we're also going to see the rain start to fill in as we look toward the northwest. and limpopo province is in south africa on wednesday. also still a few sharice to go in vinto coming in at $32.00, but for the western cape province. ok, sure. a little breezy but cape town. not bad with a high of 22 degrees on wednesday. that's it. see in a bit. ah. the in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world. do you think the diplomacy still stands a chance? i'm not very optimistic about any negotiation. we're already in a bit of a crypto winter. it's gonna hold there inside story on al jazeera. ah,

a maternity ward, the ukrainian city of cas shoal is hit as russia intensifies it shelling ah hello. so robin watching all of their life. what headquarters here are coming up in the next 30 minutes? russian president vladimir putin. buns. oil exports to several countries as retaliation for price camp. a cold for reforms after the u. s. supreme court upholds a pandemic era policy that allows officials to turn away migrants at the mexico puerto and from heat waves to lock tick stole devastating floods to promote droughts. we looked back all the year of extreme weather. welcome to the program. ukraine says russian forces have shelled a maternity ward in cash on which is reclaimed or which it reclaimed last month.

elsewhere, you crazed military has resumed its counter offensive in the eastern region of law . hands to large cities are still under those russian controls. while charles stratford has a latest force from ki, let's just begin with that attack on the hospital at charles just gives more details about when and where yeah, this is on this that happened yesterday and had song shelling, hitching according to the ukrainians and maternity ward a spokesperson for presidents and lensky said that a doctor had literally only just finished operating or giving us this area in section 2. a pregnant mom when the shelling started. miraculously, so the spokesperson said, nobody was injured in that attack. now, the shelling comes, i made seemingly an intensification of attacks by russian forces from across the river across to any pro river. as you say,

russian forces withdrew from care. so on november, the 10th november, the 11th and showing has intensified again in the last couple of days, or at least 10 people killed in an attack 23 days ago in the center of care song around 70 people injured. we understand that many of the people that have moved back to the city in the wake of it being liberated by ukrainian forces all now leaving. but also getting details about some of the, the areas that have the most intensely being targeted. most specifically, an area called engineer, which is directly on the banks of the river denito there the northern bank, russian position, germany around 700 meters across the river. we understand certainly according to people that we've been speaking to inside, the city was around 8000 people living in that district and they're coming under heavy shilling and very vulnerable to sniper fire as well. so you very interesting,

and as far as is it represent renewed push or a push by russian forces to reach take care. so, i mean, i think it's too early to say at this stage because of course, that river is such a huge natural barrier defense for you creating positions. but this is certainly some of the most intense shelling we've seen since the city was live rigid laws mas articles. charles, you know, we look at the country as a whole. and generally, we could say in as a tale of happ small or large gains because the fighting is intense with that bombardment continuing sort of just bring us up to speed on what we know has happened overnight in other parts of the country. where there are some very interesting developments on the eastern front. specifically the around the town of crimean now computer is russian occupied. it sits very close to the loop, ganske donates borders and is the frontline that was established on the back of the

very successful counter offensive about 2 and a half months ago by ukrainians. that frontline around the town of crimean hadn't moved until a couple of days ago. and now we're getting reports from the ukrainians at least that they are pushing forward again, gradually taking back villages around criminal trevino is important basically because if it was to be re taken by the ukrainians, it would give them an easier access to 2 of the largest cities in russian occupied 2 guns named lucy chance can sit down. that's now both those cities suffered devastating battles and fighting last summer will eventually take control over by the russians. but yes, that is significant. also with respect to the town of buck, now we know buck moot as seen some of the most intense fighting in recent weeks. we've heard about probing attacks from the russian forces from the north and the south of that city. we all now hearing suddenly,

according to pro russia telegram channels a day advocating that russian fools you should actually withdraw. because the situation has become so untenable for them. that of course, we cannot any way independently verify these kind of lines. but in support of that kind of line of reporting, the american based institute, the studies of war is reporting that russian units, or russian forces around by moot have been some have been pulled back. they're now going down to describe this small kind of tactical units. now i s w who are saying this is a similar kind of thing to what happened in the build up to rushes, withdraw russian force which withdraw from the care sean. but military analyst will say this could just be a win to tactic withdrawing, trying to pull troops back to better protect them in the winter months and artillery further back russian artillery attacks on. but we will continue butcher

as i say, a lot of moving parts in the east and the south today. some certainly for the ukrainian perspective, some encouraging news. their child struck the voice there in key. thank you. russian president vladimir putin has band oil exports to countries that set price camps on his energy products. now the decree will come into effect in february and will last for at least 5 months. early this month, the australia and the group of 7 agreed to camp russian crude at $60.00 a barrel. the aim is to restrict moscow's revenue while still supplying the global market. many countries have pledged to end or reduce their dependence on russian energy since it invaded ukraine. energy exports account for around 40 percent of russia's annual revenue and are worth around a $1000000000.00 a day. russia says the cap and the sanctions won't affect its military events. in ukraine, moscow is confident it can find new buyers. countries such as india and china are

still buying russian oil. thomas so donald is an energy analyst and lecturer at the hearty school of governance in berlin. he says, rushes oil revenues, i've already taken a hit. her 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, respect this and already i know i was watch looking at 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 cap was imposed. so is this, in fact provider from over going to cut supplies when they're already being forced to have a significant hit to their supplies. the death toll from severe winter storms across north america is rising. at least 64 people have been killed. nearly half of those deaths saw in the state of new york, one of the worst affected areas across the bouldering, canada, or at least one county on lake ontario, declared a state of emergency. now the went to storm like 2 major travel disruptions and then still a big backlog of passengers waiting for canceled flights to be rescheduled. political haine has moved from reagan national airport ne washington dc. a familiar scene in airports all across the united states. long lines were canceled flights, lost luggage, but more than that missing memory. okay, how can my grandmother greeting you today?

it i was do use. my granddaughter there wasn't a floor that was one with braces 3 because a grade is sentimental. she's been here every day looking for her luggage. she's not sure when she'll get it or when her granddaughter will be baptized. every one of these long lines has a story to tell. eventually i just left the line after being told that we probably wouldn't get a flight to dc until the 28th, and i'm paired up with a family and we all drove together to dc. and then a student laugh about 3 hours. got re book for another flight that was supposed to leave out at all. paul about 9 ish, and they say at okay, in about midnight, that was council. the severe winter storm saw almost $20000.00 flights cancelled during the height of the busiest travel season of the year. but most airlines have recovered. southwest airlines are mostly domestic carrier,

has canceled the vast majority of them. it's just the fact that this once started west swept east and impacted almost every single one of our largest airports. that put us in a position where we struggle to recover. these lines are not going to get shorter. anytime soon. the ceo of southwest is they're only gonna fly about a 3rd of their scheduled flights that could take days. department of transportation says it's going to investigate. but the airlines going to have bigger problems than that. everyone i talked to so they had no intention of fine southwest airlines ever again. paddle him al jazeera washington on the west coast of the us. people are dealing with flooding the santa rita creek and salinas, northern california. as burst its banks after heavy rainfall homes are flooded and authorities of all people to be careful on the roads. county officials have been distributing sandbags to prevent further damage. mineral parts of washington state

are also underwater. a king tied and heavy rainfall triggered flooding in the capital, seattle, the national weather service as a shoot, a high wind warning. so let's bring in all weather presents jeff harrington law on the situation on the west coast. it's all eyes then. we can do that. yeah, absolutely. so, so hale, this was pretty much, we had the perfect storm line up here. so this is the satellite image. you can just see this plume of wet weather crashing into the u. s. west coast, but let's talk about this set up. so really we did have the perfect storm for a few reasons. here we had an atmospheric river which is a narrow, concentrated band of rain. but this coincided with her just a few moments ago, a king tide. so that was a tide of about 5 meters high, so the 2 work together just inundating areas up and down the west coast of the us. so let's go on for a closer look right now at the blue. that's all the rain. it's far south is los angeles in san diego, but let's talk about the worst case scenario. we saw some spots we saw about

a 150 millimeters of rain. we set records for just how much rain we saw, for example, in portland, in the us state of oregon. and we saw there was winds with up to a 145 kilometers prior. so this was certainly a vigorous system. this was also impacting canada's british columbia province the lower mainland. but here's the thing, a bit of a breather through the rest of wednesday. but then the next storm system rolls in. so we're going to see some more rounds of rain get lashed with some even more. when did we can see that in the 7 day forecast in vancouver more rain thursday and friday. ok. you know what i think by saturday, i will begin to dry out with a mix of sun and cloud. that's new years eve temperatures, as the hill are pretty much where we would expect them to be for the some the years . so very white, very soggy. over the next several days. ship day jeff, you're welcome. so the supreme court is upheld a trumped arab border policy that uses public health and the justification for expelling asylum seekers. rule learners, title foot 2, supposed in 2020,

to control the spread of cobra claim team. they gave the government the politics profiles of undocumented migrants entering the us from mexico. the policy had been due to expire this month leading to fears of an increase in border crossings. i want us corresponding kimberly health 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 1st president saying the court is not going to decide on this matter until june as 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. as the controversy around it is essentially that the bible ministration 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, has been separating families. and they wanted to see it and done. wolfville had hail on al jazeera, israel's prime minister designate is one step closer to solving the country's most far right. government plan slides, floods and power outages in southern philippines after torrential rain over the

christmas weekend. they stories after the ah it's been so warm in central europe, it's de, stabilize this snow pack in the alpine region. however, one dramatic video to show you off the top. this was the moment an avalanche struck . the austrian alps here burying for people knelt thankfully all of them were rescue 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 peter out through the balkans that kicked back temperatures a 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 and showers for the low countries. and this weather front drops down

to the northwest of spain, northern portugal with some rain, other side of spain, with some records temperatures for the month of december, including barcelona. that stellar stretch of weather will continue on wednesday showers for turkey as black seacoast. i think most intense stuff will be over the ne black seacoast enough to africa. we go some showers for the western sahara, which is not unusual for this from the year. let's step to south africa right now. rain in the forecast for the northwest limpopo and also how same province is on wednesday. johannesburg 528 degrees for you. that's it see later. ah ah, ah, with

blue ah, pull them back, you're watching officer with me. so hold on the reminder of our top stories. ukraine says russian forces of shell de maternity ward in cash on which is a which it to reclaim last month. elsewhere, ukraine's military has resumed its counter offensive in the eastern region. russian president vladimir putin, his band, oil exposed to countries at price caps on its energy products. the decree will come

into effect in february and is expected to last for at least 5 months. also, the u. s. supreme court has rule to keep pandemic era order restrictions that block thousands of migrants entering the country from the mexico border. last month, the federal judge said the policy was unlawful. if european allies is set to resume flights to mckelly and the northern to gray region later on wednesday, after an 18 month absence, these european government representatives visited the rebel held area on monday. they was their 1st trip to the regents. it's war broke out 2 years ago. both sides agreed to a cease fire in november. israel's prime minister designate benjamin netanyahu is a step closer to forming the most right twin government in the country's history. parliament has passed controversial legislation that allows politicians convicted of offenses who haven't served jail time to join the cabinet. some of netanyahu's

hardline coalition partners will now be eligible for ministerial posts. ariel gold is the executive director at the fellowship of reconciliation, the oldest into faith, peace and justice organization. in the u. s. she says the rise of right wing politics in israel is causing more american jews to view israel as an a party state . 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 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 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 savvy as president, has put the army on its highest levels as tension grew with crossover over recent shootings, unblocked caves the serbian government does not recognize the cause of it as a state subs in northern cause have not received more read blogs in the i think he divided town of it richer. nathan bobby small. the serbian

flags flying in northern kosovo, near the border with serbia. new roadblocks have just been set up here in north metro pizza. castillos largest, said majority town. other barricades went up weeks ago after the arrest of an ethnic sub 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 a piece message for serbia, an orthodox christmas, which is celebrated on the 7th of january. if possible, yet, ample glove out mckew, riscas island nisa. is there a head of any religious community? he can't visit his own people, not his believe it. and con, enter his own homes or spoke with 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 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 of the muscles, the fe, or the shogun, be also to shoot dead to 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 steel 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, 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 barbara al jazeera, the security council has condemned the taliban recent decrees limiting women's rights in going on a week ago they banned females in the country from attending university in chines antennae. terror said the rule about it to unjustifiable human rights violations, do, and is also called for the full and equal participation of women and girls. in africa, society well, at least 25 people have died of the heavy rains and flooding in the southern philippines. the weekend emergency response teams helping tens of thousands of people falls from their home, with a full sense to say films onset to dump more rain on the southern and central regions. while leesha was seen or has seen some extreme weather events across the

world fuel by ever rising greenhouse gases, concentrations under accumulated heat of the receiver meteorologist everton, fox looked back at the major weather events that affected millions a share. 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. it's warmest march on record. what in neighboring pakistan, the city of jacko bad was the hottest place on the planet at one point. the extreme heat scorch several countries france bait 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, southeast australia was in the midst of its 4th major flooding event with sydney. having its wet astir on record, the world which roger can organizations says the tell tale signs and impacts of climate change are becoming more dramatic and we greenhouse gas is continuing to rise. after reaching recall levels last year. the frequency and force of severe weather events are expected to be even more extreme in the future. at least 113

people have been rescued from the mediterranean sea off the coast of libya. the s o s radian ne charity says it's ocean viking vessel rescued, the group from a rubber boat. there were about 30 unaccompanied miners on board station. viking is the only rescue ship in the central mediterranean rang and muslims have arrived in northern in denisia, telling stories of the hiring c crossings. at least 185 people have been receiving medical care. after arriving a check on monday, they were on board one a full boat, so let bangladesh in november, harry force it has the story 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, 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 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 shrunken 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 and intensive investigation was different parties with it in denisia 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 say the number of hinge a fleeting 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 these sorts of dangers in the month to come. hurry faucet al jazeera, though the us is considering imposing cove at 19 restrictions on travelers from china infections a surging across china as the country a.