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the arctic storm pummeling the us and canada, at least 50 people have died. new york's governor warns it's far from over. we have then to a lot of wars together. and this blizzard is the one for the ages. certainly it is the blizzard of the century. ah, on carry johnston. this is out to sara. well live from dough. also coming up, china says this will scrap cobit 19 quarantine for overseas arrivals. despite a search and infections, the un that tells the taliban to reverse about on 8 agencies employing female workers plus, we rise together. back to the boom and beyond moon missions, smashing asteroids and new views of the cosmos. we look back at the years of space discoveries. ah,

ah, the death toll from one of north america's most severe winter storms in decades has risen to at least 50. more than half of those are in new york state, one of the worst affected regions in the us. some areas are buried under meter of snow with residence stranded in their cars for up to 2 days. officials are warning that the blizzard like conditions are set to continue across the border in canada. thousands remained without power in the 2 biggest provinces, ontario and quebec. winter storm warnings remain in place for parts of the western province of british columbia. for people were killed there and dozens more injured when a bus rolled on an icy road. crossing jordan begins our coverage now. ah, the u. s. is 1st major storm left behind, picturesque ice creations and opportunities to play in the snow. but as officials said, on monday, this storm was, and in the whole,

very dangerous. i have the very sad need to report that in addition to the 13 confirmed deaths yesterday, the erie county department of health medical examiners office has confirmed an additional 12 deaths bringing the total. ready for the blizzard to 25 deaths county wide, that number is expected to go up, not just in new york state, but across the country. as rescue crews struggle to reach both residents and drivers trapped during the blizzard. new york state was already trying to recover from a blizzard in early december. in this last storm, his historic storms are no longer historic to us. that's become a way of life in our state, and that's result of climate change. as you've seen, see extreme weather events all over our country. but all of us in state and county, local government know we had to prepare for the next big one. the storm forced us airlines to cancel thousands of flights,

meaning hundreds of thousands of travelers nationwide have to wait and wait to get to their destination file and south carolina, a frozen pipe that ruptured has put that state's largest food bank temporarily out of business. all that good wall all the food in our region with all of it is all meteorologist fe temperatures nationwide should rise during the week, making it easier for the ice and snow to melt. residents of the buffalo area that break and the weather can't come quickly enough. another 30 centimeters lift snow is in the forecast through tuesday. rosalind jordan al jazeera of stevens, i met his immature ologist, turned the professor of geography to sunni buffalo state. he says the storm will be remembered for generations. well, a bomb cycle is basically

a low pressure system and as is moving across the country in there, the pressure deepens and deepens very quickly. so if it deepens, like within 24 hours, a number of miller bars, it becomes a much stronger storm. so it's a storm that builds up strength and it does so very quickly. and as it moves across the country and it brings all kinds of havoc and when it hits the great lakes where we are in buffalo, that we often get where to refer to as lake effect snow. so the only. busy will be getting the snow is part of that low pressure system and the winds and the coal. but now we're getting lake effect snow. that's what we have says. i amounts in western new york is because lake erie is actually producing the snow. the energy from the lake gets drawn up into that storm and it produces much stronger snow events. in my work, we're finding that we're getting more and more cases of extreme weather. so this is not surprised. i can see the storm is due to climate change, but we're going to see more of these extremes. we're going to see not only

a warming world or world that's going to face all kinds of different streams. the last time buffalo had a storm like this was referred to as the blizzard of 77 as 1977. that's why, again, we referred to as a generational storm and, and this is going to be ingrained on the dna of people in buffalo for, for a long, long time or heavy snowing parts of japan is left 17 people dead into more than 90, injured some parts of ne, in japan have had 3 times as much snow as normal. hundreds of homes are still without power civilian airport snare, the south korean the capital were closed temporarily on monday when north korea drones would detected nest. so is the 1st time in 5 years that young young has violated south korea's and space south. chris military scrambled jets and helicopters to shoot down the drones. whitehouse says describe china's largest ever military incursions. it's high once air defense say is provocative and destabilizing. $71.00 chinese air craft,

including fighter jets and drones crossed into the area over 24 hour period 7 ships were sent towards the island, which beijing claims as its own. china says the activity is in response to ongoing joint drills between taiwan and the u. s. i was president, will hold a national security meeting on tuesday morning. our china is scrapping cove in 19 quarantine rules for people arriving from overseas of nearly 3 years of tough border restrictions were from jana, the 8th that people coming from abroad will no longer have to go into isolation. however, travelers will still need a negative p. c. r test to enter the country of florence. louis joins a sly ver, from hong kong with more on this. so florence, people might wonder why this relaxing of visitor rules. now, when kobe cases are soaring in china, well, it really is the last unwinding of china. strict 0 coven policy, that at one time thought entire cities put in lockdown when even just one case was

detected. and those measures of battered china's economy, they fueled public discontent. and that led to the chinese government deciding it would eas restrictions. now monday was also the 1st time chinese president, she's in pain, spoke publicly since his administration decided to relax those strict measures. earlier this month he talked about how the health campaign has to be launched more effectively so that his government can continue to protect people's lives. and this comes at just as china is launching a massive vaccination campaign to serve the the, the elderly population where the vaccination rate remains very low. now state media and state affiliated outlets have tried to pay the decision to ease restrictions as a well as victory really. although the reality as china is experiencing a huge search in cases and china also recently narrowed the criteria in what it considers as covert related deaths. so exit say that may not paint the full picture

. and it's going to be difficult to get official data. china this month is only reported 6 official cove deaths when we're hearing from funeral houses that on the appointments are full. and so, exits already predicting that china may record, but one to 2000000 dest, through to, to end of 2023, as or so forth. it is difficult to tell, but what, what we know about the status of hospitals and the availability of medical supplies in china. what would you here on the ground? well, hospitals are overwhelmed and this is also not according to official data, but this is what medical office is at. private hospitals assigned to reporters. now at one private hospital in beijing, its chief medical officer said, patient numbers are now 5 to 6 times more than what they usually see. and the average age of the patient when it used to be about 40 is now about 70 years old

and covert positive cases, also affecting health care workers. one health care worker told reporters that even though staff test positive or they have a fever, they still have to report to work and really that just under schools, how desperate the situation is in some places. now as for medical supply, some places are running low. this is due to hoarding though and, and that, so pharmacies in some places have limited the number of medicines that one person can buy. now we're also seeing the number of fatalities. again, this is not official data, but just anecdotally, one of the main funeral service in the southern city of gong tow. it said that it's no longer accepting appointments until january 10th because of the high number of cases that they off that they are experiencing. so that just gives you an indication of what the situation is like in china despite no rail official data. ok forms very in hong kong. thanks so much for that update. or when the 2020 to began, the chinese president sees in ping remain committed to eradicate and current of

ours infections through his 0 co policy. but roading lock downs must testing and lengthy quarantines. but in the face of widespread protests, many of these measures were suddenly eas. adrian brown looked back at what may prove to be a crucial year for china. lou, this was the year china's leader, she jing doubled down on his efforts to eliminate a virus that most of the world, but learned to the ah, in head start at the communist party congress in october, he promised not to waver in the battle to eliminate kobe 90 ah, a month later that policy was at breaking with people that had enough their day there. c some even pulled the she to stand down. oh, but it was the diversity of the protest is that may alarm the president more the

depth and breadth, the dissatisfaction that the government at which ran across to many sectors. so students, young people on the streets, household day or workers in factories all seem to be saying the same thing that they were absolutely fed up, but this policy that it was counter productive and that they blank, the government. the government though, appeared, solicit just days later, 0. cobit began to be dismantled with chinese scientists. now saying the virus wasn't that serious. after all, there is definitely a back down for president. she, if you look at it that way, but he's done a very carefully in that he's given all the power to local governments. so something goes wrong at the local government's fault, not his. and a, something goes right then the credit is, is his ged 6 weeks earlier with president cheese leadership had been unquestioned as he secured

a 3rd historic term as party change you to him with no obvious successor. it's the position that in theory he could hold for life. and while his leadership seemed secure, the protests along with his relentless anti corruption purge, has made him many enemies. i think what it has done is revealed the degree to which people and not by and to the idea that teaching is wise and, and deeply loved by the people. congratulations, like mainland china. people in hong kong don't get to choose their leader. john lee was selected by a committee to be the territories next, chief executive in a contest in which he was the only candidate. ah, lee was a former security chief authorizing the use of tear gas rubber, bullets, and occasional live rounds, to disperse protectors during the 2019 unrest. in contrast,

there were local elections once more in the nearby democratic island of taiwan. but they didn't go the president's way, foreseeing zion went to resign as chair woman of the governing party. the victors, the k m t traditionally favour stronger economic ties with china. the mainland economy, though, is no longer the global engine for growth. it once was mainly because of president she 0 cobit strategy of particular concern. rising youth unemployment. we have, for example, in china cities, a use unemployment bait estimated rand, 18 to 20 percent. we have people coming out of the universities to finding it difficult to get jobs, so that's open. that class is content. at the other end of the spectrum, you have migrant workers whose factories were forced to close. it was

a year when president she's frail, predecessor who gen towel, was mysteriously removed from the party congress. speculation as to why continues a month later, another former president jang zoom in, died age 96. his passing, bringing to mind a china that one seemed more open and connected to the world. soon, adrian brown al jazeera shot said i had hair on al jazeera ah curds rally in paris, demanding action after a gun and opened fire at their cultural center. ah ah

lets go. this is your weather update for asia. thank you so much for joining in. so this disturbance here about half a month's worth of rain to colombo on sri lanka now moving through some of the mall devion islands. it's not going to impact molly though, just a mix of sun in cloud there with a high of 29 degrees on tuesday. it has been pouring rain for days from sabu city to devout. there's some extreme flight advisors in play here, and the winds are curling around, giving us a feed of rain for indonesia is main island of java. but i think actually the worst of it will be offshore. pretty good run of rain though for bali and lubbock islands on tuesday, talking about snow for the western side of the yangtze river valley cloud cover extends right through to shanghai at 9 degrees, but or sunshine for hong kong at 19 on tuesday. good news that see effect snow now starting to we can across western areas of japan, you know, parts of the main island of honshu. more than a meter of snow depth there on the ground to give you an idea of just how much snow has been falling. ok, well wrap up this weather report right now in pakistan is

a forecast on to stay. some of that wet weather is starting to slide into baluchistan province. it's got some showers and snow over the higher ground up on a stand on tuesday. harold's a high of 12 degrees. ah, the latest news as it breaks this particular sub. so let's bring it in 3 separate effects, what russian missile we detailed coverage they had helped us with relax order and demick restrictions this week, which would likely have better there are to getting in from around the world. 3000000 people don't do that with hulu.

ah, he watching out his hair. reminder of our top stories this hour, the death toll from one of north america's most severe winter storms in decades has risen to at least 50 or than half of those are in new york state. it's governor is warning, the storm is far from over. china is scrapping covered 19 quarantine for people arising from overseas. after nearly 3 years of tough water restrictions and move comes, as beijing admits the scale of its current outbreak has become impossible to track . united nations mission to afghanistan has told the terrible administration to reverse a ban on female work as an aid agencies. the acting head of the un mission met the economy minister on monday. my name is alex bar off says millions of afghans need

assistance and removing barriers is vital. 6 major 8 organizations have suspended their operations in afghanistan. but we spoke to it reads me faruqi, action aids, director of asia and humanitarian response. they're one of the groups who have suspended operations. but she says, despite that, it's important to continue dialogue with the toner back. we've been working in afghanistan since 2002 are a deeply rooted organization that was very closely with communities and extremely hard to reach and who are facing a huge difficulties. so the decision for us to temporarily pools our programming is not being taken lightly. but unfortunately, this move makes it very difficult for our team on the ground to provide the tool. women are essential to any humanitarian operation. so in the context of, you can start even more so where women can interact with women. we are actually

working very closely with other agencies and trying to kind of keep watching brief on the situation. why hopeful that through our connections and i and gauge. we've partnered with government that we can try to press a reversal of this directive and that things will become one abling in the country so that we can then resume our work. and you know, obviously we're providing life saving support and a very difficult time in the country and dialogue is the key. as 2022 comes to an end, astronomers worldwide are assessing new discoveries made in space. thanks to tools like the james web space telescope coding baker as well. in 2022 outer space grew clearer bigger and a bit safer for the scientists studying it from earth. in a year of dramatic discoveries, astronomers captured images of the oldest known star. the furthest known planet

orbiting another sun, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. and details from the surface of our own sun. the number of people living in space grew. china now has a permanent home in orbit 24 years after the launch of the international space station. but 2 missions shattered targets. the 1st, literally, the half ton dart satellite slammed into a 160 meter wide asteroid called di morphis. at 6 kilometers per 2nd. it was a test of an earth saving defense system and it worked. the shimmering debris thrown up by the impact was captured by observatories around our planet. but nothing was as spectacular as the 1st images from the james web space telescope to the edge of time itself more than 20 years in the making. 14 years late and 1000 times its original budget, the world's largest space based telescope flu, one and a half 1000000 kilometers, and looked at a point in the sky smaller than

a grain of sand held at arm's length. that grain contained a myriad of stars. webs. first picture revealed the oldest and furthest objects humanize have ever seen ancient galaxies at the visible edge of the universe. now, these tiny dots of color are helping to fill in the picture of how everything began . the image provoked more questions. we are looking as far back as currently humanly possible, and that is our goal is to keep trying to study further and further back, so that we can understand better at the time in cosmic history, that we've only been able to really see arise. webb's astronomers spotted water, carbon monoxide and gases that volcanoes release into atmospheres of planets. far beyond our sun, one system orbiting a sun known as trappist one looks tantalizingly similar to our own though. now we have kind of our 1st chance that studying another star system that has

a bunch of small rocky planets to say ok, how different are they? what does that mean about their potential for supporting life? and astronomers used web to make discoveries much closer to home. when i saw the 1st image of neptune with james web space telescope, i actually started to cry. i had been waiting for over 30 years to see this planet again, like that. when i saw the 1st of board, us was the ring system of neptune. the last time we had seen it was in 1989. when the voyage, your spacecraft flew over the cloud tops of neptune in 2023 web will study hundreds of new targets and probes will reach new asteroids that says india aims for lunar landing and europe plans of mission to the i see moons of jupiter. collin baker al jazeera but get more on this now with chris emperor, he's a distinguished professor of astronomy at the university of arizona and joined us from phoenix. good to have you with us once

a year. it's been for space. what's been your highlight? well, the james web, it's got to be to highlight, it is vastly late and over budget, as was pointed out, but expect killers on the hardest things ever done. and it worked beautifully because it's impossible to fix it if it goes wrong. so we're just saying the beginning of james webb, it should last 10 or 15 years. what do you make of the mission that to try to deflect and that's joy, which i suppose could potentially save the earth in the future. it's a very important proof of concept or not. so it was man dated by congress to find all the objects in space bigger than about 250 meters. and those are things that could, if not destroy the earth, ruined a large part of it. and so if monitoring for possible are approaching asteroids and now you have the other important piece of this equation where you have a mission and a concept of how you would deflect an asteroid if it were to head towards the earth

. and you'd have enough time to do it. it's not going to be like a nail biting 24 hour scenario. it will take months ahead of time, you'll be able to deflect it. and of course china has been active in space as well . this year has met trying to finish their own space station and you know, with the new us and russia at od over the international space station, it's not clear that they might have the only space station in about 2 years. it's possible the process will the orbit and that will be the big game in town with the chinese and also they're launching astronauts are taken on. so they call him at a, at a very religious rate. they have plans to go to the moon funds to go to mars. very ambitious space program. well, absolutely. i mean, we'll, we finally make it tomorrow. at some point. do you think it is just a matter of time? i mean, if you don't have to believe you must most grandiose prognostications and nasa has a slightly longer timeframe, 15 years, maybe 20 to get to mars. so the private sector might do it,

and nasa will probably try and do it. and then to chinese will do it and they'll probably want to be 1st. so that's slightly near a time scale then what can we expect next year when it comes to space and space 6 covers? well, given the basic success number launches this prodigious, at this point, there are more commercial launches last year than any year since running in the space program. so space actually going to test their starship, and the starship is a huge rock at the dwarf. any others? and it's pretty cheap, apparently, to turn it around and go again in the starship, is the key to getting to the moon and mars for a budget that's not gonna break the bank. okay, we look forward to that chris tempe. thanks for joining us. ok, good spirited by the falling debris from a drone has kill that 3 russian technical military stuff. the drawing was shot down

by russian soldiers. the russian defense ministry says it was a ukrainian drug flying over an air base in front of an for the russia security cameras, nearby films and explosion around the time. russian air force personnel stuff it down the base houses. heavy boma aircraft used to attack ukraine, russia as a keys ukraine of previously targeting the base. well, some of the heaviest fighting is concentrated around the eastern city. buck moved moscow back to troops have made little progress there off the almost 5 months of fighting. ukraine says it's repeatedly pushed that russian forces. but the situation at the front line is becoming increasingly difficult. burger miller hanes and loved him cannon ball. moot, criminal, and other areas in don bass now require maximum strength and concentration the situation days, difficult and painful. the occupiers are using all the resources available to them, and these are considerable resources to achieve at least some advance. i tank all

our boys will stand in their positions, stand strong and who nevertheless find opportunities. not only not to lose anything but to knock out the occupies a 69 year old frenchman, has reportedly been charged with killing 3 people at a kurdish cultural center in paris. a march has been held to honor those killed in friday, shooting crowns walked from the scene of the attack to location of another killing, targeting kurds. in the 2013, the suspect told investigators he had a pathological hatred of foreigners. some have been job, it has more from paris, f kurdish activists commemorate the 10 years of the death of 3 of their comrades. we're hearing more details emerging from the prosecutor's office details which included the that the perpetrator says that he was a racist. he wanted to commit suicide, but wanted to kill as many foreigners before. he would commit suicide. all

extremely concerned by the credit community. a diverse kurdish community here, people who are not just from iraq are they from syria to, from iran, and from 30 as well. and this has given them a chance to express their own particular problems in their own country. then we're hearing a chance of freedom. we're heading chance for justice and revenge as well. and what these people are calling for is justice the calling for it now. and they're not happy with the way the government has dealt with this incident so far away in miss sasha a tier attack planned and carried out by a racist, an attack against the kurdish community and against the kurdish women. the kurdish community wants the french state to tell the truth, the victims were refugees and the government didn't give them proper protection. one of them was here for 2 years, and she didn't even have proper documents. we were asking for protection before, but now we want justice company, some of your that what they are saying is that they don't deny that this was a somebody who was the races to get out of the fact. but this needs to be declared

a terrorist incident, so that there can be a proper investigation. so be as president, has ordered the countries ali and security services to combat readiness at the highest level. alexander who church says it to protect his country's territorial integrity. tension has escalated between serbia and kosovo following a shooting incident on sunday and a border town in northern casa, serbia doesn't recognize cost of those 2008 declaration of independence and maintains the former province is still serving territory. and ethiopian government delegation is in northern at t grier for the 1st time since a conflict broke out 2 years ago. the visit is aimed at ensuring last month's he still signed by the government and rebels is implemented violence into dry has killed thousands and prevented humanitarian aid from reaching millions of people. ah.