is showing us how vulnerable space is online and truly are when they are controlled by billionaires of lago, documenting facts on the ground. i'm another journalist, people trust individuals, more than the news or a purveyor of the state line. how can you show the destruction of a political war and still be a political unchecked? the media can distort narratives em reshape realities. the listening post keeps watch on al jazeera, all in kind of do the cost getting more bang for your buck. the dollars been on the up in 2022. what's next with the greenback white gold hasn't been doing so well this year. i'm christian currency waltz. we're going to look of what's next for the industry as it struggles to gain trust. counting the cost on algebra ah. ready oblique christmas for so many in the us as the death toll rises from

a severe arctic storm. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature, and she has been hitting us with everything she has. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera ally from dough also coming up, be humanitarian consequences of a taliban on women working for agencies in afghanistan. as the battle rages on and am eastern ukrainian, city rushes president and says he's trying to unite his people on the hot felt message from king charles in his 1st christmas address since the death of his mother. queen elizabeth, i cannot thank you enough for the love who sympathy you have shown o them. ah,

the death tolls growing from the deep freeze gripping the united states armed as a warning, it could rise even further. at least 30 people have died in several states. some while trapped him that cause 12 of the fatalities are 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. shabby town see reports from washington, d. c. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of a u. s. but optic 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 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 pu the temperatures no. amy chris, the phenomenon of lake effect,

snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean affects snow in main on the atlantic coast. the principal is the same cold moving over warmer water, creating intense storms. high winds, many whites out 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 bored. so some feeding they had no choice but to attempt to drive to circled warming stations. as their homes grew ever more frigid, despite advise, the 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 their calls with 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 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 calculations 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 isn't an 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, meanwhile, across the border in canada, thousands remain without power and the 2 biggest frances ontario and quebec,

many flights a 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 leaf. south of the u. s. thousands of migrants are camping in the cold in mexico hoping for a reversal of us immigration restrictions. they've spent the christmas weekend and during what mexico's weather service is calling a mass of arctic air temperatures in the border, cities of math models and reynosa, a hovering around freezing restrictions on the title 40 to allow the us to return migrants to mexico without the chance to request asylum or many have made it across the border into a paso texas or wary of accepting shelter, they think could mean being returned to mexico, temperatures in the city, our forecast of drop below 0 degrees celsius. many of the people who made the journey to the us remain on the streets some sleeping in the cold outside a church. okay. get, oh i said 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 everyone here would like to spend christmas under a roof because the cold as strong. what. what bob cox is a meteorologist, he says the extreme weather should not come as a surprise. 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 in 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 our, our 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, at least i was almost brought northern and western japan to a standstill at these 14 people have died since mid december. another 87 injured. the snow trigger, black out in the region of nig garter, on sunday. 2000 houses and now without power, whether officials are telling people to avoid non essential travel until the snow fall subsides. 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 the 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. falling a drought. the pandemic and decades of war. the u. n. estimates 28300000 afghans will need humanitarian assistance in 2023. the economic crisis is worse than since the u. s. froze billions of dollars of assets and foreign donors caught aid after the taliban take over. the countries also recovering from natural disasters, including flooding in august and an earthquake in june. fenton 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, about a sigma in a society like afghanistan where for the past 20 years, they have put so much effort to an african women. they were educated in they served society, these women have supported their families for it is horrible for me to think that me and my generation are forced them 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 fun. 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 county 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 part 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 than to manage al jazeera, the russian president

vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. in an interview, putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive in ukraine are doing ukrainians and russians. one people, he says, his government's acting in the interest of our people. and moscow is ready to go shaped an end to the conflicts. when you crank the president says 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 drawing to compensate for its losses with the gloating over again, just after the missile 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. meanwhile, 3 ukrainian emergency service work has been killed in

a mine explosion in the has some region. officials say the men died was de mining an area. it comes a day off. the 10 people were killed and 50, had injured and rushing. shelling in the city of harrison, president soleski condemned the shelling of a busy market as killing for pleasure. and a more russian strikes in the city of con tours on sunday. charles stratford has more on that and the energy crisis facing ukrainian 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. 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 graham, it's also, this is the 2nd day that criminals because been it criminal sc is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers. internet's still on the ukrainian control, and it's relatively close to that hotspot 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 food seemingly keeping them back as russia makes probing attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. i shall break here now to 0. when we come back nigerian farmers seek support from a government as i struggled to survive off a devastating floods and going bust. we take a look at how silicon valley came crashing down this year. marlos davis.

ah here's your weather update in a minute. 15 for the america is good to have your long 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 where 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 in to northern california with this storm system here also for

washington state and oregon. this will fall as rain. same goes for british columbia because you're 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 pay. drew 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, it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but it's great rival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds formed from a close divide, sustained over generations. most book,

a junior supporters 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 ah ah, welcome back to promote about top stories here this hour, at least 30 people have died and i went to storm is continuing to hammer the united states, the worst it is, new york, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in their homes for days for foreign, a groups of suspended their operations in afghanistan under the taliban government ban woman from working for 8 organizations. afghanistan's reached unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population. not getting enough food. and rush

as president says, the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. government putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive in ukraine. and as moscow is ready to negotiate, to end the company, a man accused of killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural center. and the french capital says he did so because he was a pathological hatred of foreigners. a 6 and 9 year old has been removed from custody and taken to a psychiatric facility. the shooting spark, widespread demonstrations in paris, as protested for the police officer as a solid, binge of aid has more from the french capital. there are some more details from this account from the prosecutors where that the alleged attacker told the pill is 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 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 are seeing that he said. and so far they've not seen any proof that this person been to another suburb of france, that it was not

a deliberate attack against the kurdish community. and they're still skeptical of what the police, his role has been so far. and they're still calling for justice. thousands of people have rallied in the going to kind of backs largest city of stomach to protest against the blockade of the regions, only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks, as by johnny activists. a block, the election corridor will demonstrate against what they call illegal mining. armenia accuses as a by john of staging, the demonstration to create a humanitarian crisis. and the armenian majority enclave now going to come back, is claimed by both nations before to was ever it. o 14 days we have 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 buses plunged of a bridge and into a river in north western spain,

getting at least 6 people to a rescued including the driver. attempts to find other survivors were hampered by strong currents. is in heavy rain in the gully fear region. china's hel commission will no longer publish daily figures of cobra 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 coping. 19 desa been reported for 5 consecutive days. one had notes in beijing gave this assessment of what's happening to not make him any laguna our day workload is really heavy. we are handling more than 530 emergency cases a day to breathe. oxygen levels of to patients are very low about 50 to 70 percent . what eric fido doing is an epidemiologist, who says the massive surgeon cases is that a huge impact on the health system. chinese outbreak right now is the worst of

depend demick. 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 trying to 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 shots. we know in the era that's 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. 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, nigeria farmers suffered serious losses in flooding this past year. the government's offering supports it, but as manager supports from the northwest many on getting the help they need the floods the submerged most of nigeria, coastal communities between august and october, destroyed tens of thousands of factors 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. sa boyce hoppy,

will boost his mace harvest. unless i will tell if he like attack 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. you go to the government is providing small scale farmers like touchy with fertilizer and improved maturing seats. it'll provide os 80 for the whole us to use that as either moisture and, and blue cross. and also that would have a thought of it. but there isn't enough to go around. officers 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 debt 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 brain fit agriculture to irrigation. edris al jazeera with a court in the mall. these are sentenced a former president to 11 years in prison and find him $5000000.00. at the la yameen was found guilty of money laundering and corruption. the court found he accepted money for leasing an island owned by the government. last year, you mean was cleared of any wrong doing in a similar case, or the supreme court. about 2022 was the year that the technology industry flying high on pandemic era profits can crashing down to earth on his ears. rob reynolds explains what's behind the bust. tough times in silicon valley, more than $200000.00 tech company employees laid off major company revenues down the dow jones s and p tech stock index falling nearly one 3rd to h. i to was

a very tough here in tech. in part because we were paying for pass since over exuberance, over hiring over expectations. and now we're in a trough and is likely it's going to last for another year. so what's behind the bust? many tech companies spent too much during the pandemic. when consumers were stuck at home practically living online, they over invested and hired a lot of people and very short amount of time. as the virus waned, consumer habits changed, although the online buying hang over remain, snarled supply chains, inflation and higher interest rates, along with the expectation of a recession, all combined in a big macro economic mass. in addition, some top tech executives blundered. facebook seems to be pursuing a mark sucker burbs, great white whale of the met averse russia, and

a he believes it, that's the future of tech. oh, we're all going to go live in cyberspace. and he spent hundreds of millions of dollars pursuing it. and he hasn't had much to show for it. so facebook stock, they've lost billions over this obsession of his in october ilan mosque, marched into twitter headquarters in san francisco and soon began firing employees left and right, including most of the content, moderation staff, partly as a result of those cuts and policy changes. hate speech has increased dramatically on the platform. for example, anti semitic postings on twitter, increased more than 60 percent in the weeks after mosques take over, racist extremis posts have also risen dramatically. these changes have alarm industry analysts and human rights advocates to me off. tremendous concern

happen, you know, setting up precedence, an example where a popular platform with millions of use us are having such completely 0 moderation, isis related accounts have tripled. it's not just hate speech, so it's a, i think it's also national security issues. recent history shows, however, that while companies rise and fall tech always bounces back, recessions are good for entrepreneurship, is because you have free time, you been laid off. so you go to starbucks and sit there at a table. and you can hire people who've also been laid off. you can't tell by the people sitting there which tables a winner, but one of those tables is going to create a multi $1000000000.00. you know, a unicorn company. silicon valley is full of talent, ideas, and money, which eventually combine to start the next cycle of boom and bust. rob reynolds

al jazeera los angeles. now traditional christmas messages from 2 leaders of focused on the difficult financial times facing many people around the world. pope from system king charles the 3rd acknowledge that this festive period is unusually tough. general. how ripples in our time, a grave feminine 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 our loved ones, let us 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 the time of heightened tension between israel and the palestinians. he prayed for mutual trust and in yemen, iran, lebanon, haiti, men, ma, and afghan. a stamp,

pope francis prayed for reconciliation and peace. 70 special attention was reserved for ukraine. is he only to bring the pro and may the lord inspire us to offer concrete gestures of solidarity to assist all those who are suffering and my, he 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 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 bid for those around the world facing conflict time in or natural disaster. over those at home, finding ways to pay their bills, to keep their family instead of war. we see it in the humanity of people throughout nations. and the common ro, 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.