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. fighting a proxy war. also coming. covered 19 sweeps girl china, now that beijing has abandoned its strength, 0 public policy infections or surgeon causing international war and a massive winter. a storm brings bone chilling temperatures to watch of north america. thousands of flights have already been canceled. throwing christmas travel into chaos. ah, i'm to call for life to our ears on p b. s. and the united states and all around the world. it's good to have you with us . ukrainian president polymer zalinski is back home after a surprise visit to washington d. c. he end of the journey by stopping and poland, where he met with his polish counterpart on j. duda, an aide to duda said the leaders spoke for about 2 hours,

posting on social media zalinski said they discussed the years quote, historic challenges due to a full scale war. now, while in washington, zalinski predicted that next year would bring a turning point in the war, but stressed. ukraine is still very much relying on continued support from its western allies, precedence lensky was given. the red carpet treatment as he arrived at the white house greeted like an old friend, but as you as counterpart, joe biden, they've spoken many times on the phone, but this was her 1st face to face meeting since rush invaded ukraine. in the oval office flight and granite lensky, another wish hi on ukraine's weapons list really continues to strengthen ukraine's ability to defend itself, particularly care defense. and that's why we're going to be providing you credit with patriot missile better 1st and lensky. it was an opportunity to pay his

respects to ukraine's because back i knew that i want to give you something. one guy is really the real hero, real captain. and he asked me to pass his award. he asked me to best give the work prisoner by them. you will understand. a said captain fall hymer battery. yes, he is very brave and he said give it to very brave brass neck. and i want to give you that is a cross cross for military. married, that is one god movie. yes. well, one deserve but much appreciated. thank you. thanks for joe biden. it was a chance to send a clear signal to russia that the u. s. is in it to win it and

i stage is committed to ensuring that the brave ukrainian people can continue, continue to defend their country against russian aggressions, as long as it takes the president of ukraine. next, not person, lensky and heroes. welcome. as he addressed a, we're joint session of the united states congress. against all odds and doom and gloom scenario. see your grain didn't fall you green is alive and keegan. our 2 nations are allies in this battle and next year will be done in point. i know it, the boy and when ukrainian courage and american resolve must guarantee the future of our common freedom, the freedom of people who stand for their well,

here's why. the mirrors on wednesday no support like this, and washington will be vital in the months or years of fighting ahead. but it's not guaranteed. some republicans are concerned about the billions been giving to ukraine. and when they take control of the house next year, they might trade a title. the purse drinks routing to the landscape strapped the kremlin, akins, ukraine, and the u. s. of ignoring it's concerns and despite rushes continued attacks on ukraine. president vladimir putin earlier today told reporters that russia was open to diplomatic negotiations to end the war or conflict with chivalry ruling on conflict. all armed conflicts eventually and with diplomatic negotiation, alina gallery, and we have never rejected such an opportunity in a somewhat si, beautifully ukrainian government that's barred itself from holding negotiations.

now, which looks quite unusual, or i would even say strange or tim. yeah. but sooner or later, you will decide that are in conflict with each other. so just sit down and negotiate with this sooner. our opponents realised that the battery was late to move and we don't have never rejected that. president fulton has been claiming that he wants to negotiate away out of this conflict for months with a war going quite badly for him. i asked russian analyst maria cat. i must say a fulton would be willing to compromise. well, i don't think that ludovic put in is ready to compromise, at least at this moment, the stakes are too high for him. it's either only going forward whatever sacrifices that means for their russian people or defeat, which will be devastating for the regime and potentially dangerous for human. his family. he will never compromise on crimea, for instance, which was an ox by russia back in 2014 and other 4 ukrainian territories. that's

russia legally say, after a february, probably after having an ax ukraine's territory at this point, moscow wants to seal the deal. but still, at this point, there are so many instruments available to vladimir putin, such as black mailing western countries with gas and which watering ukrainians, making it difficult for them to leave in home. so without electricity and water. now that he has these instruments, he will see what kind of a fact that will have and then he will act accordingly. but we have seen that so far, he is ready to sacrifice everything and compromise on nothing. these remarks, of course, falls and i skis, visit to the u. s. how did the meeting go down with the public and the media in russia? well, not surprisingly, russian state media, the place and massive

a role in feeding the war machine has expectedly marked as the landscape. the news coverage saying that he was the prostrating himself to americans. this kind of support from the media coverage is especially important for putin, since he's in any believe fears. the rivalry with the ukranian president, for instance, takes the last case was a to frontline buff mode where they have his battles are taking place. now, the very same day put in an awards ceremony at the company and for soldiers fighting in ukraine as well as the state media journalist. so we can see that the difference between those 2 leaders is striking and these kind of images can affect russians and their belief in their leader. moscow says the new military age promised by the united states will only prolong the ukrainian peoples what they call suffering. and has warned of consequences now, the suffering is, of course,

brought upon the ukrainian people by russia. so how big are fear is of an even greater escalation? now, while this rhetoric can be part of for russia escalation game, which essentially boils down to threatening western countries in hope that they will be afraid to further escalation and will be more restraint in supporting ukraine. and we have heard vague, a thrust from the crumbling since february, especially at the beginning of war. they made many, was to lead us alert and cautious about military assistance for ukraine, but given, continued on groping for support of growing support for ukraine that we are witnessing now. the criminal threatening narrative doesn't work that well anymore. russia analysts, maria, catamount st. joining us from tbilisi, thank you so much for that analysis. meanwhile, across ukraine, millions of people are struggling without access to water, electricity, and heating dinner,

rushes ongoing strategy of attacking civilian infrastructure. some cities like the black sea port of odessa and a warming centers where people can go to escape the misery if only for a little while without power. there's no school. that's why these children are here in one of odessa, as many public warming centers. unlike many places here as electricity, water and heating chimes studying many emotions and humans from those. i have to do my homework, but it, but because of the blackouts, it's hard to study in school and you have scholar. russia has pounded the city with airstrikes in recent weeks. infrastructure is severely damaged. power lines of broken all over the city. electricians are repairing them as fast as they can. or obama, you then we're working day and night, or band on weekends. it's really hard. the, we're trying to limit that i will win the fight to keep the power on, but a more and will win and other ways to you and the get to see you. some wisdom.

odessa is mer is worried for the coming months with in the vic michelle more to court for no, we can't rule out new blackout law. and we, we're preparing for the worst case scenario. we, we have the warming centers, do we have stoves and generators? so people weren't for his louis lou, don't plumber them's image. and a dash co part of cub gina didn't have power for 8 days. she's installed emergency lights throughout her apartment at the moment. there is that tricity on an hourly basis, but she fears new attacks. women young amana conquer, i get real panic attack. i try to cope with it, of course. but even when i try and be rational, i find it difficult. but the landscape visit to the u. s. gave her at least a little hope. federal prosecutor here in germany have arrested an employee of the

country for an intelligent service for allegedly spying for russia. the suspect, who has only been identified as carson. l is accused of sharing still secrets with moscow. they w as political correspondence, i'm young has more. yeah, this man is a, an employee of germany's foreign intelligence agency. the b and d is a german citizen. and he's been arrested on the orders of the federal prosecutor accused of spying for russia. a he is alleged to have passed information that he obtained in the course of his work to russian intelligence services during 2022. and he appeared before a federal judge on thursday, accused on a charge of treason, and he's now being held in custody. his appointment that his workplace and all the

locations have been searched and there is now an ongoing investigation which is a very sensitive investigation. in fact, the head of the b n. d has said that it's important that further details of this not made public because doing that, he said just helps. germany's opponents who want to hom, germany, and he went on to say that russia is a particularly ruthless and violent actor. so this is a very serious information leak, right at the heart of germany's intelligence establishment was did away in political correspondence. simon young, thanks. let's now lawn to some other stories making headlines around the world today. the u. s. n, as has passed a $1.00 trillion dollars spending bill for the next year. the legislation would avert a partial government shutdown and also includes $45000000000.00 in new aid for ukraine

. the bill now goes to the house of representatives where it's expected to pass. we haven't heard of israel's designated prime minister benjamin netanyahu has managed to form a new right wing coalition government and made the announcement after weeks of negotiations with religious and far right. political partners, netanyahu led his party to win the most seats in israel's november election, but needed coalition partners to govern. and i've got a son, dozens of women growling in the capital pablo to protest a ban on women entering universities. and how long and now is the measure earlier this week fronting international condemnation. female students have since been turned away from university campuses across the country. the chinese and russian navies have begun a joint naval exercise in the east china sea underlining the deepening military and political ties between the countries known as joined the 2002002. the exercise will continue until december 27 and covered 19 cases are surging across

china right now. until recently the country had some of the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare st protest lead to many roles being relaxed. now, with the experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying co with deaths. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there have been no official or courted deaths for 2 consecutive days. at times china 0 called it policy looked like this empty streets and some of the world's largest cities like shanghai here, 28000000 people are nowhere to be seen. other times it looked like this with aggressive scenes in supermarkets and people desperate to grab some of the sparse food and supplies. i'm still available to the child waller. there were also containment camps. entire city blocks and neighborhoods locked up and barriers

built to prevent free movement. china 0 covet rules were some of the most strictly imposed anywhere. residents were repeatedly told 0 cove. it was the only way to keep them safe. george indian, we each and we must unswerving lea at here to the principle of people 1st and life . first, the trilogy of curbing imported cases and domestic resurgence is and the policy of dynamic 0 cove it found it. but then this fall cases began to spread rapidly despite the strict policies many chinese experienced for the 1st time someone close to them getting sick with cove it and as cases spiraled, so did public discontent. in late november, a rare showing of public descent erupted in multiple parts of china. oh, there were st demonstrations and even some called for present. she jumping to resign. c reg, the kind of public outcry,

unheard of inside china then 2 weeks later, a change of heart from the government. the health department announced the loosening of 100 covey rules and holly footer. it just it how so she, our focus will be increasingly science based and targeted lucia, we should firmly correct oversimplification or a one size fits all approach and avoid taking excessive policy steps. even gamma on december 7th, china loosened measures, allowing home quarantine, reduce testing, making it easier to travel. chinese authorities and state media largely ignored the protests and accusations at 0 cove. it failed. instead, they've been insisting the relax policies are due to a weakened corona virus. but weakened or not, the infections have been spreading rapidly, creating fear and anxiety, and further disrupting an already fragile economy. experts warn china could soon be

facing a peak of up to 800000000 cases in the country, which they say could mean as many as one to 2000000 deaths in the coming year. and calling us chair of epidemiology at hong kong university school of public health. and we asked if china has the necessary health infrastructure to cope with its policies? i is clear that it does not, and something i'm very worried about is that there's no effort to slow the spread of infections and to flatten the curve a month ago, there were a lot of measures to keep cases at a minimum, those have been relaxed because we have a new strategy now of, of allowing the virus to circulate, but there's no attempt at the moment to slow things down. and in beijing they're dealing with a lot of very severe cases. all at the same time. if those could be at least spread out over 2 weeks or 3 weeks or 4 weeks instead of one week, that would make

a difference. so i really hope that we'll, we'll have about some mitigation measures which the rest of the world was doing one year, 2 years ago. and as has moved on since then, china still has to go through this phase as been calling tariff epidemiology at hong kong university. school of public health sh and let's get you up to speed on some other headlines making is around the world to day. the alleged boss of asia's biggest prime syndic and doug as asia, as al chapo has been expedited to australia and he's born canadian, said she loved, he says drug trafficking charges and a suspected of leading one of the world's biggest suppliers of a legal methamphetamines. you as judge has released as grace crypto currency executive sam bank when fried on a $250000000.00 bond facing fraud charges related to the collapse of the f t x crypto currency exchange. when she found it, prosecutors accused him of stealing billions of dollars from customers. arts of

northern india including the capital daily or shrouded and dense fog as the country's pollution prices combined with wintry weather to wreak havoc on wednesday . low visibility, lead to a major vehicle pilot near the city of correct for millions of americans are under severe weather. warnings as a major winter storm moves across the us. breathing arctic air is bringing blizzards. an icy winds too much of the country as it pushes, se forecasters are a warning. temperatures could plunge as low as minus 45 degrees celsius. in some areas, record breaking cold comes as millions hit the roads and the skies for the holidays . airlines have already cancelled thousands of flights. matthew capuchin is a meteorologist based in washington dc, and he told us why the storm is so unique and dangerous. really is, was in a generation because of all the moving parts, each of which is having its own impact. for starters, we have an upper level,

low poverty, colder will pressure and spin this, helping test by 8 surface disturbance causes what we call bama genesis base. we be rapid strengthening, have a service or master place, really great list. now because of that, it's sucking into air from all sides. so on the eastern side of the eastern us coastline, we're see winds right northwards, warm moist air flooding rays and damage winds. on the back side, side, beery to air is cascading down south central u. s. a. plains causing windshields down to minus 40 to minus 50 celsius, actual air temperatures down to minus 40 celsius and dangerous conditions. for anyone outside with sub breezing weather, always out of the gulf of mexico. that in between those 2 here masses clash, you get heavy snow blizzard conditions all coming at a time of year. what about 130000000 people are expect to travel more than 80 kilometers or more of the holidays. very bad time. and you said it there were looking at minus $45.00 minus 50 degrees. how dangerous is that for the human body?

it's a kind of thing. the human body cancer mind. lesser actually protected and really indoors or bumps across your rid west. the north central u. s. in order to year, we're advise you that anyone has to drive more than just like a minute or 2. how that emergency can your car? because if you break down, you know, it only takes what a couple minutes before crossway to sit in ashy damage or even kill your skin and start losing limbs and stuff like that. a very quick either after one can succumb to the coal for which reason. we say don't bed on authorities reaching you in time, don't travel. you don't have to. if you're in that part of the us, really, hawker down, stay home and stay warm and talk about the authorities because earlier, similar, not as intense storms have knocked out power to millions and killed hundreds. are the authorities in the areas a fact that now better prepared than they were those previous times? i think that's a really good point. you bring up, you know, about 2 years ago there were 2020 you had a big event in texas where it's actually

a piece of the polar vortex broke off and rock very cold temperatures down the lone star state process. pretty much wiped out the state power. we're not, no power for 1000000 customers. and i think we learned a lot of lessons that during that of that it was with taishan. so ice freezing, rain, snow that prevented a fuel from region to power plants and, and resolving power generated that will be case this time or cost who is a company in charge of texas power? red says they got this, this time. we'll see if that actually is correct, but i think the bigger issue really winds impact on travel rather than power averages. and the timing, as you say, is very poor on those meteorologist. nothing can poochie there in washington d. c. thank you so much and thank government protests in iran are now in their 4th once their regimes violent response and execution of demonstrators has been met with condemnation around the world until now. french author and women's rights advocate, helen. see, sue was unsure if it was her place to use her influence to speak out,

but she's had a change of heart. it always. lisa lewis met up with her and parents. wow . for 3 months now, the protests of women and young people have engulfed iran. has have the regimes brutal crackdowns at 1st french intellectual, illinois, 62 states silent thinking it was not her fight was in this, is this a lie, rainy angle, friends asked me, why aren't you doing anything? is well, what can i do? speak up. ha ha. she says, iranians need to see that the world is listening and cares. one suppose considered . i think it's every one's duty to send the signal. yes, i hear you. do you hear me? yes, i hear you. 6. who says it's no surprise. the unrest was sparked by the fate of one single person, 22 year old masa, a mimi who died after iran's morality police arrested her for showing too much hair

. if you can set it goals, that's how the great was for freedom. start. is a little incidental one person he pays for entry into a huge freedom movement for you on that basis. but basically, for the last 100 years, iran hasn't stopped moving from one so called revolution to the next one on then each time the victims or the pretext, or the objects or the hostages of these movements, the completely overturn the situation in iran are women. well, the situation, i insist willis on 6 years as women are the stronger sex and that men are afraid of them looking for when a woman has off her veil in the street on purpose as a political gesture it, it's an unheard of active courage because they kill people in iran, they kill people all the time. on your recovery. one is deeply moved by the courage that this gesture represents it. does it mean victory in the dwaa? ha, ha. 6. who believes iranians will need much more support from abroad? if they're to turn courage into victory, ricky escobar, you will fuel,

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