needs of their pass and the confines of their presence. the dancer thieves a witness documentary on al jazeera new horizon for visually impaired the rockies. they finally have their own football team. training was launching in october in the city of karbala. the specially designed to both was donated by a japanese charity. it creates a cracking sound to allow players to locate these players hope to join football clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have their own teams because there are only 5. elise specially designed bowls. ah.

the u. s. becomes the latest country to consider imposing restrictions on arrivals from china. has concern grows about the size of the current of iris outbreak that ah ha, you're watching al jazeera alive from bill. how with me for the battle also ahead. russia intensifies. it's a tax on ukraine. a maternity ward is hit in a city of care, san emotional we unions in ethiopia as the national carry. i resume slides to the war, torn, reaching out to gripe 1st a brutal winter storm and now floods. the u. s. space is more bad weather this time on the west coast. ah. i surgeon corona virus infections in china is worrying several countries. it's thought they could be more than a 1000000 new cases daily after beijing east restrictions. the u. s. is considering

imposing new rules for passengers arriving from china. it says it's because of a lack of transparency about the size of the outbreak. anyone traveling from china to taiwan, japan and india already has to show a negative cobra test. but hong kong is moving the other way. it's canceling requirements will p. c. r tests where people arriving in the territory from thursday. quarantine for passengers testing positive will also be abandoned. lloyd . they owe more visitors coming from overseas. the mainland mccall anti one do not have to do mandatory p c r test when they arrive at hong kong. instead, rapid antigen test will be required all the way through the 4th day. while the jumping infections in china and the potential regional impacts have been keeping investors on edge florence re has more from hong kong. if you look at the performance of the stock indices in hong kong, i think it mirrors how people feel about this decision. bouncing index rose 1.6

percent. and i think that the business community is largely, i'm happy and also confident about hong kong ability to cope with rising coven cases. remember, when hong kong had the very strict rules, it was seen as something that affected the city's reputation as an international financial center. now it's a rather different story in china. however, it's main induces the c as i 300 index, as well as the shanghai composite index, both recorded minor loss losses. and i think this overall reflects just how investors feel about china's ability to cope in the short to medium term with the explosion. in covey cases on the mainland, china's health facilities are under immense strain. its hospitals, its medical stuff ah overwhelmed, very shortage of medicine in some medicines. in some places, funeral homes are full, the not accepting appointments until next year. so and the modeling that some health experts have have them have used,

predicts that they could be $1.00 to $2000000.00 deaths in china the next year. and so i think what we're seeing in the stock market in hong kong and china really reflect how people feel about these 2 places. ability to cope with corona virus in the coming months or scientists world wide are monitoring corona, virus of out been seen china. dr. patrick tongue is the division chief of microbiology had seizure medicine hearing doha. he says, a new variant has not been discovered in china so far from what would be your instance and the evidence that we have so far about how to handle the pandemic. it would be in bed, that may be que abrupt of a change from the 0 colgate policy here to allowing no, pretty much ramping spread the virus now in their country. so what we worry about is the right new, more immunity, the more transmissible barrier of 19 as

well and having various spread to other parts of the world. but the theme time there is a lot of in unity in the rest of the world. and especially immunity for back the nation as well as community from infection. so it's really hard to say what the effect will be if you knew that when you do there are some barriers that arrived in china. would they have that much of their act on the rest of the world, which has gone through multiple ways of colgate, including the recent on the way? i think from the fact that waived the different oma crime, barion we being around the world, we're getting close to the point where they're going to be equal librium, where we're going to reach some level of and de mr. d. not quite there yet. and especially for china, they're definitely not quite there yet. they're, they're going to be are in the large former crime. we just like the rest of the world did back in late december, early january of this year,

and then the subsequent additional ways that different cron at the barrier. ah, ukraine says russian forces are continuing their bombardment of the recently liberated city of care. san key says, dozens of missiles where launch in the past 24 hours, some hitting a hospital maternity ward official say, staff were able to evacuate, and no one was hurt. ukraine's military has resumed its counter offensive in the eastern region of landscape. meanwhile, 2 large city farrah, so under russian control, char stratford is falling developments from keith. this is the 3rd day now where we have seen a reported intensification of rush and shelling of the liberated city of san san was liberated by the ukrainian forces, changed their lives to november. and this is according to the presidential spokes

person. he saying that this maternity ward was hit and a pretty graphic account of a doctor having literally only minutes before completed. this is arion operation on a pregnant woman before those strikes, records say no reports of any casualties. but as i say, the last couple of days, at least we are seeing renewed, seemingly renewed, intensification of russian shilling from across the river. across the denise river was 2 days ago where at least 10 people were killed and others 70 injured attack that they hit the center of the city. we do know that approximately 70000 people are living in kennesaw and in some of the surrounding areas. many of them having returned since ukrainian forces took control again, and there are reports of many of those people now leaving in particular

neighborhood called antonia, which is directly on the west bank. the norwood bank, if you like, over the need for river that is come under heavy shelling sources. they're saying around 8000 people are living in that neighborhood. and they say the neighborhood is very susceptible to sniper fi russian force. he's only around 700 meters across the river on the opposite bank. meanwhile, russia has dismissed the ukrainian president, 10 point piece plan for the muse lensky proposal includes the withdrawal of russian troops and the restoration of ukraine's borders. the criminal face, keith has to back down on regions that russia has an ex before talks can take place . ronnie greedy has moore from moscow, vanessa to the it was yeah. leo, mariani in the russian situation has never changed. this situation was clear since the start of the military operation, the kremlin denied to day any plans for peace and ukraine, and such plans will never be on the table if they don't put into consideration. the

developments on the ground developments on the ground means rushes annexation of the 4 ukrainian regions, namely low hands, the nets, separate sheer and co phone. i'd like to mention here that the russian foreign minister, sir gay love has said that if crane had agreed last march, during talks in his time bull that talks now would have only been a battle hansen demette scroggins. and now we would never talk about the other 2 regions. moscow has always been through us what influence in caves, decision and says, because of ukraine's refusal, russia in the future will proceed depending on the military developments on the ground. therefore, from russia's perspective, the more ukraine refuses, the more loss, as it will incur. moscow has warned ukraine and has confirmed that it will go on until it achieves his goals and objectives. any vera, some russian conditions mentioned by putin earlier in order to open doors for any

future negotiations. like recognizing this for regions as russian lands. in addition to other matters, like stopping the supply of weapons to ukraine and paving the way for foreign mercenaries to go. the and moscow says it is it sovereign, right to ban oil exports to countries that set price caps on its energy products for as input ins. decree will come into effect in february and will last for at least 5 months. this is after the e. u. australia and group of 7 agreed to cap rush and crude. at $60.00 a bow earlier in december. the kremlin call the measures illegal. the aim is to restrict moscow's revenue while supplying the global market alcantar to his founder and ceo of rich management, which is an investment advisory firm. he says, while russia and western nations are feeling the volatility of the oil market, other countries are reaping the benefits. i think the big macro a scenario that's unfolding is that emerging nations are getting discounted energy

from russia, from the situation ukraine. and this is a significant tailwind for the economy. they're able to negotiate better prices with the russians, because the russians are trying to pivot away from the old longstanding markets. and the china in particular, and india are extracting significant discount from the situation of the countries and not benefited to the same degree, but are benefiting china. and india are the biggest beneficiaries of the situation . because not only are they buying in cheaper oil and gas for their economies, they're also sending back a lot of oil and gas, turning it around and making a profit, sending it back to those economies. which of put in the price gap. so it's a double wind for these guys. and for the west, the problem is really that it's becoming very expensive. you know, you hear the german politicians say with 85 percent fall,

we got good storage. but what is the price they've paid for that? oil and gas? it's been egregious to the upside. it's put significant pressure on the industries on the european industrial base b, a s s f is moving, it's biggest facility from journey to china. and this could become quite a deluge because you can legislate on this price. but unfortunately you have to replace the oil and gas. and currently they're paying a very high price for that in the west. the defense ministers of takia, syria and russia have met in moscow to discuss ways to resolve the syrian crisis that speak to our corresponding cynical, several who is in the sample. i sent him an important meeting in moscow to day. what did the defense mass as discuss while those 3 ministers came together for the very 1st time as a tradition theory in

a minute. if the defense ministers had met each other after 11 years for the very 1st time, they discussed the syria quizes, the refugee crisis, a possible joint of joint efforts to combat all terrace groups and syria. these are the topics they discuss. and according to the serial statements in the meetings are held in a constructive atmosphere and 3 parties decide to continue those 2 meetings in the future for the sake of syria. and of course, for the sake of origin, this meeting is more special than the previous ones. that have been held before as after 11 years. it took in syria, the 2 neighbors that came that were at the brink of award. it came together for the very 1st time i went to tea, a proposed for a counter terrorism operation targeting to syrian tour. despite your group y, p g in northern syria,

we heard turkish official saying that it was time for normalization with syria. and the 2 countries were already holding told on the intelligence level. but of course, that's remember that 2 countries are on the opposite size. when it comes to syria conflict that's true, can support that. the syrian opposition and the mascot was not happy about this and the most. because despite all those talks on a possible joint efforts to combat terrorism in syria, we know that the mask is once turkish military presence out from its borders. and we are hearing that the turkish officials, turkish defense minister, has asked for assurance for the safe and honorary return for syrian refugees. the completion of the constitutional process in syria for independent elections to be held in syria and assurance. or the syrian refugees not to be held are not to be put on trial. if they go back to they are

a country and the return of their properties for back to those syrian. so these are the topics that have been discussed wide ranging discussion save and thank you very much for that cynical. see of you live there in the stumble still i had on the program, a former police officer is released by kosovo authorities in hopes of ease intentions with serbs. and israel's parliament passes a new law granting a far right politician, unprecedented power over police. ah ah. the 1st fries of the season for the northwest of india. hi there. this was roger stan state where a temperature is dipped below 0. we've cut a lot of sun in the forecast straight across india on thursday. few showers rolling

across some old leaves that will impact molly with the high of 31 degrees where the rain has been intense is through pakistan, baluchistan, punjab and the capital territory. some snow for k p k, also some snow in off on a stand. so cobble looking at anywhere from $5.00 to $10.00 centimeters of snow on thursday. it's been pouring rain from sabu city to devout, but that batch of rain now moving further north, closing in on manila. and with the monsoon rains picking up or seeing that rain a fall quite heavily for da nang, on thursday. meantime, rain is just being steered in to indonesia as main island of java here through bali and lombok as wall and next stop or go into china. it's a gloomy pitcher, pretty much say we're from the yellow river valley right down to the pearl river valley shanghai coming in at 8 degrees. but i think more in the way of sunshine for hong kong. 18 we've got you penciled in for in time that see effect snow. it's back for the western side of honshu and whole kado, other side of the mountains. tokyo coming in at 13 degrees. that's it. you see

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you're watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories. the u. s. is considering restrict seeing travel, travel from china, where a surgeon corona virus infections is raising global concern. taiwan japan in india already tightened entry requirements. and ukraine says, russian forces have shelled a maternity ward in the city, of course, on that he reclaims last month that says, ukraine's military resumes is counter offensive in the eastern region of r e t o. p is national carrier, has resumed flights between addis ababa in northern to grey for the 1st time in 18 months. the airlines suspended the routes during the conflict between government forces and rebels. they signed a ceasefire in november. if you can. airline says the technical team was sent to the regional capital mckelly to ensure the airport was ready to receive flights. and he will tell me this, this is a joyful moment because we're going to meet our relatives after a long time. i am very excited. i pray to god that the remaining things will also

be resolved soon. but um the soon as i came here to see my daughter who was giving birth at the time, my plan was to stay for 2 weeks. but everything was shut. suddenly it has been more than a year and health already. i'm very happy the pieces returning and excited that i'm finally going home. authorities and course of all have a released a former police officer who's arrest earlier this month. height intentions between the christina government and the ethnic sir minority. protestors have been blocking roads in the north, demanding. his release is now been placed under house arrest. officials hope his release will ease tensions. nato's mission impossible has said its support dialogue between the 2 sides. elaina boucher has more from the border village of urine you the passage is a former police officer from castillo. he led his job in november when all the serbs withdrawal from the coastal institutions. and he was arrested here in yada

new crow single december then. and he was accused of terrorism since then, he's somewhere here in the police camp in yachting, it somewhere near discussing. and he's the lawyer confirmed auto 0 that he has been released under house arrest. but now there is a logistical problem for cost of a police. how to transfer upon teach to his house because of the barricades. and i remind you that advantage arrest was the main reason for the barricade. so now we are waiting to see if the barricade or some of them will be remote. israel's parliament thickness that has passed a law named after a far right politician, known for his untie, arab and racist remarks. it grinds incoming security minister, a mob been given unprecedented power over the police, has been appointed as prime minister designated many minutes now prepares for me coalition. government is regarded as one of the most bite wing administration in

decades. hierarchy has moved from west to that's never really happened before where the police come underneath the government. now this is a new government that has already been causing a loss of control. the c. it's the most orthodox right wing government. and israel has ever seen in its history, and these decisions are being made fast and furious. they made decisions a couple of rules put together yesterday, new nose made this area and want to know where is giving full my party members will party members in the coalition or politicians? an opportunity to have jobs for example, lunch was given a role within a minute, ministry of defense. and that means that it's giving these, this coalition party more authority sweeping powers across the military, across the, across the police. and it remains to be seen what's going to be happening next. this was all part of the coalitions and feel if you like with her. so i know he's

going to be returning as prime minister again, and he has been in a position where he's needed this coalition to be able to advance forward and creates a new parliament. now, the ultra orthodox right wing coalition has made a stipulation that for them to join and partner off, they would need some guidelines and agreements, cemented ahead of being sworn. and they want to guarantee that moving forward. they can go ahead with base decisions that they had clearly been in the works for. 1 while now the coalition has been until now, so to see like on the fringe, but now they're all the main st. and they want to ensure that they could talk to y'all, who puts these stipulations ahead of anything else. much of the us has begun to recover from a major winter storm, but the west coast is now facing floods in northern california creek. both its

banks after heavy rainfall caused by a so called atmospheric river as the weather phenomenon caused by the winter storm homes are flooded and authorities have worn drivers to take care on the roads. officials have distributed sandbox to limit the damage, and parts of washington state are also under water, a so called king tide and heavy rainfall triggered flooding in seattle. the national weather service has issued a warning for high winds, and we see use is jesse kirsch, reports from one of the worst affected areas buffalo in new york state. you can see these mountains of snow behind me in downtown buffalo and if you can believe it, this side street is actually in better shape than some of the other ones we have seen today in the city. so hard hit by this storm and look over here, down the block. you can see there's a vehicle still covered, at least partially in snow and behind a wall of snow. where the ploughs seem to have come through here. really some kind of digging out has gone on. so you can see these are the kinds of scenes were seen throughout this community. i asked the mayor of buffalo when the driving been,

which is in place right now could be lifted. he said there's a possibility hoping that could be lifted later today so that people might be able to get out tomorrow because there's some concern here about people potentially running out of food. so he says, tomorrow it an ideal situation, people would be able to go to the store, be getting food, be running errands. if people cooperate with officials right now, a 100 military police have been brought to buffalo. were on their way to buffalo still, according to officials, somewhere in the mix. they're either on their way or are here already. they are coming here according to officials to enforce that travel van. so this is something they are taking very seriously here as they try to clean up after what is going down as the deadliest snowstorm in buffalo history. when extreme weather events have happened around the world, this c m many with fueled by increased concentrations of greenhouse gases and heat in the atmosphere. al jazeera senior,

this year ologist evident fox looks back at some of it. 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 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 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 sydney. having asked what his dear on record the world which roger could organisations says the tell tale signs and impacts of climate change while becoming more traumatic and we greenhouse gases, continuing to rise after reach and record levels. last year, the frequency and force of severe weather events are expected to be even more extreme in the future. then as well as the economies emerging from a deep recession after years of political upheaval and us sanctions. but, but about half of the population lives in poverty and incom, income inequality continues to widen. alessandra pity reports. i brianna garcia

opened her natural, cosmetic shop 4 months ago in caracas, spedding on venezuela's, mother. it economic recovery. and despite many hurdles, she says things have gone well so far. only economy, agatha nice young, it's an economy and revision that's just starting to grow. again. there is a feeling of normality for commerce. and many shopping centers have started operating again, implementing like the government's decision to relax, price controls and allow trading in us dollars has given some businesses and president nicholas my daughter. a 2nd wind in a country were real gross domestic product as shrunk by almost 80 percent in a decade, dollars. they're everywhere. these days, prices in stores, restaurants, and even food carts are listed in dollars. this is partly stabilized prices and brought a veneer of better economic times. so people go together with more favorable international

geo politics. this is allowed madura to venture outside the country, shaking hands with leaders who were trying to house them until a few months ago and confounding opponents earlier. why dod amend the united states and other democracies recognize as legitimate president after calling my daughters 2018 re election. a sham spends most of his days in a spartan office, photos under wall show him at the height of his efforts to topple madura. and although opposition parties are now seeking to end this mandate, he remains undeterred. i don't wanna do out a thought. oh no, legs and blessings. yeah, only that we need to bring this to a presidential election and we need to strengthen the opposition to facilitate talks. mexico, but let me be clear, it's not because the opposition is divided, that madura keeps the power he keeps you sipping power because this is a dictatorship looters regime as agreed interior to resume negotiations with the opposition in mexico and arrange free and fair presidential elections in 2000 with

4 in exchange for ease youth sanctions and the oil sector. mother was hoping the economy will continue improving enough to give him a chance to win the next presidential elections out. right. especially if the opposition remains as divided as it is right now. but economies say the improvements have done little for the majority of venezuelans. good, my little see at the all you elemental madura trying to credit himself for the increasing a comic activity, but all they've done is stop causing happ inflation. to lift things then it will create some peace among the middle and upper class. but this doesn't mean better conditions for those who go to public hospital or need public services. but for now, avoiding hyperinflation might be enough to offer some opportunities to businesses like i brianna's and the government more time to maneuver. allison, the and pierre, the al jazeera carrack, us ah.