climate change, things will only get worse. the flawed in their fair weather. hi joe, toward the floor. the men of farm icon alcorto production on just to discuss the turf pro dot turn to find out that we have later resources to feed, that the amount of supply will store very small, that the demand cannot afford to port change 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 ultra 0 boucher passengers in the u. k. of had to scramble to catch their last trains as further strikes cause commute or disruption on christmas eve. people having urge to travel only if absolutely necessary, after thousands of rail and transport workers staged a walk out on saturday night houses of people of gather that was believed to be the birthplace of jesus. a christmas eve, mass bethlehem, and the occupied westbank has been gearing up for a bustling seas. not the 2 years of lockdown, but while tourist numbers are up there still well below pre pandemic levels. as need to abraham reports. ah, a prayer for peace in one of the regions listen to 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 was 3 years in the making. the cities were limited for the past 2 years. due to coffee, 19 locked down. 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 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 in the north of for palestine like the people who lives in nazareth and to be around these people. they get came to buy and they came in big numbers called the borders were closed. ah, out of the $900.00 palestinian christians in gaza is radio authorities only granted $600.00 of them permits to leap to bethlehem. the $3.00 oh, $1.00 person will be granted a but 2 others of the same family won't. they always leave someone out. so what happens is that the family ends up traveling ah, with more than $220.00 palestinians killed by israeli forces this year. californians are reminded that they remain under israel's occupation. people here say they tried to seize any opportunity to celebrate. they live under israel's military occupation and tell us they don't have much to do. but to pray for p. i was just the.