u. s power grid on sunday. christmas day, three power stations in washington state were broken into two of them, tacoma public utilities in puget sound energy reported. 14,000 customers were left in the dark officials posting a message urging customers to report outages think nothing of when you turn on a light switch. but whenever you haven't had power for a few days and turnout light switches . it means it's just everything. the attacks come after at least five power substations were reportedly attacked in washington and oregon last month , and we have confirmed that this was malicious intent. this was no accident more in north carolina earlier this month, the targeted shootings and power substations left entire towns in moore county without power for days, the local sheriff saying, duke energy cruz saw someone shooting from a vehicle near a power plant. then speeding off shell casings at the two sites recovered search warrants issued in the case, but it wasn't clear if they were for a person or people in the

u. s power grid on sunday. christmas day, three power stations in washington state were broken into two of them vandal. sized as a result, tacoma public utilities in puget sound energy reported. 14,000 customers were left in the dark officials posting a message urging customers to report outages think nothing of when you turn on a light switch. but whenever you haven't had power for a few days and turnout light switches . it means it's just everything. the attacks come after at least five power substations were reportedly attacked in washington and oregon last month , and we have confirmed that this was malicious intent. this was no accident more in north carolina earlier this month, the targeted shootings and power substations left entire towns in moore county without power for days, the local sheriff saying, duke energy cruz saw someone shooting from a vehic then speef shell casings at the two sites recovered search warrants issued in the case, but it wasn't clear if they were for a person or people in the are

u. s. has done over the last 15 years. it's beginning to backfire now, particularly regarding using its power to bully other countries. and of course, you know, we've seen this in the russia, ukraine conflict, the, the, the way that the u. s. confiscated russia as far as the attempt by the western powers to under cut russian rockies economy. most recently by this oil cap machination saudi arabia reads all these things as well. and it seems that these same tools can be applied against it in india, that modi is seeing the same. i in latin america, i suspect all the latin american leaders are seeing the same. everyone begins to connect the dots, except the folks in the us who are imperial masika, you're absolutely right. it's back to just let me go to you. i mean, but it's more pernicious than that because if you don't want to play our game, we're going to punish you. we will even punish so called allies. ok. this is very interesting as well. and there's the pushback that we have seen maybe not from allies, but the rest of the world is d dollarization. now, once that happens, then global hegemony comes to an end. jesse go

u. s. power in the middle east. and i think one of the interesting things, i think you can begin to connect some of the dots here. some of the stuff that the u. s. has done over the last 15 years, just beginning to backfire now, particularly regarding using its power to bully other countries. and of course, you know, we've seen this in the russia, ukraine conflict, the, the, the way that the u. s confiscated, russia foreign reserves, the attempt by the western powers to under cut russian, russia economy. most recently by this oil cap machination saudi arabia reads all these things as well. and it seems that these same tools can be applied against it in india, that modi is seeing the same. i, latin america, i suspect all the latin american leaders are seeing the same. everyone begins to connect the dots, except the folks in the us who are imperial masika, you're absolutely right. it's back. just let me go to you. i mean, it's more pernicious than that because if you don't want to play our game, we're going to punish

u. s. powers, la, they been restored in time for christmas. the so called bomb 5 clones left many stranded chapter times the reports washington d. c. the bronze of the storm on saturday was hitting upstate new york and the great lakes with snow full and high winds, many enough strand in their homes. for christmas. i lived in what you might call the stereotypical american suburbs if you can picture that and i cannot walk to the sidewalk in front of my house about 20 meters from my front door. thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state have lost power for a period of hours. and they are just coping with extra blankets and lots of christmas sweaters. despite an official ban on driving in some areas, there were is that many adventured up anyway, but the worst was over only to get stranded. this may turn out to be the worst storm in our community history. there are still likely hundreds of people still stuck in vehicles including individuals who tried to drive out in the late night hours last night. this

u. s. power is declining internationally. and one reason that you can present on why that is the case is the case to be done because they have been trying to throw the run in government for the last 40 years. and they have failed every year. every time they have to do that, more independent governments generally oppose this type of behavior because they realize that if united states is successful against these and then the next government may be their own government. and then the general public opposes this type of aggression from the united states. so when you look at even the countries that the government is following us on this, the general public opposes american history. and this just in there has been another gas explosion in a 3 story residential building. in the western russian city of the level local authorities report at least one casualty with residence being evacuated. we're following the situation as it develops and will keep you updated. the incident comes less than 24 hours since another explosion in this city

u. s. a i d is currently led by samantha power. she is an obama administration darling at one time the u. s. ambassador to the un. i'm also a former adviser to president obama on his national security council. a lot of people up placed the ongoing, the still ongoing, a crisis in yemen at her feet squarely at her feet. she herself has lamented that president obama didn't do enough in syria. and as she advised him, she's very frequently labeled a war hawk. oh yes. now she leaves the country's so called humanitarian aid agency . how do you square her appointment in the binded administration with this new interest in the solomons? oh, this makes complete sense to me. the fact that samantha power heads an organization like usa, i. d, a is an example of an extension of what scholars might call soft power. first of all, you're exactly right, samantha power is a long time war hawk. she's one of the most neo liberals in a neo liberal administration. that's an a lot. it's a lot, she really was responsible for the war in yemen. she was in part responsible for the war in syria. she was in part respons

u. s. power is declining internationally. and one reason that you can present and why that is the case is the case of you done because they have been trying to throw that on in government for the last 40 years . and they have failed every year. every time they have tried to do that, why others countries are not responding the diplomatic sort of difficulties or some governments that oppose this type of behaviors? you know, the more independent governments generally oppose this type of behavior because they realize that if united states is successful against the iran, then the next government may be their own government. and then the general public opposes this type of aggression from the united states. so when you look at even the countries that the government is following us or this, the general public opposes american has them can i touched another issue as well just to get your thoughts and food. the e u, the g 7, including the u. s. have agreed to impose a price comp and russian oil exports going around $20.00 below around

u. s. without power dirty people dead. and the issues for travel had just really been cascading bite laser, so my both been unable to show her christmas holiday and many other holidays. well matthew, i'm just interested to know your point of view about the causes of this storm. how much of this can we pin on things like climate change? i think that's a really tough thing to say. so these sort of storms, these middle latitude site loans tend to feed, are something called barrack lunacy. your essentially your change in temperature with distance over a short distance of the lower levels. are there something we tend to senior, the gulf stream or a warm current of water on the eastern seaboard? so we typically see these things off the east coast united states. very rarely do see them over the great lakes, especially in december. so to see something like this is not necessarily timely. climate change is more random, but it's a rare nonetheless. debt said there are size of the gen 3 and the upper level. heard that when the upper

u. s. a. i d, she's able to exert u. s. soft power in the form of international development. as i said, a few minutes ago, building bridges and digging wells, and building roads and hospitals and electrical grids and, and does sewage systems as a way to, to expand the u. s. footprint all over the world, including in the solomon islands. so the fact that she has these pro war views makes perfect sense to me when the united states is using every, every thing in its arsenal to confront the chinese. she would be the person to do that. yeah, i found that such an interesting, interesting air quotes appointment. so he really id, i agree. now in the chinese they view the solomon's as their neighbor on. it's a country in their head spear as we mentioned. if you look on a map, pretty simple, there's cause for that relationship to strengthen. what reason does the us have we're wanting presence on this tiny island way over on the other side of the ocean . well, the u. s. thinking is twofold. number one, the australians have asked us to become involved. and because the australians are pan

u. s. power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism.arning comes after a large outage in north carolina earlier this month that took days to repair. bus loads of migrants arrived near the washington d. c. home of vice president kamala harris, apparently the latest in an escalating battle between state officials and the binding administration over immigration policy. three busloads arrived from texas yesterday evening, the migrant solidarity mutual aid networks, local grassroots organization provided support for the migrants who they say we're not dressed warmly enough for the freezing temperature at this time. it's unclear who sent them. the st anthony's foundation served more than 1500 meals this christmas to those in need. volunteers worked hard preparing about £400 of ham £160 of veggie patties and £200 of brownies. the feast was served by 60 volunteers who also offered a sense of hope to the guests. and that's important because you know, for a lot of people. it's the only hot meal they gave for the day. and so you know, food is love

u. s. power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism. california shifts towards renewable energy. a pilot project aims to harness solar power and conserve water at the same time water district in the central valley is receiving $20 million in state funding to install solar panels over its canals. the pilot project by the turlock irrigation district is set to get underway over the next year. one of the developers of the project says that research shows the state could save 63 billion gallons of water per year from evaporation if all of our canals were covered the panels could also generate about 1/6 of the state's energy needs. spare the air alert was extended through today. the bay area air quality management district, announcing that the burning of wood and other solid fuels is banned indoors and out skies were hazy if you looked around the bay area this afternoon from san francisco to richmond, the bay bridge to san mateo. hello temperatures and snow definitely prevalent in the sierra today, but so is wind. we spoke with residents key

u. s power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism and the incidents come less than a month someone. russian is ready to negotiate with ukraine and how to end his invasion of the country. but he also blames ukraine for not coming to the bargaining table sooner. russia continued to attack ukraine as putin made the comments. the people of ukraine took a step away from russian tradition by celebrating christmas this year on december 25th, like western european countries do until now. they celebrated orthodox christmas on january 7th when russians celebrate, ukraine's president says energy from the celebration will drown out the sounds of the 10 month old war. well president biden will relax a bit and take time off this holiday season while deciding whether he will run for a second term. he is already the oldest sitting president in the country's history. he will be 82 years old when his current term is over madeline rivers in washington with what's under consideration now. here we go. have a tremendous decision to make this holiday season. will joe run for re election in 2024?

u. s. power has largely been restored in time for christmas, but the so called bomb side clone has left many stranded. she ever tansy has more from washington dc. the. the bronze of the storm on saturday was hitting upstate new york and the great lakes with snow full and high winds, many enough strand in their homes for christmas. i lived in what you might call the stereotypical american suburbs. you can picture that and i cannot walk to the sidewalk in front of my house about 20 meters from my front door. thousands and thousands and thousands of people here and just in western new york state has lost power for a period of hours. and they are just coping with extra blankets. and lots of christmas sweaters disliked individual ban on driving in some areas. there were is that many had ventured up anyway, but the worst was over only to get stranded. this may turn out to be the worst storm in our community history. there are still likely hundreds of people still stuck in vehicles including individuals who tried to drive out in the late night hours last night. this is the festive season in th

u. s withdrawal from afghanistan and cited the withdraw as evidence that the u. s. is an unreliable partner and declining power. the u. s. withdrawal has been called one of the defining moments of recent rural history. after 20 years of its military operation in afghanistan, the pentagon quits in the face of the taliban advance and left behind thousands of people who had been helping the u. s. army over many years. a bomb attack by an isis linked group at campbell airports as people are trying to flee, killed at least 160 civilians, and 13 u. s. marines were western media outlets have described the u. s. polite from afghanistan as a disaster. and republican lawmakers say the blame ly squirrely with the biden administration. the biden administration repeatedly misled the american people about the real situation on the ground in cobble issuing public statements that were in direct opposition to the internal reports being sent by the state department and u. s. military. at one point, the state department spokesperson net price was encouraging people to make their way to the airport and telling the press the evacu

u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan and cited the withdraw as evidence that the u. s. is an unreliable partner and declining power. the u. s. withdrawal has been called one of the defining moments of recent world history. after 20 years of its military operation in afghanistan, the pentagon quit in the face of a telephone advance left behind thousands of people who had been helping the u. s. army over many years. a bomb attack by an ice as link group, but capital airports as people were trying to flee, killed at least 160 civilians, and 13 u. s. marines were western media outlets. describe the u. s. poli, from afghanistan as a disaster on republican lawmakers, said the blame ly squarely with the biden administration. the biden administration repeatedly misled the american people about the real situation on the ground in cobble issuing public statements that were in direct opposition to the internal reports being sent by the state department and u. s. military. at one point, the state department spokesperson net price was encouraging people to make their way to the airport and telling the press the evacuation was

u. s. business on b? it's a hard to say at this point right now we're falling reporting from the wall street journal and the for sale is being considered by the very powerful u. s. committee on foreign investment. there are several different representatives from different parts of the government that are part of this committee. and right now, the pentagon and the justice department are pro forcing the sale. they say that there's a potential security risk by allowing beijing to have access to so much data on so many americans. but the treasury department representative on the committee is opposed to it. they say that such a for sale could be challenged in court. and so they're trying to find a different solution, but this idea of a for sale while speculative right now comes as 19 of the 50 us states have passed partial bands on the use of tick tock on government phones and computers. so this is something that's picking up steam of the u. s. a. the big spending bill that's coming out of the u. s. right now to that includes a provision right now that president biden could sign any day that would also ban of use of this app on federal phones and networks. the

u. s power grid needs better security to prevent domestic terrorism.ll the feature on twitter has been restored that's designed to prevent suicide decision of historic came just days after twitter ceo elon musk reportedly took it down before christmas week time. when studies show many people consider taking their own lives , but twitter has issued a statement saying the removal of that feature was just a brief temporary action as it revamps the entire platform under the leadership of elon musk, the popular the chinese own app. tiktok is now increasing efforts to make sure the u. s government that it doesn't pose a security threat to the american people. tiktok has announced a deal with the oracle software company to oversee its entire platform, especially when it comes to storing user information at this comes as congress is considering a bill to ban federal employees from using tiktok or the government issued cellphone people supporting the band say tiktok is playing. a major role in the chinese government's efforts to spy on americans. it's 4 47, the

u. s. africa relation. stay with al jazeera for all development. ah, holding the powerful to account. as we examined the u. s. sheets row in the world on al jazeera, 15000 young men were traffic from west africa to europe in the middle east in 2021 . with the promise that play professional football meet center defender use of game, he's from synagogue suburb of refused use of thought. his dreams had come to a man, presenting himself as a football agent told him he had talent and had found a club for him to join in to buy. so they sold their car and barred money for the trip. but there was no club to host him. the vast majority of the young man that you shall, this pitch, will not make a living, playing professional football. they'll be disappointment for them to carry out of their families, but also of entire communities. and villages that have supported them, use of gay is in debt and robbed of his dreams. and yet he has not lost hope. neither has his family. the still expect their son will step into the football boots of synagogues biggest players. ah. at least 7 protesters killed in

u. s. had jamante power in the south pacific because a think tank our pro blinking. people seem to want to say, look, china isn't in with russia. we can use somehow ukraine to cleave russia and china. how do you see it as a former director intelligence of us specifically? well, we've watched the chinese and the russian forces operate together since the establishment of the shanghai cooperation organization in 2005. the china and russia just announced a new naval exercise with a full squadron of russian naval assets leading vladivostok. so these chinese almost a dozen worships and submarines were out for a week from the chinese side are probably going to be operating with their russian counterparts. i would expect chinese unable forces to circumnavigate japan, go along and up the east side of honju, and then come up to the north to operate the sea of japan, at least at 1st. and then we saw just about 3 weeks ago, russian and chinese fighters and bombers operating again once again together the 5th time this year. and at the end of that exercise, russian bombers and fig

u. s. africa summit that says washington decries the influence of china and russia in the region and beijing slums, the u. s. for playing power games, africa is not an arena for big power games, let alone the target of all the tree prussia from any country or person. washington should respect the world, the african peoples. ah morocco funds wreak havoc on the streets of europe, crushing with riot police after the football team loses to nil to france, and the people welcome ah, come into your life from our studio here in moscow. you're watching r t international minus peter scott's here with all the latest this that the lunch time. thank you for joining us. we start with news from the dance republic where the mayor of the capital has said that at least 5 people have been injured after the city suffered some of the most in and shelling in 8 years. ah, ukrainian forces fired full cheek grad rockets, overnights leaving buildings ablaze. the city center was struck by $3000.00 damaging multiple civilian premises, including several residential box and the kindergarten. a rescue operation continues with many people, reportedly still

and he was giving in and didn't have authority and power that no matter what the u. s. media and the u. s. politicians look for any excuse to condemn china and condemn its policies and portrayed in a negative light. and this latest statement, this latest flip the script, if you want to call it, that is just a really blatant example of how hypocritical and nonsensical us narratives are the usa does not like a particular government, no matter what they do. they find a way to spin it in a negative way and saying the reason is the us ambassador nathan has an assist that russia and china are the maintenance they still are increasingly sharing a toolkit that should concern the nato alliance. there's just no question that china and russia both working to divide the transatlantic partners, the usaa away the size that efforts would be made to address threats from russia and china. the block has been seeking to expand in the northern said county, russia and the u. s. has been strengthening its ties with australia report the providing nuclear cable bombers in the face of china. w

and we know that russia's a great power and a frushell wants to can help us in this area. the u. s. has admitted to committing cyber attacks on foreign powers during the mid term elections. washington's justified the move by saying those targets could have interfered in the votes unless the u. s. is that then we did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries couldn't utilize infrastructure to impact us. we understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world. we had that mapped pretty well, and we wanted to make sure that we took it down at key times. this is the idea of understanding your foreign adversaries and operating outside the united states. the u. s. has been accusing russia and a run of meddling in its elections for many years. but in the recent mid term vote, a senior, a u. s. security official said there was surprisingly a luck of foreign interference. he said that russia on iran were supposedly not focused on the u. s. they were too preoccupied by b crane conflict. on a wave of protests in the islamic republic were

power. and while the u. s. claims the summit was a success due to the signing of multi $1000000000.00 contracts. the president have gone, are urged africans not to rely on western money. we must work together to change africa's narrative, which is characterized by disease, hunger, poverty, and the legal migration. if we stop being beggars and spend african money inside the continent, africa will not need charles for respect from any one. we will get the respect we deserve. the president addressed his african colleagues during the summer in washington, or african leaders hope to find help in solving the confidence challenges that has gone of faces at inflation, rate of over 40 percent, combined with a high national debt. to mitigate the country's economic downturn, the international monetary fund has already agreed to provide god with a $3000000000.00 loan. the debt price is, is a real threat to nearly half of african countries. and most of the debt is owed to the united states. despite washington's warnings ab

u. s. africa summits now says washington decry is the influence of china and russia in the region and beijing funds the u. s. fall paying power games is not gonna re enough a big have a game, let alone the target of all the tree pressure from any country old person. washington should respect the will the african people with moscow to the world. this is our international. my name is peter scott, needs the top stories. this are welcome to the program. first we saw in the done yes republic where the mayor of the capital said at least 5 people have been injured up. the city suffered to some of the most incense shelling in 8 years. you're gaining forces fired. he grabbed rockets, overnights, leaving buildings of blaze is that his answer was struck by 3 missiles damaging multiple civilian premises, including several residential box and a kindergarten rescue operation continues. with many people, reportedly still trapped under the debris. one local shed, his terrifying experience to include me. the strike head at 7 am, the bang was so loud. it shook the house. the people who lived there had left a few days before. i don't know anyth

u. s. these the continent as a big arena for power games were witnessing the purity, expand its footprint, ah, in the, on, on a continent on a daily basis. and that creates problems that will be eventually these stabilizing, if they're not already. or we see russia continuing to peddle cheap weapons, employing mercenaries across the continent. and so the combination of those activities by those 2 countries, i think of that bears watching. and certainly i think their influence again, can be the stabilizer portion. well, me a human, we hope the us could view china africa cooperation with an open mind. africa is not going to re enough a big public games, but let alone the target of all the tree. fresh air from any country old person. washington should respect the will the african people and take concrete actions to help africa's development instead of concentrating its efforts on smearing and attacking other countries. let's cross live now to our gas, jo altman, welcome host of the conservative daily podcast. hey, thanks for having me. so biden has expressed the importance of africa in resolv

u. s. made very powerful session system that could add an extra layer of security to the training their defenses. i'm, as you know, the ukranian cities are all over the say, all over the country, not just a key, but a vessel and all the other parts of the country have been heavily attacked by russian rockets. and yet air defenses is dire, needed at the moment, and this is one of the hopes of that this might be an outcome of the trip kinds of talk a so that the latest there in cave and indeed in easton ukraine. right, so just a couple of days ago on the night from sunday to monday, hearing key if we saw another attack with iranian made cunning got drones on ever since. and the following days. situation regarding the power outages regarding the outages of centralized heating. i seem to have become more difficult. russia is at targeting the civilian infrastructure as you know. and right now if you walked a series of key if at night and the streets are only eliminated by the few cars that are still going by pedestrians with their their flashlights, you have 2030 floor buildings that are com

power. today, the u. s. is making the argument that it is more power than every one else. which means that all international conventions, laws and agreements must only be used as part of america's own agenda. had the expensive independent nations. in the past 43 years, we've come to know america. well, we've seen what it's capable of was the one thing we've not experienced saw dealings with us after the revolution is on the state. consider this, many of our neighbors in the region have no such thing as democratic elections. until a year or 2 ago, women were not allowed to drive cars. but these slamming republic women actively involved in all spheres of life. you can see it for yourself, yet we still get accused of as they put it, human rights violations, et cetera. in other words, america only recognizes one truth can do whatever you please, as long as you do it under america's banner. it has been 43 years since we stepped out from under that banner. oh, we're at law yet on easier. i'm planning to shift away from its partnership with russia now that terran has come under p

u. s. can't do anything about it because they're the most powerful country you. you've got the chinese communist party talking points down perfectly. but i would push back and say that they actually have used their military to cause a, you know, on settlement and disruption to the peace and stability of the, of the asia pacific region. you know, i was like, like, you know, to begin, i spent almost 30 years in u. s. navy. and when i 1st started going to see an asian pacific, it was relatively calm place. and we didn't have nations that were worried about conflict with china. we didn't have a nation like japan saying, we're going to blow away 70 years of history and we're going to start preparing ourselves because china is getting ready to use military force to attack, not just i want, but his bus as well. and so china has been a force for disruption and it use or military forces to threaten and cajole people . it wasn't that he is ago. i mean, we had the president to plow on, and he was quite aware of the allegations of the united states was involved in the assass

power. meanwhile another series of storms is impacting travel across the western u. s gusty winds knocked down trees and power lines, forcing the closure of some roads. heavy rain and mountain snow made for slippery conditions for drivers. give yourself space cushion between you and the cars in front of you. as you're traveling. forecasters expect these pacific storms to further delay travelers in the coming days. and philadelphia, katie byrne. fox weather. okay well, sadly, still no relief for people flying southwest. more flights were canceled yet again today are jesse gary shows us the frustrated travelers trying to navigate the problems, plus the house is moving to ban tiktok from government devices as president. biden puts pressure on the chinese company who owned tiktok to sell its us operations division. get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. contact your volvo retailer to learn more. last acenas creek and livermore have been positively identified . the elements county coroner's office as the remains are of missing livermore woman, cindy robinson. she