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hello, this is an use our on al jazeera. i'm fully barty ball live in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. south korea's president calls for better air defense systems a day after north korean drones entered, it says space taiwan changes. it's compulsory military service rules after china sends aircraft into its defense zone. also the sour warnings at the so called blizzard of the century in north america is far from over. tens of thousands are still in the dark, and the un warns more were hing or refugees will embark on desperate journeys as a 2nd vote arrives in indonesia. ah, thank you very much for joining as south korea's president says,

his country needs better air defense systems. you and soak yield wants to create a special military unit with stealth drones. it comes a day after north korean drones cross into south korea's air space. the soft korean military has now apologized for failing to shoot down the drones on monday. airport, near the capital were closed temporarily when the joints were detected near civilian areas. present noon says the incident has highlighted the military's lack of preparedness order. yesterday, not courtiers, military drones invaded our airspace. the incident showed our substantial lack of our military preparedness and training for the past several years and clearly confirmed the need for more intensive readiness and trainings as get the latest now from so an eunice came joins us live on the news, our eunice festival, a rare apology from south korea's military. tell us more about what they've said.

yeah, that's right. north korea's brazen incursion into south korea is creating a sense of unease here. and so, so much so that the military has issued a rare apology, as you said, for failing to shoot down any of those 5 enemy drones out flew for hours in south korea on monday. i know 4 of those drones flew over congo island and the border area on the western coast and one. the 5th one flew past a border town. pas you to zip as far south as the northern tip, the capital sol, some concerned that it may have even gotten to the presidential office. although the joint chiefs have so far said that they don't have data to suggest that the joint chiefs and it's apology reiterated that current capabilities make it difficult to target. and to also strike in civilian area. it's

crones that are smaller than 3 meters in size, which these 5 were, even as they pledge to bolster what capabilities they can, including non kinetic capability strike capability such as later lasers. and potentially also conducting air defense exercises at the joint chiefs level. now in response to south korean, president unit says he wants to create a military unit that specializes in drones. what exactly would it do? right, so present you in sonya and his 1st comments on this did not means his words saying that south korea's military readiness was simply not there that the years of training left much to be desired. and he did pose that possibility of bringing up the creation of

a new military drone unit that he said would have stealth capabilities and also feature cutting edge technologies and would monitor north korea's military facilities. but it remains to be seen whether he will have the budget to do so. as there has been a pretty sizable $20000000.00 budget cut in anti drone expenditures. meanwhile, south korea also working on a drone jamming technologies, but that also is several years away from hitting the market. thank you for that update units. kim live there in sol. let's discuss this further now with robert kelly who's a professor of international relations at the pool san national university and is joining us from pusan in south korea. thank you very much for being with us, mr. kelly. ah, the south korean military, as you heard the issuing a pretty lengthy apology for not responding to this incident appropriately, the president, talking about the creation of a military drone unit. what does this incident on monday suggest to you about the

current tensions on the peninsula and about south korea's readiness and ability to respond to threats by north korea? yeah, i don't think it's too much of a surprise that the north koreans have done these kinds of things. i don't actually think that this is the 1st step towards any kind of an escalation or something like that. the north koreans have been known as a cake and prod, if you will, along the shared border right, which is very contentious. as you might imagine, north greens minutes are known to cross over and provoke in this manner before they do this often to see to the real issue. i think you and your reporter pointed out in the south can respond to rather the poor response. apparently there was a helicopter fire in the drones and missed several the air and one of the aircraft that was scrambled in response crashed on the pilots, apparently managed to escape. and so this raises the issues of readiness. and it's not a big concern, quite honestly, because healthcare has spent a pretty big chunk of its g p on defense closing and on 3 percent, which is pretty high for us. ally and the goal is ultimately that's south crew. be

able to defend itself without too much american assistance. this is called the transfer of operational control to south korea. we're trying it with the americans are trying to do that, and it's how the green book can handle drone incursion. that's going to sort of push that whole agenda back. so it's kind of a surprising failure. yeah, and it is surprising, isn't it? that they were kara of god. they were caught by surprise as he said, this probably has happened in the past. we've had, as our report, i mentioned near the south korean parliament, passing budget slashing the government's repose on ty drone operations by half to expect a change in policy. now as a result of this incident, you have probably depends on which traction this gets in the media to come. i mean, i hate to sort of think of suffering defense decision made a sort of driven by media exposure. but this is something i'm an embarrassment to the government as your, your again, your corresponding point that it's actually quite rare to have an apology on the military on this. if it looks like this is going to be something that north crew will do in the future, if this continues, then there will presumably be funding for this. but like i said, sort of,

we're moving away from sort of seeing hers, i guess, for the air incursions. not too surprising drone technologies come a lot cheaper. and what do we know about north korea's drone program? not a whole lot. it's actually one thing, but these kind of courage is actually valuable sometimes wouldn't shoot the bound actually get back what they have. what the, what we haven't gotten to date is fairly primitive, are basically sort of like homemade kind of stuff with sort of like a regular standards or a commercial camera mounted on it. so we think it's pretty primitive. my guess is the north koreans, if this is really what they can do, a probably start to go look on the, on the international market problem and make them. but we have seen rama kelly over the past few months. north korea carry out an unprecedented number of miss, i launches artillery exercises and maneuvers. you talked about earlier about the fact that this may not necessarily be a new escalation, but isn't this a dangerous moment on the peninsula with, with everything that's happened in the past? as far as north korea is concerned, what do you think their end game is here? yeah, it is, it is somewhat,

i don't want to get too carried away or about this. i think the missile launches are a bigger concern. right. because it looks like the north koreans really are developing an ability to strike all over the region. not just south korean japan, but more widely. i'm rather surprised that china hasn't gotten more concerned all these missile launches and the drones would be useful for intelligence on north korea is really don't, doesn't have those kinds of capabilities as you might imagine, or creative satellite and things like that. so i would imagine that the drones probably feed into that, right? you're looking for information by which to actually sort of use these weapons in a better manner than just hoping you're pushing a button, hoping they land on a city. but the larger concern is, yeah, as you said, sort of the many, many missile, right? and then of course they want to marry that with a nuclear weapon. has been a big sort of hubbub blue that they might do a 7 nuclear test that was supposed to be this year to probably do it next year. and that's sort of the real concern that drones kind of link and all of that now kim jung own, has so far been unresponsive to, to the bottom, administration repeated over choice to, to meet for talks. do you think there are other ways to reduce tensions on the

peninsula? part from talks on the nuclear ization. what. what do you think could make north korea? we consider it sense? yeah, i mean talking with them is obviously the best way. the problem is that nor pre a pre for counter party, which is to say they sort of don't often do what they say they're going to doing the drawing incursions extra. really nice example. we often just don't feel that is bound by rules, right? i mean, most countries respect the air space above other countries, right? in most countries or don't do incursions of the space from other states, right? well, unless they should really intend to do something and it creates is, you know, hey, it's like we'll do whatever we want, right? i mean, this is sort of very characteristic. you may recall the north fire missile over japan last month. i mean, just out of the blue, right, and i was in japanese were like, what's going on and this is kind of behavior that from north for that actually leads a lot of attention, right? when they do these kinds of things that violate even the most basic norms i'm international relations. and so the way i would see the drawn incursion as a part negotiation is just another example. how northgate just doesn't feel bound

by the rules. so it's good that we can talk than we should try to do that. but i think it's important sort of the small steps degree to small things before should ation things like don't fly drones over our cities. that's a pretty good start, right? if they were actually commit to that, that would know you give them some returns that. thank you so much for talking to us about this. always good to hear inside mckelly joining us there from pusan in south korea. thanks for having me. taiwan has announced the plan to extend compulsory military service to counter threats from china. on monday, dozens of chinese plains, cross into typeface defense. so the biggest staley incursion in years, beijing is protesting against what it says is collusion and provocation by the island and the united states. hi, when these concepts will now serve in the military for one year from one year, that's not from for money, said spring insurance li who is live from hong kong. tell us more about the fish and what have been the reactions to this extension of compulsory military service in taiwan. well, security officials have been reviewing, ty,

one's military systems. it's 2020, amid a backdrop of rising prussia from china. now the latest measures announced by time when he's present trying when is aimed at increasing the islands defense capabilities and one think tank estimates that the extra 8 months that cons conscripts will now be required to serve could potentially add $60.00 to $70000.00 personnel annually to the current serving force by the year 2027, and that's not the only change announced on tuesday. conscripts will now undergo more intense training. they'll be more ly fire drills to learn how to handle more sophisticated weapons. the president also said the government plans to increase the overall salaries for conscripts and professional soldiers the number of years a conscript serves will also be taken into account and the government labor retirement plan. all this is to make, serving in its defense force is more attractive now increasing the number of months that a conscript has to serve really is not new. previously conscripts had to serve for

2 years, but that was slowly went down to 4 months by previous governments because to make the well really to appease to younger voters. and also because at that time tension between taiwan and beijing had eased. now, time one has been feeling the pressure from china over the years, not just militarily, but also financially and diplomatically, as china has grown from strength to strength on the global stage, as well as in the world economy. and the taiwanese government under president trying when, well, it's position is that high ones, future is something for taiwan, people to decide where as the chinese government views the island as a breakaway province and sees were unification as inevitable. so these are 2 very opposing and contrasting views and preston, ch hi. she said on tuesday afternoon that taiwan wants peace, but to avert a war, it has to be prepared for war. thank you for that. florence 3 live there in hong kong. now at the beginning of 2022, denise president,

she jane pink said he was committed to eradicating corona, virus infections through his 0 call the policy that meant entire cities and millions of people under locked down math, daily testing and lengthy quarantines. but many of these measures are now a thing of the past after protest is made, their voice is heard. adrian brown has more on the year that was in china. lou, this is the year china's leader, she doing double down on his efforts to eliminate a virus that most of the world, but learn to the ah, it softly at the communist party congress in october, he promised not to waver in the battle to eliminate kobe 90 o a month later that policy was at breaking with people that had enough they read through. c some even who

the she to stand down. oh, but it was the diversity of the protest is that may of alarm the president of the depth and breadth, the dissatisfaction with the government at which ran across many sectors. so students, young people on the streets, householders, or workers in factories all seem to be saying the same thing that they were absolutely fed up with this policy that it was counterproductive and that they blamed the government. the government though, appeared to alicia, 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 from the presidency. 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. it's a local government's fault, not his. and if something goes wrong, then the credit is, is his,

she did 6 weeks earlier, it president cheese leadership had been unquestioned as he secured a 3rd historic term as party chances. you thompson, 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, have 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, 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 for seeing zion when to resign, as chairwoman of the governing party. the victors, the kmc, 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 rate estimated round 18 to 20 percent. we have people coming out of universities who are finding it difficult to get jobs, so that's open mid class discontent. 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 gentleman 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. so what to expect from china in the new year? let's talk to roderick why in london, he's associate fellow for the asia pacific program at cham. how thank you very much for joining us, roderick. as we saw there in that report 2022 was a momentous year for china. let's start with a cove 19 pandemic. we're seeing now a loosening of policies are the but at the same time a rise in infections. what do you make of the governments change in policy and how

they justifying it and, and what do you expect from that? the chinese government coverage strategy in the next few months? first of all, i should say i'm no longer with jack them house, but on coded it's a mess at the moment it was done very quickly, evidently, at least partially in response to the protests and nobody quite knows what they're doing anymore. which leads to a lot of confusion. we don't know what the numbers are in terms of rising infections and hospitalizations, and indeed that's but we can assume that they will grow. i think it's a very difficult and tore time for china. so what should we expect next year when it comes to, to further protests or questioning of present, she's authorities, do you think much of these protests that we saw this year isolated to 0 co weight, or how much of it was other issues that may erupt again?

perhaps in 2023. i think there are a lot of problems in china. i economic problems. their other hand panel, the problems from cov, it will be the problems of reopening the economy. that there is a rising unemployment. april, take some time to get the economy back into balance if, if back can be achieved. so i think there are a lot of reasons for discontent in china. for traditionally, the chinese leadership seeks to place the blame for individual problems on local government mishandling of whatever case it may be. and i think this is what they will try to do again this time, or whether there will be widespread demonstrations. again, i just don't know, i suspect that it will need a big cause as coverage provided and not just individual instances of things going wrong. yeah,

the 0 coverage policy certainly did severe damage to the chinese economy. do you think it'll ever get back to today's, of near double digit growth and, you know, with china playing such a big role a pivotal role in global supply chains? how do you see the global economy being impacted? i think it is going to be problematic for the global problem for the global economy . if we look to china, going back to the position that it had in the past, we've all got to adjust to a new reality, including the chinese. and that in new reality will include slower growth for china . it will include a likelihood of greater decoupling between china and in particular the united states and considerable pressure on global to china supply chains, which we'll have to start finding and new ways of organizing themselves. now what about our on foreign policy? what can we expect in terms of the relationship with washington and also given

concerns about china's designs on taiwan? how will be james foreign policy adoptee think next year? i think beijing has been sort of quiet on the foreign policy front in the last year because it was so close date because there was no movement in or out of china. we've now seen siege in pain coming out of china. a couple of times we've seen a more active, i think, foreign policy, but we will see in the next year they will try and mend a few fences with the united states just as they have done with australia just now . but i don't think there will be a fundamental difference in the feelings or at least competition. and if not, antagonism between china and united states, i think pressure on taiwan is going to grow. as particularly as the chinese leadership see some sort of other focus for the people and the people of china. and

i think one of those focuses is likely to be nationalism and pride in china's place in the world, and they will try to demonstrate that china is a successful a force in the world. and roderick why in london? thank you very much for talking to us. you're welcome. now japan will require travelers arriving from china to provide negative covered 19 tests, prime minister for me. ok. she to assess passengers who test positive will have to corn teen for 7 days. they jane has been easing his restrictions in recent weeks on monday, announced that people entering china won't have to quarantine starting on january the 8 in other world news, another boat with rowing. a muslim refugees on board has come ashore in northern indonesia. the 2nd arrival in as many days at least a 185 people arrived in archie on monday in an hour receiving medical care. the

refugee say they left bangladesh in november and had been as drifting at sea 4 weeks in a separate incident. the united nations refugee agency feared that at least a $180.00 ro hanger are dead. after being stranded on a boat since last month, a 1000000 people with nobody to deal with him. i want. i want to do 2 more to degrees and there was a most of them or unwell, the paramedics from 3 local clinics or handling them. we're assessing which ones need further medical attention at these clinics or the hospital in the region. now the ara can project is a ride school that advocates for myanmar rocking and muslims. it says at least 4 boards left bangladesh last month researchers several hing as leave refugee camps in cox's design, smaller boats before transferring to larger vessels. the boat had 150 people on

board and was rescued by vietnamese oil ship near the coast of myanmar on december, the 8th. 10 days later, the sri lankan navy rescued a 104 people a 3rd boat sent out an eso as called, but didn't receive any help and is believed to have sunk. and as we mentioned, the 4th carrying at least 185 people arrived in northern archie in indonesia on monday that spring in now tanveer chandry, our correspondent who is joining us live from sharp rear drip in bangladesh. so tanveer, i understand you're close to where many of these boats and their journeys begin talk to us about how it all unfolds in bangladesh. and why these refugees actually decide to leave bangladesh. yeah, this is one of the for the loss location of se, bangladesh. before you end up in myanmar with just about 5 kilometers from me and my body and i'm not freebird, this is several of the most deadly areas for smugglers. this is where they take the

refugees that smuggle them out of the camp, take them into lodge fishing trawlers, which can hold up to maybe 7200 pupils at best, but the over crowded them. now there are several other areas including cox bazaar town where they're fishing trawlers that use that smuggling. also, the camp condition, nearly a 1000000 people crammed into 32 square kilometer area is very dan's. i mean they're getting aid agency food and everything. there's no means of earning any living. there's no formal education for the children, which is 50 percent of the population. so they really don't see any kind of hope. and the hope of repetition is all bus diminished because of the political crisis in myanmar, there is no global effort or concerted effort to pressure man, man, to take this people. so people are desperate. they want to get out, find a better life, look for job somewhere else in southeast asia. many of the women actually get marriage over the phone with male counterpart in malaysia yet that take this risky

journey, spending the lifetime saving with this smuggler sometime to actually drop him in myanmar or in the costillo areas or bangladesh. not even taking them to arm the man see most cases, a man martine, is detained them after rescuing them, rather than taking to their homes. in bangladesh, there's a concerted effort by the police and our target is the making public opinion calls in the but particularly in the refugee camps. going door to door, telling the danger of going through this. but it's not discouraging anybody the you and i said this a probably likely to be one of the most dangerous year for the refugees attempting to go to southeast asia compared to last one decade. certainly had very desperate situation for these refugees. tanveer chantry reporting their life from bangladesh . thank you very much. the millions of people, inter kia, are struggling to make ends meet as invasion, balloons. it's a record highs. life is particularly hard 43600000 syrian refugees in the country.

cinema was hillary force tony sambo. here's what i meant. a rog spends his days in this apartment and his stumble. the 29 year old hasn't been able to work since he fell and endured his rest 2 years ago. he had surgery but can't afford it, and his landlord once increased the rent ah, mad, like many other syrian refugees is struggling as a turkish economy. weekends, heathen on the hot road. i'm very frustrated. i can't go to another country. i can't get treated here. and i can't return to a lippo to see my family. i can't enjoy simple things in life like other people. my age here, i'm a stranger. the worst thing is that i'm young, but can't work. i have to sit at home and psychologically it's very upsetting. one sale there's a success story among emerging economies. turkeys, inflation exceed at 85 percent this year, coupled with rising nationalism ahead of an election and mid 2023. it is spark the backlash against syrian refugees. the opposition has promised to send them back

more series, we have approach. they stumble. do not want to be interviewed on camera because they're afraid of being deported. this by deteriorating economic conditions and turkey. they don't want to return home because they say a feature in syria doesn't hold much promise. worried altamont is an exception. he spent 8 years in turkey, working all jobs that paid poorly in 2020, he moved back to al saws to realize his dream of going college, even though the diplomas are not international. recognize now while it works for a local media organization, for my friends told me not to return to syria and stores over, they said i wouldn't be able to improve myself. but here i am. any achievement in my country is better than in another country. this is more valuable to me. i hope all those koreans entered kia can return home to better conditions. one day, sir, as a position held areas, are also affected by the inflation across the border as they use the turkish

currency. instead of trying to make basie food items available, but 3 make only a small profit because of the changing price. in a year, the turkish theera has lots for the per cent of its value against the us dollar and inflation is expected to remain high in 2023. despite government promises to reduce it, leaving syrians whether they live as refugees and true care, or have returned home to opposition health areas with limited opportunities. cm casala al jazeera stumble still had on the news. our ethiopian airlines resumes flights to a rebel held region. as officials try to cement at p, still, he is about a potential security threat as brazil gets ready for a presidential inauguration next week. ah,

there's been some exceptional warmth in staying. can't wait to share those details with you. hi everyone. so case in point, barcelona setting a new record for the month of december 22 point one degrees will not be down a bit on tuesday, but still stellar weather funds out with the high of 18 degrees. unfortunately can't stay the same for the islands of ireland and britain. we've got some doubts of what weather moving through here, but still tapping into that warms it's been warmth across central europe is while that's d stabilize the snow pack. so we had this avalanche and the austrian alps bearing for people. thankfully, all of them were rescued. now there are some showers rolling across the balkans. it's going to kick down your temperature a degree or 2. but you'll bounce back here the 3 day forecast for, sorry, ever. so toward the end of the week. and now the trend will continue into the new year. well, the batch of what weather has left the levant, but given us some cloud cover for b roots and ramallah. and we're talking about sandstorms for eastern and central more attain ya and new oxide at $23.00 degrees. that temperature is well below

average, almost 10 degrees below, where you should be for this year. what, whether pulling into southern booth and be around my put so with the high of 27 degrees on tuesday. that's it said, have it take care. ah, lebanon is facing a range of crises on political, economic, and humanitarian. children are hungry, and many people are jobless, while others die at sea. in the midst of the despair, one group is often overlooked. they don't have enough book, plenty to buy something to eat. al jazeera goes to the heart of palestinian refugee camps in lebanon, the full report stories of a forgotten people on al jazeera, the latest news, as it breaks this particular sub station. let's bring in 3 separate effects. for 6,

russian, we saw with detailed coverage, they had hoped that the u. s. would relax water pandemic restrictions this week, which would likely have better there are of getting in from around the world over 3000000 people to talk to the 3 and one sided from florida. and then mfc and the national team lou ah, you're watching the news hour on al jazeera with me fully back table. i. reminder of our top stories. south korea's president, you and sock. your says his country needs better air defense systems. sol detected north korean drones in fair space on monday. the present now wants to fast track

a specialized military joan units. taiwan has announced the plan to extend compulsory military service to counter threats from china. dozens of chinese strains cost him to type his defense on on monday, the biggest daily incursion in years. and another boat carrying at least a $185.00 bro hang of refugees has arrived in archie in indonesia. they say they left bangladesh in november and have been drifting at sea, where 20 people died. ukraine's president brought me is. lensky says 9000000 people are still without electricity, despite his government's efforts to restore power. electricity, great has been damaged by drone, and miss heil attack says russia targets energy facilities. let's get the latest with that with char stratford who's joined z who joins us sorry, lie from keith. jolly so millions of people in the dont bring us up to speed for us

. what were the situation across you? great. hopefully the situation remains di. notice in the crisis situation, right, the way across the country, those new figures announced by president zelinski last night saying to 9000000 people across ukraine still do not have access to 24 hour electricity and heating. and of course, it comes at a time where we are approaching the coldest time of the year. i mean, it's a relatively warm day today, the coldest months in this country to come january and february, wealth and temperatures are 110 degrees below 0. and course, this is all to do with this campaign by russia targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. we spoke yesterday actually to the head of the country's national electricity operator and pushed him on how long he saw repairs could take. he said

it could take years. and he said one of the main problems was there was no stock pile of faults that the ukrainians could call upon and can call upon to make these repairs. so they had a heavy, heavily rely on parts being given by the western backers. and as i say, yeah, right, the way across this, across this country, there are still rolling blackouts and still problems with heat and there is the constant threat of another barrage of attacks. this is a, it's been about a week now since the last barrage around a 1000 missiles and drones so far launched against this energy infrastructure. it was before those last 2 attacks. the president lensky said that the cost of this could be up to $1500000000.00 to repair it. and as i say that was before the last to massive attack. so a very dire situation across the country. indeed,

and their reports johnny, of both sides, possibly wanting to talk let's write some very interesting comments made by the ukranian foreign minister dmitri calais, but last night certainly published an interview with the associated press news agency. he said that there are plans of foot for what he describes as some sort of negotiation or piece summit under the auspices of the united nations. and he is keen to get on board as a main mediator for those negotiations. the un secretary general antonio gets harris. now, bear in mind that the russians and the ukrainians constantly accuse each other of not wanting to get together a talk and labor was pushed in as far as whether the russians would be invited to such

a peace summit. and he said that only on the condition that russia faced war crimes, a war crimes tribunal before day. and now that seems highly unlikely. so i need to kind of platforms that we're looking at in terms of any kind of troy. for example, the i c. c. the international criminal court. now russia is not a signatory to that court. and the i, c. c, do not have powers of rest and have been tens of thousands of allegations made accusing russia of committing war crimes. the general feeling here with respect to these statements made by crew labor, is that the ukrainians wants to be seen in the eyes of their western backers. as not denying the fact that negotiations will have to happen at some stage as they come under increasing pressure from some backers. as, as these tens of billions of dollars of a's and weaponry is still having to be supplied to them how long is a piece of string. the feeling gays is that the power is being set so high by the

ukrainians because they want to see don't believe that russia would accept such conditions. and bear in mind m ukrainian government president zalinski is still in tones. so he says, of liberating all the areas that sir, either russian back, sir, patricia russia, have taken control of since 2014. so, and that's including cry amir, that is something that one can not really realistically thing that sir, would be agreed upon by the russian president. so yeah, talk of peace talks. it seems at this stage highly unlikely whether something could be gathered together. certainly as quickly as by the end of february. thank you for that chance stratford live there in keith. so be as president, has raised the military's combat readiness to the highest level. alexander vulture says it needs to prepare to defend serbia's territorial integrity. tension between

serbia and kosovo escalated on sunday after shots were fired at a border town in northern kosovo. natal is investigating sylvia refuses to recognise kosovo as an independent country to africa now and ethiopian airlines that announce it will resume flights to make keller in the northern to gray region . from wednesday, representatives from the ethiopian government visited their rebel held area on monday. that was their 1st trip to the region since war broke out 2 years ago. both sides agree to a ceasefire in november. the mechanical emma, the governor, we have seen the need for peace in the past 2 years, enough of the death destruction and crying that happens to us with us in the us delegation officials of the service sectors. and they will work to this to a basic services as soon as possible. and they've already started since the signing of the peace agreement go a long way in that we will work hard for the return of the people of to great to be a normal lives. malcolm web is monitoring the situation in ethiopia for us from

neighboring kenya. he joins us live from, i will be malcolm just how significant are these latest developments. the governments allegation, visiting tea gray and ethiopian airlines resuming its fine was the 1st senior delegation from the ethiopian federal government to visited to grey students. that conflict broke out just over 2 years ago. the government subsequently announced the ethiopian airlines will resume commercial passenger flight and commercial flights from the capital addis ababa to mckelly the capital of the to grey region and ethiopian airlines. the students confirmed the same for flight has been scheduled to take off on wednesday, not already fully booked. this will enable families have been separated traded business and i want to review if indeed those slides keep going. the government also says that telecom in the process of being reconnected,

media has reported to all of that today province has been reconnected to the national power grid. this is all part malcolm of the seas fire deal that was agreed in south africa. where do things stand as far as its implementation? and is it being respect, respected by both sides? the sci fi was sound that was signed in south africa, and then the peace deal was signed here in kenya's capital. my re be following that with last month. certainly looks like many of the things agree to in those deals. moving forward, both sides making very positive sounds about implementing the but the degree in force and leadership said that while its own forces have now this in gauged on the forefront from which they have been fighting just in the last few

months. heavy fighting 4 months ago. but they did say that eric tre and force is worth they will present into grey. now, according to the peace deal ever trained for you throughout this conflict had fought on the side of the federal government. they're meant to withdraw. they meant to return to eritrea been reports of them, looting, villages, and kidding civilians. even after this deal was signed, a retread generally doesn't comment on these allegations that people integrate will be waiting to see the foreign forces actually leave as well. mark them web live in nairobi, thank you. 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 effect regions in the us. some areas are buried under a meter of snow with resident stranded in that cause for up to 2 days meteorologist . one more snow is expected on tuesday, the boston jordan. hi,

valerie the 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 hall, very dangerous. i have 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 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 it'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 council 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 back temporarily out of business. all that boons and water and all the food in our region with all of it is all meteorologist they 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. rosalyn jordan al jazeera across the border and canada blizzard warnings have been issued in several provinces. the government says at least $140000.00 homes are without electricity. most of them in ontario and quebec. health care authorities say 52 people are hospitalized etiologies have warned. temperatures will remain low this weekend with the wind shield factor could drop as low as minus 43 degrees celsius. in austria, several people have been injured in an avalon ski resorts in the northwest. it happened in the village of leg source as many as 10 people were buried in the snow, but they've all been accounted for. north korea, c kim jong own, has opened a meeting of the governing workers party. he is often used even to non major policy decisions ahead of the new year of korea fight. an unprecedented number of miss heil this year, the jails. foremost,

south korean president lean your back has received a presidential pardon. he was serving a 17 year prison term for bribery and embezzlement. is one of $1300.00 inmates to receive a special part of the 81 year old was granted a temporary release in june, due to poor house. the pardon will cancel the remaining 15 years of jail time. now the violence has erupted between protesters and police in southwest and pakistan. demonstrations against the legal fishing in the city of god dar have taken place for weeks now. come on, hider has more from his drama bought thousands of protesters have glass through the police and the port safety of gorda and baluchistan along the at avian c gorsline. now these projects that have been waived in a sit in on a key road leading to the board city there warned that illegal fishing should be stopped in the seas adjoining the area regard. this is

a main source of livelihood for them. these projects have happened before, but this time the protest as clashing with the police, the police reporting to jeer guys, has relative making arrest. the administration say that it's trying to resolve this particular issue or the leader of the group of got this threatening to continue that blockade of the city by blocking the road and didn't get them on the main idea . daughter to that saying that they are trying to pay for their dog. this is true, but this is not a new problem that has come up in the boss the administration of god has to take this seriously. given the fact that baluchistan has also been dropped by a number of dogs against the security forces in recent days and because of the high red alert in that area. so the progress of god still sticking to their demons. key access to the area had been blocked, telephone and internet services. i've also been shut down. and most of the video

footage appearing is on the social media. men, january 3rd and focused on have not been carrying their story. but we are told that they said indeed, a large protest that the government has to take seriously. the united nations representative in afghanistan has asked the taliban government to reverse a bond on women working at agencies. but these are off the economy minister in capital on monday or off says millions of afghans need assistance, and charities can't operate without them. 7 major 8 organizations have suspended their operations in scanning the taliban higher education minister has responded to international criticism, saying his government will not change its minds. as 69 year old frenchman has 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 crowds walks from the scene of the attached to the location of another attack targeting code in 2013, this aspect told investigators he had

a pathological hatred of foreign. still ahead on al jazeera, we rise together back to the room and yawn the sky was not the limit in 2022 or tell you about more missions smashing asteroids and some incredible views of the universe stay with us. ah ah, with

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elect. lucy. nasty lunar the silva next week, but he's foiled and alleged bomb brought on saturday. officers detained, a man accused of placing an explosive device near the brazilian airport. the incoming justice minister says his government will not allow political terrorism in peruse. 6 generals have been arrested as part of the corruption investigation involving former present federal castillo police detained a malia this month after he was impeach for attempting to dissolve. congress castillo denies all charges against him, is arrest prompted weeks of violent protest at the streets of the ny jerry and city of lagos, her home to hundreds of thousands of people struggling to survive. they are often forced to pay what they call on affordable taxes. and receive little help from the government. we met with one woman who took part in a rehab limitation program that she says turned her life for want. my name is mia. i'm 38. i believe on the street for 3 years now. i'm from dusty

home. i finished my, my book knew when we official telling the money for ring into the everything and we went to the villas to see and we could not get the money also to rain. so i asked to just come back. i was being abused by my dad. my uncles, my auntie. when i was a kid for me, st. gill, i found new. we are home, my dad now he's in prison. so i started up on day, i was be reached by 3 guys. then i was dancing to close as a dancer. so from day my life force was horrible. because you, most of them the distance, be you. what?

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especially i sing low. so i sing gospel worth for knowledge, grow school. and now the song suda, which i've composed which i used to sing when in the church. ha, i knew, i think walrus happy. and they always invited me to come on sing. yeah, i see. rule nice when a year full of drama and intrigue in space. astronomers have made some important discoveries and it seems they are more to come in 2020 feet. holland baker has more 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. because 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, the world's largest space base 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 up so that we can understand better the time in cosmic history that we've only been able to really see our eyes webs, astronomers spotted water, carbon monoxide, and gases that volcanoes release into atmospheres of planets far beyond our son, one system orbiting a sun known as trappist one. looks tantalizingly similar to our own though. now we have kind of our 1st chance at studying another star system that has a bunch of small rocky planets to say, okay, how different are they? what does that mean about their potential for supporting light? 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 1st of warmus with the rings system of neptune, the last time we had seen it was in 1989. when the void, 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's as india aims for a lunar landing and europe plans a mission to the i. c, moons of jupiter. collin baker, al jazeera, more news on al jazeera after the short break. ah, ah.

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