relation to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women are widely agenda, a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth. those, the size of a we have to really recognize what we're offering here. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me markham on hill, for up for what al jazeera, the latest news as it breaks this particular sub station. it's been here in 3 separate effects, quite 6, russian. we saw with detailed coverage, they had hope that the u. s. would relax, border pandemic restrictions this week, which will likely have better there are to getting in from around the world over 3000000 people to talk to the 3 and one sided. a. i'm a national team ah,

vladimir putin fuel threat russian president says he'll block the sale of oil 2 nations supporting a price cat ah . lo mariam nazena, watching out arrows are coming on the program. people die inside their cars as the powerful winter storm continues to batter, parts of north america. the u. s. supreme court keeps a pandemic error order in effect, allowing officials to rapidly expel migrant stock at the mexico border. the further 8 months in uniform for ty, once conscripts, military services, extended following threats in china. ah, hello, welcome to the program. begin in russia, where the president vladimir putin is announced to ban on oil exports to countries

that set price caps on its energy products. kremlin says the decree will come into effect from february and last for at least 5 months. the european union, g 7 and australia agreed on a $60.00 per barrel cap on russian crude. it's one of a series of measures aimed at cutting the columns cremeans revenue streams. as the war in ukraine grinds on, many countries pledged to end up severely cut back their oil and gas imports from russia after its invasion of ukraine. because russia's economy is heavily dependent on the energy sector, the cat was trying to restrict that revenue while making sure moscow kept supplying the global market. but russia is said the cat would not affect its military campaign in ukraine, and that it was confident it could find new buyers. countries including india and china of continue to purchase russian oil on there as our church has more for moscow. earlier to fall when a dweller laura pierre lloyd on a door. this decree was anticipated after an agreement was reached. between the

e u. n. g 7 countries a few days ago to put a price capital, $60.00 on her barrel of oil. even though russia is currently selling its oil for up to $55.00 us dollars a barrel house. but for russia, according to statements that preceded this decree, it opposes setting a ceiling on prices, not because it could have economic loss. literally, if we take into account the oil prices in the markets now of yeah, but the kremlin rejects it in principle de la thought russia believes that energy prices in general should be determined by the market. and not by political decisions taken by countries, according to the interest of, or within the framework of sanctions against this. so that party melissa, therefore put indeed what was expected of him and signed this decree. pending another decree related dealing also with the exports of natural gas. so what does this mean? it means that russia, starting from february 1 will stop exporting any oil products to countries or companies related to the decision to set

a price ceiling on the oath. because of this decision, russia is expected to reduce its production to about 500002 several 100000 barrels a day. according to officials, this doesn't mean that there would be losses from the russian side, because russia will continue exporting oil to china and india, as well as southeast asian countries. and it's expected that this russian decision will affect the price of oil in the markets, which we will find out about in the next few hours until well in ukraine, russian forces attacked towns in the east and the south. on tuesday, i am forced to say that say repel russian advances in parts of the landscape in and in done yet. fighting has been particularly intense around the strategic eastern city of backlit in daniel province. and in it's, i tell the fan, the north enhanced as you there is it shall stratford reports on his now he is in ukraine's capital case. 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 ukrainian 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 grainy 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 is these winter temperatures are expected to plummet in the next couple of weeks or so. 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 this energy crisis across you, krohn continues. will ukraine's foreign minister demitra caliber says his country would like to see a u. n. p summit by february, but does not expect russia to join russian. president putin says that he is open to negotiations, blames ukraine in its western allies for failing to engage and talks. rushes demands for peace talks to happen. include the west, recognizing new territory, sees from ukraine in so called votes, which took place in september. moscow proclaimed, had annex 4 provinces daniel glenn, hans as apple, regia and harrison. but the votes rejected as bogus and illegal by ukraine and the international community. russia says, all threats to its security forces in those territories must be eliminated. calling for the demilitarization of ukrainian forces versus formulas to sagal. our of says if those demands are not fulfilled, the issue will be decided by the russian army. or earlier i spoke to lee turner

that he served as the british ambassador to ukraine from 2008 to 2012. explain why peace talks could be some way off. we've got her recognized that it's very reasonable for any normal person to want to stop war to stop fighting as to stop killing. so it's understandable everybody's looking for ways to do that. but i have to say at the moment, it's very hard to see any possible deal that could lead to either a ceasefire or to peace between russia and ukraine. if we, if we look at the ukranian side, russia has invaded unoccupied. something like 18 percent of the country killing tens of thousands of troops and displacing millions, causing massive destruction. and russia has made clear it wants to annihilate ukraine that moscow thinks ukraine in the ukrainians have no right to exist. the

ukrainians also know from what happened in 2014, that if russia stays in control of territory, it will try to keep it forever. we've seen that with these latest 4 areas that russia is trying to annex. so there's no way that you crank and accept that if we look at the russian side, it's existential for president putin as well. his launched a disastrous unprovoked war, killing tens of thousands of his own troops, as well as all the destruction on the ukrainian side. because his afraid of democracy coming from ukraine and threatening his own position. now, if he gives up any of the land his troops have occupied, he's finished. i certainly don't see any likelihood of negotiations in the next few weeks. maybe in the months ahead, much will. and what happens on the battlefield? i think putins hope or the hope of the russian leadership is that a long grinding war will lead to countries that support ukraine getting frankly,

a bit bored of all this awe. death toll from severe winter storms across united states is rising. at least 64 people have now been killed. as heavy snow continues to fall in the half of those deaths are in new york state, which is one of the worst affected areas with some neighborhoods buried under a meter of snow. and people being stranded inside that cause for up to 2 days across the bordering canada, at least one county long lake ontario is declared, a state of emergency meteorologist one that there is more snow, a long way. 80 coin reports from reagan national airport near washington where people stranded as a result of flight cancellations. i mean, the storm was pretty bad for all the airlines, but mostly the major carriers are saying they've cancelled what between 0 and 2 percent of their flights. not so for southwest airlines,

they have cancelled 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 bags to take you through what it looks like here at the southwest terminal. all of those people are standing in lines and looks like it's taking hours just to get to the few agents who the 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, they were told if you were flying books or come to reagan, but they got on a flight to baltimore, they're 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. it's 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, so likely never fly southwest again. one passenger said the manager told her they just didn't have a contingency plan for those. so obviously there's really a lot of follow the department of transportations as they are going to launch an investigation to how this got so bad, so quick. and for so many people the u. s. supreme court is maintaining a pandemic error order, allowing officials to rapidly expel migrants court at the us mexico border. the rule isn't known as title 42, it was imposed in 2020. it allows the government to use coven 19 protocols to block migrants entry on the border with mexico, where many thousands of people have gathered our house course when it can be how kit joins us live now from washington. tell us what this means for the many thousands of people who have gathered at the border, who has stuck their particularly in light over with winter conditions we've just

been hearing about well, it means that if they were hoping that this was going to be lifted and they could come into the united states and hopefully seek asylum. chances are they're going to be expelled as to 1000000 others have since march of 2020. under this policy. it's a controversial policy. it was put in place under former president donald trump and many in the biden administration as well as the american civil liberties union or a c l. u as well as many human rights advocates have said, this is in humane and it needs to be lifted. and a court agreed, a lower court just under the supreme court agreed with that it was set to be lifted as of december 21st. but then 19 attorneys generals from various states, including along the border of the southern border of the united states and mexico. all republican conservatives went to the supreme court and said, look, it, you've got to stop this because, ah, what we've seen is

a serge record number of illegal crossings into the united states of migrants. and if you lift this up, what essentially is a title? 42, which gives the federal government emergency powers to block people from entering and seeking asylum. essentially, this is a rule that prevents the spread of disease and that's how they were able to do it under covert 19. what they said was, this is just going to lead to an unprecedented search because already we've seen record number of crossings during the biden administration, and that number is going to just spike will essentially open the floodgates. well, the supreme court said, you're right, we are concerned, we need more time to study this and we need to decide whether or not the states can really oh way in on which is otherwise a federal policy. and so that's exactly what now is going to happen. the supreme court is decided to take up this case and give it some careful deliberation. so

they're going to hear oral arguments, the supreme court justices. and then we're going to have a final ruling and the supreme court always rules after they hear the arguments in the end of june. so this is going to continue as it has been in very controversial manner as we're not going to hear the outcome of this now until sometime in the early summer. all right, thank you very much from washington. kimberly elk it this out is our life in london or still spring you on the program hungry and dehydration. after spending weeks at c, wrangell refugee seek shelter in indonesia. as united nations calls for international health. ready for anything rising point attention. see selby is only put on its highest stage of a lead. ah,

here's your weather update in a minute 15. i see the thanks for joining in. so windsor just dropping rain into indonesia is main island of java, steering it in their same goes for bali and lombard. but i want to take you to the philippines were within a dozen people have died for monsoon reigns in the southern philippines has been particularly bad from sabu city to devout reigning buckets over the last few days. but that batch of what weather now sides north closing in on manila, let's go to china. here's the situation toward the western yang. super valley got some snow falling toward the east cloud cover. cool. shanghai just 7 degrees as below average for this year, off to japan that see effect snow once again starting to kick into gear for northwest honshu and o'campo. and for parts of honshu island. already a meter of snow on the ground. so we'll add to that tally down under rate. now we had a huge temperature swing in adelaide. a drop of about 20 degrees over 10 hours and

for melbourne and hope are watched this wednesday. the thursday. your temperatures are gonna drop big time as well. hobart, down to 19 and what from brune to cans on thursday cans at $31.00 degrees will and tend to zealand few showers for these cape that includes kids been coming in at $21.00 on wednesday? that's it. that's all soon. ah. african narrative from african perspectives embark on am opening a new series of short documentaries, by african filmmakers from nigeria, south africa, and cameron rule you oh dr. property corporate space and turn it into a portfolio of a stone cautious song. gorilla. got it. and modern p. next off camera rule, africa direct on how jessia, lou

ah, watching al jazeera ally from london main stories now russia says it will ban oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. the european union, the g 7 and australia of all agreed to a cap on russian crude measure is aimed at cutting the criminals revenue streams and made the war and ukraine. at least 64 people have been killed in weather related incidents in north america. as a severe winter storm continues to back to the region, you york state is one of the worst effect areas. people in some neighborhoods have been stranded in that cause for up to 2 days. and the i supreme court is maintaining a pandemic era order, which allows officials to rapidly expel migrant stock of the us. mexico border was

due to and last week, but to a group of republican states wants to challenge that policy. coming to an end, south korea's president has announced plans to develop stronger air defenses units . soak your wants to create a special military unit with stealth drones following an incursion by north korea. airports near the capital, so were closed temporarily when the aircraft were detected near civilian areas. south korea's military apologize for failing to shoot them down. un says the incident highlighted, the military's lack of preparedness unit. kim has more from so president units on toyota and his 1st comment 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 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 robot. kelly is a professor of international relations at pusan at national university says this type of activity is typical for north korea. 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 for pick and prod, if you will, along the shared border. right, which is very contentious. as you might imagine, north koreans minutes are known to cross over and provoke in this manner before

they do this often to see to the really sure, i think it's about south korean response or rather the correspond apparently there was a helicopter part in the drones and miss several of the or a one of the aircraft scrambled in response, crashed on the pilot, apparently managed to escape. and so this raises the issues of a readiness. and i thought a bit concerned because south korea spent a pretty big chunk of its g p on, on defense closing in on 3 percent, which is pretty high for us. ally. and the goal is ultimately that 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 to, with the americans, are trying to do that. and if that's how koreans look like, they can handle drone incursion, and that's going to sort of push that whole agenda back. so it's kind of surprising . and other developments taiwan will extend compulsory military service from 4 months to a year to count a threat from china. on monday, dozens of chinese plains crossed into ty, pays defense zone. biggest daily incursion in years. aging is protesting against 40,

says collusion and provocation by the island and the united states. views taiwan as a breakaway province. president site in when says taiwan wants peace, but also 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 need to increase its ability to defend itself so that we can strengthen our national security and gotten more international support sorenson we bring this morning, the story 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 saving 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's 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 tie, 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, 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 al sadi as president has put the army on its highest alert level as tensions grow with kosovo over recent shootings and blockades. serbs in northern, kosovo whose independence isn't recognized by bel grade. the record mill road blocks in the ethnically divide a ton of me, theresa at him baba has more. serbian flags flying in northern kosovo, near the border with serbia. new road blocks have just been set up here in north metro feet. sir. cosello's largest serv. majority town, other barricades went up weeks ago after the arrest of an ethnic serb form, a 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 apiece. message for sybian orthodox christmas, which is celebrated on the 7th of january. if possible, yet, ample glove armika risk. as i miss it, is there a head of any religious community? he can't visit his own people, not his believers. and can't enter his own homes. you spoke with the patriarchal of pet 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 grammatical talks are ongoing right now. we have engaged all our people, so we have old resources, you them. we are doing our best to preserve the peace, 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 in inspecting military equipment close to the cause of

a border. the short term goal is to full the muscles with they are the shogun people. so to show that the serbia and in particular, the surgeon breast and folks 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 10th since november when hundreds of ethnic serb employees of the police and judiciary resigned. they were angry about christian, a banning 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. let him baba al jazeera. the when refugee agency is urging countries to help rank refugees stranded at sea. at least 20 people have

died and hundreds more, landed in indonesia, after weeks, a drift and the indian ocean. the agency assad, nearly 500 rank. i have reached indonesia in the past 6 weeks. hurry force, it has more of the weeks drifting at sea a 1st full day on dry land. 185 or india refugees came ashore in indian is use ha province on monday evening. week hungry and many severely dehydrated 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 under see what is the yellow figure honey. 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. oh, that is a lot of alien with the law and bangladesh or children didn't get educated. he couldn't leave the camp. we didn't have food. we didn't have anything. in late november, 8 agencies say 4 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. when we need to do further communication and

intensive investigation with different parties with it in denisia or outside of indian, easier to clarify if this is the case. at the moment, i cannot confirm the information for now indonesian to 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 leading by boat from the camps bangladesh has risen fivefold this year 22 and a half 1000. the theory is that many more will be subject to the sorts of dangers in the month to come. hurry faucet al jazeera, when east 113 people have been rescued from the mediterranean sea of the coast of libya. the estimated to any charity is saying the ocean viking vessel rescued the group from rub a boat or about 30 unaccompanied miners on board. the ocean viking is currently the only rescue ship and central and central mediterranean all the enjo ships docked in

course, according to italian authorities. more than a 100000 migrants of wise staff. so far this year, out china's top health authorities now it's is going to downgrade the management of coven, 9 team, and, and stock quarantine policies for travelers. from january quarantine measures will be dropped in close contacts, no longer identified. the virus has sprayed ferociously in the wake of restrictions being lifted, and there are reports of hospitals being overwhelmed. the true toll is currently unknown because officials have stopped releasing cova data. and india is conducting mot drills in hospitals to test preparations for a possible surgeon corona virus. cases. it follows a sharp rise in some neighboring countries, including china. india suffered a catastrophic 2nd wave of the virus last year, which ravaged the countries health system? well there is plenty more on our website including features like this. check them out from out reporter note.