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i believe christmas has so many in the u. s. as the death toll rises from a severe arctic snowstorm. 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 i'll just rely from della also coming up, the humanitarian consequences of a taliban on women working for agencies in afghanistan. as the battle goes on in an eastern ukrainian city, russia's president and says, he's trying to unite his people and going bust, we take a look at how silicon valley came crashing down the seat. ah, the death tolls growing from the deep freeze gripping the u. s. sound as a warning, it could rise even further. at least 30 people have died in several states,

some while trapped in their cars. 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. shebra tanti reports from washington, dc. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of us, but arctic and 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. the long story history, the polar temperatures, not any creative. the phenomenon of lake effect snow in the northern great lakes region, but also the ocean effects in maine on the atlantic coast. the principle is the

same cold moving over warm water, creating intense storms. high winds, many whites out conditions in some areas, even where the snow full 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 bought some feeling they had no choice but to attempt to drive to circled 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. 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 a thor 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. it is getting warmer each day. there's still a little accurate counting of just how damaging the storm system has been. but it's clear this was yet another in a series of extreme weather events in the u. s. where authorities have been struggling to cope. she ever chancey al jazeera all across the northern border in canada. thousands remained without power and the 2 biggest provinces, ontario and quebec, many flights of 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 for people. the charges are expected temperatures to rise in the coming week. or south of the us, 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 mother, morris and reynosa, are hovering around freezing restrictions on the title 40 to allow the us to return migrants to mexico without the chance to request asylum, but many who 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, our forecast dropped below 0. many of the people who've made the journey to the u. s. remain on the streets, some sleeping in the cold, outside of 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 spin christmas under

a roof because the cold as strong. what we're bob cox's 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 counter clockwise circulation around that storm was feeding the jet stream. the jet stream is coming in on the back side of that and it was driving all the arctic air from up in northern canada, down into the united states and all the way down to the gulf, 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 of mexico. so it has covered a lot of real estate, but you would hope that the power companies would anticipate our dig outbreaks in the winter because they're not uncommon. and we do get arctic 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. but i mean, i was almost brought northern and western japan to a standstill. at least 14 people have died since mid december. and another $87.00 injured the snow trigger, the black out the region of nevada on sunday. 2000 the houses are without power. whether officials are telling people to avoid non essential travel until a snowfall subsides. several foreign aid groups have suspended operations in afghanistan after the taliban government ban woman from working for them. the n g o say they can't effectively reach people without female staff finch,

and monitor russell's or 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. one of the figures in a society like a gun is done was for the past 20 years, they have so much and a half or to an african women. they were educated and they served society. 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 in afghanistan, called 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 our female colleagues for them to access, not anything else, but all the population we sent. and 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 took power and gas down the

taliban, promised women fundamental rights, but a year on it systematically excluding them from public life. since in monona, al jazeera what the mala matlab is from care international, she says the bam has a significant effect on after 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 they 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 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 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 i were able to do to deliver 8 humanitarians by default by principal, abide to the principals of neutrality and impartiality. so while we do not want to get entangled to do 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. all women and girls, and we need female staff to be able to work with them. so this decision, fundamentally questions are limits our ability to provide humanitarian aid in an impartial and family. ah, 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, arguing ukrainians and russians are one people says his government is acting in the interests of all people that moscow is ready to negotiate. an end to the conflict ukraine's president says russia has lost everything, but will continue to try to bring darkness to ukraine. social, excuse me, 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 it is trying to compensate for its losses with the gloating of its propagandists after the missiles strikes on our country. on our energy sector, i know the 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 an explosion in the harrison region. officials say the men died while clearing mines and comes

a day of the 10 people were killed and 50 had injured. after russian forces targeted, the city of harrison presidents zaleski, condemned the attack on a busy market as killing for pleasure. and there were more russian strikes in the city of crime tossed on sunday. charles stratford reports of that and the energy crisis facing ukrainians. also weeks of these, this campaign by moscow targeting energy infrastructure. we know that millions of ukrainians are 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 been 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 miss strikes and no

specification as to what exactly was hit and no casualties. but it's interesting that graham, it's all, this is the 2nd day that criminals because been it criminal sc is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers. internet's still under ukrainian control. and it's relatively close to that hot, small 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 transnational break here. and i'll just say right, when we come back, china says it will no longer develop daily cove. at $900.00 figures, even us health care workers raise the alarm about its outbreak, plus the story and the faces behind the panama hat, which is not even from panama, more not stay with.

ah, ah, there is a moving west, the east out of saudi arabia. however, one will pick up the story there. this means that there are some rain risks across the gulf. so let's go for a closer look. this impacts buffer rain cats are and really the coast of the u. a. e. on monday, some of these could be sandra, downpours. now the wind still factor is false. so for us here and doha, 40 kilometers per hour, especially if we get some of those thunderstorms, not the rain, but the snow. we're talking about for iran, capital tater on this was the 1st of the season flushing mess there, but i think by informed by large favorite part snowball fights that we see. so here's why it's that flushing mess. we have sub 0 temperatures to start the day, but then by the afternoon we bump you up to 7 degrees in tater on. so i think any

activity we see on monday at least, will fall in the form of showers. it's been a lot of rain through the levant temperatures in a leper, had been sliced in half to 8 degrees on monday and there had been heavy rainfall warnings in south central towns near those have been dropped. the rain is still falling, just not at that warning. criteria level. now for south africa was no longer an limpopo provinces, some big downpours in the forecasts for you on monday. that's a snapshot of your weather. see you later. ah, with are they protect his old profits? he is a free speech mosque 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 not a journalist, people trust individuals, more than the neos 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 lou. ah, welcome back, and reminder about top stories here at this hour. at least 30 people have died and a winter storm that's continuing to hit the us. the worst hit state is new york, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in the homes for dates. for foreign aid groups, some suspended their operations in afghanistan off the taliban government found women from working for 8 organizations. galveston has reached unprecedented, hung the 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 let emit. booting says he's trying to unite the russian people through the offensive in ukraine and says, moscow is ready to negotiate. to end the conflict. non accused of killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural center. the french capital says he did so because he has a pathological hatred of foreigners. the 6 and 9 year old has been removed from custody and taken to a psychiatric facility. the shooting spot watch for demonstrations is harris. as protests, as 40 police zeros, it's not been debate has more from the french capital. they are 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 for an 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 person which he used. but we've also been getting reaction from the kurdish community here. officially, they have not taken the stance, but so far they're still not satisfied with 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's role has been so far. and they're

still calling for justice. thousands of people have rallied in laguna, tara backs lodge, a city of stomach, her to protest against the blockade of the regions, only land linked to armenia for 2 weeks, as by johnny activists, a block, the latch, and corridor demonstrating against what they call illegal mining armenia. accuses azerbaijan of staging the demonstration to create a humanitarian crisis. the armenian majority enclave. the woman car, back as plain by both nations who fought to was over it. now got out. for 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 nagondo caraballo, bronze revolutionary god is arrested 7 people with links to britain in connection with anti government protest. some whole dual nationality,

3 months of unrest is affecting the economy around currency. the reality is hovering out in the a record low against the us dollar. the protests were treated by the death of 22 year old mazda, many in police custody. a passenger buses plunged up a bridge and 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. as in heavy rain in the galley theory, jim taiwan says in the past 24 hours, 43 chinese aircraft cross what it considers the maritime border between itself and china. beijing has been conducting military drills in the sea and our space around tie one. it says is in response to what it called provocation by the island and the u. s. last week, washington boosted its arm support for taipei. beijing 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 the longer published daily figures of cobra 19 infections.

numbers will instead be put out by another government organization for research purposes. hospitals are becoming overcrowded in china as it battles a wave of infections. but no cobit 19 deaths have been reported for 5 consecutive days. one head nurse and beijing gave this assessment of what's happening to alan made him laguna, our di workload is really heavy. we are handling more than 530 emergency cases a day to breathe. oxygen levels of the patients are very low, about 50 to 70 percent. what eric flag are doing is an epidemiologist. he says the surgeon cases is had a huge impact on the health system. chinese outbreak right now is the worst of the hen demik. no country won't be as hard as china in the absolute number of cases, hospitalization and death. because over the next few months from 3 to 5 months trial be why haven't at least a 100000000, if not, 1000000000 people in fact it and of that 1000000 debt, which is

a point one percent is very, very likely we're, we're thinking most like they'll be double digit number 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 whose did they have 130000000 elderly over the 60 who do not have a 3rd shot. we know in the area that just bows really poorly. so altogether, china's in the world of her in china, she's up at the office 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 is very visible to chinese 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 and them all. these are sentenced a former president to 11 years in prison and find him $5000000.00. i believe 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, you mean was created of any wrong doing in a similar case of the supreme court. now, 2022 was the year that the technology industry, flying high on pandemic era profits came crashing down to us. rob reynolds explains what was behind the bust. tough times in silicon valley, more than 200000 tech company employees laid off major company revenues down the dow jones s and p tech stock index falling nearly one 3rd to ha, to was a very tough here at tech. in part because we were paying for past since over

exuberance, over hiring, over expectations. and now we're in trough and it's 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 in 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 he, he believes it, that's the future of tech. 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 extremist posts have also risen dramatically. these changes have alarmed industry analysts and human rights advocates. to me it's of tremendous concern. ah, happy you know, setting a precedence, an example where a popular platform with millions of people use us. but having such completely 0

moderation, i sis related accounts have tripled. it's not just hate speech. so it say, i think it's also national security issues. recent history shows however that while companies rise and fall, tack 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 the winter of one of those tables is going to create a multi $1000000000.00 unicorn company. silicon valley is full of talent, ideas, and money, which eventually combined to start the next cycle of boom and bust. rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles, brazil's incoming justice minister,

as threatening action against supporters of outgoing president, jab olson, arrow. they've been protesting outside army basis since bolts and our last election to luis, an aussie, i learned a silver. they want the military to overturn the result. the minister says police discovered a bomb, but a protest site on saturday. now farmers, famous actors and even us presidents of old warned the famous panama hat. but despite what many believe these hats are not, and never were from panama or latin america, editor alysia 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 monte city near the pacific coast of ecuador for levied by ty is a 3rd generation had artisan the effect leaving country. and it's

a very tough job because you have to cook the palm fiber, you have to split it and put it to dry in the sun, afterwards, wash it, and curate it. but that's just the beginning of an exquisite craft, though they've been there in a habit i. this was we were the best strands are specially selected it. but if they aren't naturally that then by that they have to be worked and prepared until they are all identical and have the same color. so you can imagine the effort this implies on working and weaving something that is so fine, we can go on it. but child great grandfather was one of the 1st to commercialize the monte christie hats and exploit them to panama at the beginning of the 1900s i got in during the building of the panama canal, former u. s. president theodore roosevelt was given one and fell in love with it. nick naming it the panama hat. however undeserving that name has stuck to this day. the more welts the had has the more flexible and light it is

almost like fabric yet it's strong and can last for up to 20 years. it did, but i got nice. no ah 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, but as 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 than 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.