ecosystems under immense stretch, this glacier started moving back, it started melting off. there is something deeply wrong in this drawing. something we cannot create a thrice, explores how the law is beginning to hold multinational to account. we're all connected, f ne bus by those emissions. and how the idea of given nature legal rights is altering our relationship with the planet. this is what it's all about. it's about ensuring that life one action continue planetary justice on al jazeera. on january 1st, croatia will become the 20th country to join the euro. but after a recent draw in public support for the new comics, how will correlations adapt to the changes? and will it mean higher prices? in depth news and analysis on al jazeera ah russia retaliates. preston is on my boots in the sizable block,

the sale of oil to nations imposing a price cap. ah, i'm terry jones to mrs. al jazeera well live from don't. also coming up. the u. s. supreme court keeps upon demick error order. in effect, blocking migrants crossing the border from mexico, serbia puts troops on the higher the top 2 weeks of growing tensions with casa, under freezing arctic storm, severe heat ways, and devastating floods. we looked back on a year of extreme weather that affected millions. ah, russian president vladimir putin has announced a band on oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products. a decree will last for at least 5 months and will come into effect in february. well,

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 cremins revenue streams. as a warn you, crane continues. where many countries have pledged to end or severely cut back their oil and gas imports from russia. since this invasion of ukraine energy exports account for around 40 percent over russia's annual revenue on a worth around a $1000000000.00 a day. the cap was seeking to restrict that on making sure moscow kept supplying the global market. but russia says the cap and other western sanctions won't affect its military campaign and ukraine. moscow's confidence, it can find new buys. countries like india and china have continued to purchase russian oil. while thomas o'donnell is an energy analyst and electric, her tea, a school of governance in berlin. he says russia has already suffered a hit to its oil revenue. you hear out standing unity of the entire e,

u g 7. and so for very broadly, an agreement so very harshly sanctioned 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 this and already i know i was watching booking a bloomberg latest data a day or 2 ago. and the shipments from russia and 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. thus, his foreign minister has again that walnut ukraine must demilitarize or face

further military action. so gay lover of also accused the west of fueling the war in ukraine to weaken russia. he said the length of the conflict will depend on chief and washington. in ukraine, russian forces attacked towns in the east and south on tuesday. fighting has been especially intense round the strategic eastern city of buck. mood not done yet. sc province. anders were tolvey further north in the handsome province. shaw struck with has more 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 buff mood because the situation has become so difficult for the russians. now of course, we in 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 american sort of guy guys saying that the ukranian 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 suppose 2 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 floating 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 a tax in this what seems to be a 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 rule to keep border 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 with border officials to rapidly expel migraines. courts trying to cross into the u. s. from mexico. the federal judge last month, through the policy to be unlawful. the $900.00 states se, lifting it crudely to an increase in border crossings. whitehouse correspondent, kimberly how it is in washington dc. with more 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. the last president saying, the court is not going to decide on this matter until june. that's 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 in 4th. what is title 42 will essentially, it's something that was put in place ah, during the previous donald trump administration, i, and what this is,

is essentially gives the federal government the powers to turn away. those that are seeking asylum in the united states are under sort of the order that this is to prevent the spread of disease. so it's sort of a public health emergency type of restriction, but it's been use kind of his 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 at the by the administration feels that it's now that the pandemic is essentially for all intents and purposes over that is, this is no longer needed that they have argued it's in humane. that's been separating families and they wanted to see it and done for you as president, donald trump's tax returns will be made public on friday. as according to the house of representatives, ways and means committee. they received the documents last month after lindsey

butler ended up u. s. supreme court. miss merced again. the committee found that the internal revenue service did not audit trump for 3 of the 4 years of his presidency. trump declined to release his tax filings during his presidential campaigns. the death toll from severe winter storms across north america is rising. at least 64 people have now been killed as heavy snow for continues. the half of those desks are in new york state, which is one of the worst effects there is. some neighborhoods have had up to 5 meters of snow in recent days, across the border in canada, or at least one county long lake ontario has declared a state of emergency. there's still a big backlog of passengers waiting for cancel flights to be rescheduled. i think i have has more on that from reagan national airport near washington d. c. the storm was pretty bad for all the airlines, but mostly the major carriers are saying they canceled 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 a cell phone terminal. all of those people are standing in line 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 they were told if you were flying book to come to reagan, but they got you on a flight to baltimore. they were 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 have 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. now, the year 2022 as seen, extreme weather events across the world. fueled by ever rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat. the world's meteorological organisation has warned there's more to come. what else is there is seen him. it's all just everton fox looks back at the major weather events that affected millions and cost billions this year. the year 2022 will be remembered for the numerous extreme weather events that cause destruction mass displacement and kill thousands of people. at the

beginning of the year, tropical storms swept across southern africa with a sigh claim battering madagascar and devastating flooding in south africa. a severe heat wave in parts of south asia gave in the air its warmest march on record . what in neighboring pakistan, the city of jack ober bad was the hottest place on the planet at one point, the extreme heat scorched several countries, france bates in may, and the u. k. declared its 1st nation wide heat emergency and july. when temperatures hit 40 degrees celsius, wildfire spread across europe and north africa around 4 times as many as the historical average along with some of the dry conditions ever recorded drought in hearts flooding in kentucky in july, while unseasonal rain flooded the streets of doha, the warmer weather caused places to melts in south asia, raising river levels, which led to the worse floods in more than a 100 years in parts of ne and india and bangladesh. and pakistan. 3 times the

average rainfall fell in august, leaving one 3rd of the country submerged. scientists called it the climate catastrophe of the decade. china experienced its longest heat wave since official record keeping began. the yangtze river shrank to its lowest level in more than a 155 years. in contrast, south korea's capital was lashed by the heaviest rains in more than a century. during august, september blowing, one of the most powerful stores japan had ever seen at the philippines will never forget the force of typhoon noro, which escalated from a category one storm to a category 5 in just 6 hours across the pacific hurricane he and pamela, florida, at least a 114 people died more than in any hurricane since katrina. drought battered california swells heard in september. as death valley recorded the earth's hottest day with the mercury hitting 53 degrees celsius. in africa,

nigeria saw the worst floods in more than the decade and by the end of the year, se australia was in the midst of his 4th major flooding event. with sidney, having asked what his dear on record the world miss roger can, organisations says the tell tale signs and impacts of climate change are becoming more traumatic and we greenhouse gas is continuing to rise. after reaching record levels last year. the frequency and force of severe weather events are expected to be even more extreme in the future. what sort of head on al jazeera, p steel in motion? ethiopian airlines is to resume flight to the to grind capital and hungry and dehydrated after weeks at sea, or hing refugee seek shelter in indonesia. ah

ah, here's your weather report for asia nice to have you along. so that rain that swept through the mold eaves. now starting to push out into the arabian sea, otherwise across india it's a fairly quiet pitcher. but for punjab stayed toward the northwest. 95 percent of it is shrouded in fog. it's been pouring rain around, sebo 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 stared into indonesia as main island of java through bali and lombok as well on wednesday. and after 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 lin that's knocked back your temperature to 7 degrees cover in shanghai also got your pencil then for high of 7 on wednesday, ok off to japan right now. you know what that see effect snow back in the forecast

on wednesday for northwest honju and ho cato and for northwest honju parts of it anyway, there is about a meter of snow on the ground there. so will add to that tally or finish this weather report in pakistan. what weather leaves the golf comes into baluchistan province and for punjab province in pakistan, it's a similar situation almost fully covered by fog on wednesday. ah. the african narrative from african perspective, a new series of short documentary by african filmmakers from nigeria. south again, can you buy property robins place and turn it into a stone cautious song? give hillagada and modern p ness of camel africa. diving on jessie

ah, ah ah, you're watching out here remind her of our top 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 oil. this month, the measure is aimed at cutting the cremeans revenue streams as to warn ukraine continues. the u. s. supreme court has ruled to keep border restrictions that have blocked thousands of migrants from entering the country from mexico border. the rule known as title $42.00 was imposed in 2020 federal judge last month ruled the

policy to be unlawful. 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. people in some neighborhoods have been strangled, in that cause for up to 2 days. sir b as president has put the army on its highest alert level as tensions grow with casa of a recent shootings. unblock aids serbs in northern kosovo, whose independence is not recognized by belgrade, have erected more road blocks in the ethnically divided town. a bitch of it's not in. bob 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 visa, cosello's largest surf majority town. other barricades went up weeks ago after the arrest of an ethnic serb form, a 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. it was 3 yet ample. glover mckee, riscas island, 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. you spoke with a 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 to 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 milan butch, of ich,

talking with troops and inspecting military equipment close to the cost of a border. the short term goal is to full of the muscles, the fe or the surgeon 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 is few goals are at thomas province, north and kosovo has been particularly tense 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 to local elections insert majority areas were postponed. after many sib said they boycott the vote. that he, barbara 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 planes crossed into ty, one's air defense. so the biggest incursion in years, beijing is protesting against what it says is collusion and provocation by the island and the united states. if use taiwan as a breakaway province. since china, when that says taiwan wants peace but needs to be able to defend itself. crazy and we can only avoid war by preparing for war, and we can only stop war bite being capable of fighting a war day one needs to increase its ability to defend itself so that we can strengthen our national security in getting more international support florence louis has more details 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 cons conscripts will now be required to serve, could potentially add 60 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 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 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, ones, 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 is yo fin airlines has announced it will resume at commercial sites to mckelly in the northern to grey regent. from wednesday, representatives from the ethiopian government visited the rebel held area on monday . it was their 1st trip to the region since war broke out 2 years ago. 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 happened to us with us in this delegation officials of the service sectors. and they will work to this to a 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. benjamin netanyahu has moved a step closer to for me, what's expected to be the most right wing 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 a hard line coalition partners will now be eligible for ministerial posts. real gold is executive director, the fellowship of reconciliation, the oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the u. s. she says that the rise of extreme right wing politics in 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 identify 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 by live rates, the government is coming in. what, what's really happening right now. we've already seen this trend and it's, it's younger jews 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 mess that israel is a democracy, that israel is the liberal, dated the safe haven, or even that it is possible to have both the jewish state and a democratic state. so that matthews, 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 ceylon and occupies east jerusalem. they also fired tear gas at residence in the area. earlier, 5 palestinians were injured in confrontations with jewish settlers, and these railey army settlers tried to seize lands in the way area of our hierarchy has more from occupied at easter. isn't 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 spence and this plots 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 cameras can just sound there, there's some trees that have been cultivated by a palestinian family that has lived for 7 years. now. the palestinian family 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 jewish organization, has bought the lands, 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. how's this has been through the course for many years . it went through to the supreme court of israel as well. and the court has ruled in favor. 6 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 friday, why things take place? at least a 113 people have been rescued from the mediterranean sea of the coast of libya. the mediterranean, a charity says its ocean viking vessel rescued the group from a rubber boat. there were about 30 unaccompanied miners on board. the ocean by king is the only rescue ship in the central mediterranean. other n g o ships docked in ports. hanging muslims have arrived in northern indonesia telling stories of the harrowing c crossings. at least 185 people are receiving medical care of the arising and i say on monday they were on board at one a full boats left bangladesh in november. harry faucet has more of the week drifting 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 on the sea. this was the scene just hours 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, our 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, full boats, left bangladesh. on december, the 8th, an indonesian oil tank 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 58 ra hinge came ashore in ladon, village in indonesia, western arch 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 and intensive investigation was 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 doing what they can to give these refugees some sense of normality and dignity after their ordeal. but the future remains unclear. agency se the number of a hinge of fleeing by boat from the camps bangladesh has risen fivefold this year 22 and a half 1000. the theories that many more will be subject to the sorts of dangers in the month to come. hurry, faucet al jazeera. ah.