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nations imposing a price cap. ah, the watching al jazeera alive from dough on carry johnston also coming up. the u. s . supreme court keeps a pandemic error order in effects, allowing officials to rapidly expel, migrate, stuck at the mexico border. taiwan extends, it submitted, she service to one year saying it's to counter threats from china and stories of survival. we're here from some of that ra hangup muslims who made the perilous c crossing of bangladesh to indonesia. ah, russian president vladimir putin as announced a ban on oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. the

decree will last for at least 5 months and will come into effect in february. or this month, the european union, g 7 and australia agreed on a $60.00 per barrel cap on the russian crude. it's one of a series of measures aimed at cutting the kremlin revenue streams as to warn ukraine continues. will many countries have pledged to endo severely cut back their oil and gas imports from russia since this invasion of ukraine. energy exports account for around 40 percent of russia's annual revenue on the worth around a $1000000000.00 a day. the cap was seeking to restrict that on making sure moscow kept supplying the global market. for russia says the cap and other western sanctions won't affect its military campaign ukraine. moscow is confident it can find new bias, or countries like india and china have continued to purchase russian oil. or thomas o'donnell is an energy analyst and lecture at her tea. a school of governance in berlin, he says russia has already suffered

a hit to its all revenue. you hear out standing unity of the entire e 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, respective. and already i know i was want to be looking amber latest data a day or 2 ago and the shipment from russia. on the european side, the baltic area had dropped by 50 percent in the early part of december when this cap was imposed. so is this in fact bravado from bruton over going to cut supplies when they're already being forced to have a significant hit to their suppliers. buses. foreign minister has again,

walnut ukraine must demilitarize or face further military action. certainly love rove, also accused the west of fueling the war in ukraine to weaken russia. he said the length of the conflicts will depend on keith and washington. in ukraine, russian forces attacked towns in the east and south on tuesday. fighting has been especially intense around the strategic eastern city of buck moved the netscape province on saturday, further north in the hands, the province cha, stratford has more now from 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 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 ukranian head of the regional military administration, it blew ganske medical center guy guide is saying that ukrainian forces continue to make progress around the town close to the town of crimean crimean, which is russian occupied along the lou 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 wasn't be more barrage is more attacks in this what seems to be russian campaign. it's 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 u. s. supreme court has ruled to keep board restrictions that have blocked thousands of migrants from entering the country from the mexico border. the rule known as title 42 was imposed in 2020,

and allow the border officials to rapidly expel migrant court. trying to cross into the u. s. from mexico, a federal judge last month ruled the policy to be unlawful. $900.00 states a listing, it could lead to an increasing the border crossings. white house correspondent, kimberly how could join this live not from washington d. c. so kimberly, president biden has way didn't following that ruling, what does he have to say about this? that the earth president has just left the white house. he's on his way for a bit of a holiday in advance of the new year celebration and the u. s. president did weigh in on this and what he had to say essentially is that he's commenting on the fact that the supreme court is now going to have the final say on the matter. but 1st is going to have a bit of a deliberation. in other words, is going to hear oral arguments that he was president saying the court is not going to decide on this matter until june us typically when the supreme court rulings

come out after hearing oral arguments. and the president goes on further to say that title $42.00 must be enforced. in other words, what he's saying is echoing what the white house press. secretary is also said in an official statement from the white house that until then the white house is going to comply with title $42.00. what is title 42 will essentially is something that was put in place of during the previous donald trump administration. and what this is, is essentially gives the federal government the powers to turn away those that are seeking asylum in the united states under sort of the order that this is to prevent the spread of disease. so it's sort of a public health emergency, a type of restriction, but it's been use kind of as ad hoc immigration policy given the fact that there has not been immigration reform in this country for about 20 years. and the

controversy around it is essentially that the by the administration feels that it's now that the pandemic is essentially for all intensive purposes over that is, this is no longer needed that they have argued it's in humane, has been separating families. and they wanted to see it undone, and so that is what the argument has been. in fact, it was going to be undone as of december 21st, until a group of republican attorneys general from various states 19. in fact, many of them along the border of the united states and mexico got together, went before the supreme court and said, you cannot lift title 42. because already we're seeing an unprecedented surge of migrants trying to make their way into the united states. you live title 42 and the flood gates are going to open, will supreme court way. then on this emergency ruling said, you're right, we need to take a better look at this. we also need to look at whether or not the states can even intervene. it all on

a federal policy. so that's what the president's commenting on. he's saying we're, we're going to look at this. the supreme court is going to weigh in, but they're not going to weigh in until june. so now in other words, oh, this very controversial policy that has seen at least 2000000 people turned back, had not had their asylum cases heard since march of 2020 will. that number, obviously going to continue to go up as this is going to be in place for a number of months even longer as the supreme court, not only listening to these oral arguments, but makes a final ruling now in june of 2023. kimberly, thanks for updates live from washington, dc. virginia muslims who've arrived in northern indonesia telling stories of their harrowing c crossings. at least 185 people are receiving medical care. after arriving in our say on monday, they're on board one of 4 boats left front of dish in november. hurry faucet has

more of the week stripping at sea 1st full day on dry land. 185 range refugees came ashore in indonesia as a province on monday evening. week hungry and many severely dehydrated. 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 and i had to drink sea water. after more than a month, we arrived here many died undersea. this was the scene just aus earlier, as 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 and bangladesh or children didn't get educated. we couldn't leave the camp. we didn't have food, we didn't have anything. in late november agency,

safe pool boats left bangladesh. on december, the 8th, an indonesian oil tank of picked up a boat carrying about 150 people of the me in my coast and towed it to shore. 10 days later, the shrunken navy rescued a 104 people osher lunk, his 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 50 acre hinge came ashore in ladon, village in indonesia, western as a province. and on monday evening, the boat carrying a 185 landed further up the coast is 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 it . we need to clarify if this is the case at the moment, i cannot confirm the information for now, indonesians 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 a hinge, a fleeing by boat from refugee camps had bangladesh has risen fivefold this year. $22.00 and a half 1000. the theories that many more will be subject to the sorts of dangers in the months to come. hurry, faucet, al jazeera, taiwan government says it will extend compulsory military service from 4 months to a year to counter threats from china. on monday, dozens of chinese plains costing to try one's defense. so the biggest incursion in years paging is protesting against what it says is confusion and provocation by the island in the united states. if you're taiwan as a breakaway province, president lying, when it says taiwan wants peace, but needs to be able to defend itself. 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 of florence louis has more details on this now from hong kong. the latest measures announced by

time when he's present 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 lie, 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 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. so the head on al jazeera, israel's prime minister, designates is one step closer to woman the countries most far right government yet . and the pace deal in motion ethiopian airlines is to resume flights to the to

gran capital. ah, here's your weather report for asia. nice a have year long. so that rain that swept through them all div now starting to push out into the arabian sea. otherwise across india to a fairly quiet pitcher. but for punjab, stay toward the northwest of 95 percent of it is shrouded in fog. it's been pouring rain around, sabu city, devoured that band of rain. moving closer to manila, the monsoon rains there have killed at least a dozen people as of late, pretty steady band of rain being steered into indonesia as main island of java through bali and lombok as well on wednesday. and off to china. we go for the west yang see river valley, some snow falling, dipping down close to the pearl river valley, some showers and grey land that's not back your temperature to 7 degrees. cloud

cover and shanghai also got your pencil then for high of 7 on wednesday. ok off to japan right now, you know, at that see effect snow back in the forecast on wednesday for northwest honju and ho cato and for northwest honshu parts of it. anyway, there is about a meter of snow on the ground there. so we'll add to that tally or finish this weather report in pakistan. what weather leaves the golf comes into baluchistan province and for punjab province and pakistan. it's a similar situation almost fully covered by fog on wednesday. ah, progress or a serious mistake. artificial intelligence is slowly invading every aspect of our lives. but very few of us really understand its capabilities. for better or worse, al jazeera, explore the impact of

a i accessing vast amounts of our personal data. data land on al jazeera. ah ah, it al jazeera, remind up our main stories. now. russia says it will ban oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. european union, g 7 and australia agreed on a cap on the russian crude oil this month. the measure is aimed at cutting the cremeans revenue streams. as the one you crime continues. u. s. supreme court has ruled to keep border restrictions that have blocked thousands of migrants from entering the country from the mexico border,

the rule known as title $42.00 is imposed in 2020, the federal judge at last month to rule the policy to be on norful. and taiwan will extend compulsory military service to one year in an effort to counter threats from china, present china when it says taiwan wants peace when these to be able to defend itself . dozens of chinese planes crossed into typeface defense and on monday. well tensions have been rising in east asia in recent months. beijing is minutes, rising islands in the south china sea, which it considers its territory causing concern among its neighbors. in december, japan announced a record of $55000000000.00 defense budget signaling. a move away from its post world war to positivists, policies. north korea responded by accusing, take care of quote, bringing a serious security crisis to the korean peninsula and east asia. joe syracusa is

a professor of political science and international diplomacy, or the cuts in university has more on china's military presence. it's quite clear that china, north korea, and see clearly the united states is fully gauge in a proxy war, dangerous proxy, russia and ukraine, and that they're testing american resolve, both in south korea and taiwan. i mean, they'd like fruits of war without college or when i mean that is they want to drive north korea wants to drive a wedge between south korean united states and you get those sanctions are back. and jain, of course, is not going to compromise on taiwan, which is, which they thought was off the table after $972.00 shanghai community k. now, both nations, i believe, what prefer war to diplomacy not going to need anything else. and of course, the, the possibilities here are strategic, surprise miscalculation,

wrong units, and that kind of things. i think it's, it's a mistake to normalize what's going on. we can say, well, this goes on all the time. the opportunity for conflict between united states and china is high. i don't think it necessarily has to come from taiwan. might come over the navigation, south china sea, or some incident there. i mean, i think the americans probably won't go to more, which i wanted to. so go, reasons, number warrants been litigated, 1972, number 2. they can't win all the war planners and i got are quite sure that the united states couldn't be any kind of war. and area and nice place is not about to lose the 7 fleeting di want straight. i think if there is a conflict and i think it's going to come up with freedom of navigation, which is far more or the death toll from severe winter storms across north america

is rising. the 64 people have now been killed as heavy snowfall. i should say, continues, well, nearly half of those dest, sorry, new york state, which is one of the worst effect there, is. some neighborhoods have had up to 5 meters of snow in recent days, across the board in canada, or at least one county long lake ontario as the cleared state of emergency. and this to the big a backlog of passengers waiting for cancel flights to be rescheduled. particle, hayden has more on that from reagan national airport near washington dc. the storm was pretty bad for all the airlines, but mostly the major carriers are saying they've canceled what between 0 and 2 percent of their life. not so for southwest airlines, they have cancelled 62 percent of their flights today. and this is the result everyone i've talked to really angry, ruin, christmases, sleeping on airline floors, just trying to find their bag. so let me take you through what it looks like here at the self us 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 can possibly re book their flights or see how they can salvage this holiday season. which over here well, i told by the passengers they were told if you were flying a book to come to reagan, but they got you on a flight to baltimore. they are still going to bring your luggage to reagan. so then 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 line 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, luggage. so yeah, the people i 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 those. 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 into how this got so bad. so quick and for so many people benjamin netanyahu is move their step closer to forming what's expected to be the most right. mean government in israel's history. as after parliament passed controversial legislation allowing politicians previously convicted of offences without serving jail time to join the cabinet. some of the prime minister designates hotline coalition partners will now be eligible for ministerial posts. i real gold is executive director of the fellowship of reconciliation, the oldest interface, peace and justice organization in the u. s. she says that the rise of extreme right wing politics and israel is making more american jews view israel as an apartheid state. as far back as there was a pole in 2021 that found that a quarter of jewish american identified israel as an apartheid state. and over 20

percent of american jews say that israel is committing genocide against the palestinians. and that far before 3 met violet race, the government is coming in what, what's really happening right now. we've already seen this trend and it's, it's younger to becoming aware of what the situation is. and seeing the contrast be the opposite between american jewish value and israel has the mouth coming off, right? this map that israel is a democracy, that israel is the liberal, stayed at the safe haven, or even that it is possible to have both the jewish state and a democratic state. so that math is coming off and we're seeing the natural progression of what began before $948.00 of the political science project,

which is inherently racist. israeli forces have rated the home of a palestinian family in so one in occupied the eastern them. they also fired tear gas at residence in the area. earlier, 5 palestinians were injured in confrontations with jewish settlers and israeli army that was trying to seize land in the hallway area of. so one easier than airlines is announced. it will resume commercial flights to mckelly in that northern to grier region. from wednesday, representatives from the ethiopian government visited the rebel held area on monday . there was their 1st trip to the region since war broke out 2 years ago. from from the mechanic of the mom again, denise, 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 this delegation officials of the service sectors. and they will work to restore basic services as soon as possible. and they have already started since the signing of the peace agreement to go

a long way in that we will work hard for the return of the people of to gray to their normal lives. or malcolm where bizarre following the story from nairobi. very positive sounding statements, coming from both sides. the government said that flight commercial flights will resume from the capital capital, addis ababa c mikaela, the capital of the to grey region. ethiopian airlines confirmed that and it's time table, the 1st flight travel agent say that it's already fully booked. the flight meant to take off on wednesday, and that will enable families have been separated or traded to resume their movements and start to get things back to normal. communications have been restored in some towns in the grey road to the following, a black count that's going on for most of the last 2 years. and then the state media has said that electricity has been restored the national grid to have the

most part of the great proven it certainly looks like some progress is being made on the ground waiting to see if this will hold up throughout the course of this year c, 5 have been broken, fighting has resumed, lost the fire that was declared in south africa, the following by a peace deal signed here. and 10 years capital and i re be last month looked like more progress than has ever been made. today's savvy as president has put the army on its highest level of tensions grow with course about over recent shootings and blockades, serbs in northern kosovo whose independence is not recognized by belgrade, have erected more road blocks and the ethnically divided ton of mich. it's dean baba has more serbian flags flying in northern cost of only the border with serbia. new roadblocks have just been set up here in north metro visa casa vice

largest cert. majority town. other barricades went up weeks ago after the arrest of an ethnic served former police officer suspected of involvement in attacks on the force. on monday, the head of the serbian orthodox church was refused entry into kosovo. he said he wanted to deliver a peace message for serbia, an orthodox christmas, which is celebrated on the 7th of january. if possible yet on po glover. mckee, riscas, i had niss it. is there a head of any religious community? he can't visit his own people, not his believers, and con, enter his own homes or spoke with patriarchs 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 promoteco, 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 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 cost 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 serbian 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. a judiciary resigned. they were angry about christian banning license plates issued by bel grade, a policy eventually scrapped. and this month.