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ah, hello, i'm sammy's a. and this is the news out live from dell ha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. a harsh white christmas, no let up in the extreme weather as an arctic last continues to blanket north america. 3 foreign aid groups of suspending operations in afghanistan after the atari bond balls, women from working friend jose, securing the skies. the drone hunters defending ukraine from russian attacks. and charles, the 3rd delivers his 1st christmas message as king ah . across north america, people are enduring a freezing festive season following one of the most cow for winter storms. in decades, 2 dozen people have now been killed during blizzards. in the u. s. power has

largely been restored in time for christmas. the so called bombs fight loan left many stranded. she returns the reports from washington d. c. 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 surrounding 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 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, its aftermath of 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 holding 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 and calendar forecast to say the extreme weather will continue throughout sunday. authorities of warn people to stay in doors, the strong winds, freezing, rain and heavy snow sweep. the country power has been cut to more than 200000 homes and fallen trees of blocks from interest. if you train service and the parker is a meteorologist in buffalo, new york, which has been hit hard by the storm, he says it'll continue into next week. arctic plunge pers pushed across lake erie and as it did, its 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 that 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 the 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. while the united nations has expressed concern off the afghan, the stand taliban government band women from working for aid organizations and some foreign aid groups including save the children and the norwegian refugee council for any suspended their operations following the ban and consume sharif reports. another restriction on women, enough cornerstone. this time they're being told to stay away from work that's crucial to getting humanitarian aid to millions of people in the town. government is wanting non governmental organizations that employed them. risk losing their license to operate in the country. well, of a sigma in

a society like i've gone is done, we're for the past 20 years, they have so much have to and african women. they were educated and they served society. these women have supported their families. it is horrible for me to think that me and my generation of forced to experience such a situation the un, the us and the you say the a deeply concerned agencies that have a significant presence in the country of calling it a major blow participation of humidity and action, mental issue can be reached on dependence and action if we need the needs for the military in a distribution village be installation item warm blanket food or anything. we need to make sure that participate in the assessment. that's the 1st set. and the 2nd we need to make sure that out there to deliver the directly to

them. and if this is not possible, the delivery of that age will not be the taliban has a separate decrease after season control of the country following the withdrawal of the us forces last year. earlier this week, it bought female students from enrolling into universities. and response made students walked out of classrooms and women walked onto the streets to protest, gender up, or how it is happening and understand. the taliban are totally erase things of gram woman from society, from public eye and for from human life. and they just hardening because it's been affect us in long term and in shock and awe struck avoidance is happening in afghanistan. we are going to have a very dark future. after to power in afghanistan, the taliban promise been in fundamental rights. but a year on it systematically excluding them from public life. let me call some study

. i'll just see her from david, right. he is chief operating officer of save the children. he joins us now from dublin. good to have you with us. so what happens now to the projects and the programs which you are running inside afghanistan? so as of today, they're all suspended. and the main reason is that we simply can't work with children if you don't have a female staff on board. so providing life saving services to your young children, to infants, providing health care services to pregnant women in afghani culture. all that needs to be done with female staff. same thing with teaching young children as well. especially girls. are we need female staff to be able to do that? and as your report said, of course it is, there is also the monitor in principles of independence or that has been infringed . and by this declaration, by the taliban. now,

how many people then will be impacted if your project think you had projects or programs and 36? not mistaken areas. are what? 1660, yes. so we're, we're projects, and 16 out of the $34.00 provinces in afghanistan. we reached over 3000000 people. so far this year, a good example would be on our mobile health teams. so every day, we're reaching about 12000 women and children from orbit health teams. so you, it's winter. now children are getting respiratory illnesses. you, your, you have a big food security problem. so the severity malnourished children, and so our health nutrition teams reach 12000 people a day. so today, 20000 people didn't get a critical healthcare or because of this new rule. and they won't get it tomorrow.

that'll be $24000.00 people and won't get the after. that'll be 36000 people. so that's the major impact or an example of the impact that her, this to careers are, is having. so you said 12000 people to day and these services, the program serves a total of 3000000 people. that means 3000000 people are going to be left without essential aid they need. and i'm just wondering, are you in any that's you know, that's obviously a lot of people, are there any negotiations or talks going on between you and the taliban to try and find a solution? so between the lantern community led by the united nation, sir, are ongoing negotiations. i think it's, it's interesting, you know, that the buy and only the applies to women working with a non governmental organization. so for example, if you have an accountancy business or a software business, or a construction company, or you're when they can go to work in afghanistan. so it would seem reasonable that,

uh, the tolerance ortiz would, should allow a women working with the or 3rd sector or your, the, the charity sector to be able to go to work as well. all right. let's hope her, that things, you know, resolved themselves. and those people get their, the help they need. thanks much david right there. thanks harvey. plenty more still ahead on the news our, including the struggle to keep warm in germany this winter as energy prices. all things have gone up very expensive. mach, anyone of what even buy christmas right now? we look at what's fueling runaway inflation in nigeria. ah, a man accused of killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural center in paris on friday says he did so because the as. busy

pathological hatred for foreigners. the 69 year old has been moved to a psychiatric facility. al jazeera is the san binge of aide report on what else the accused told police. there are some more details from this account. from the prosecutors where the, the alleged attacker told the police that it was not the kurdish cultural center that he targeted in the beginning. he went in the morning to a suburb called denise, and he tried to find people of foreign origin, but there weren't many people there. so he came back home. and around noon he went out to this place where he knew a kurdish cultural center was located and that's where he opened fire. i will also getting more details about his fire as well that allegedly he got it from a friend of his who is now deceived. a few years ago and he had hidden it in his home throughout all that time,

and it is legal for people to get the firearms here in france if they belong to a hunting club. and that's apparently the story from the attacker is that his friend was a member of a hunting club, who gave him a, an automatic piston which he used. but we've also been getting reaction from the kurdish community here. officially, they have not taken the stuns, but so far they're still not satisfied with the police is coming out with saying that this is something that the police seeing that he said, and so far they've not seen any proof that this person been to another suburb of france that it was not a deliberate attack against the kurdish community, and they're still skeptical of what the police, his role has been so far. and they're still calling for justice. thousands of people and as the by john are protesting against the blockade of the only land link to armenia. demonstrators are demanding as it by john opens the latch in colorado, which has been on the complete blockade for 2 weeks. they also appeal to the

international community for urgent intervention in the face of what they see as a variable. john's effort to drive cat about hom minions out of their homeland. but 2 countries went to war over the disputed. no. going to cut about the region in 2020 ukraine's president. volume is the landscape condemned russian shelling of the busy market in harrison as killing for pleasure. at least 10 people were killed and 58 injured in the attack in the southern city on saturday. harrison was re taken by ukrainian troops last month and the major set back to moscow. ukraine's president for the minister lensky is called for unity in a christmas holiday address to the nation. joy drew drawn and kimmy godson, 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. no

muscles can hurt them, not. they will break against our steel spirit and our fight will continue unabated when his law, it's not threatened by planned or emergency blackouts are there and we will never feel a lack of courage and invisibility language. but more than one is the child the suite . 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 on charles stratford as more now from keith. after weeks of these, this campaign by moscow targeting energy infrastructure, we know that millions of ukrainians are suffering these rolling blackouts as deals already try and get as much electricity to as many people as they can with so many of these substations having being hit and of course harsh winter conditions, many people with very little heat as well and meanwhile,

the shelling and the fighting continues. in the last couple of hours, also we heard from the authorities in the eastern city of cremmit source, the reporting at least 3 missiles strikes and no specification as to what exactly was hate and no casualties. but it's interesting that cremmit source, which is the 2nd day that criminals because being it cremmit also is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers. internet's still under ukrainian control. and it's relatively close to that hot spot town of buck moot, where we have seen and continue to see some of the most intense lighting of this war so far. neither the russians nor the ukrainians really making any progress. certainly the ukranian policy seemingly keeping them back as russia makes probing, attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. and shall i stay as security studies program director at ukrainian prison. so foreign

policy and security think tank based in odessa. she says president foods in his intent on the underestimating ukraine's defensive capabilities. patrick is the, is the sand. so it's not rush and worry are not worried. that is something to protect your brain and critical infrastructure. the 2nd thing is that for the last month, as we call something here, either from this can all problem that has a huge military. the statement that be destroyed all high mars or virus cars or all other side of the whitman that need been receiving. and sometimes when you calculate the total amount that the navy is over, the su sometimes more of that, you frames had general with him over the main surgeon to the russian. he think an electrical system so that all her can be of the lexical production facilities. i be a huge role lexical station or the on the station. we are all,

all witness would be happening to the nuclear power plant. but ukraine has one others, so that definitely defy these where we need to action. but at the same time, everything will depend on the situation on the ground because we are not expect you them earlier than in the month or 2 being physically deployed and races. and the front line can change significantly depending on the needs. we also can you all where the system will be for 1st of all, russians are top to use a lot of the 5 to size that me 5 because they're liking them the already using more all the rainy on or even to read that they would like that demonstrate their capacity to leave the soldiers that being either you or captured the lesson without proper reform. so we understand that the creation of the russian armed forces. i'm also on the ball. that's why they are changing the nazi i'm dyslexic is not only

that we saw one month old charging critical infrastructure, so the population will suffer in your rates. but the also started to shout awards beach newly liberated territory. germany has been reliance on russian gas to meet its demand for heating. but as the war in ukraine goes on, energy prices of sword dominant cane reports, giovanni has had to rethink options for keeping its people warm. this winter. winter in berlin in 2022. it's a cold and dark time with energy prices elevated by the war in ukraine. for some people, there are few ways to keep warm. so the heated shelters are busy. as a fuel mentioned in berlin, so many people in berlin, but also elsewhere have so little money that they turn off. the heating in their apartment are only turn it on for hours at a time. and that's where it's particularly important that during the day there are also places in the city where you can stay in the warmth until 2022. germany

received much of its imported gas through pipelines from russia. now that route is closed off, and this is its replacement. a floating ela and g terminal in volumes haven't built from scratch in months at the behest of a chancellor. determined to break with the past was lance president put restless pilot and put him believed he could let me last by cutting off our gas supplies. but he was wrong. we will not be a black man. by the end of 2023, we will probably have an important capacity of more than 30000000000 cubic meters of gas via the north german coast alone. all of this corresponds to well over half of the total volume of gas, but flowed through the pipeline from russia to germany and 2021 fortunate could plus replacing last russian. hydrocarbons has been a central problem to europe's leaders in 2022. the e u. has introduced embargoes on coal and oil. a cap on gas prices has just been agreed and will start in february. and one brussels based analyst says

e leaders could agree to purchase gas as one block with one negotiating position to represent 400000000 citizens. and you're talking volumes that are very, very large. and these volumes, of course, you can get some sort of discount. and that, of course, will have an effect on, on the, on the consumer prices as well. but again, this is going to last, at least a few months, probably if you get through and if it's being implemented, which also has legal administrative hurdles to, to pass. then it will have an effect on, on, on the gas price and the next winter. at christmas markets like these most people's minds of far from volatile energy markets, mold, wine, pastries, and presence of the order of the day. when the festive season passes, these markets will disappear and winter will not until the ministers encourage the citizens to reduce their energy consumption,

many might wonder how easy it is to do that. in the cold and dark days of a new year, dawn a cane al jazeera berlin. china has conducted military drills in the sea and as space around taiwan said, it was in response to what it calls provocations by the island and the united states. taiwan government has complained of repeated chinese military activity near its territory last week. washington boosted its arm so fought for ty pay. paging claims. taiwan as part of china hasn't ruled out using force to bring the island under its control. and the mock is a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization think tank. he says the drills a meant to send a message of the parents. these drills are an annual exercise designed to us strengthen, peace and stability in the region. but we know, especially in the last year that your been increasingly aggressive and provocative

actions by the united states and other countries around the world with respect to taiwan, but other parts of the region as well. so i think that these exercises take on the special significance as a result of this a much more complex and challenging global geo political environment. part of this exercise includes bombers from both countries landing in their respective other countries. so i think this is something new and is intended to show a deeper level cough cooperation. these exercises also include air defense and submarine operations as well. and i think this is important

because it, again, it shows the high level of strategic trust between china and russia. so again, showing that there is the resolve between these 2 countries to ensure that there is a clear message of deterrence that any aggression, any provocation of will be far costly. are there any possible game many people in nigeria facing increasing hardship after the prices of basic goods doubled compared to a year ago? inflation has been made worse by flooding and the lack of security in some farming regions. for me, the miller reports from boucher despite being one of the largest oil producers in africa, nigeria went through yet another few crisis in early december. at times the price increase 300 percent. instead of using a bus or taxi alex gay bill uses the cheapest mode of transport he can find from

here to my destination. is shirley, what's your pin here or no, we are on red one. she wanted also me, well me, i had an offer by dropping off into saudi economy. and are you still in touch me on horses, which is very, very harsh. one was unreal. yeah. the whole boy is very, very stressful. you know, we don't have one hub. there's no place to buy a big place to buy food. so most of these companies does reduce, picked up as advantage to export from people. the government subsidy program is meant to make feel 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. christie, a kid, no, no buys groceries at this. a butcher market several times a week. lately, the cost of living here, i've been very,

very unbearable. things i've gone off very expensive, most were kind of gone off watching them by christmas rice. now for example, things i've gone up and we are very expensive and every all on variable to it. so it's, i mean funding, i mean funny because it's been talked with her, she's not the only one surprised by the rising prices. right now the crazies are not friendly because i got apples. i didn't buy apples for on bread marrow, which is one apple on right. now, i just get to the markets, they end up telling me up with these 35, andre. i'm like how the lady was like, that's how the price of the household am thought to bite. scientists have warned that if nothing is done to combat climate change, things will only get worse. the flawed, and that there was a very high job toward the floor. they made a farm. i know gotten the production on. just discuss the production to find out

that we have literally thought that the supply was still very small, that the demand cannot support change in the market. fighting between the military and armed groups conforming arrogance is also affecting food supplies, high government debt and rising inflation is putting the economy under pressure. and as nigeria, head to the polls and a couple of months, a worsening economy is likely to influence how people vote for me to mila ultra 0. boucher said. i have an al jazeera, we take a look at the story of the panama hat and it's misleading origins. ah hello, welcome to have a look at the international forecast. we got a fair bit of rain in the forecast of the middle east over the next couple of days,

even here in hot i. you can see this large, massive cloud, the hook of cloud. there has been feeding its way further east was it has brought 1st snow of the season into were torn still a few wintry flowers coming through here on monday. the weather weather will be across the eastern side of the may, through levant, serial lebanon. jordan, seeing some very heavy right, eating across into iraq and noticed through monday, 2nd half of the day in particular, even here in doha, cloud and rain making its way further south was slipping down towards the u. a ye branding out behind as we go through tuesday. still some weather weather into the way the far north of a man's stilton cloud and rain around kuwait. he st. areas of iraq as well, but bright skies. fine and dry by this state across the levant, sliding down into the north east of egypt. for monday they will still one or 2 showers around the sun i peninsula, but much of north africa is dry and find that keen, hamilton wind still bring some lifted dustin's sand into chatterton is sharon to northern parts of nigeria, pushing across into marley plenty,

a showers may mile across the heart of africa. some heavier downpours coming through here all the way across into mozambie with some heavy showers there. the south africa. ah. it's time for a memorable holiday with pegasus. it's time for turkey. set sail for new discoveries. enjoy. have new experiences hit the shock. make wonderful memories. travel to turkey with pegasus, and with direct whites to istanbul and tribes. oh, book your ticket now for a memorable holiday. c y p g. yes, for our best price. if lou with

a ah. welcome back to watching out. is there a time to recap on headlines? people across north america preparing for a freezing festive season after a major winter storm. at least 24 people have been killed during blizzards in the us. thousands of flights been cancelled. at least 10 people have been killed by

russians shelling in the southern ukrainian city of have san president. below the muse lensky accused moscow killing for pleasure, free foreign aid groups to spend operations in afghanistan after the taliban government banned women from working for aid organizations. and joes in the country, a warning exclusion of women will deep in its humanitarian crisis. oh, rama is all about of is the united nations deputy special representative for afghanistan speaking to my colleague. so how robin earlier says the united nations. we'll see goddesses from the autonomy, bon, representation of them in humanity. inaction is a mental issue, not be rich, it's on dependence and action. so obviously in the population cannot be delivered in the situation then operating principles. let's pick this now. what sort of complaints are they talking about?

how they, the ministry explained in any way to you or any other n jose in the country as to what the problem is with this? i think i mentioned the use of the job as one of the reasons we right now have a meeting. the 4th is to understand better than want to be should be behind the session. so what answers will you be asking from then, considering the firm stays about why non african women could they or could they not be part of this ruling? i mean this, it's a gray area. the moved about what the definition is. of this edicts coming from the taliban. i do believe that we will be asking them for you will all impediments for the participation of them in communicating inch. all programs are not gated,

then these are integrated unless you have the full exit and able to participate in assessment, delivery and discharge of services and population that will be very difficult for us to deliver as we need to in this difficult. so this is our message to the 40 them, that's what we'll be discussing them and ok, doesn't generalities or general terms should i say, could you just give us a specific example of how this would affect one aid worker in either the urban old rule is and how that impacts on the african community in that specific area. it is very simple, really. we just this the needs or the media and a distribution in a bunch. b, digitization item warm blanket food or anything. we need to make sure that the men participate in the assessment. that's the 1st step. and the 2nd we need to make

sure that women out there to deliver the aid directly to them. and if this is not possible, then delivery of that a lot of the bus. so for example, areas such as midwifery, gynecology, cancer awareness and treatment. where does these really very difficult issues to deal with when it comes to women participating in these areas? if they can't actually work and in public service, doing the sort of job absolutely, to deliver health services out in participating in all of those critical areas of health care and you had mentioned, we did receive information from the minister felt that this is not applied to the health sector and then you find that i know you have a very difficult position in the u. n. a. in kabul, acting as a neutral arbiter. but at the end of the day,

if the taliban refused the un requests, they then reject surely the international community as a whole. so they can't, than appeal for help when they've already rejected the help logical argument. this is a very logical argument. frankly speaking, it will be difficult to discharge the services than the principals are problems. the only way we can deliver in assistance, not just. and there is through the application of the universal principles that implies a rational independence. and that implies application of principle gender, women's role in that process is on the ukraine's west and back as of sense sophisticated air defense systems to give. but the army is still largely relies on soviet era equipment to defend its cities from russian attacks. as because it's taking time to train person now to use the new weapons. charles stratford met

members of ukraine's mobil. their defense units in the cave region pointing skyward 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 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 that russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica, because effect,

he thought 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 onto the target and the missile might miss anti aircraft guns work most effectively against the shade, but they have a problem with the drone flies at night or conditions of 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 a 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 the land, 3 kilometers. we can easily take down the chemicals, drones that fly around a 160 kilometers an hour. only get eyes on 1st. oh

gosh, why is there? no, you're drones are less difficult than missiles are, but there are observational difficulties because they can fly over forests. that hide them or over busy roads with her 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 charged rather al jazeera key of region. ukraine, the war between russia and ukraine set the town for u. s. foreign policy in 2022000 and jordan reports from the estate department in washington dc. on february, the 24th international efforts to prevent the russian invasion of ukraine failed. the biden administration's response sanctioned moscow and give he billions and military assistance even some the war ground on through

december, president putin's failed in defeating ukraine on the battlefield. he has failed at his land, grabs in south and east. he's failed at erasing ukraine's borders. its identity is people, it's resilience that with those is deal. it's the u. s. and other western countries looked for ways to punish moscow. oil price caps, travel, and business sanctions. gathering evidence of alleged human rights violations and war crimes. they also used the war to expand nato's membership, but isolating russia wasn't as easy as the us had hoped. i think all wars and in some kind of negotiated solution at some point, the costs so far are not high enough for russia to conclude that there, that it's in their interest to stop. granting people have a lot of background. that said the u. s. has made it clear it will not send american troops to help ukrainians fight the war in ukraine wasn't the only foreign

policy crisis facing the biden administration. it also had to put a lot of time and energy into what it calls it's number one foreign policy priority . the rise of china washington says it wants to compete with beijing not contain it. but it is worried about china's efforts to dominate economic and military relations around the world while ignoring its human rights obligations. the pentagon recently unveiled its newest stealth bomber the b 21. with this warning, the u. s. is watching china's every move americans defense will always be rooted in the touring constantly. so we are again making it plain to any potential folk the risk and the cost of aggression far outweigh any conceivable gangs.

antony blank and visited countries in southeast asia, 3 times in 2022. he also endorsed increased u. s. military support for taiwan. and he went to australia to bolster the new security alliance with it, and the united kingdom blank and also made 4 trips to the middle east. a region where b ging has tried to build closer economic ties. there are a lot of opportunities for you as far as for you as businesses, for you as persons to, to engage with interact with do business will every day with people in these parts of the world. china's just taken the lead on that because they see an opportunity efforts to recalibrate ties with saudi arabia were complicated despite a presidential trip to saudi arabia. in july, the u. s. is now reviewing its economic and political relationship with re odd because of a rift over global oil prices. critics have also attacked washington's decision to

not let the fiance of jamica shoji su crown prince mohammed been solomon for the journalists, murder in 2018. the u. s. made a little progress in resurrecting the nuclear deal with iran. it's not clear when a new round of negotiations will happen. prospects for peace talks between israelis and palestinians were also dim. though late in 2022 ado, special representative for palestinian affairs was appointed the u. s. and its allies couldn't stop north korea's nuclear weapons program or even prevent it from test firing dozens of ballistic missile. and despite the enter he on the streets of hayley's capital, the us and other countries have yet to decide if they will send an armed troops. this at the request of president a halo li. looming over all of this though, is the warring ukraine a challenge. the u. s. has argued,

must be defeated if respect for the rule of law and for self determination is to endure rosalyn. jordan alger 0 washington now libyan wallet hub. if a half star is reported to have announced what he calls a final chance to hold elections, rival factions agreed to hold an election a year ago. the process fell apart after his army previously waged war against the un recognized government and tripoli are caught in the mold eaves, her sentence, the country's former president to 11 years in prison and find him 5000000 dollars of dolly amine has been found guilty of money laundering and accepting a bribe court found he accepted money for leasing an island owned by the government in a separate case and 2019 the amine was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 5 years in prison. 2 years later, the supreme court overturned that verdict. dozens of rank refugees have

arrived in in denise is northern che, province after weeks at sea, local villages saw the wooden vessel with 58 men on board and help them ashore. the vessel had a broken engine, and those on board said they were eventually blown to the coast by the wind. thousands of mostly muslim wrangler refugees risk their lives each year on long sea journeys in an attempt to reach malaysia or in denise the dest tall following. a gas tanker explosion in south africa now risen to 15. several more were injured in the incident near the city of box book, emergency services say they're investigating the blast, but caused widespread damage. sunday guy, go now the moment a gas tanker stuck under a bridge exploded into flames. it was outside the tambo memorial hospital. inside the impact collapse,

the roof and left day be strewn around the emergency room. nearby homes were also damaged, as flame spread from the sight of the exclusion. residents from a nearby 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 venue went out? we 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 when we saw your tinker, which was painting a tonka, had been reportedly delivering gas to the hospital when it got stuck under a low bridge. the box spring fire responded speedily. and on our i voted from bill clark. but those were the lights. they tried to excuse me, the friday, but unfortunately, the tim greg exploded and speak so firefighters were injured

in a no number of bystanders were all 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, now farmers famous axes, and even the u. s. presidents of all warmed the famous pan, my hat, but the spy, what many believes these hats are not, and never were from panama. the st newman explains from monte christie in ecuador. this is the story of one of the world's most famous and yet misnamed hats. for more than a 120 years mules had been bringing to keep home fiber from the hill surrounding monta. could he see near the pacific coast of ecuador for levied by chai, is

a 3rd generation had artisan, effective in candy. and it's very tough job because you have to cook the palm fiber . you have to split it and put it to dry in the sun, afterwards. wash it and curate it. ha ha. but that's just the beginning of an exquisite craft, though they've been there in the habit i. this was we were, the best strands are specially selected, but if they aren't naturally that then by that they have to be worked and prepared until they are all identical. and have the same color, so you can imagine the effort this implies on working and weaving something that is so fine, go on it. but chinese great grandfather was one of the 1st to commercialize the monte christie hats and exploit them to panama at the beginning of the 1900s i got in during the building of the panama canal, former u. s. president theodore roosevelt was given one and fell in love with it. nick naming it the panama hat. however undeserving that name has stuck to this day. the more welts the had has the more flexible and light it is

almost like fabric yet it's strong and can last for up to 20 years. it did, but i got 9. no ma'am, is it? oh god, no. this is way too difficult. i've been trying and trying, i just cannot get it right. this weaving technique is so complicated and not to mention uncomfortable the position. so let me tell you, this is not easy. work. pitch eyes, 84 year old father began making them when he was 8. it press, you kiss it by the price. one gets is very little compared to the time it takes to make these hats. so unfortunately, less people are making them these days. i use this, we feel their lives in some of the finest hats can take up to a year to weave. but the artisans rarely fetch more than $1800.00, even when they're sold abroad to the rich and famous for up to $25000.00.

still, his grandson's already becoming the 4th generation of package to produce the original to key a palm hat, a proud symbol, not of panama, they say, but of their country ecuador. to see a newman al jazeera want to christie, ecuador said i had an al jazeera praying for peace, christmas hopes of worshippers of the birthplace of jesus. ah, progress or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities. for better or worse, al jazeera explores the impact of

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wow. thousands of people gathered at the birthplace of jesus for christmas eve mass in bethlehem. jak, i westbank is been gearing up for a bustling season. and abraham explains now ah, a prayer for peace in one of the regions listen to the most. in waterloo, the latin patriarch of jerusalem presided over the christmas midnight mass in beth lamps, 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 1st place of jesus. but this season was 3 years in the making that if it is, were limited for the past 2 years, you to covered 90 locked downs. 50 other. 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. the philistine tourism ministry of the sector is recovering with more than 500002 with visiting bethlehem in 2022 really nice atmosphere. we feel at home and it's the story of christmas compared to more than 3 point. 5000000 to su, visited palestine in 2019 this year the number of put into this is just shy of 1000000. this is not the boost, most of owners were hoping for. for me, if you want to talk about last year was much better than this year. last year i had lots of work on the rebel lives in the north of palestine like the people who lives in nazareth and to be area. and these people they get came to by the game in big numbers called the voters were closed out of the 900 for listening christians in gaza is radio for it is only dried the 600 of them permits to leave to bethlehem in one person will be granted a permit,

but to others of the same family won't. they always leave someone out. so what happens is that the family ends up travelling ah, with more than $220.00 palestinians killed by israeli forces this year. palestinians are reminded that they remain on their 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. deborah, him, i'll just eat up the occupied westbank on the head of the roman catholic church and the new british monarch of both issued their traditional christmas day messages. john hall reports. yeah, in our time a grave famine of peace. the words of pope francis in his annual christmas blessing will be at or be to the city and the world. one, a julia really to let you know,

as we gather with their loved ones, let us think of families that experienced great difficulty and those struggling in his time of economic crisis. the pope recalled the scars of conflict in syria at the time of heightened tensions between israel and the palestinians. he prayed for mutual trust and in yemen, iran, lebanon, haiti, me and ma, and of ganna. stan pope francis prayed for reconciliation and peace of 70 gold. special attention was reserved for ukraine. is he only to bring the pro and may the lord inspire us to offer concrete gestures of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering and my he enlightened the minds of those who have the power to silence the thunder of weapons and put an immediate in the census for, ah, another seasonal message, this time delivered by a king. i'm standing here in this exquisite chapel of saint george at windsor

castle. so close to where my beloved mother, the late queen, is laid to rest with my dear father. having spent a lifetime to the throne, king charles the 3rd continued one of his late mother's most popular traditions. in the u. k. the monarch's televised christmas broadcast. he did so to a country troubled by public sector strikes and a crippling cost of living. my mother's belief in the power of that light was an essential part of her faith in god. and at this time of great anxiety and hardship . be it for those around the world facing conflict time in or natural disaster. over those at home finding ways to pay their bills to keep their families steadily war. we see it in the humanity of people throughout nations and the commonwealth, who so readily responds to the plays of others. and in

a christmas season, uncommonly marked by hardship and strife, who but santa himself from his arctic grotto to complete a trio of christmas, appeals this year my own christmas, which is for us all of course to help those in need giving great love and empathy. i wish you all peaceful and merry christmas. jonah how al jazeera i that brings us to the end of this new sal. but the good news is not even the mazda is back from london. ah, mm

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