relief for charity work is it's been particularly demanding 28 percent of social workers quit the jobs in the last year. many of them left the city altogether with them and cuts and political uncertainty many rely on the help find it difficult to get the support for sciences, the evidence is irrefutable, but america's climate change denial, stubborn mistrusted the fact. despite soaring temperatures, raging wildfires 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 jetta? ah.

with white out for christmas and i'll take bloss continues to sweep us and canada, climbing at least 26 lives. ah hello. i'm sorry. i'm to mozy in london. you're watching. ouch. is era also coming up on the program for foreign aid group suspend operations in afghanistan? after the taliban finds women from working for local and international and jose thousands rally and are going to carry back and protest as a by johnny active is blockading the regions on the land link to armenia. discovit infections exploit across china. the national health commission stops publishing daily case number's and death tolls. ah.

at least 26 people have now been reported dad as a severe winter storm continues to hammer several american states. the worst hit city, buffalo and western new york state where 7 people have died and hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes for days in white house blizzard conditions. storm is now moving east. after more than 200000 people woke up without power on christmas day, shall baton see reports from washington. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of the us, but arctic lingered on christmas day over 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 devastating storm in buffalo, long story history, the poor,

the temperature is not any creative. the phenomenon of lake effect snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean effects in maine on the atlantic coast. the principle is the same cold moving over warm water creating intense storms. high winds, many white hot conditions in some areas, even where the snow 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. substations are frozen and they now need to bring in equipment to repair the substations, to get them back on line. they were bullets of some feeling. they had no choice but to attempt to drive to so called warming stations as their homes drew ever more frigid. despite advise 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

their calls for 2 days. fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska, new york and other states. bullies have been found and cause don't slow banks. others in the homes of the 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 good of thousands of flight cancellations and delays. but the thought is full cost 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 isn't accurate counting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this was yet another and a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been struggling to cope. she ever chancey al jazeera the winter storm is also

causing chaos in canada, where authorities are wanting people to stay indoors before conditions get worse. power supplies have been disrupted in many areas with some flights cancelled over the christmas weekend. many who did venture out those were left stranded after trying to contend with on plowed streets and strong winds, where the warnings remain in place for much of ontario, metrology, they're expecting temperatures to rise through the rest of sunday. and then also during the week. well elsewhere, thousands of migrants are camping in the cold and mexico's northern border, hoping for a reversal of us migrant restrictions and spending the christmas weekend. and jerry, what makes good weather service is calling a mass of arctic air temperatures in the border, cities of matter, morris and mendoza. all right, around freezing. many people very camping in bare bones shelters restrictions on the title 40 to allow the us to return my guidance to mexico. that the chance to request asylum or for those who did manage to make it across the border into el

paso, texas. many a weary of a wary of accepting shelter, fearing it could lead them to being returned to mexico, temperatures in the city of forecast to drop below 0 degrees celsius. many the people have made the journey to the u. s. remain on the street. some of them sleeping in the cold outside a church. okay. i get out and i ran 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 or bus loads of migrants were dropped, dropped off outside u. s. vice president carmella harris's washington house on saturday, despite sub 0 temperatures videos showed them getting off and on buses outside the residence. many not dressed warmly enough for the winter freeze. it's not clear who's responsible for sending the bosses to the vice president's home. victor migrants were also sent there in september. i, texas governor greg abbott. several southern republican governors have been sending

migrants to northern states in protest at a spike in border crossings. ah, we'll see all the story we've been following very closely for foreign aid groups of suspended their operations in afghanistan. after the taliban government banned women from working for aid organizations, save the children care international rescue committee and then a widget refugee council. all said, they cannot effectively reach afghans in need without their female staff of got his son has suffered unprecedented levels of hunger for over a year. with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food after drought, the coven pandemic, and decades of war. the you and estimates that are record 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023. the economic crisis is worse than since the u . s. for billions of dollars of assets and foreign donors car aid after the taliban

take over. the country is 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 has joined other countries and expressing quote extreme concern at the angio ban on the call. soon sheriff has more another restriction on women enough cornerstone. this time they're being told to stay away from blood that's crucial to getting humanitarian. 8 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 figure in a society like i've gone is done with 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 for it is horrible for me to

think that me and my generation of forced to experience such a situation than the un, the u. s. and the e. u city, a deeply concerned agencies that have a significant presence in the country of calling you the major blow participation of women, humidity, and action is the mental issue, not the bridge dependence of action if we need the needs or the military and 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. and the 2nd we need to make sure that out there to deliver the directly to them. and this is not possible. the delivery of that age will not be the taliban has a several degrees 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 after it took power. and i've gone on the talbot promised women fundamental whites, but a year own it systematically excluding them from public life. when they consume sharif al jazeera deep mala manor is vice president of humanitarian affairs. it care international. one of the cios that suspended its work. shes the taliban order will deprive women and girls from accessing essential services. women are much more affected by the gracies. 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 office is 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 woman, another woman. so if i deems our field deems i'll know by him, his teams are for distribution teams are water and sanitation teams are all men. what does that mean? it means that the aide 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 the have suspended, paused our operations for the moment to get more clarity on the situation. and i were able to do to deliver 8 thousands of people have rallied in the car in a car box lodge, a city, and to bon occur to protest. the blockade of the regions only landline to armenia for 2 weeks as a by johnny activists,

blocked the latch and corridor to protest against what they say is illegal mining anemia. as accused as a bi john of staging, the demonstration to crazy humanitarian crisis in the armenian majority. enclave, i mean is, polymers is not going to car back his suffering from shortages of food medicine and fuel. following the closure of that corridor. o. 14 days we have been under a complete blockade imposed by as a by john as the only roads leading nagondo car to the outside world is closed. for 14 days, no food medicine, fuel or other vital products have been allowed to enter the owner car. at least 6 people have been killed off to a passenger bus careened off a bridge and into a river in north west in spain. 2 survivors rescued, one of whom was the bus driver. rescue efforts were hampered by the strong current and high waters of the river alara's heavy rains of recently swept through the guinea thea region. it's not clear why the bus get it off the bridge. and without,

is there a lie from london till ad on the program will be reporting on ukraine battle to protect. it says he's an vital energy infrastructure from russian drones and missiles. we look at how the panama got its name, given that it isn't actually from panama. ah, hello, a lot of rain for parts of the northern territory in australia. let me show you a great to have your long. i think the worst of the rain will fall north and to the east of alice on monday. some spots could pick up to about a month's worth of rain in 24 hours for the se. we go a day for paint the colors on dark, the red, the hard that temperature adelaide 40 degrees. have that wind coming down from the interior. but watch what happens on wednesday. southerly wind will throw in some

showers. so the temperature and adelaide drops to $24.00 degrees off to new zealand . nothing major across both islands here just some scattered showers, 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 and also throwing some rain into indonesia as java island . some wash out conditions to be expected. here on monday, after china we go to the cloud, drifting across the river valley that includes shanghai with the high of 7 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 a high of 10 degrees on monday. that's your weather, sir, later. ah. across the world, young activists and organizers to rhonda, moved,

motivated and politically engaged. the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting. here in beta we were the ones who had life on what was going on in a way that most means to me. good in those looking start, think about liberal lebanon is always in my number for us formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation trade on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. watching al jazeera life from london lane stories of following. now, at least 26 people have been killed in

a storm. this continuing to hammer several us state worst. his city is buffalo and west and new york state. but hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes for days in white house visit conditions for foreign aid groups of suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban band, women from working for 8 organizations have gone. it's done is suffering unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food. and thousands of rallied in a corner car box large cities to pun occurred against the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia as a by johnny activists of block the latch, in cordele, protesting against illegal mining the russian president, letting the person says the west is trying to tear historical russia part. the nationally televised interview, he russian leader said he was trying to unite the russian people for his offensive in ukraine, arguing that ukrainians and russians are one people,

bruce and says his government is acting in the interests of its own people and that moscow is ready to negotiate an end to the conflict. meanwhile, in his late night, ear dress, ukraine's present rosamille. zalinski said russia has lost everything this year. so, so if you could total 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 missile 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 house. on reaching official said the men died while selflessly performing the task of de mining parts of the region. it comes a day after 10 people were killed in $58.00 injured in

a rush and strike on harrison city. if cranes present laudermill zalinski condemned, the shelling of a busy marcus is killing for pleasure. okay, well, we actually do have allergies here as charles stratford. he has been spending some time in that ukrainian capital. keith, at where actually there's been some training at 4 local forces and, and members of the crate and military to try and that train on weapons that have been transferred defense systems that have been transferred from the west to ukraine. and he brings us more on that now pointing sky would and on high alert, the soviet antea grove gun was built in 1982. the man at its controls are members of a mobile air defense unit, trying to protect the ukraine in capitol,

and surrounding area from russian, so called kamikaze drone and missile attacks. some of the ammunition was taken from a similar russian weapon captured around butcher the early days of the war. other soldiers carry portable heat seeking soviet post soviet and western stinger missiles. the commander says they are effective up to a range of 6 kilometers, but often find it difficult to latch on to the drones the russia is using to target ukraine's electricity grid. veronica, because the 5th, but i said you shaheed 131 and 136. kamikaze drones are low speed visible and loud, but they have a small heat signature. it can be difficult to lock on to the target. and the missile might mess anti aircraft guns work most effectively against the shade, but they have a problem if the drone flies at night or conditions a poor visibility. russian forces have carried out at least

a 1000 drone and cruise missile attacks targeting energy infrastructure in the last 2 and a half months most like this one are intercepted but many gets through. so millions of ukrainians are suffering blackouts and poor heating in freezing winter conditions. ukraine's western backers have sent air defense weapons such as this ne, some system. and last week, the u. s. announced it is supplying a patriot missile system. but training how to use it can take months. 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. so 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 chemicals, drones that fly around a 160 kilometers an hour, only. they get eyes on 1st. that's all. that's why the 3rd lawyer, drones are less difficult. the missiles, but there are observational difficulties because they can fly our forests. that hide them or over busy roads weather 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. chas draft al jazeera cave region ukraine. traditional christmas messages from 2 important global figures are focused on the financial times. many people are facing difficult financial times that many people are dealing with around the world. pope francis controls a 3rd acknowledge this festive period is unusually tough. john hall reports from london. 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 went to school. i'm going to show you really deluxe, as we gather with our loved ones that think of families, the perience great difficulty and those struggling in this time of economics christ . the pope recalled the scars of conflict in syria at the time of height and

tensions between israel and the palestinians. he prayed for mutual trust and in yemen, iran, lebanon, haiti, me and ma, and of ganna stand. pope francis prayed for reconciliation and peace. when it goes special attention was reserved for ukraine. is he only to render pro and 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 as air 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 beard for those around the world facing conflict, famine or natural disaster over those at home finding ways to pay their bills to keep their families fed on war. we sit in the humanity of people throughout our nations and the commonwealth, who so readily respond to the plate 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 journal al jazeera, china's national health condition is an outs. it'll stop publishing. daily figures have covered infections, and numbers will instead be published by a different organization. for research purposes, they say, hospitals are now becoming overcrowded right across the country as it battles a wave of infections. but no covert debt had been reported for 5 consecutive days. a our day workload is really heavy. we are handling more than 500 for emergency cases of day the blood, oxygen levels of the patients are very low about 50 to 70 percent. will the move to stop publishing? data comes just a few days after china narrowed the definition of covert depths to those that are

only the direct result of respiratory failure. since the pandemic started and we'll hand 3 years ago, china is only recorded just over 5000 fatalities in this by a backlog crematorium and funeral homes. only 7 cov odessa been reported in the last 2 weeks across the whole country. by comparison, the u. s. as reported more than 1100000 covert death altogether, and it has less than a quarter of china is 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 at a news conference that covered cases that had exceeded a 1000000 in a day. so earlier i spoke to epidemiologist, eric fy golding, who explains why covert has so many people worried in china. 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. we know in the area that you're both really quarterly. so all together, china's in the world of her in china, she'd up with you all just has already said the world, the worst is still a get to come. china will be that fall out from both the economic as well as the health care phone, because these are very visible when elderly died in large numbers, very visible to chinese 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 work in the brain, the virus back, it will kill them on grandpa. and so this is inherently, there could be economic fall out, worked or strikes and, and in addition, what, you know, labor shortages and of course,

the actual cost of the death in the hospitalization and the long cobit hours. now farmers, famous actors, even us presidents of old, on the iconic panama. but despite what many of you might believe these had not, and never were from panama, from one to kristi ecuador, lucy and human explains why. the, this is the story of one of the world's most famous and yet mis named hats. for more than a 120 years mules had been bringing to keep home fiber from the hills surrounding monta. christy, near the pacific coast of ecuador says he by chai, 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 currently. ha ha. but that's just the beginning of an exquisite craft,

though they've been de la hayward. i, this was, we were, the best strands are specially selected, but if they aren't naturally that then they have to be worked in prepared until they are all identical and have the same color. so you can imagine the effort, the suppliers young working in 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 in 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. in 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 am so if we feel that eliza, 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 pitch eyes to produce the original to key upon hat. a proud symbol, not of panama, they say, but of their country ecuador.