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china says it will scrap cove at 19 quarantine for overseas arrivals despite a surge and infection. ah, hello, i'm darned, jordan, this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up. the arctic storm pummeling the us and canada at least 50 people have died. neil, governor warns it's far from over. we have been to a lot of wars together. and this blizzard is the one for the ages. certainly it is the blizzard of the century. the u. n tells the taliban to reverse a ban on agencies employing female workers and 3 prime ministers, ballooning inflation and a wave of stripes. we looked back at britain's chaotic year and politics. ah, china is scrapping co, but 19 quarantine rules of people arriving from overseas after nearly 3 years of

tough border restrictions from january, the 8 people coming from abroad will no longer have to go into isolation or the travelers will still need a negative p. c, r test to enter the country. meanwhile, chinese president sheesh and ping has urged health officials to take action to protect lives. as a country battle smiling infections, beijing is admitted, the scale of the outbreak has become impossible to track health officials in some provinces say more than half a 1000000 people a day are being infected. despite this, china says that been no copay related deaths in the past 6 days from st. louis has more from hong kong. oh, hospitals are overwhelmed and this is also not according to official data. but this is what medical office is at. private hospitals saying 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 covet 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 supplies, 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, the main funeral service in the southern city of gong tow 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. more, 12022 began. chinese president shing ping remained committed to eradicating corona, virus infections through his 0 covert policy. that meant road and locked downs must

testing among the quarantines. but in the face of widespread protests, many of these measures were quickly eased. adrian brown looks back of what may prove to be a crucial year for child lou . this was the year, china's leader shooting ping, doubled down on his efforts to eliminate a virus that most of the world. but learn to the ah, it baffled 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 it breaking with people that had enough do they. c some even pulled the she to stand down. oh, but it was the diversity of the protest is that may of alarm the president move the

depth and breadth that dissatisfaction with the government at which ran across many sectors. so students, young people on the streets household is, are workers in factories all seem to be saying the same thing that they were absolutely fed up with this policy that was counterproductive 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 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. she did 6 weeks earlier with president cheese leadership had been unquestioned well as he secured a 3rd historic term as party ching youtube. so 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, could have made him many enemies. i think what it has done is revealed the degree to which people are not buying into the idea that she is both 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 committee to be the territories next, chief executive in a contest in which he was the only candidate. lee was a former security chief authorizing the use of tear gas rubber, bullets, and occasional live rounds to disperse, protested 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 on employment we have for example, in china cities, a use unemployment bait estimated rank, 18 to 20 percent. we have people coming out of the university who are finding it difficult to get jobs so that other net cost 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, prieto's, as a huge in 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. the one seemed more open and connected to the world. adrian brown al jazeera. so the white house has described china's largest ever military incursion into tie one's ad defense zone as provocative and destabilizing $71.00 chinese aircraft, including fighter jets and drones crossed into the area over 24 hour period. 7 ships were sent towards the island was basing claims as its own. china says activity is in response to ongoing joint drilled between taiwan and the u. s. i once president will hold a national security meeting on tuesday morning. north korean leader kim junglin opened the key meeting of the ruling workers party on tuesday. he's often use the

than to announce major policy decisions ahead of the new year of korea fired an unprecedented number of missiles this year, and spot new tension on monday, up to 5 drones crossed into south korea or civilian airports near so were closed temporarily on monday when those drones were detected is the 1st time in 5 years, the pyongyang has violated south korea's aerospace south crews, military scramble jets and helicopters to attempt to shoot down the drones. the death toll from one of north america's most severe winter storms in decades has risen to at least 50 over half of those are in new york state. one of the worst affected regions in the us. some areas are buried under a meter of snow with the resident stranded in their cars for up the 2 days. officials or warning, the busy like conditions are set to continue. well, across the border in canada, thousands remain without power and the 2 biggest provinces, ontario and quebec, winter storm warnings remain in place of parts of the western province of british

columbia. for people were killed there and dozens more injured. but a bus rolled at an icy road rosin jordan ripples ah, the u. s. is 1st major storm left behind, picturesque ice creations and opportunities to play in the snow. but as the officials said on monday, this storm was and is all very dangerous. i had the very sad news 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 residence 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 becoming 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. while in south carolina, a frozen pipe that ruptured has put that state's largest food bank temporarily out of business. oh, that is in the water and all the food in our region to lose 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 in the weather can't come quickly enough. another 30 centimeters of snow is in the forecast through tuesday. rosalyn jordan al jazeera, the united nation mission to get this done as told the taliban administration to reverse a ban on female workers at agencies. acting head of the un mission met the economy minister on monday. from is a lot of says, millions of afghans need assistance. and removing barriers is vital. 6 major a groups of to spend their operations in afghanistan. russ, me, folk is action, a director of the asia. she says, despite the bad, it's important to continue dialogue with the telegraph. we've been working in afghanistan since 2002 very deeply rooted organization that was very closely with communities and extremely hard to reach. and who were facing a huge difficulties. so the decision for us to temporarily pools our programming is not being taken lightly. but unfortunately this makes it very difficult for our

team on the ground to provide that all 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 our engagement, we've partnered with government that we can try to press for everybody to live 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 at a very difficult time in the country and yeah, dialogue is the key last not so to come here and just there, including one of the deadliest years of the for the hang of community ruffling overcrowded camps and bangladesh,

why the removal of these winter trees is key to restoring one of the largest fresh water lakes more that i use and here's your weather. story for the america is great to see. we've got some storms rolling through the eastern side of paraguay. that's going to push into the southeast of brazil. so for the state of rio grande to saw the capital port lay gray, some big downpours there more so as we head into wednesday, cooler air has been rushing off the pacific in bogus how we've had nighttime temperatures. about 4 or 5 degrees and that rain really filling in across the western amazon basin on tuesday. central america looks like this. weather front, dipping out of the us is giving us this line of showers and storms from the bahamas . cutting rate across cuba into believes but that's now pushing into 100 us as we

had to war tuesday, temperatures starting to pop up just a bit for the gulf states in florida. but a run of rain in miami, at $22.00 degrees and off to the west. we go and atmospheric river here that is a narrow, concentrated band of rain, could see about a 100 millimeters up and down that west coast of the us. same goes for canada, but not just the rain. these winds will wip up to about a 100 kilometers per hours, so that could certainly cause some damage. and we'll aim with some good news that lake effect snow starting to wind down for western new york. that includes buffalo on tuesday. that's a snapshot of your weather. we'll see you soon. take care. ah . across the world, young activists and organizers, ronda moved, motivated 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 most mean soniega didn't. there is looking start, think about the lebanon is always in the buy number for us formation. we have the agency to create the vibe of the generation. changed on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. a good reminder about of stories here. this al at china is scrapping cobra 19 quarantine rules of people arriving from overseas. up only 3 years of tough border restrictions. the move comes, as beijing admits the scale of its current outbreak, has become impossible to track the death toll from one of north america's most severe winter storms and decades has risen to appease 50. more than half of those

are in new york state governors warning, the storm is far from india and the united nations mission dr. canister has told the taliban administration to reverse a ban on female workers at agencies. 6 major, a groups of suspended bell abrasions in afghanistan. united nations says that 2022 has been one of the worst years for a king. refugees at sea, at least a 100 matey. and now if he had dead, after being stranded for weeks on a boat, another 195 made landfall in indonesia as archie province on monday, after making the long and perilous journey from bangladesh. maurice has this report . this boat survived its dangerous journey across the indian ocean, now reached on the shores of northern indonesia for weeks. it was home to dozens of virginia travelling from refugee camps in bangladesh. their family and where, where are you, go, go. by marriage. when my father, my mother, mother,

the refugee said they'd been drifting at sea for a month before that boat washed up near the fishing village of ladon. 3 of them are in a serious condition that most of them experienced dehydration. that's why they are quite weak. further along the coast and that 185 men, women and children, received medical aid on monday, after being spotted out at c. m, i'm attend the when a man, when he had given his toys, had enough time, many money, television, many, many genocide and mothers and fathers, a division their escaping places like this. refugee camps in bangladesh. i'm to many of the 1000000 rang your muslims who escaped persecution in my unmarked . the un refugee agency said over the weekend that a 180 refugees who left bangladesh in a boat in november when are presumed dead. the un estimates the number of ranges risking the crossing is increased by 500 percent this year compared to 2021. we

have seen that are more people who would need to to seek safety. and this is the point we are trying to make. reset been, people do not see that there are safe hot ways for them to seek protection. we will sadly see more and more people are trying to take these dangerous and risky journeys. we're playing and asking for international support to bangladesh and local authorities and communities. but also on the leader states that to when den know there's a boat out there with desperate human beings need to be in just yes, this is that these refugees are lucky. in one respect, they're still alive, but where they go from here is another question. pull rece, aldi's era calling day brief, my drone as killed 3 russian technical military stuff. the drug was shut down by

russian soldiers. moscow defense ministry says it was a ukrainian run flying urban air base in serrato, in southern russia, security cameras, nearby film, an explosion around the time russian troops shut it down. the base houses, heavy bummer aircraft used to attack ukraine. russia has accused a crane of previously targeting the base for some of the heaviest fighting has concentrated around the eastern city of buck. mood, moscow about troops had made little progress there. after almost 5 months of fighting. ukraine says it's repeatedly pushed back russian forces. but the situation at the front line is becoming increasingly difficult out as there was charles dropped, but then keith, with more ukrainian military say, russian forces have been shilling, dozens of towns along the eastern and sudden front lines. they talk about the regions of donates, can new guns as well as zach parisha and in the south head of san. now there is no

specific details as to casualties or indeed what has been targeted and it's impossible to independently verify this information. what we do know is having spoken to the authorities in hair song, they are saying that one neighborhood in particular, on the western banks of the ne pro river, a neighborhood with around 8000 people living in it, is getting hit, especially hard journey around 700 meters, they tell us across the river to russian forces. they saying that russian forces are shelling that area and the area is very vulnerable to sniper fire. the head of the lou ganske military administration this morning claimed that ukrainian forces have pushed russian forces back a few kilometers along the front line that was established about 2 and a half months ago. near the russian occupied town of camina, as i say, impossible to independently verify this information. we know that is ongoing heavy

fighting around the flashpoint city of moot where we understand that the russian forces have been trying to make probing attacks. now for days, if not weeks to try and surround that city. meanwhile, with respect to the supply of electricity across the country, we spoke to the head of the national electricity operator. this morning. he said up to 2000000 ukrainians, a still having to endure rolling blackouts and not 24 hours. they do not have access to heat 24 hours a day because of this russian campaign targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. i miss you up in government delegation is in the northern trigger. i regions for the 1st time since conflict broke out 2 years ago. the visits aimed at ensuring last month's piece deal signed by the government and rebels is implemented violence and to grow has kill thousands and prevented humanitarian aid from reaching millions of people. there been protest,

semi sudden these capital cartoon against the country's military leaders, crowds marched towards the presidential palace, demanding an immediate return to civilian rule. early this month, military leaders agreed to a 2 year transitional period to hand over power. but pro democracy protested, have rejected the deal saying the army still have too much influence over decision not needs to be one of the largest freshwater lakes in asia, but walla lake has been choked by decades of mismanagement. now authority is an indian administered kashmir, say that taking action to revive it up in the ta, ripple's winter league. the cash mill valley is preparing for winter boats like these are making the last rounds as villages extract any remaining water, just nuts. the lake is famous for them, and output has increased over the past 2 years, but you are still 0. does used to be a field. there were trees here, but after the dredging, what of chestnut started growing back and livelihoods resumed before dead. the silt

and marshlands made it hard for us to sustain our lives as dwellers. oh god, one nestled in the himalayas. the wolf lake is a critical source of water in the region, and pounds of people depend on it. but in a matter of decades, it's shrunk by nearly half an hour because of these widow trees. thousands are planted for firewood trading mounds of sit that are choking waterways, affecting vegetation and water quality. restoration projects are underway. the government aimed to cut down 2000000 cheese by march. so bundari is one of the contractors that you like to bud guillermo, like me. i prompted hundreds of thousands of trees for 35 years, but it was a mistake. it destroyed the lake. the government wants to restore it and cut down trees. this will bring back the lakes, glory. i feel very lucky. i got the contract. authorities are planting other trees,

still, belly for of the 90 square kilometers of loss of his area had been restored in 5 years. basically the located or change a seasonally or from you can say at the door. 050 square kilometers. so it is not necessary that we are a, we had to restore, haul on the india as a water body, because wetland has its own feature that has, it has to how it is mud flaps that has to her. it is, ah, solid areas are where her burst. instead, the leak serves as a natural barrier against flooding. but environmentally see pollution levels need to be controlled for it to be effective. that you might fix that above which middle aliases that it is drawn to flooding. and most of these flood waters used to find a sinking ground or disengage in invalid. but if you look at land system changes that have happened over the course of last 50 years or file the kids saw. and all that had been substantial land system changes which does not allow, basically water's flood waters to sink into. will our lake authorities are planning to restore another 23 square kilometers videos?

no. do you take yes for the leak to return to its former glory, but a happy with the 1st signs of revival party metal al jazeera, a 16 year old frenchman has been charged with killing 3 people that a kurdish cultural centre in paris. a march has been held to honor those killed in friday, shooting crowds walk from the scene of the attempt to the location of another killing, targeting kurds. in 2013, a suspect told investigators he had a pathological hatred of foreigners. 6 generals have been arrested in peru, a bitter corruption pro by the ex president federal castillo. he was arrested early this month, after politicians voted him out of office rec, tempting to illegally dissolve. congress castillo denies the charges. now 2022 has been a chaotic year for british politics. united kingdom has had 3 prime ministers for finance ministers and 3 interior ministers. it's been the target of jokes internationally. but as andro simmons reports britton's haven't had much to laugh

about wanting. his report contains flashing images in britain they call christmas this season of goodwill. but you won't find much bonham. me here, downing street in 2022 produced pantomime style politics. it might have been funny if the consequences weren't so serious. morris johnson led the way so called party gate, dragged on a police investigation, a fine for johnson. oh, big rooms were broken and that is what i have been repeatedly assured. and when photos emerged, the story changed. it did not occur to me that this might have been a breach of the rules. he lied frequently. and after a while, people didn't take seriously what he said. there is no doubt that the office of prime minister has been demeaned over the over the past year. up boris johnson became a joke. the parliamentary party eventually decided johnson was

a liability. many commentators described it as the downing street so proper. firstly, forest johnson simply had to go against his well, his parting words as to love this, the baby. i'll be back then. list truss. she's been described as playing the leading part in a psycho drama and then enter stage right richie soon act no friend of less trust. and his nickname, the invisible man, sudak was dubbed the invisible man because he's been keeping a low profile with his conservative party, so split support can't be guaranteed to logistic. to say, he only had to look back on the debacle of the list trust premier ship to realize how quickly back when jim please, can get rid of their leader. she proposed massive unfunded tax cuts, but the sums didn't add up,

and she blamed her friend and finance minister quasi courting. we did a new approach for a new era. oh was a currency freefall and ballooning cost of government borrowing. she fired him, but it didn't stop and all my t financial crush, she talked to, i am a fighter and not to my baffles slaten to his majesty the king. to notify him the i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. britain was a laughing stock world wide. one newspaper here featured afresh. let his web cam would it outlast bliss? trust. yes. but with inflation now it's a 41 year high. no one's laughing. strikes over, paid him, owns a bound hitting public services that frequent. and that causing major disruption. the royal mail, the trains,

the national health service hit by paramedics and nurses working out. i think his government, especially after we saw what ms. process on and collect public finances. and i think his government is fits on a swing shot. let alone complex health care system what the and i chess, but can we, she sooner get away from the invisible man image and set things. of course, again, he's a bit boring so far, but i think he would be quite happy to be boring. and i think quite a lot of voters would be quite relieved to have boring prime minister and boring politics for a while. but maybe just, maybe this is a time for managerial problem solving at rather than vision. so there could be no humorous ending to the foss of british politics in 2020. there's an irony instead, the u. k. was promised tax cuts, spoilers trust. instead. it's now way down with the biggest tax burden since the 1950s andrews.