aah! building! the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of an architect. motions. this kid starts december 25th. oh d w. ah ah ah, this is you to be use life from berlin, russia strikes you cranes liberated south. at least 10 people are killed. a shells target cast on cranes, president called the attack terrorist also coming up to taliban order, all non governmental organizations to stop employing women in afghanistan. latest

ban comes on top of one for women, attending universities and in arctic blast sense temperatures plunging across the united states. blinding blizzards, freezing rain, extreme cold knockout power to millions of homes and businesses which are storm disrupts, holiday travel plans for many americans. ah i'm woodcraft. welcome to the program. as some of the world celebrates christmas, this year's festive season in ukraine will be a gloomy one. a russian strike in the southern city of hash sonus, kimberly's, 10 people and wounded dozens of others. the city has been the target of constant russian shelling since ukrainian troops regained control of it last month. a warning to our viewers. the images in this report may be disturbing. has son's city

center on christmas eve. normally at this time of year, this square would be bustling with activity. this year, a russian missile has left the streets, strewn with bodies and blood, and distraught, loved ones left behind. lou here or i really or known to 0, one of the people killed was selling me to the market. worried? well, he just went out on the stairs to have a smoke pool was blood there. we will prefer, but we just dragged him here. he was dead short alcohol full from your flu. president zalinski says there are no military facilities in the area. he accused moscow of simply killing for pleasure. russia denies targeting civilians,

but it does admit to targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure for months at the power grid has been battered by attacks that have exposed millions of civilians to bitterly cold temperatures. it's a gloomy christmas eve in ukraine this year. russia says it has no plans for a cease fire during the holidays. as people across the world get ready to celebrate ukrainians, still fighting for their survival. the cranium, security analyst, alexi, melnik, told us how ukrainian forces could respond to threats of such russian attacks. the rain is trying to defense to minimize possible tank, not just military authorities, but civilian targets and that's more west than the greek men. may. ready i mean, you did the best, the chance is to destroy national solutions,

russian stocks. and this is the only way to me you might, can, i mean, you might and fully eliminated was renewed to support your pain in the national them probably believe that some kind of english nations ships would solve this problem. it's not complete while recent tracks of also repeatedly targeted ukraine's utilities. as i, the capital steve organizers have set up what they call in bit invincibility centers. these are places where people, gen charged their phones work or simply warm up into views manual chas. reports. brazil is a suburb on the outskirts of key. if victo survived a russian occupation and now must survive the winter constant as tracks on power

facilities, catalytic tricity and running water to his entire building. so he makes do as best as he can do is get the good deliver, i'm good at you. we feel bottles with hot water somewhere. i already hit a hot water bottle. as for food for the fridge, we try not to buy anything like that. it was the golden little bought them from just as we speak a surprise. the power comes by con cartoon. and so does the heat for a while, at least whenever victor doesn't have electricity. he comes here a small prefab installed by the authorities, so that residents can charged a phones and warmed themselves up around the stove. a short drive away is butcher. the city council is now a rallying point for those without electricity. it is one of thousands of why presidents zalinski calls invincibility centers on the father of act. the butcher city council is now a social hub where

a generator works and where you can charge phones. and most people don't come here for social services. but because there is no electricity at home, no water at home. here you can collect water. you can connect to the internet. he a resident study work and stay in touch with the relatives on line with her to leave them on line. those invincibility centers are crucial for ukrainians to simply survive. the arid siren goes off. but here, nobody seems to care any more. who need them here? those i don't really like you. i would rather sit at home with the light on. but you need to charge your phone so you can call your relative or more more. they hadn't telephony similar or the shop as only thing. yeah, 3 sure i came to recharge my mobile phone. i just want to pay my utility bills. and most, all i just want to contact my loved ones is what it is. your daughter is saw him in

a blish. you mean clips still kilowatt? the butcher city council relies largely under nations to get to the winter for a foreign n g o. gave this generator, but it's not powerful enough to cover all the needs back into capital keys, electricians work day and night to repair and maintain this city agreed that despite all their efforts, the situation remains critical. but a pe he unless on bread the la with a wood. yeah, the strategy is, 1st of all, to restore the electricity supply. however, we can so that people have so we can't always stick to schedule or return equipment to how it was before the war. but the temporary solutions like plant power cars are working. so people are getting some light to their homes with the capacity that existed before the war is no longer there. and that's a problem of law. the william a perio doors out as you on the my e senior problem. a problem that is likely to continue to out the winter here

with temperatures often dropping well below freezing and no end in sight to rush in as to i was trying to some of the stories making news right now. almost 2 dozen people of been killed in rush after a fire broke down that a private nursing home. dozens of fire fighters fought to control the blaze in the siberian city of camaro. val, are to say the care home was operating illegally and have vowed to inspect similar facilities. the region least 9 people have been killed us of africa after a truck carrying liquefied gas exploded outside. johan is bert official say, the tank or scrape the low bridge, sparking of fire that triggered the blast. explosion also burned down to houses and damaged by hostile members of the kurdish community of clash and police. in paris, after 3 curds were shot and killed their gunman,

shot 3 people at a kurdish cultural center and nearby cafe on friday. and what police say was a racist attack media report suggest some 248000000 people in china were in fact rick, over 19, during the 1st week of december. bloomberg, in the financial times, are citing figures from a leak government document. china health system is under strain as cove in 1900 rages nationwide. official report figures report only a handful of deaths despite rolling cases. bethlehem people have turned out to take in a parade at under square, across from the church of the nativity. in christmas eve tradition, youth scout marching band company, the latin patriarch to the church, revered by christians as the birthplace of jesus affinities run throughout the day and till the traditional midnight taliban of ordered all foreign and

domestic in joes in afghanistan to stop employing women, they allege there were complaint, some of the women, not wearing the his job. bam comes days after the talent and order universities to close to women. prompted global outreach and protest. afghan journalist ela tv is in cobble. he told us what this band means in practical terms . it's huge because if you think about it, you know, it's just basic logistics every time. there's some kind of an emergency every time there's some kind of a need, you can ignore 50 percent of the population. obviously anywhere in the world. a woman is better capable of serving another woman, you know, whether that's going into the home delivering medical center where delivering mental health in delivering anything. and you also have to remember that it's not just the recipient, it's also the workers because there are so many households where the soul

breadwinner is a woman. a lot of those women worked in n g o and now they're effectively out of a job out of an income as it gets colder and colder and trouble prices for everything including food are going up it's, it's a huge impact. you know, it's an economic impact, societal impact, humanitarian impact. it's a moral impact. morale impact. i was just with the head of the gynecological doctors union for i was trying and she had no idea what to do. she didn't know what to do with her office. she didn't know what to do with her workers. she's even scared for the future of her clinic. you know, her daughters were scared like this is just another strike. another limitation on them. you know, they're 14 and younger, you know, wondering what their future will be. so that is the ban regarding the job and there's also been this ban regarding universities. what's been the fall out there?

it's been huge. you know, we've seen protest in host and nigger hard can dodd and, and talk to, you know, we've seen faculty members quit. we've seen the entire faculties, for instance, the, the 4th year computer science students and couple after they will not resume their studies. the medical student and our university said they will not resume their studies. more than 60 faculty and staff have resigned from their post a, you know, did the impact of that? you know, people are not taking this quietly. you know, the m, the, both of these are very heavy blows for people, people thought like, you know, we're going to wait, we're going to wait and eventually it just became too much. it became too obvious that things were going in the complete wrong trajectory. there was no hope of you know, things looking even a little bit after these last 2 eat it. huge winter storm has triggered blizzards, freezing, rain and flooding in many areas of canada and the united states. the extreme

weather has led to power outages for nearly 2000000 homes and businesses disrupting travel plans. for millions of people. authorities have attributed only 17 deaths to the store. ah, it's a white christmas for much of north america. in fact, it's a complete white house. blizzards like these a hammering many areas of the united states and canada. i order for food. snow has been piling up from coast to coast with freezing wind seeming temperatures. plunging the massive storm, coming at one of the busiest travel times of the year, leading to the cancellation or delay of thousands of flights is not. is it under lead here because of the grizzle? well, boys i had a go saw that has been flooded. so is not the right time for me to get to

nosebleeds modlin and dizzy visit. i thought about to pull up that umbrella over there will come though for those who did make it to the destination, it wasn't always a smooth, right? so this is what i woke up to you know, i live in addition to the snow and ice flooding has had some regions. the storm has been caused by a so called bomb cycling with atmospheric pressure dropping very quickly. the very low temperatures affecting much of the country, a forecast to remain in the coming days with much of the us staying well below freezing and they have been fatalities due to exposure. i see kind of crashes and other effects of the storm. again, the flesh freeze in the ice roads are not going anywhere soon. this is going to be an event. it's going to continue through the weekend and the windshields are going to be absolutely bone chilling. that's why this is

a life threatening event. the big chill is it to stick around for a freezing feast of season across much of north america, before a return to comma and more season, a wither next week. hoping everybody out there stays warm where you are. that's it for us where we are coming up next. thou shift joins the digital nomads taking on the world's for better or for worse. i suppose. i'm william bluecross. it's been a pleasure having you here this evening. i will see you again soon. love morning. you're the top of the hour. that's all for now. oh, the question of all questions about life, the universe and everything. do you know the answer? well man give it here.