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blood, him of potions fuel threat. the russian president says he'll block the sale of oil to nations supporting a price cap. ah, hello, i mary, i'm to mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. dozens, a killed a nation's power lice. people die in that cause as a powerful winter storm shot sound march of the united states and canada. a 3rd that 8 months in uniform for taiwan conscripts, military service is extended following threads. and china, ready for anything rising board, attaches the soviet army, pushed on its highest state of the land. ah, viable welcome to brandon. we begin this hour in russia where the president let him

of cushion has announced a ban on oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. gremlins has the decree will come into effect from february and continue for at least 5 months. the european union, the g 7 and australia agreed on a $60.00 per barrel cap on russian crude oil. it's one of a series of measures aimed at cutting the crime ins, revenue streams, as the war in ukraine goes on. will many countries pledge to end or severely cut back their oil and gas imports from russia of the invasion of ukraine? because russia economy is heavily dependent on the energy sector. that cap was seeking to restrict the revenue that is used to fund the war while making sure moscow kept supplying the global market. but russia has said the cap wouldn't affect its military campaign in ukraine, and that it was confident you can find new buyers. countries like india and china if continue to purchase russian oil. we'll thomas o'donnell is an energy analyst

and lectured her to school of governance in berlin. he says russia has already suffered a hit to its own revenue. you have o standing unity of the entire u. g. 7, and so for very broadly, an agreement, so very harshly, sanction russian oil you is taking no more oil by sea since the 5th of this month. and by the 5th of february, they won't take any more refined products by sea, from russia. that's a stunning hit to russia, and now they will enforce this price care worldwide. anybody who wants to use any ships insured from the european union will have to risk, you know, respect and already i know i was watching looking bloomberg latest data a day or 2 ago. and the shipments from russia on the european side, the baltic area had dropped by 50 percent in the early part of december when this gap was imposed. so is this, in fact,

bravado from over going to cut supplies when they're already being forced to have a significant hit to their suppliers. and while rushes harmony there is again one that ukraine mis demilitarize or face further military action. so the level of accused the west of supporting ukraine's forces and feeding the conflicts to weaken russia times the length of the was going to depend on the actions of keys and the united states and washington. confrontational, anti russian course, is becoming acute, is comprehensive. well, in ukraine, russian forces attacked towns in the east and the south. on tuesday, ukraine's armed forces say they repel russian advances in parts of the hands and in done yet fighting has been particularly intense around the strategic isn't city of backlit in daniel province. as of out of, for the north and line of province. how do there is charles traffic reports on this now from ukraine's capital keith, more heavy fighting at various locations along the eastern front line,

perhaps most interestingly around that city of buck moot. which is seen some of the most intense battles in recent weeks and months, some very interesting video. this appeared on telegram channels that we cannot independently verify purporting to show you crazy and soldiers among dozens of dead russian soldiers as those videos of a paid some. also some very interesting lines coming from pro russian channels. these channels advocating that they should be a russian withdraw from those positions around buck, mood because the situation has become so difficult for the russians. now, of course, we have no way can independently verify these lines, but still, those videos are shocking. also interestingly, the ukrainian head of the regional military administration, it blew ganske medical survey guide, is saying that ukrainian forces continue to make progress around the town close to

the town of crimean crimean, which is russian occupied a lonely look, guns donates borders. now this was a front line that was established i supposed to and a half months or so ago after that very successful counter offensive by the ukrainians granting military now saying for the 1st time since then in the last couple of days, they are beginning to make progress, but as i say, we cannot independently verify these claims. meanwhile, the electricity crisis across the country continues. president vladimir zalinski last night saying that at least 9000000 people were still without reliable electricity and heating as these winter temperatures are expected to plummet. in the next couple of weeks also we spoke yesterday to the head of the country's national electricity operator. he predicted that these full repairs to the grid system could take years. and that of course would be if there was to be

more barrels. use more attacks in this, what seems to be a russian campaign at targeting energy infrastructure? so yeah, a lot of people still very cold, living in very dark conditions as these energy crises across ukraine continues. the death toll from severe winter storms across the u. s. is rising, at least $64.00 people have been killed as the heavy snow continues, nearly half of those deaths are in new york state, which is one of the worst affected areas. some neighborhoods have buried under a meter of snow. people have been stranded inside their cause for up to 2 days across the border in canada, at least one county a long lake ontario is declared, a state of emergency. it's urologist warmed. the more snow is expected to fall while there is party call i and joins us live now from the reagan international. i should say. reagan national airport, near washington, just tell us what sir happening there. and what passengers might have been telling you if he spoken to them i have,

are you the storm was pretty bad for all the airlines. but most of the major carriers are saying they've cancelled what between 0 and 2 percent of their flights . not so for southwest airlines, they have handled 62 percent of their flights today. and this is the result i have her on. i've talked to really angry. i ruined christmas's sleeping on airline floors. just trying to find their bag. so let me take you through what it looks like here at the southwest terminal. all of those people are standing in lines and it looks like it's taking hours just to get to the few agents who they can possibly re book their flights or see how they can salvage this holiday season. which over here, well, i'm told by the passengers that they were told if you were flying a book to come to reagan, but they got on a flight to baltimore. they were still going to bring your luggage to reagan so that you have to make your way back from baltimore and try and find your luggage. this is just one small portion of luggage is pretty much everywhere. and then the

long lines continue. yet again, all of these people standing in line to talk to the one clerk who appears to be handling, trying to find people's luggage. so yeah, the people i've talked to say they're incredibly angry, they'll likely never fly southwest again. one passenger said the manager told her they just didn't have a contingency plan for this. so obviously there's going to be a lot of fall out. the different parts department of transportation says they are going to launch an investigation to how this got so bad, so quick and for so many people and pat human speaking about the west effected area and new york state of a 60 people have now been killed. and then others, this have been stuck in that cause i've been there for several days. so one has to wonder if, if that tall might rise it seems very clear that the death toll is going to rise. and just in buffalo, new york, that area, they lost 35 people and they're just now starting to dig out as more snow comes its

way. one of the problems was it was so bad, the white out conditions were so bad that even the, our 1st responders, most of the fire trucks and buffalo gap stock. and so that's who you need you to police officers, ambulance, fire trucks. so and what happens in white up conditions is you simply can't see. so you run into snow banks, you run into other cars. so people were saying that they were stuck in their car for 2 days. now the key there is trying to make your gas last because you need to have heat on. and so what my emergency respondents are finding some of these cars as people simply froze to death because they couldn't get up, couldn't get out and walk in the blizzard. and they basically ran out of gas and ran out of heat. so they are concerned that there is where to find more as they dig out their own vehicles and then start searching all of the cars that got to stock it. it's not just new york, this was a huge storm. it was from the west coast. all the way up to the north for a tune northeast and its stress even further south. it was freezing to places like

florida and texas, that is not used to that they're not prepared for it. so temperatures are starting to warm up. the storm is beating overall 20000 flights were canceled from wednesday until right about now just about 20000. so a lot very unhappy people, a lot of holidays missed. oh, thank you very much for the update. patty kind that reagan national app, which is now washington. it hang from patio on the west head areas is buffalo, new york state, and b. c. journalist jesse coach is outside that cities apple which has been forced to close. might be trying to dig out here, but we've got more snow coming down right now and you can see just saw what has been pushed aside and piled up behind me. you're right next to the airport here in buffalo, that airport is going to stay closed at least until wednesday morning. and you can see,

at least in part why this area has been battered by this brutal cold. and is blizzard like conditions that we've been dealing with in terms of abroad, stretch of the country seen bad winter weather throughout the past few days across the holiday weekend. here in buffalo, they got more than 4 feet of snow officials in the area, blaming the weather for more than 2 dozen deaths and several more depths nationally, have been attributed to the bad weather that we have been seeing. there is more bad weather on the way in being experienced in the pacific northwest. the south and midwest are looking at a warm of we're also hopefully going to see some warmer temperatures back here in buffalo and the days ahead. but clearly, still a lot of clean up ahead for this community that has been hit so hard by what has been called a historic and devastating storm. ah, south korea's president is announced plans to develop stronger air defenses. you

took your wants to create a special military unit with stealth drones after incursion, by north korea. drones on monday, airports near the capital solar closed temporarily when the aircraft were detected near civilian areas. south korea's military apologize for failing to shoot them down. you and says, the incident highlighted, the military's lack of preparedness unit came reports on this now from so present you insomnia. 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 monitoring north korea's a military our facilities. but it remains to be seen whether he will have the

budget to do so. as there has been a, 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. meanwhile, taiwan is set to extend it compulsory military service for 4 months to a year to counter threats from china. on monday, dozens of chinese plains crossed into ty, pays defense. so the biggest daily incursion in years aging is protesting against what it says is collusion and provocation by the island in the united states. it views taiwan as a breakaway province. president sy, in when says taiwan wants peace, that needs to be able to defend itself. and we can only avoid war by preparing for war. and we can only stop war by being capable of fighting a war to one needs to increase its ability to defend itself, so that we can strengthen our national security and go no more international

support. now derek lawrence, louis has more in this now from hong kong. the latest measures announced by taiwanese president trying one is aimed at increasing the islands defense capabilities. and one think tank estimates that the extra 8 months that cones conscripts will now be required to serve, could potentially add $60.00 to $70000.00 personnel annually to the current setting forth 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 governments labor retirement plan. all this is to make, serving in its defense forces more attractive now increasing the number of months that a conscript has to so really is not new. previously conscripts had to serve for 2

years, but that was slowly with 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 ty, one's future is something for taiwan, people to decide. whereas 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 without a sierra, alive from london. more still to bring you on the program. week hungry and dehydrated off to spending weeks at sea wrangler refugees sheltering indonesia as

united nations calls for international health and hospitals in india, conduct covered trails as a prepare for an expected spike infections. ah it's been so warm in central europe. it's di, stabilize this snow pack in the alpine region, high for one dramatic video to show you off the top. this was the moment an avalanche struck. the austrian alps here, bearing 4 people. now thankfully, all of them were rescued. but as this warmth continues, the risk of avalanches, i think in the next day or so, i will certainly be heightened as while rain starts to peter out through the balkans. that's kick back temperatures of degree or 2. but looking ahead at the long range forecast, they'll start to bounce back in the days to come. also warmth for western europe,

but pulses of rain for the islands of ireland, britain, western france, some showers for the low countries. and this weather front drops down to the north west of spain, northern portugal with some rain, other side of spain. we've said some records temperatures for the month of december, including barcelona. that stellar stretch of weather will continue on wednesday showers for turkey as black. see, cuz i think most intense stuff will be over there. ne black seacoast, enough to africa, we go some showers for the western sahara, which is not unusual for this some the year. let's trip to south africa right now. rain in the forecast for the northwest limpopo and also how 10 provinces on wednesday johannesburg have 28 degrees for you. that's it. see you later. ah with

lou ah ah, i'll come back watching al jazeera i live from london, the main stories. now, russia says it will been oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. european union, g, 7 and australia agreed on a cap on russian crude. this month measure is aimed at cutting the cremeans revenue

streams. as of warn you crying grinds on at least 64 people have been killed in weather related incidents in north america. as a severe winter storm continues to batter the region. new york state is one of the worst affected areas with people in some neighborhoods being stranded in that cause for up to 2 days. and south korea's president is announced concept to develop stronger air defenses. offer an incursion by north korean drones units took your wants to create a special military unit saying mondays incident showed latrice readiness was right you lacking now, sir, the as president has put the army on its highest alert level as tensions grow with cost of of recent shootings and blockades, serbs in northern cost of owes independence is not recognized by bel great. have percent more road blocks in the ethnically divide, a town of nitro of itself. and in barbara has more serbian flags flying in northern kosovo,

near the border with serbia. new roadblocks have just been set up here in north mitrovica, sir. cosello's largest cert. majority town, other barricades went up weeks ago after the arrest of an ethnic served. former police officer suspected of involvement and attacks on the force. on monday, the head of the serbian orthodox church was refused entry into kosovo. he'd said he wanted to deliver a piece message for sybian orthodox christmas, which is celebrated on the 7th of january. if possible, yet, ample glove out mckew riscas, i'd miss it. is there a head of any religious community he can't visit his own people? novel is believe it and can't enter his own homes. you spoke with a patriarchal of pet to monastery is the property of the serbian orthodox church and a home of the head of the serbian orthodox church. he was speaking of the meeting, sylvia's president, alexander voltage, you own promoteco, talks are ongoing right now. we have engaged all our people from what we have old resources you them. we are doing our best to preserve the peace in to fight for

peace. and as the party are sad, acquainted with her to find some sort of a compromise solution. refrain on monday, sir b as defense minister met soldiers as the army was put on its highest level of combat readiness. this government video shows millichef, butch, of ich, talking with troops and inspecting military equipment close to the cause of a border. the short term goal is to full the muscles, the fe, or the shogun. b, also to show that the serbia and in particular the shogun, breast. and thanks on the role sheet as funding the national interest and the interest of gospel serves in what the still goals are at thomas province. north and kosovo has been particularly tense since november when hundreds of ethnic serve employees of the police and judiciary resigned. they were angry about, pushed in a binding license plates issued by bel great. a policy eventually scrapped and this

month local elections insert majority areas were postponed. after many sib said they'd boycott the vote. that in baba al jazeera, 5 palestinians have been injured during fighting with jewish settlers in israeli forces and occupied east jerusalem. 6 others were detained when settlers attempted to seize land in the y d. hila area, so won. a land is owned by the greek orthodox church that has been leased to a palestinian family since the 1950s. sarah, hi, wright has moved from occupied east jerusalem. well, the fighting was all about a plot of land that's just behind me. if you can see the israelis, settlers have been putting up a fence, it's a new friends, and this pulse of land extends all the way from this call park over here. and it will go all the way down there. you can see as the camera can just sound there, there's some trees that have been cultivated by a palestinian family that has lived for 7 years now. probably sitting in front of

me has always maintained that they signed a lease with the greek orthodox church because this line is actually owned by the greek orthodox church. but it's very much contested plots of land. and so one because the jewish settlers, a, a jewish organization has bought the lions, apparently from the church a few years ago they, they had actually bought, sorry, rather at least 2 hotels in the old city, which is further just up the road from where i am and this plot of land comes in a way with the these 2 host tells. this has been through the courts for many years . it went through to the supreme court of israel as well. and the court has ruled in favor of the the jewish settlers. 7 7 so this just gives you an idea over the pension in years, but let's say that they have access and should have access to this land. and every

so often roddic why things take place? well, in other development, israel's internal intelligence service says police arrested the man behind 2 bombings in west jerusalem. last month, one person was killed and more than 10 injured during the explosions at to boston. in november, the 26 year old and junior was detained. police say the suspect admitted to making the bombs and carrying out the attacks. now the you and refugee agency is urging countries to help bring a refugees stranded at sea. at least 20 people have died. hundreds more landed in indonesia. after weeks adrift in the indian ocean. agency says nearly 500 wrangler reached indonesia. in the past 6 weeks, high force it has more up to weeks drifting at sea a 1st full day on dry land. 185 or india refugees came ashore in indonesia was ha province on monday evening. week hungry and many severely dehydrated blue

o life. we left the refugee camp in bangladesh, 7 days into the journey. the boat engine broke about 10 days into the journey. our food was finished. i had to drink sea water. after more than a month, we arrived here many died on to see what is the yellow eagle her. this was the scene just aus earlier is the survivors finally reached land. these people a 2 time refugees fleeing 1st from persecution and me and mar which its military government is facing charges of genocide at the international court of justice. and then from harsh conditions in refugee camps in bangladesh. obama let us follow at our valium, mozilla and bangladesh. our children didn't get educated. we couldn't leave the camp, but we didn't have food. we didn't have anything. in late, november 8, agency save for boats left bangladesh. on december, the 8th and indonesian oil tanker picked up a boat carrying about a 150 people of the me and my coast and towed it to shore. 10 days later,

the sri lankan navy rescued a 104 people are shrunk as north coast. the captain said he'd received an s o s message from a 3rd boat, which he feared was about to sink. on sunday, a group of 58 ra hinge came ashore in ladon, village in indonesia, western arch, a province. and on monday evening the boat carrying a 185 landed further up the coast. it's not yet clear whether this is the boat he had lost a week earlier. like we need to do further communication, an intensive investigation with different parties within indonesia or outside of indonesia. to clarify, if this is the case. at the moment i cannot confirm the information. for now, indonesians are doing what they can to give these refugees some sense of normality and dignity after their ordeal. but the future remains unclear. agency say the number of hinges fleeing by boat, from the camps to bangladesh has risen fivefold this year 22 and

a half 1000. the theories that many more will be subject to these sorts of dangers in the month to come hurry for it. i'll just 0. well out there is can via child re brings the smallest joy now from shop for a do it in bangladesh. when many of the were hanging about chinese begin. this area is known as shoppers. dave, this is the last stand of se bangladesh before hits me and martin my left, and this is enough river. this is one of the several hot spot in cox's bazaar. the area is very removed, and the smuggler used the cover of late night to smuggle people to other southeast asia by large engine boats or fishing trawlers. lot of this board you see behind me are smaller. the larger one can carry up to 7200 people, the crammed, the refugees on those with very little equipment on navigation tool. maybe sometime that satellite phone, nearly 1000000 growing cramped into a densely packed refugee camp in cox. bazaar desperate to get out. no hope of

returning to me and my nothing. and as far as the patrician goes, there is no concerted effort by the global community for them to return to me. and my, many of them are making desperate attempt to get out of this camp and look for a better life in southeast asia. now, this year alone, there's been 5 full increase in attend by the ringer effigies to had to, than the muncie taught se asia compared to last year, we spoke to law enforcement agencies here in cox's, but they said they're going door to door and making public awareness of the situation of human trafficking that cracking down heavy but they said much needs to be done and the public needs to be. 3 aware of that, this is a major problem, not just in bangladesh, but just behind me as me and my, many of the writing us from there also are attempting to leave me and my 2 of southeast asia and major tragedy unfold every year. because of this serious deadly journey are china's top health authority is downgrading co,

the policy and square scrapping quarantine for travelers from january quarantine measures will be dropped and close contacts. no longer identified virus has spread ferociously in the wake of restrictions being lifted. their reports of hospitals being overwhelmed. the actual death toll is currently unknown because officials have stopped releasing cova data. japan's government is tightening border controls from friday, limiting some flights to and from china. country will require travelers arriving from china to provide negative covert tests. prime minister from jo cuz she does says passengers who test positive will have to quarantine for 7 days. and india is conducting mock drills and hospitals to test preparations for a possible surgeon. cases follows a sharp rise in some neighboring countries, including of course china. in the us offered a catastrophic 2nd wave of the virus last year, which ravaged the countries health system. over 530000 people have died from coded in india.