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christmas for so many in the us as the death toll rises from a severe storm. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. and she has been hitting us with everything she has. ah, by mama jim jim, this is al 0 alive from door ham, also coming up the humanitarian consequences of a taliban ban on women working for 8 agencies in afghanistan as the battle goes on, an important eastern ukrainian city. russia's president insists he's trying to unite his people and a heartfelt message from king charles and his 1st christmas address since the death of his mother. queen elizabeth. i cannot thank you enough for the love and sympathy you have shown who them ah.

people have died while trapped in their cars. as the toll grows from the deep free is gripping the u. s. there been at least 30 fatalities across several states and there's a warning. the death count could rise. 7 died in new york state, which is one of the worst hit regions in the city of buffalo. people have been confined to their homes for several days. shebra tante reports from washington, dc. windsor storm elliot may have long passed over much of a us. but optic lingered old 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 house 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 and sta long story history. the pool, the temperatures, not any crate of the phenomenon of lake effect,

snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean effect snow in main on the atlantic coast. the principle is the same cold moving over warmer water. crazy intense storms with high winds meant white conditions in some areas, even where the snowfall had stolt. many remained trapped in the homes. homes where power outages are expected to tenure 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 bored, so some feeding they had no choice but to attempt to drive to so called warming stations. as their homes grew ever more frigid. despite advise that driving in white house conditions could lead to death either from a crash or being stranded in the cold and some good find themselves trapped in that

cause. with 2 days, fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska new york, and other states. bodies have been found in cars on snow banks, others in the home after emergency services struggled to arrive in time would be at passengers continue that 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 accounting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this is yet another and a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been struggling to cope. she ever time see al jazeera across the northern border and canada thousands remain without power in the 2 biggest provinces,

ontario and quebec, many flights or cancelled as our train services. some local governments have declared emergencies in the western province of british columbia. a bus rolled on an icy road, killing 4 people. meteorologists are expecting temperatures to rise in the coming weeks. south of the us, thousands of migrants are camping in the cold and mexico hoping for a reversal of us immigration restriction. they've spent the christmas weekend enduring what mexico's weather services calling a mass of arctic air temperatures in the border. cities of matamoros and reynosa are hovering around freezing restrictions under title 40 to allow the us to return migrants to mexico without the chance to request a file of many who have made it across the border into el paso, texas are wary of accepting shelter. they fear it could mean being returned to mexico. temperatures in the city or forecast dropped to a low 0 degrees celsius. many of the people who made the journey to the u. s. remain on the streets,

some sleeping in the cold outside of church. ok kiddo us 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 spin christmas under a roof because the cold, a strong bob cox's a meteorologist, he says the weather pattern shouldn't have been unexpected. this week we had a large storm that took up residency in the great lakes area and the psychotic or counterclockwise 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 air 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, the east flow that's going to allow the arctic air to look back to the north and for temperatures to moderate. many places. it's true, it's been a significant arctic outbreak that's covered a large portion of the country all the way from the canadian border down to the gulf or 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. and we do get arctic arctic air 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. heavy snow has almost brought northern and western japans to a standstill. at least 14 people have died since mid december and another 87 injured. the snow trigger to black out in the region of new got to on sunday. 2000 houses are without power. whether officials are telling people to avoid non

essential outings until the snow fall subsides. there's been an avalanche at a ski resort in western austria. initially, 10 people were feared buried in the snow, but 8 were later found. to remain missing, the avalanche struck the less desert area at an altitude of 2700 meters. for foreign aid groups, if suspended operations in afghanistan after the taliban government banned women from working for them, save the children care. the international rescue committee in norwegian refugee council say they can't effectively reach people in need. without female staff, afghanistan has reached unprecedented levels of hunger for more than a year, with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food following a drought. the pandemic and decades of war. the un estimates 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023. the economic crisis has worsened since the u . s. pros, billions of dollars of assets and foreign donors cut aid after the taliban to take

over. the country is also recovering from natural disasters, including flooding in august and an earthquake in june. phantom monahan has more limit. another restriction on women in afghanistan. this time they're being told to stay away from work that's crucial to getting humanitarian aid to millions of people. the taliban government is warning non governmental organizations that employ them. risk losing their license to operate in the country. well, the thing i am in a society like i've gone is than way for the past 20 years. they have put so much effort to an african women. they were educated and they served society. these women have supported their family for it is horrible for me to think that me and my generation are forced to experience such a situation. the un, the u. s. and the you say they're deeply concerned. qatar, which previously hosted talks and ending the war enough, can stand cold on the taliban to respect women's right to work. several,

a groups are suspending operations between them. they employ thousands of women and provide assistance to millions and need. this was the only option that we had because 1st of all, there's a principle involved that women should be allowed to work in the sun. secondly, practically, it isn't possible for us to continue our operations if we're not able to work with the male colleagues for them to access, not anything else, but all the information we sent. and i can't work with children if we don't have our female staff on board. so providing life saving services to young children, to infants, providing health care services to pregnant women, enough kind of cultural, all that needs to be done with females stuff. the taliban has issued several decrees after season control of the country following the withdrawal us forces last year. earlier this week, it bars female students from enrolling and universities. in response,

male students walked out of classrooms and women walked on the streets to protest. after it took power and gas down the taliban, promised women fundamental rights, but a year on it systematically excluding them from public life. since monahan, al jazeera, the russian president vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia in an interview poot, and says, he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive and ukraine, arguing craniums and russians are one people. he says his government is acting in the interests of our people, and the moscow is ready to negotiate and into the conflict ukraine's president says, russia has lost everything but will continue to try to bring darkness to ukraine. so so if you could give me a total, only a few days of this year left, we must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time dark and difficult for

us. russia has lost everything it could this year, but it is trying to compensate for its losses with the gloating over propagandist after themselves strikes in our country on our energy sector. i know the doctors will not prevent us from bringing the invaders to their new defeats, but we must be ready for any scenario. 3 ukrainian emergency service members have been killed in a mine explosion in the person region. official say the men died while the mining and area. it comes a day after 10 people were killed and 58 injured in russian shelling in the city of her son, presidency lensky, condemned the shilling of a busy market as 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 the authority draw 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. we heard from the sources in the eastern city of cremmit, sourced the day reporting at least 3 missiles strikes and no specification as to what exactly was hate and no casualties. but it's interesting that chromosomes, this is the 2nd day that criminals has been, it criminals 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 buck moot, where we have seen and continue to see some of the most intense spiting of this war so far. neither the russians nor the ukrainians really making any progress. certainly the ukrainian policies seemingly keeping them back as russia makes

probing attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. russia parliament is preparing to introduce higher taxes for people who left the country because of the war in ukraine. by early october, media reported as many as 700000 russians had fled. following present president putin's mobilization of reservists. in september, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, the duma says the vast majority of people believe russians who fled had betrayed their country. still ahead on al jazeera, china says it will no longer give our daily coven 19 figures, even as health care workers raise the alarm about its outbreak. and the latest on the shooting incident, the triggered rioting in the french capital, the attacker makes a chilling confession. ah, with here's your weather update in

a minute. 15 for the america is good to have you along so slowly. but surely that lake effect snow begins to wind down on monday, across western new york state. so places like buffalo, after seen some records snowfall there, of course we know the cold has come as far as southern florida. this is what you're going to wake up to on monday morning. 9 degrees in miami. we've got some snow moving across arkansas at tennessee, kentucky and missouri as while called there also impacting parts of central america . that includes mexico city, your wake up temperature on monday at 6 degrees. and then we've got persistent rain falling across western cuba, belize and honduras, or rain will pour into northern california with this storm system here also for washington state and oregon. this will fall as rain, same goes for british columbia because your temperatures are high here. we'll see those winds whip up is wall in vancouver, a potentially gusting to about 60 kilometers per hour. some cool air is rushing off

the pacific. so bogota had a morning temperature, about 4 or 5 degrees. we've got a lot of rain falling in, paid through a just cease of the andes through the amazon basin. and as we looked toward the river plate region, those winds will start to back off on monday. ah ah ah ah ah ah

ah, you're watching of 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour. at least 30 people have been killed in a winter storm this continuing to hammer the u. s. the worst hit state is new york, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes for days. for foreign aid groups have suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban government banned women from working for aid organizations. afghanistan has reached unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food. rushes president says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. vladimir putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through the offensive in ukraine and says, moscow is ready to negotiate. and into the con,

germany has been reliant on russian gas to meet its demand for heating. but as the war and ukraine goes on, energy prices have sort. as dominic cane reports, germany 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 few mentioned in belinda, so many people in berlin but also elsewhere have so little money that they turn off the heating in their 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 its replacement, a floating ellen g terminal in vill hems,

haven't built from scratch in months at the behest of a chancellor. determined to break with the past was lance president put russell's pilot and put him, believed he could blackmail us 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 torture could plus replacing last russian. hydrocarbons has been a central problem for 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 blog with one negotiating position to

represent 400000000 citizens. as you 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, you know, has legal administrative hurdles to, to pass. then it will have an effect on, on, on the gas price in the next winter. at christmas markets like these most people's minds are far from the 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. so the cold and dark days of a new year. dawn, a cane al jazeera,

full in thousands have rallied in the corner car box largest city of stefan, cared to protest against the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks as ever by. johnny activists have blocked the latch in corridor demonstrating against what they call illegal mining. armenia accuses thereby, john of staging the demonstration to create a humanitarian crisis and the armenian majority enclave. a corner car about his claim by both nations who fought 2 wars. over the 14 days, we had been under a complete blockade imposed by azerbaijan. as the only road 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 governor karuba. a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into a river in north western spain, killing at least 6 people to were rescued, including the driver. attempts to find other survivors were hampered by strong

currents. there's been heavy rain in the galley see a region a man accused of killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural center and the french capital says he did so because he has a pathological hatred of foreigners. the 69 year old has been removed from custody and taken to a psychiatric facility. the shooting sparked widespread demonstrations in paris on saturday as protestors fought with police. are desirous of some of bon jovi reports on what else the accused has 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 deceased 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 stuns, but so far they're still not satisfied with the police is coming out with saying that this is something that the police are seeing 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. iran's

revolutionary guard, his arrested 7 people with links to britain in connection with anti government protests. some hold dual nationality. the 3 months of unrest is affecting the economy and ron's currency. the reality is hovering at a near record low against the us dollar. the protests were triggered by the death of 22 year old matter. many in police custody dozens of her hunger refugees have arrived in indonesia, northern arch of province. after weeks at sea. local villagers 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 ro hang refugees risk their lives each year on long sea journeys in an attempt to reach malaysia or indonesia. china has conducted military drills in the sea and aerospace around taiwan. it said it was in response to what it called provocation by the island and the united states. taiwan is government has complained of repeated chinese military activity near its territory

last week. washington boosted its arm support for ty, paid by james claims taiwan. as part of china and hasn't ruled out using force to bring the island under its control, china's health commission will no longer publish daily figures of covered 1900 infections. numbers will instead be published by another government organization for research purposes. hospitals are becoming overcrowded in china as a battles, a wave of corona virus infections, but no cobra, 1900 deaths have been reported for 5 consecutive days. one head nurse in beijing gave this assessment of what's happening to our day workload is really heavy. we are handling more than 500 emergency cases of day about oxygen levels of the patients are very low. about 50 to 70 percent. eric file being is an epidemiologist . he says the massive surgeon cases has had a great impact on the health system. chinese outbreak right now is the worst of the panoramic and the thing, no country will be hit hard as china,

in an absolute number of cases hospitalizations in depth. because over the next few months from 3 to 5 months trial be we'll have at least a $100000000.00 if not, 1000000000 people in fact it and of that $1000000.00 debt, which is a point one percent is very, very likely. we're, we're thinking most like they'll be double digit number knowing that death because china is the last, and it's like a virgin untouched country in terms of cobit and they're very much under vaccinated under whose did they have 130000000 elderly over the age of 60 who do not have a 3rd shot. we know in this area that just bows really poorly. so altogether, china is in the world of her and trying to cheat up at the all just has already said the world, the worst is still get to come. and i think china will see that the fall out from both the economic fall as well as the health care,

because these are very visible when elderly di, in large numbers, it's 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 goes to work and then bring the virus back, it will kill grandma and grandpa. a former rebel leader who once let a violent revolt has become to pause. prime minister for the 3rd time now was communist party leader pushed back. come out of the hall, lead a coalition. after last month's election resulted in a hung parliament, the hall was nicknamed the fierce one after he fought in paul's monarchy and the 1990 s, or the $70000.00 people died in violence which lasted a decade. traditional christmas messages from 2 leaders have focused on the difficult financial times facing many people around the world for francis and king charles the 3rd acknowledged that this festive period is unusually tough. 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. i'm going to show you really to let you know, as we gather with their loved ones, let us think of families that experience 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, men ma, and of ganna stand. pope francis prayed for reconciliation and peace. 70 gold, special attention was reserved for ukraine. you see only to bring the pro and may, the lord inspire to offer concrete tissues of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering. and may he, enlighten 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 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, be it 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 in war. we see it in the humanity of people throughout our nations and the commonwealth, who so readily respond to the plight 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 keeping great love and empathy. i wish you all faithful and merry christmas journal al jazeera ah, as his abs.