genuine on al jazeera, it was supposed to be a refuse, but south korea's brother's home was allegedly the scene of torture, rape, and even murder. 101 east investigates the crimes, and those set tips behind them on al jazeera. across the world, young activists and organizers, the rhonda moved, moved to vacate and politically engaged, the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting here. and beta, we were the ones who had lights on what was going on in a way that the most means the media didn't. there's nothing specific about the lebanon is always in the, by nova formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation. changed on al jazeera ah, oblique christmas for so many in the us 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 out as a right now you from dough also kind of got the humanitarian consequences of taliban on women working for agencies in afghanistan. as the battle goes on, the eastern ukrainian city, russia's president and says, he's trying to unite his people. and it may look wash. but nigerian farmers are seeking help as i struggle to survive off a devastating floods. ah, the death toll is grubbing from the deep freeze gripping the u. s. sound as a warning, it could rise even further. at least 13 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. shall baton see reports from washington, d. c. winter storm elliot may have long passed over much of us, but arctic air 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 poet temperatures, not any created the phenomenon of lake effect, snow in the northern great lakes region, but also ocean effects in maine on the atlantic coast. the principle is the same

cold moving over warm water, crazy intense storms. high winds meant white conditions in some areas, even where the snow fall 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 born 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 whitehall 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 of found and cause non snow banks. others in the home after

emergency services struggled to arrive in time, would be at passengers continued 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. there 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, well across the northern border in canada. thousands remained without power in the 2 biggest provinces, 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 week was south of the us thousands of migrants, not camping in the cold, in mexico, hoping for a reversal of us immigration restrictions. they've spent the christmas weekend and during what mexico was weather service is calling a mass of arctic air temperatures in the border. cities of math models and reynosa hovering around freezing restrictions on the title 40 to allow the us to return migraines to mexico without the chance to request a silence and 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 would drop below 0. many of the people who made the journey to the u. s. remain on the streets, summers 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 spend christmas under

a roof because the cold as strong. but bob cox is 8 meteorologist, he says the extreme, whether it 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 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. at least i was almost brought northern and western japan to a standstill. at least 14 people have died since mid december. another 87 injured. the snow trigger, the black out in the region of new gotta on sunday to 1000 the houses without power . whether officials are telling people to avoid non essential travel until the snow falls subsides. several foreign aid groups have suspended operations. not gonna start off to the taliban government band women from working for them. the n g o say they can't effectively reach people without female staff intern wanna have reports

or another restriction on women in afghanistan. this time they're being told to stay away from work that's crucial to getting humanitarian. 8 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 sigma in a society like a gun is done with for the past 20 years, they have so much and a half or 2, an african women. they were educated and they served society. these women have supported their family and 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 and i've done son. 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 you don't have a 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 females stuff. the taliban has issued several decrees after season control the country following the withdrawal us forces last year. earlier this week, it part female students from enrolling in 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 monahan al jazeera, the russian president vladimir putin says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical russia. and an interview, putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his invasion in ukraine, arguing ukrainians and russians. i want people, he says, his government's acting in the interest of our people, that moscow is ready to negotiate an end to the conflict. when the claims president says russia has lost everything, but will continue to try to bring darkness to ukraine. social 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 propagandists

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. through ukraine and emergency service workers have been killed in an explosion in the has some region official say the men died while clearing mines. it comes a day off the 10 people were killed and $58.00 injured as russian forces talked to the city of harrison. president zelinski condemned the attack on a busy market as killing for pleasure. and the more russian strikes and the city kind of tossed on sunday to zeros. charles stratford reports on that and the energy crisis facing ukrainian off 2 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 hard 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 granite souls, this is the 2nd day that criminals because been it cremmit also is basically one of the 2 largest urban centers in on it's still under 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 palsy seemingly keeping them back as russia makes probing attacks from the north and the south trying to surround that city. russia's parliament is preparing to

introduce higher taxes for people who left the country because of the war and ukraine. by early october, media reported as many as 700000 russians and fled following presidents, hooton's, mobilization of reservists in september to speak of the lower house of parliament, the duma says the vast majority of people believe russians who fled had betrayed their country. but also the company are not just here including going bus 2. we take a look at how silicon valley can crushing down this year. and the story and the faces behind the panama hat, which is not even from panama moreland. ah, there is a moving west. the east out of saudi arabia, however, one will pick up this 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 sundry downpours. now the wind still the factor is false. so for us here in doha 40 kilometers per hour, especially if we get some of those thunderstorms, not the rain, but this snow. we're talking about for iran's capital tater on this was the 1st of the season flushing mess there, but i think by farm, 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 aleppo, had been sliced in half to 8 degrees on monday and there had been heavy rainfall warnings in south central tanza 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 forecast for you on monday. that's a snapshot of your weather. see you later. ah ah ah ah. ah, lou

ah, welcome back. a quick remind about top stories here at this. i'll at least 30 people have died. the most severe winter storm is continuing to hit the us. 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 out to spend their operations in afghanistan, not the taliban government bound women from working for 8 organizations. afghanistan has reached unprecedented hunger levels with 90 percent of the population, not getting enough food. and rushes. president says the west is trying to tear apart what he calls historical. russia. putin says he's trying to unite the russian people through his offensive and ukraine and says moscow's ready to negotiate to end a conflict. now 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 6 and 9 year old has been removed from custody and taken to a psychiatric facility. the shooting spot widespread demonstrations in paris as protests was brought with police officers here as a solid. bon jovi has more from the french capital. there are more details from this account from the prosecutor's where 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 in called denise, and where 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've all 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 piston 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 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 faculty. people have rallied in going to kind of backs largest city of stuff on occurred to protest against the blockaded the regions, only landline to armenia for 2 weeks out by johnny activists. the block, the legend, colorado demonstrating against what they are calling illegal mining armenia accused

by john of staging. the demonstration to trace a humanitarian crisis in the armenian majority enclave. now, going to a car back is claimed by both nations who fought 2 wars over it. owe 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. no, go, no karuba. iran's revolutionary god is arrested 7 people with the links to britain in connection with anti government protest, some whole dual nationality, 3 months of unrest is affecting the economy. iran's currency, the reale is hovering out in the, a record low against the us dollar. the protest we're triggered by the death of 22 year old mazda, many in police custody. john has health commission will no longer publish daily figures of cobra 19 infections. numbers will instead be put out by another

government organization. for research purposes, hospitals are becoming overcrowded as it battles a wave of corona, virus infections, but no cobra 19 desa been reported for 5 consecutive days, one head nurse and beijing gave this assessment of what's happening is i will make him and he will go now 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 fargo doing is an epidemiologist. he says, the surgeon cases is that a huge impact on the health system. chinese outbreak right now is the worst of the panoramic. 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, we will have 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 likely will 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 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 phone, 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 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 doesn't ever hang refugees of arrived. in indonesia, northern archie province after weeks that see villages. so the wooden vessel with 58 men on board and help them ashore. the vessel had a broken engine and the refugee said they were blown to the coast by the wind. thousands of mostly muslim wrangler refugees rest their lives each year on long sea journeys. an attempt to reach malaysia or indonesia. nigeria farmers suffered serious losses in flooding this past year. the government is offering support that has ottoman address reports from the northwest. many and not getting the help they need the floods the submerged most of nigeria, coastal communities between august and october, destroyed tens of thousands of actors of farmland. but agriculture authorities 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 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 start before the planting season. the government is providing small scale farmers like touchy with threat lisa and improved maturing seats. it'll provider with 80 for the policies there is either moisture and, and blend cross. and also that would have a 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, we'll 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 said the unknown losses. floods, coast to nigeria, agricultural industry are unsustainable all the more reason they say why farmers should move from rain fit agriculture to irrigation. i'm at the address, i'll do 0 with the now caught in the mall, deeds had sentenced a former president to 11 years in prison and find him 5000000 dollars. abilene 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, yameen was cleared of any wrong doing in a similar case by beat supreme court. 2022 was the year the technology industry flying high on pandemic era prophets came crashing down to earth. our desires, 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 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, an hour 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're 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 hangover 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. 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 and extremist posts have also risen dramatically. these changes have alarmed industry analysts and human rights advocates to me itself.

tremendous concern. ah, you know, setting a precedence, an example where a popular platform with 1000000 soft, you know, use us. but having such completely 0 moderation, i, sis related accounts have tripled. it's not just hit speech. so it say, i think it's also national security issues. recent history shows however, that while companies rise and fall tag 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 was angelus, now farmers actors, and even us presidents of all worn the famous panama hat. but despite what many believe these hats and not, and never were from panama or latin america, added to lucy 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, so dizzy by chai is a 3rd generation hat artisan. he is a different country and, and it's very tough job because you have to cook the palm fiber. you have to split it, put it to dry in the sun, afterwards, wash it, and curate in a high la. but that's just the beginning of an exquisite craft,

though they've been there in a hybrid i. this was we were, the best strands are specially selected, but if they aren't naturally, but 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 young 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 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 ma'am, is it?

oh god, no. this is way too difficult. i've been trying and trying. i just cannot get it right. this weaving technique is so complicated and not to mention uncomfortable the position. so let me tell you this is not easy. work. pitch eyes, 84 year old father began making them when he was 8. it brace 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 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 becoming the 4th generation of package to produce the original to key upon hat. a proud sim.