one in the yellow stop in one of the amazon regional inhabitants of libya. here in digital city, there is evidence that dates back centuries been got that he came to power. he showed to arabic, our culture became illegal to name our children. amazon names. he removed our culture from history books, but we preserved our culture and secret younger view played an important role in the revolution that toppled longtime leader, wal mart, that he outlaw their time of life language. now, after more than a decade, they are able to open celebrating their heritage and culture. although libya has been engulfed in violence and political division since 2011 the amazon, you'd say they're happy with their new found freedom. ah, the u. s. joins

a growing list of countries putting cub 19 restrictions on travelers arriving from china. ah, i'm carried on to mrs. alex is there a live from? also coming up maternity hospital is hits, his russia steps up a tax on a ukrainian city liberated from russian control frozen in time. we have an update on what the big thaw is receiving from a chilling winter storm in the u. s. on canada. and we united often months apart because of conflict beat. if europeans, we connecting with family the to drive ah, the world is becoming increasingly wary of how china is handling a cobit 19 breaks. the u. s. has now put restrictions on people arriving from china

. a day off to beijing announced it would drop all quarantine measures for inbound travelers when it joins italy, taiwan, india, and japan in requiring negative tests. for anyone traveling from china. us officials say they're concerned about a lack of transparency surrounding corona virus cases where china reported just 3. it could be 19 related deaths on tuesday, even though hospitals and funeral homes are under intense pressure. chicago, how jump are you doing fisher or countries go through other potations when they adjust their covered policy by china is no exception. currently, china's epidemic situation is all predictable and under control. that vague is the 1st city to pause the peak of infections, work and life are going back to normal. now, chinese authorities have also conducted scientific assessments and made necessary preparations for a possible search. in other provinces. we have full confidence in ensuring your smooth and orderly transition to you on despite the surgeon infections,

travel websites have announced a spike in traffic from people in china booking overseas trips after 3 years of quarantine measures, hong kong that says it's scrapping most remaining restrictions for people traveling to its territory. my white house correspondent kimbry. hark it joins us from washington, d. c. now kimberly tell us more about this u. s. policy in terms of travelers from china and what seems to be the thinking here. well, the vital administration is concerned that the chinese cover is not being fully transparent. and this is a concern that goes back to the start of the pandemic. and as such as a result of the ease of the restrictions in recent days in china as well as what the u. s says, or spiking cases in china, us as taking measures to ensure that there isn't a spike of cases of covered 19 in the united states, particularly when it comes to some variance of the micron variant. so what the

united states is done is said that all travelers from china, hong kong, macau, into the united states. and this also includes those transiting from those locations through canada, particularly vancouver as well as toronto. pearson international airport will now have to show a negative coven, 19 p. c r adage, and test regardless of vaccination status. if they are over the age of 2 and within 48 hours of departure. now this is something that the united states says is necessary because they feel that they have not been able to fully monitor the growing threats in terms of these variance. and again, because they feel that there are missing pieces of information, there have been an alarming number of videos that have been surfacing online showing packed hospital quarters inside at china and at the same time, well, there are, these are some reports of spikes and cases we have these denials coming from the

chinese government to there are in fact a rise in cases. and so given the fact that there is this competing information, the centers for disease control has decided to take these measures. and we should point out the china is saying there's no scientific basis for the us to take this action that this is all hype. still, the button administration is defending these actions and says that this is really something that they believe is necessary as a result of a lack of transparent data. so once again, the u. s. government taking this action aid, it takes effect on january 5th. and this is at midnight january 5th in order to allow the airlines time to put in place these protocols for these travelers entering the united states. okay, kimbry hacket sir la for some washington d. c. thank you. ah,

it cranes military says russian forces have stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the city of her song, which was liberated from russian control last month. ukraine says at 33 missiles were fired at civilian targets, some hit a hospital maternity ward. officials say staff escaped on hurt per schuval would, would, would return. you have lived there were 2 strikes, one was right here. we have covered the crater. the 2nd strike, you can see the consequences. after the attack explosions started, we instantly moved the pregnant women to the basement and then moved them to our main ward, where they spent the night after a checkup on we let them go home. i was just the federal carnival and there was an abrupt explosion. i grabbed, went ahead and reached the blanket. anything i could see and quickly ran to the corridor. the windows and glass started to shatter the civilians an hour trying to get out of here, saunders a tax intensify. ukraine's military has resumed its counter offensive in the

eastern region of the hands. too large cities, there are still on the russian control, shall strap with has more from keith, the governor of care. so the region says the city and the surrounding area has come under more heavy shilling today by russian forces, the majority of which it's believed to be targeting the area from across the river . we know that careful city was liberated by the ukrainians last month. the governors saying that infrastructure hate includes a maternity ward, a medical facility, a kindergarten, and a brace factory, you know, reports miraculously, of any casualties. we do know that the city had a population of around 70000 people, many of whom had returned since the liberation of care so on. and we understand that many fleeing back out of the city as this shelling continues. also, interestingly, more reports of what seems to be the beginnings of

a ukrainian push around the town of crimean and crimean. it is occupied by russian forces very close to the loo guns could do net sc borders. it's an area that a pretty much seen stalemate since a new front line was established there following a ukranian counter offensive to and a half months ago. this area very strategic being pulled. now we've been speaking to the advisor to the president's office. mikhail pal dolly act, and this is what he had to say about the situation in her son and around camino and pushing them out, which now most of i know linda butcher was, wouldn't you know, we don't see any intention preparation for a russian counselor offensive towards her son and russia doesn't have the necessary military resources in order to do that from the south. the russians, i even to make her son a dead city to completely destroy all civilian infrastructure in the center of the city. and in residential areas. crimean for those was little camina is highly

imported, strategically and logistically because of its location in the loo, hands on it board. and it is currently a logistical hub for the russians. but the army is actively pushing toward amena. the question of the timing for the salt is one for the general command that, but it's obvious. we will take camina because it's vital for al counter offensive. meanwhile, ukraine's national electricity provider says more shelling of electricity facilities in the east of the country has a meant that there is now a further deficit of electricity, country wide that comes of course, in the wake of these devastating so called kamikaze drone and cruise missile attacks that have been targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure already. it's understood that there are still millions of ukrainians across the country without electricity or heat. russia has dismissed the ukrainian presidents at 10 point piece plan for him as lens. his proposal includes the withdrawal of russian troops

and the restoration of ukraine's borders. for the kremlin, says keith must accept russia's annexation of fort ukrainian regions before. torques can happen. there isn't any peace plane by ukraine yet, and there can't be any cleaning piece plan. the fears to take into account today's realities regarding the russian territory, the incorporation of the new 4 regions into russia. any plan that fails to acknowledge these realities can not be considered a piece plan. now days sauced an arctic blast and brought up the us several western states and are battling major flooding. california, oregon, and washington state have all been affected so far. the weather system is called an atmospheric river and has been caused by the winter storm. heavy rain has already caused a creek to burst its banks in salinas in california and caused flooding in seattle . national weather service has issued wind warnings, but there is some relief from the winter weather for people in the eastern

u. s. as temperatures begin to rise, place our national guard members have been going door to door to check on residence in buffalo, which was hardest hit. a 140 centimeters of snow dropped on new york state's 2nd largest city in what people are calling the blizzard of the century. a storm killed at least 34 people in buffalo, or gabriel, arizona. though i is joining us live now from new york, so some temperatures are starting to rise, but still a long way to go in terms of the chaos that's been caused a very long way to go, especially for the people of buffalo, new york, buffalo, the 2nd biggest city in the entire state of new york. it's on north, near the canadian border, and it's used to getting really cold and very snowy winter's. but this is unlike anything they've seen in decades, perhaps even 50 years or so. as the mayor up there said this was the worst of the

worst sort of storm. how the national guard has been deployed there on, on wednesday, they and police officers were going door to door now that they're getting some of the roads open to try to get into some of the neighborhoods that have just been totally cut off from any sorta help for several days and as mentioned, the death toll has gone above 30 people and officials are saying they expect that to rise. now this storm was incredible and its magnitude just to give you an idea. the city of buffalo was subjected to 40 straight hours of blizzard conditions. normally 123 hours of blizzard conditions is enough to close. a city down almost 40 hours is just simply unprecedented. and so it will be a long time. and now the risk is really flooding as this ice and snow melts. there's really worried about foot flood damage. and now there's the governor laid

on wednesday, saying that she's deploying extra resources there to the tune of more than $300.00 generators. and more than 775000 sand blacks on their way to buffalo right now. and gabriel wiley will this is going on, tell us about the troubles involving southwest airlines. while southwest is one of the biggest airlines in the united states, it's primarily a domestic carrier, but it does fly to mexico and the caribbean a little bit, but it is just had a complete operational meltdown. it was triggered by this storm, but it goes beyond that as well to just simple system failures throughout the entire company. so much so that the ceo of the airline came out and simply apologized on wednesday to not only the customers but to the employees as well. there's hundreds of thousands of southwest customers throughout the united states that are stranded, more than $2500.00 flights just in south west were canceled on wednesday. they've

already preemptively canceled more than a 1000 on thursday. listen to a little bit more about the company, c e o. had to say about this. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we've been facing. whether you haven't been able to get to where you need to go, or you, one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline. to know is that we're doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i'm truly sorry, but given how bad the situation is for south west, we're hearing that it could be several more days before they're able to re position pilots, flight attendants and airplanes to different regions of the united states. to try to get their schedule back on track. this has been an absolute disaster for southwest and thousands of their customers so much so that the federal government, the department of transportation says they are going to be investigating to see

what exactly went wrong and hold the company accountable. gabriel and is on with that update. thank you. a further north in canada, the freeze is ongoing houses in ontario is for eerie have been turned into a fairy tale like ice town after days of heavy snow. several regions in canada declared a state of emergency on saturday. the arctic deep freeze extended as far south as the mexican border. without more wild weather in other parts of the world or tornado has been caught on camera tearing through western bolivia. local authorities say at least 5 homes were damaged in our alto, but no casualties were reported. the dust twister formed in a matter of minutes during thunderstorms in the city. the phenomenon lasted for about 20 minutes. i had her well just sarah israel's newly formed government promises to palletized expansion of illegal sentiments and

with republicans ah hello. they will start in north america and there's been vast improvement to easton areas of the us after that major winter storm swept this way. further, north east with the mother conditions come into the likes of washington dc. the temperature here sets a climb over the next few days. we could potentially see a record as we go into the new year, 11 degrees on thursday. that's going to push even further up 13 degrees and if we have a look at that 3 days, we go into the weekend. 17 degrees on sunday with mostly sunshine. now there's still some winter whether to be found. we've got another cold front that's pulled

in across western parts of canada. the north west pacific is going to bring some very heavy rain to northern areas of california, some snow as well, pulling its way further east for the south of this cloudy but calm. picture that extends down into central america for much of mexico. we are, however, seen some showers blossom across the yucatan peninsula. the rain does pick up. however, on friday as that warm air blows its way further north rash of storms pulling across the deep south. but much dryer for much of the caribbean, it's a similar story. further south of this, if you have your showers for costa rica and panama san jose at 24 degrees celsius, that sure whether ah ah, ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, he watching out a reminder about top stores this out. the u. s. has joined a growing list of countries imposing cope with 19 restrictions on people arriving from china, the joins it's late. taiwan, india and japan, requiring negative tests for anyone traveling from china. ukraine's military says,

russian forces have stepped up more to and our tenure tax was city of hassan. 53 missiles were fired at sprint targets, some hits of hospital maternity. several western states in the us saw back being a major flooding. days after severe winter storm struck most parts of north america, california, oregon, and washington state of all been effected so far. israel's new government is promising to make expanding illegal israeli settlements and occupy the west bank a top priority. a statement of policy pirates is released by anyone that know whose liquid party says quote, jewish people have an unquestionable exclusive right to the whole land of israel unquiet. it could cause rifts with israel's closest allies, including the united states, which opposes in legal settlement construction on occupied territories. well, israel's parliament connects, it has passed a highly contentious law, his immense control over the police event. the law grants the far right in coming

security minister. it's more than the unprecedented power over the police and to the senior. his coalition government is considered one of the most white things, ministrations in decades. well, i keep l doors of the school unless an offer he says the changes in israel leadership or unprecedented and will be difficult traverse. i think that know what's happening in the last 48 hours is actually unprecedented. and i think that the new minister of the police is my bet. greer has described these perfectly is that they have made history. and actually this is a turning point in the history of israel as both the democratic and jury state what david grossman road today,

which is also on prison. ok, because the his se was the headline today in the front page is that it will be very difficult if not impossible. to rewind this will be lucian, united nations and age groups are urging authorities not galveston to reverse orders against women's work and education. essay time critical monitoring programs have stopped due to a band by the taliban administration on female 8 workers. many other activities in the country could also be paused. last week, the taliban government said that women were not no longer allowed to attend. university girls have been banned from high school since march defense ministers from turkey or syria and russia have met in moscow to discuss ways of resolving the syrian crisis. they talked about the possible return of refugees. how to jointly

combat on groups talks in moscow for their repeated warnings by take care of a possible ground operation into northern syria after a deadly bombing and it's done through last month. thank you. so thought is blaine, the attack on kurdish fighters. russia has opposed a new now the iran human rights organization, which is based in no way says at least 476 people have been killed in months of nation. my protests including $64.00 children. the demonstrations were sparked by the death in custody of 22 old moss armine in september. she was detained in tehran for allegedly violating strict dress codes. hundreds of people have been detained at rallies across the country. according to rights groups, at least a 100 protests as a currently at risk of execution. death penalty charges or non jail sentences.

if you had been airlines have resume flights to at northern to dry reuniting loved ones of the 18 months of conflict. the route from addis ababa, 2 mckelly was suspended during the conflict between the government forces and to grant rebels who signed a cease far in november. when saunter buyers, reports ah, outside the airport and addis ababa, the significance of this moment is impossible to ignore kasey. hi lou and most of these families have lived in limbo for months. come with them. what does it didn't? hm. what about if i lived here apart from my husband and child who i love, i came here for my daughter's examination and suddenly got stuck. when i heard about the news of the flight, i fell to the ground and cried, do your medical now to cross with some left to see family, others for the birth of a grandchild. the plan to return to try in

a week or 2. but in november 2020 war broke out communications and flights were suddenly impossible to knock at the gun a couple of tickets. i'm extremely excited that i'm going to see my sister and my dad. i don't even know what to say. fighting began after the federal government accused the t drive people's liberation front of attacking an army base outside macaulay, the 2 year conflict has killed thousands of people and displaced millions. a peace agreement was signed in november. it includes the restoration of services to te gray and the resumption of flights is the latest in that process. travel agents say the 1st flight was fully booked with an hours of the announcement government. it comes after a high level government delegation, visited rental held areas on monday when they were there to work on implementing the african union broker piece deal. under the deal,

the t p. a left fighters must disarm and allow security forces to take control switches. eritrea and forces will leave the region all over. what we have so far. busy officially unemployment in relation between the government into gripe and the fuel and federal government. the broader issue, particularly the relationship is an integral and remain on addressed. and so far the goshen has been going to the federal government, but it might be necessary that the integral governments directly engaged rather toward up but on the runway in mckelly the politics and broader conflicts or at least temporarily forgotten. the families are reunited. no one expected to be gone this long, and the shock won't be easily forgotten. months of work remains to ensure the region doesn't slide back into conflict. but at least now, they're finally home. alexandra buyers al jazeera, salsa don,

is planning to send the $750.00 soldiers to eastern democratic republic of congo, that we part of a regional force to counter armed groups and civil unrest. for many congolese oppose the move. welcome web has more on a difficult year for the country. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced in recent months as the n 23 armed group advanced towards the city of goma in democratic republic of congo to the north. uganda and soldiers arrived just over a year ago, under an agreement with congress government. he got, his army says he's pursuing a you can an armed grid, pulled the adf, that's responsible for massacring thousands of civilians. writes creeps, say the violence has increased since the ugandan trips arrived. both uganda, andrew under of been accused of meddling and looting minerals ever since they 1st invaded congo the $900.00 ninety's. it's not everyone who we,

who was interest you know, most tables. yes. there is some non states at god and perhaps even some 5th factors who need this to to, to be going on so that they may got, you know, with their traffics. 6 months ago, east african leaders agreed to send a regional stabilization force, kenyon soldiers of the latest to arrive on the that banner, uganda, perone and south seed on of said they'll also contribute troops. the risk is there that the different countries that are intervening will pursue their own narrow interests. and many of these countries have in the past, particularly the neighboring countries of burgundy, wanda, and you gander, have supported proxy groups against each other, but also against the commonly state. more than 20 years after their mission began, the popularity of un peacekeepers is in all time low. many, congo li,

blame them for failing to protect civilians. demonstrators of burns and un convoys encamped in recent months. many people say they're tired of foreign forces. the beginning that the so you son for the see is to have i stayed, which is the responsible that can defend instead it's very and a fed which can also defend and protect the human rights of their own citizens. so military ration and it's not the solution for the last 20 or 30 of india. see we have these for an in division innovation and they, they didn't give that solution. and we can say that these rates are not an initiative which is in our military. you shot if will hi will. they are food. the n 23 arms groups widely understood to be backed by neighboring wonder. it's

fighters have been photographed alongside rwandan soldiers. un peacekeepers have filmed hundreds of fighters crossing the border. rwanda denies backing the group. almost nobody in congo believes it in cities across congo. people have protested against lawanda and you can the, to the blame for decades of military aggression that called for western powers to cut off military a to wonder the u. s. and more recently, france and germany have criticized rwanda for it support. but none of the wonders backers have applied sanctions last week. the voter registration began for elections that are due to be held a year from now, leaked documents share the last election 4 years ago. was rigged, president felix jessy. katy was announced the winner. he wants to run again. many people are wondering if next year's election will be free and fair was it even happened on time when you look at the documents of the national electoral

commission, it's already in there as a factor that might delay elections themselves. so they were preparing the argument of course, no credible election can take place if there's so much violence that voting comp can't take place. the violence shows no sign of stopping and 23 said it pulled out of this town of keep them last week following international calls for its fighters to withdraw and disarm it has since continued fighting on another front, pushing towards kolton minds that it controlled in the past more than half a 1000000 people remained displaced from their homes, mostly because of armed conflict. recent peace talks in nairobi failed to bring any change on the ground. for now, people must wait to see if the arrival of more foreign forces in the months ahead and the upcoming election make things better or worse.