or is both for the north and south island, but where we have some concentrated rain falling is around that northern slice of borneo island. but i think the worst of the rain will be over the open waters, but it is curling around in also throwing some brain into indonesia as java island . so some washout conditions to be expected here on monday, after china we go cloud drifting across the yangtze river valley that include shanghai with the high of 70 degrees and off to japan we go. those winds starting to back off. so that means slowly, but surely that see effect snow will start to wind down other side of the mountains and a bad day in tokyo with the high of 10 degrees on monday. that sure weather, sir later. ah, ah, this is al jazeera

ah, hello, i'm marianne. mit very well, welcome to the news, our ally from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. a white out for christmas in arctic blast continues to sweep the us and canada, climbing at least 26 lives for foreign aid groups to spend operations in afghanistan after the taliban bands, women from will let working for local and international, and cios ah thousands rally in ago no carry back in, protest it azerbaijani activist, blockading the regions, only landline to armenia and is covered infections explode across china. the national health commission stops publishing daily case number's and death tolls. ah,

ah, alone well continues out. at least 26 people have now been reported dead as a severe winter storm system continues to hammer. several us states the worst hit city is buffalo and west and new york state. why 7 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been trapped in their homes for days in white out blizzard conditions. a storm is now moving east, often more than 200000 people woke up without power on christmas day shop or town see reports from washington. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of a us, but arctic lingered old christmas day with 2 thirds of the country. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. and she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday and friday, saturday, and now on christmas morning. and this will go down in history as the most her

devastating storm in buffalo and star long story history from the pool. the temperatures not any created the phenomenon of lake effect, snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean effect center in maine on the atlantic coast. the principle is the same colder moving over warmer water. crazy intense storms. high winds meant white conditions in some areas, even where the slow fall had stopped. many remained trapped in their homes, homes where power outages are expected to continue due to the blocked roads. it's not just power lines down, even though there's a lot of that. it actually is sub stations are frozen and they now need to bring in equipment to repair the sub stations are to get them back on line. the reports of some feeling that had no choice but to attempt to drive to circled warming stations,

as their homes grew ever more frigid. despite advised that driving in white out conditions could lead to death either from a crash or being stranded in the cold. and some did find themselves trapped in the calls for 2 days. fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska, new york, and all the states bodies have been found and cause known snow banks. others in the homes of to emergency services struggle to arrive in time would be our passengers continue. the determined push to try to complete christmas travel, only to find another day of thousands of flight cancellations and delays. but the thought is forecast over the next week. the longer it stays this cold, the more other systems across the state could be challenged. but the good news is it's getting warmer and it's getting warmer each day. but still a little accurate counting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this was yet another in a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been

struggling to cope. she ebert and see al jazeera or the winter. so miss also causing chaos in canada, where the authorities are wanting people to stay in doors before conditions get even worse. power supplies have been disrupted in many areas with some flights cancelled over the christmas weekend. many who didn't venture out those were stranded off to try to contend with on cloud street and strong winds, where the warnings remain in place and much of ontario. but meteorologists are expecting temperatures to rise the rest of sunday. and then also during the coming week. elsewhere, thousands of migrants, a camping in the cold at mexico's northern border, hoping for a reversal of us migrant restrictions and spending the christmas weekend. and during what mexico's weather services, calling a massive arctic air, temperatures in the border, cities of matter, morris and reynosa, a hovering around freezing. many people there a camping in bare bones shelters,

sections on to title 40 to allow us to return my grants to mexico without the chance to request asylum for those who did manage to make it across the boy at border into el paso, texas. many are wary of accepting shelter, varying it could lead them to being returned to mexico at temperatures in the city of forecast to drop to below 0 degrees celsius. many of the people have made the journey to the us remain on the street, some sleeping in the cold outside a church. ok get out and i want to spend christmas in a place where it is not cold. i would really like to be under a roof just as everyone here would like to spend christmas under a roof because the cold as strong o bob cox is ne charlie chest. he joins us now from that. middletown connecticut. obviously we've been reporting on the disrupt, the disruption these conditions have caused across much of the country. what's it like they're in connecticut and have you been affected by these power cuts?

well, we have that had a road bike out here in connecticut, but i know that that is the situation in other parts of the east. the temperature here is actually a little bit milder than yesterday. we're in the 20s fahrenheit or maybe 2 or 3 degrees below 0 celsius. yesterday, we were about minus 6 this time day and we've had done some spots in connecticut. did never got out of the single digits fahrenheit yesterday, so it's been quite cold. there are reports of $1700000.00 homes and businesses without power. do you feel as though local or state authorities could have anticipated or better prepared for this? well, it's true. it's been a significant art dig outbreak that's covered a large portion of the country. all the way from the canadian border down to the gulf of mexico. so it has covered a lot of real estate,

but you would hope that the power companies would anticipate arctic outbreaks in the winter because they're not uncommon. does not mean that it's likely to occur on a regular basis. is this the new norm, the sort of thing people need to get used to possibly chill every few years. boy, i would, yeah, i would like to think not, but yeah, you know, we do get our article or outbreaks, usually a couple of times every winter at least a couple of times. so i think it's something that we're going to have to be ready to deal with on a regular basis because it's happened on a regular basis in the past. i know it's not easy to assess single weather events, but nonetheless, how do you explain such extreme conditions? he's gone from these destructive ravaging heat waves to now this very bitter cold. well, you know, i, to me 3 weather is actually kind of the norm. when you think about the normal high temperature, the normal low temperature, that's really just an average extremes,

all put together over a long period of time. you know, although we've had our cold this week, next week, we're going to start out with very little storming us. and there's going to be a gradual moderating temperature trend throughout the week. that could bring places like chicago, new york up around 15 degrees celsius by the end of the week. so it kind of balances out. so that's an extreme say we've gone from sub 0 temperatures to actually then the kind of temperatures that would be. would you say unseasonably warm for this time of year? yes. later next week the temperatures will be unseasonably warm. so we are writing a temperature. these are right now and you mentioned this shifting jet stream. that's cause it's disrupted the weather pat, and it just explained to us how that works and why it's causing such volatility in the weather. sure, well this week we had

a large dorm that took up residency in the great lakes area and the psychotic or counter clockwise circulation around that storm was feeding the jet stream. the jet stream is coming in on the back side of that. and it was driving all the arctic gear from up in northern canada, down into the united states and all the way down to the gulf of mexico and over to the east coast. so you had a very high amplitude jet stream flow that was coming straight down from the north and sweeping across the south. now next week as a jet stream flattens out and goes into more of what we call a zonal flow. more of a west east flow, that's going to allow our digure to look back to the north and for temperatures to moderate many places. all right, bob, thank you very much. bob fox, joining us from connecticut make you a merry christmas, merry christmas detail. there's also been heavy snowfall along the sea of japan's

coast continues and that is really causing a great deal of disruption in northern and west in japan. at least 14 people have been killed since the middle of the month. another $87.00, an injured snow target a blackout and yet got a prefecture on sunday with at least 2000 households still without power. whether officials continue to ask residents to refrain from non essential ow things until heavy subsides or 2 people are missing. after an avalanche. at a ski resort in western austria, the avalanche struck the ledges or ski area. an altitude of 2700 meters. 10 skiers were initially feared to be buried at least 6 people, and that's just there in austria, but also elsewhere in the region. we've seen a great deal of disruption. 6 people been killed off for passenger bus careened off a bridge and into a river. this was in spain to survive, was rescued. one of whom was the boss driver. rescue efforts were hampered by the

strong current and high waters of the river alara's heavy rains of recently swept through the gully thea region. it's not clear why the boss get it off the bridge. out for foreign aid groups have suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban band. women from working for aid organizations save the children, care the international rescue committee, and then a widget refugee council said they cannot effectively reach afghans in need without their female staff was gone. her son has suffered unprecedented levels of hunger for over a year. now, with some 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food after drought. a coven pandemic, and decades of war. the u. n. estimates that a record 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023 next year. the economic crisis has worse. and since the u. s. froze billions of dollars of

assets and foreign donors, car aid following the taliban to take over. the countries also recovering from natural disasters, including flooding in august and an earthquake in june that killed more than a 1000 people and left hundreds of thousands needing urgent aid. kat are which hosted a taliban office during the us led war in afghanistan as joined other countries and expressing quote, extreme concern at the angio ban on the consumer reports. now 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 with for the past 20 years, they have so much to have for to an african women. they were educated and they

served society. these women have supported their families for it is horrible for me to think that me and my generation are 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 the community. inaction is a mental issue, not the bridge. it's on dependence and action. if we need to assess 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 step. as a 2nd, we need to make sure that out there to deliver the directly to them. and if this is not possible, then 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. male students walked out of classrooms and women walked onto the streets to protest after it to power. and i've gone on the talbot promise women, fundamental whites, but a year own it systematically excluding them. from public life may consume should eve, al jazeera will deep. marla miller is a vice president of humanitarian affairs care international, which is at one of the ngos that has made this announcement about its work in afghanistan. she joins us live now via skype from nairobi. he tell us more about why you have made the decision to suspend your work there. when thank you for the question. now, before i answer about this has been shown which we have taken. i do want to bring

us to the context in which we are talking about. people are starving people of freezing and we're talking about a humanitarian context which has continued for decades. now humanity in agencies have been doing all they can working 247, listen, should meet the humanity in needs. now, when a crisis strikes, when there is less food in the family medium, you and i both know and everybody listening to the program also knows who eats last and least women are much more affected by the crises. girls are much more affected by the crises as we know now, when a decision is given, where and you are not allowed to employ female staff, it is not only about the employment of those females who are our colleagues who work in our offices. it is also about our ability to reach everybody who needs assistance in afghanistan to talk to a woman, and it has to be another women,

another woman. so if our deems our field deems automobile, his teams are for distribution, teams are watered and sanitation teams are all men. what does that mean? it means that the aid aid is going to reach only to men. so how can we, how can we agree to something which deprives almost half of the population of the country for the much needed humanitarian assistance. so we have suspended, paused our operations for the moment to get more clarity on the situation and our apd to deliver 8 or in a space about clarity. but it is sadly, it seems to be pretty clear at this point. i wonder if you think they will, they could be persuaded to revoke the spinal, even if it will have to happen, because it's just not sustainable. for that to be a loss of humanitarian aid in a country where half the population desperately need it. people are going to to die or, or become very sick. as a result of this,

we want to remain optimistic. we've still, along with our b, it agencies. we have urged it along with our other them in groups locally and use. we have to put a decision where men and women both have equal rights to work. so we remain our hope one. and i also want to say humanitarians by default, by principal, abide to the principles of neutrality and impartiality. so while we do not want to get entangled into any political discussions, but we do want to ask for request and demand for anybody to be able to reach everybody in the country who needs aid. and most of them will need aid. all women and girls, and we need female staff to be able to work with them. so this decision fundamentally questions are limits. our ability to provide humanitarian aid in an impartial and family is over to women and girls disproportionately affected. obviously they are

unable to work many of them or to move around freely without a male guardian or indeed go to school. whereabouts in the country would you say you are most concerned about right now. when we're talking about a situation where almost half of the people in the entire country are facing extreme hunger, 6000000 people are one step away from family like conditions. 1000000 children i've cdsi managed so at this is not a situation where there are certain parts of the country which needs more attention of that is that as the country needs that attention needs are support. so can't, is operational in more than 9 province is, are we have about it under to a 1000 staff. most of our colleagues are from over on his son. so i would not pride a day, certain parts of the country over the others. yes. what they believe needs to be

provided, where it is always determined and through our engagement with the communities still cares. walk includes water, sanitation, hygiene, food, health, lead people. it's working with young people working with women, farmers and so on. and we are desperate, desperately eager to get back already been a d to reach everybody, which means working with a team of men as well as women. yeah. well that's fair enough. oh you, you can't a prioritize one, but of the country over the other. and uh, of course, female staff, a critical to these aid operations. thank you very much deep mala mala for joining us from karen to national. thanks for having me. yet. the news. our life from london coming up, we're gonna be reporting on ukraine's battle to protected cities and vital energy infrastructure from russian drones and miss isles. and we also look at how germans are keeping warm despite rocketing energy prices.

ah, thousands of rallied and are gone, a car box largest city in st upon occurred to protest the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks as a by johnny activists have blocked. the latch in corridor to protest against what they say is illegal mining on nina, are accused as a by john of staging, the demonstration to create humanitarian crisis. the armenian majority enclave. i mean is parliament has not grown a car back is suffering from shortages of food medicine and fuel. after the closure of that corridor on now who 14 days we have been under a complete blockade imposed by as the by john as the only roads leading nagondo karuba to the outside world is closed. for 14 days, no food medicine, fuel or other vital products have been allowed to enter new garner karuba

russian president vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear historical russia apart. in a nationally televised interview, the russian leader said he was trying to unite the russian people through his offensive in ukraine, arguing that ukrainians and russians a want people who sion says his government is acting in the interests of its people and that moscow is ready to negotiate and enter the conflict or ukraine's present autumn is zalinski. it says that russia has lost everything. it can, that will continue to try and bring darkness to ukraine. social, if you could mean to little, only a few days of this year left, we must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time dark as difficult for us . russia has lost everything it could this year, but to destroying to compensate for its losses with the gloating of its

propagandists after the missiles strikes on our country on our energy sector. i know the darkness will not prevent us from bringing the invaders to their new defeats, but we must be ready for any scenario. 3 ukrainian emergency service workers have been killed in a mine explosion in the harrison region. facial said the men die well, selflessly performing the task of the mining parts of the region. it comes a day after 10 people were killed and $58.00 injured in a rush, and strike on harrison city. ukraine's present volume is zalinski condemned. the shelling of a busy market is killing for pleasure. charles stratford has more from keith. after weeks of these, this campaign by moscow targeting energy infrastructure, we know that millions of ukrainians is 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 or so we heard from the sources 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 tools, this is the 2nd day that graham it's all because mean it cremmit also is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers. internet's still on the ukrainian control, and it's relatively close to that hot spot town of 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 ukrainian policy seemingly keeping them back as russia makes probing attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. but yeah,

the entire country still alert. and yesterday, we went out with one of these mobile defense units trying to protect cities like give from these attacks. and this is our report 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 onto the drones the russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica mcarthur, 53, 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 on to 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 a 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. and 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 mobile, hey, 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 within another field. close to cave. this mobile air defense unit practices using machine gun with a range of around 3 kilometers. you can easily take down the kamikaze drones that

fly around a 160 kilometers an hour. only. they get eyes on 1st. oh, that's why the 3rd lawyer, drones are less difficult. the missiles, 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. cha strafford al jazeera key of region. ukraine. russia's parliament is for paint and she is high taxes. her people have left the country due to the wine ukraine. my early october local media reported that as many as 700000 russians had fled, flying president, pigeons, mobilization of reservists in september, the speaker of the denali, i. cesar wallet and said it's right to cancel preferences for those he left the

russian federation. he also said that the vast majority of people believe that russians, he left the country, have a trade their homeland every year. with the news, our life from london, there is more to bring you on the program. came charles and fraud says he's a christmas messages to focus on the hard times. people are facing around the world . china conducts military drills around taiwan, saying it's been provoked by ty pay and the united states. ah, here's your forecasts across europe in africa on monday. we'll starting iberia, where the rain is starting to fizz allowed across portugal and spain. so it's going to be a decent day where the sun's out. high temperature is valencia look good, but the high of 21 degrees still outbreaks of rain across the west. still that warm

feet of air is wall, but, or the precipitation bumps into colder air. it's going to turn to snow over the baltic states and bellow roots, for example, in minutes, with a high of minus 4 central europe also high temperatures here. in fact, every spot on this map is above average, so anything falling from the sky will be as rain quite active weather over the black sea and some that will push into turkey. as ne bike seacoast still wet through the la van temperatures in aleppo, cut in half. so just the higher 8 degrees on monday, the south end of africa. some of that. what weather may leak into the northeast of egypt, wind off the mediterranean means your temperature is at 20 degrees on monday. let's go to south africa, the provinces of input longer. and limpopo some big downpours here. same goes for cars, hulu, natal, few showers to be found in durban with the high $22.00 degrees to the west where the sunshine inventory with the high of $33.00 on monday. that's your weather update. i'll see you next hour,

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operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou ah, welcome back to watching the news ally from london. look at the main stories now. at least 26 people have been killed in a storm that's continuing to hammer several american states. the worst it city is buffalo and western new york state, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes. the days in white help blizzard conditions for foreign aid groups of suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban government found women from working for aid organizations of gun astonish suffering. unprecedented hunger levels within 90

percent of the population, not getting enough food. and at thousands of rallied in a corner car box larger cities to pon, occurred against the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia as a by johnny activists of blocks. the latch in corridor protesting against illegal mining germany has been heavily reliant on russian gas to meet its heating needs. but as the warn you crank goes on energy prices of sort, eyes dominate, cane reports. germany is hot to rethink its options for keeping people warm. this winter, winter in berlin in 2022. it's a cold and dark time with energy prices elevated by the war and ukraine for some people. there are few ways to keep warm. so the heated shelters are busy. as a feeler mentioned in belinda, so many people in berlin but also elsewhere have so little money that they turn off

the heating and air apartment or 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 warmth until 2022. germany received much of its imported gas through pipelines from russia. now that route is closed off and this is it's replacement, a floating l n g terminal in v hems haven't built from scratch in months at the behest of a chancellor. determined to break with the past was lance president russell's 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 can plus replacing last russian. hydrocarbons has been a central problem for europe. sleet,

as 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 then of course, we'll 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 fall 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. and the ministers encourage their 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, full in chinese military is conducted drills in the sea and as space around taiwan . it said it was in response to what it called provocation by the island and united states. taiwan government has complained of repeated chinese military activity, narrative territory. last week. washington boosted its military support for ty, pay, making claims taiwan as part of china and hasn't ruled out using force to bring the island under its control. and a mock is a senior research fellow at the center for the china and globalization think tank. it says the drills are meant to send a message of to tyrants. these drills are an annual exercise,

are designed to us strengthen our peace and stability in the region. but we know, especially in the last year or that you're been increasingly aggressive and provocative actions. ah, 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 are these exercises take on a special significance as a result of this much more complex and challenging a global geopolitical environment. part of this exercise includes the 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 hop cooperation. turner's national health commission is announced.

it will start publishing daily figures of covert infections. numbers will instead be published by another government organization for research purposes. hospitals are becoming overcrowded across the country as it battles a wave of corona virus infections, but no cov deaths have been reported for 5 consecutive days. you know, major medical or our di workload is really heavy. we are handling more than 500 for emergency cases a day. the blood oxygen levels of the patients are very low about 50 to 70 percent . the move to stop publishing data comes just a few days after china narrowed the definition of covert desk to those that are only the direct result of respiratory failure. since the pandemic started and will hand some 3 years ago, china is only recorded just over 5000 for stat fatalities. and despite a backlog crematorium and funeral homes, only 7 covert deaths have been reported in the last 2 weeks across the whole

country. by comparison, united states is reported more than 1100000 clover deaths altogether. and it has less than a quarter of china's 1400000000 people. local officials of also contradicted the central government statistics on how fast the virus is spreading. the national health commission reported about 4000 cases on friday, but an official engine young province estimated a news conference that coven cases that had exceeded 1000000 in a day. that region is home to 65000000 people. so let's discuss this some more with epidemiologist, eric phi golding, he joins us live from washington. obviously, there's always been a lack of transparency around covey data from china, perhaps more so now with some of the changes in the way they are reporting cove deaths. and what defines a death from coven 19 from the asian information we do have. how serious is the scale of the outbreak?

to me, i think the chinese outbreak right now is the worst of the pandemic. and the thing, no country will be as hard as china, in an absolute number of cases hospitalizations in depth. because over the next few months from 3 to 5 months trail, we will have at least a 100000000 if not, 1000000000 people. in fact it and of that 1000000 debt, which is a point one percent is very, very likely we're, we're thinking mostly they'll be double digit number of knowing the death. because china is the last and it's like a virgin untouched country in terms of cove. it and they're very much under vaccinated under boosted they have 130000000 elderly over the 60 who do not have a 3rd shot. and we know that you're both really poorly. so altogether, china's in the world of her and trying to show up in the all just has already said the world, the worst is still get to come. right to do you reckon they'll have to bring back

containment measures to try and limit the number of deaths or will they just obviously for economy reasons, just keep things as they are? well yeah, that's the big question. you know, i believe there is no fee. what unique and i think china will see that the fall out from both the economic fall as well as the health care phone, because these are very visible. when elderly died in large numbers, it's very visible to try to population because in many ways a lot of workers right now. and i totally do not want to return to work even if they're healthy because elderly in china live with their children. and so if their adult child goes to work and then bring the virus back, it will kill grandma and grandpa. and so this is inherently, there could be economic will fall out, worked or strikes and, and in addition, well, you know, labor shortages and of course, the actual cost of the death in the hospitalization and the long cobit hours. so i

think china will hopefully see the light and see they have no until we have more boosters rolled out until we have the new mucus inhaled back. these were all that we need to return to strict measures and i hope the give out in 95 math to everyone to clock out and take air one caution by ventilation and air disinfection, which china should have the resources to disperse such math and have these measures, but they somehow haven't yet. and then really to the point, you also see a spike and cove infections in india. flights not suspended between india and china . if there is an exposure of explosion, of infections in the country, how could that affect the, the spread of covered all on the kron elsewhere in the world? yeah, i would see that most of these variances in china to be f. 7, for example, are also in other countries. it's not like on the on of last winter in which was

only initially in southern africa. so i don't think we should have traveled 6 and i think you know, india has to deal with it on their own because india also had a very bad burn through because china of having a burn through right now. just like in the last april may of 2021, which is probably 3 to 5. hopefully this week won't be back in the but you don't want to point out the code is rising in many countries, even in the united states, new york city is having a very high rise in spite of covey cases. and we also think it's because of a new variance or even different than ever before. that's not even on truly on. it's like a hybrid variance called x b, b and all these things are the variance that we're playing, whack them all on catch up with our vaccine. we need more than just actually vaccine plus strategies like mass, ventilation, action. thank you very much for joining us today. from washington, eric fi coding our former rebel leader who once led

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a few months under house arrest and denies any wrong doing. a man accused of killing 3 people. a kurdish cultural center in paris on friday, says he did this because he has a pathological hatred of foreigners. and 69 year old has been removed from custody and taken to a psychiatric facility. deadly shooting spot. widespread demonstration in the french capital on saturday. or test this class with police. and some of the job aid reports now on what else. the accused has helped me 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 pistol which he used. but we've also been getting reaction from the kurdish community here. officially, they have not taken the stance, but so far they're still not satisfied with what the police is coming out with saying that this is something that the police a thing that he said and so far they've not seen any proof that this person went 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. brazil's incoming justice minister is threatening election protested with tougher policing. flavio dena issued the warning off to police team say they discovered a bomb at a protest i on saturday. supporters of are going present jar bull scenario of been camped outside army base is for weeks. they want a military to overturn this year's presidential election, which was won by louisa. nasty luna, to silver, the new justice minister like in the protest as to terrorists with the news, our life from london. more still to bring you on the program. we're looking at a day battle with the cost of living in nigeria, where prices have doubled in the last year. and how the panama hat got its name given that isn't actually on panama, didn't know that ah,

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ah, from a people in nigeria, the prices of basic goods have doubles compared to a year ago. inflation has been made was by flooding and a lack of security in some of the farming regions who need a mentor reports now from a boucher ah, despite being one of the largest oil produces in africa, nigeria went through yet another few crisis in early december. at times the price increased 300 percent. instead of using a bus or taxi alix gay bill uses the cheapest mode of transport he can find from here to my destination. ms. shirley wants you to mirror for no rental 101. she

wanted also i had an offer by dropping it off into saudi economy. and are you still in touch me on horses which is very, very harsh room. oh, unreal. yeah. the whole boy is very, very stressful. even, you know, 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 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 boucher market several times a week. lately, the cost of living here has been very, very unbearable. things i've gone off very expensive, wasn't counting on

a 14 by christmas rice. now, for example, things i've gone up and we are very expensive and every all on variable to if so, if i mean funding, i mean funding, if it costs more, she's not the only one surprised by the rising prices. right now the crazy i'm not frankly, 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 had a private club to buy sciences, a wound that if nothing is done to combat climate change, things will only get worse. the flawed in the day, i went to the floor, the magnify mark, i know, gotten production on. just discuss the production to find out that we have literally thought that the supply was still very small. the demand cannot

support change in the market and 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 poles and a couple of months, a worsening economy is likely to influence how people vote for me to mila ultra 0, boucher. now traditional christmas messages from to global figure is focused on the difficult financial times. many people are facing around the world. hope francis and can charles the 3rd acknowledge that is festive period is unusually tough out there is john hall reports now from london in our time a grave famine if peace, the words of pope francis in his annual christmas blessing will be at or be to the city and the world, i'm going to show you really to watch as we gather with our loved ones,

that was think of families that experience great difficulty. and those struggling in this time of economic crisis. the pope recalled the scars of conflict in syria at a time of height and tensions between israel and the palestinians. he prayed for mutual trust and in yemen, iran, lebanon, haiti, men, ma, and duff canister. pope frances prayed for reconciliation and peace. when it goes special attention was reserved for ukraine. you see only to bring the pro and yes, may the lord inspire us to offer concrete gestures of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering and may have enlightened the minds of those who have the power to silence the thunder of weapons and put an immediate end to this senseless walker. 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, and 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, famine or natural disaster. over those at home, finding ways to pay the bills, to keep the family instead and 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, now farmer's famous act, as even u. s. presidents of old dawned the iconic panama hat fit, despite what many believe these hats on naught and never were from panama. from long to christie ecuador, lucy newman explains why 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 hills surrounding. won't the goody city near the pacific coast of ecuador? freely by ty is a 3rd generation hat artist, cynthia, significantly. and. 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. i love but that's just the beginning of an exquisite craft though they've been they'll have it i this was fema, the best strands are specially selected. but if they aren't naturally that then by that they have to be worked in prepared until they are all identical and have the same color. so you can imagine the effort this implies young working and weaving something that is so fine, go on it. but i was 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 nice no of 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 place you cause 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. so if we feel that emergent,

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 purch eyes to produce the original 2 key upon hat. proud symbols not of panama, they say, but of their country ecuador. to see a newman al jazeera want equity equity. i have it, that's it. then he's out and if you ah

it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but it's greatest rival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds formed from a class divide, sustained over generations. most book, junior supporters are born into these club colors, an epic feud of rich versus poor. the funds will make football when i was just the europe. once a month, social workers pay michelle nie a visit at her. michelle is a single mother struggling to get by on a meagre income in one of the world's most expensive cities. she can barely afford the basics for her and to stick daughter. since the start of the coven 19 pandemic, there's been a big rise, and people seeking relief for charity workers. it's been particularly demanding. 28

percent of social workers quit that job. last year. many of them left the city altogether with strict pandemic cuts and political uncertainty. many rely on the help find it difficult to get the support for sciences, the evidence is irrefutable. but america, climate change denial stubbornly mistrusted the fact. despite soaring temperature's raging wild fires and shrinking water reserves, the world's largest economy still split along ideological lines. so can it ever reach consensus to avoid catastrophe climate wars on a jessia? ah.