dislike between funds formed from a class device sustained over generations. most spoke a junior support is, are born into these club colors. in an epic feud of rich versus poor. the funds will make football when i was just the europe. the latest news as it breaks this particular sub station. it's been here in 3 separate effects. why 6 russian we saw with detailed coverage, they had held that the us would relax. border pandemic restrictions this week, which was likely had better their odds of getting in from around the world over 3000000 people to talk to the 3 and one sided. their support for young minifie and the national peep. awe

oblique christmas for so many in the u. s, 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, i'm how much of job this is out. there were live from doha. also coming up the humanitarian consequences of a taliban ban on women working for 8 agencies in afghanistan as the battle goes on in an important eastern ukrainian city. russia's president insists he's trying to unite his people. china says it will no longer give out daily cove. at 19 figures, even as health care workers raise the alarm about its outbreak. ah, people who died while trapped in their cars as the toll grows from the deep freeze

gripping the u. s. there been at least 30 fatalities across several states, and there's a warning. the death count could rise 12 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. shopper, tante reports from washington dc. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of a us, but arctic air lingered on 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, but everything she has since i 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 star, long story history. the pool, the temperature is low, any crated, 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 cold a moving over warmer water, crazy intense storms. high winds meant whitehead conditions and some areas even where the snowfall had stopped. many remained trapped in the 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 boards of some feeling. 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 did find themselves trapped in the cause for 2 days. fatalities have been reported in colorado, kansas, oklahoma,

nebraska new york and other states. bodies have been found in cars, non snow banks, others in the home after emergency services struggle 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 wilcox 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 an accurate accounting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this was you have another and a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been struggling to cope. she ever chancey 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 week. south of the us, thousands of migrants are camping in the cold and mexico hoping for a reversal of us immigration restrictions. they've spent the christmas weekend enduring. what mexico is whether service was calling a mass of art care 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 sign many who made it across the border and to el paso, texas are wary of accepting shelter. they fear it could mean being returned to mexico. temperatures in the city or forecasts dropped to below 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 a church. okay, kiddo us and i, i want to spend christmas in

a place where it is not cold. i would really like to be under a roof just as every one he would like to spend christmas under a roof because the cold as strong. bob cox is 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 from 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 artic 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 broad northern and western japan to a standstill. at least 14 people have died since mid december and another 87 have been 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 snowfall subsides. has been an avalanche of 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 legs are as area at an altitude of 2700 meters. several foreign aid groups have suspended operations in afghanistan. after the taliban government banned women from working for them, save the children care the international rescue committee and 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 you in estimates 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023. the economic crisis has worsened since the u. s. froze billions of dollars of assets and foreign donors cut aid after the televisions 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. whether the thing am in a society like afghanistan, what 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 families 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't 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 enough guns done. 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 nation. recently, i can't work with children if you 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 connie, cultural, all that needs to be done with female 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 street to protest. after took power and if chemist and the taliban promised women fundamental rights.

but a year on it systematically excluding them from public life. since monahan al jazeera the mala mala is vice, president of humanitarian affairs of care international. one of the groups that suspended operations and i've canister. when she says the taller bonds ban has a significant impact on afghan women and girls, 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 that is less food in the family 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 jews 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. so we have suspended, paused our operations for the moment to get more clarity on the situation and our ability to deliver 8 humanitarians by default, by principal a by 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 our ability to be able to reach everybody in the country who needs aid. and most of them will need aid. i'll 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. iran revolutionary guard has arrested 7 people with links to britain in

connection with anti government protests, some whole dual nationality. the 3 months of unrest is affecting the economy aaron's currency, the reale is hovering at a near record low against the us dollar. the protests were triggered by the death of 22 year old marcia armine in police custody. still ahead on al jazeera nigerian farmers seek support from the government as they struggle to survive after devastating floods. plus the story and the faces behind the panama hat, which isn't even from panama. ah, we have a batch of re moving west in the bath and gall hi of one here says details. so it's over sri lanka, the southeast of india,

and just pulling into the mall div. so in this so sure, we've got showers also the risk of some foundry outbreaks of brain. as bob cooler air will rush into doco by the end of the week. so i wanted to put that on your radar. we've also got persistent rain falling across the northern slice of borneo island. but actually i think the worst of it will stay out over the open water, but it is feeding rain into indonesia as main island of java. on monday, specifically, central java providence meantime dry spells for a huge swath of sumatra and borneo after china we go. it's a gloomy picture from wu han to shanghai. but look at this throughout the day. i think we'll see some peaks of sun in shanghai with the high of 7 degrees that see effects snow. finally starting to wind down for that western side of japan. so that's the forecast on monday. here's tuesday. the arrows are the wind, so they're not as pronounced. other said mountains tokyo has a high of 11 degrees, is our 1st snow of the season in tater, on 7 degrees. but i think any precipitation on monday is likely to fall as showers

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ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories this out. at least 30 people have been killed in a winter storm that's 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, if suspended their operations in afghanistan after the taliban government band women from working for aid organizations, afghanistan has reached unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population. not getting enough for russian president vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia inter an interview. putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive in ukraine, arguing ukrainians and russians are one people. he says his government is acting in

the interests of our people and that moscow is ready to negotiate an end to the conflict. ukraine's presidents as russia has lost everything, but will continue to try to bring darkness to ukraine. social, excuse me, the 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 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 workers have been killed in a mine explosion in the san 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 song. president zalinski condemned the shelling of

a busy market as killing for pleasure. and there were more russian strikes on the city of crematory con, sunday. charles stratford has more on that. and the energy crisis facing ukrainian se weeks of these, this campaign by moscow targeting energy infrastructure. we know that millions of ukrainians is suffering these rolling blackouts as deals ortiz 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. we heard from the authorities in the eastern city of cremmit, toll sk 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 credit tools, this is the 2nd day that criminals because being 8 credits, all sc 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 fighting 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 rushes 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 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. thousands have rallied in the corner carrabas largest city of st.

upon a carrot to protest against the blockade of the regions. only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks as her by johnny activists have blocked the latch and corridor demonstrating against what they call illegal mining armenia. accuses air by john of staging the demonstration to create a humanitarian crisis in the armenian majority enclave and corner caraballo has claimed by both nations who fought to wars over it. now, for 14 days, we had been under a complete blockade imposed by azerbaijan. 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. no go, no, kara, a man accused of killing 3 people that a kurdish cultural centre in 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 as protest response was police algiers, some a bunch of aid reports on the 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'm 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 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 role has been so far. and they're still calling for justice. a passenger bus careened off a bridge and plunged into a river in north western spain, killing at least 6 people, too were rescued, including the driver attempts to find other survivors were hampered by strong currents. there's been heavy rain in the calisha region. taiwan says in the past 24

hours, 43 chinese aircraft crossed what it considers the maritime border between itself and china. beijing has been conducting military drills and the sea and air space around t. i want, it says it's in response to what it calls provocation. by the island and the u. s. last week, washington boosted his armed support for ty pe, be jane claims taiwan as part of china, and hasn't ruled out using force to bring the island under his control. china's health commission will no longer publish daily figures of coven 19 infections. numbers will instead be published by another government organization. for research purposes, hospitals are becoming overcrowded in china as it battles a wave of corona, virus infections. but no co, 19 deaths have been reported for 5 consecutive days. one had nurse in beijing gave this assessment of what's happening to mountain make him a little glass. how a day where cloudy, sweet, heavy, we are handling more than 500 se emergency cases of day to brett oxygen levels of

to patients are very low. about 50 to 70 percent. eric phi building 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 as hard as china, in the absolute number of cases hospitalizations in depth. because over the next few months from 3 to 5 months, china will be why haven't, at least a 100000000, if not, 1000000000 people in fact it and of that 1000000 deaths, you know, which is a point one percent is very, very likely we're, we're thinking mostly they'll be double digit number of millions of 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 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 poorly. so altogether, china's in the world of her and trying to achieve everything else, it has already said the world, the worst is still yet to come. 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 di, in large numbers is very visible to tiny population because in many ways a lot of workers, right? not only 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 court in the mall. these has sentence, the former president to 11 years in prison and find him $5000000.00. ability, a mean was found guilty of money laundering and corruption. the court found he accepted money for leasing. an island owned by the government. last year mean was cleared of any wrong doing in a similar case by the supreme court. nigeria farmers suffered serious losses in

flooding this past year. the government is offering support, but as many dream reports from the northwest, many aren't getting the help they need the floods the submerged boast of nigeria, coastal communities between august and october, destroyed tens of thousands of hector's of farmland. but agriculture thought to say the torrential rains have left behind rich, i leave your deposit and moisture which has improved the quality of this oil. and that's what ties you salvoes hoppy will boost his mace harvest. unless i will tell if you like. i take you move from what we got free seed and fertilize her. if this crop fails, we could be in serious trouble and it will determine whether we survive were star before the planting season. giggling. the government is providing small scale pharmacy like touchy with fertilizer and improved maturing seats. it'll provide her

with 80 for the policies that has either moisture and, and blend cross, and also live would have thought of it. but there isn't enough to go around. officious admit only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of farmers affected by the floods earlier this year will benefit from a government initiative to help them take advantage of the residual moisture left behind by the flights. which means many of them now in dead face. an uncertain future i've lost income and access to food. the government has yet to determine the extent of damage economy say the unknown losses. floods cost to nigeria, agricultural industry are unsustainable. all the more reason they say why farmers should move from rain fit agriculture to irrigation. edris al jazeera with brazil's incoming justice minister is threatening action against supporters of outgoing president, shyer boston aro, they've been protesting outside army basis since both and aro,

lost the election to louise in our seo lydia silva. they want the military to overturn the result. the incoming minister says police discovered a bomb at a protest site on saturday farmers, famous actors, and even u. s. presidents of all warned the famous panama hat, but to spy with many believe these hats are not and never were from panama. our latin america editor lucio newman, explains from monte christie in ecuador. this is the story of one of the world's most famous and yet misnamed hats. for more than a 120 years mules had been bringing to keep home fiber from the hills surrounding monta. could he see near the pacific coast of ecuador, for debbie by, ty, is a 3rd generation hat artisan. he, if i could even candy it 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 cure it in her lap. 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 if. 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, we can go on it, which is great. grandfather was one of the 1st to commercialize them on decreased the hats and exploit them to panama at the beginning of the 1900s, i got him doing 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 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. 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 grandsons are already becoming the 4th generation of pitch eyes to produce the original took.