the un tells the taliban to reverse its decision on banning afghan women working for humanitarian agencies after five major organisations suspend their work in afghanistan. hello, and welcome to bbc news. at least 50 people are now known to have died due to the severe arctic freeze that continues to affect the us and canada. one of the worst hit areas is the city of buffalo in new york state, where the governor called the storm an epic, once in a lifetime event . emily unia has the latest. the arctic storm pummelling the us and canada caused christmas chaos for millions. thousands of flights were cancelled, and roads and railways were close to impassible, preventing people from reaching friends and family. emergency services battled treacherous conditions to carry out rescues. fatalities have been confirmed across the us. one of the worst hit areas was new york state, especially in buffalo and hamburg in erie county. snow blanketed streets, and driving was banned. more than
drier weather, time of year. into tomorrow, some drierweather, drierthan time of year. into tomorrow, some drier weather, drier than it was today but still some showers affecting parts of northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england and may be some rain fringing back in the south west later in the day. again, very mild, 7 degrees for aberdeen and ia for norwich and london. this little ridge of high pressure here gives a window of slightly drier weather through wednesday night into the first part of thursday but that window will then close as the next weather system approaches with northern ireland and western scotland as we go through thursday with strong winds late in the day and staying a little drier south and east and as you can see, very mild, and for the end of the week drier weather on friday, not completely dry but not as much rain, but there will be more wet weather at times through the weekend. thanks, ben. and that s all from us , you can keep up with all
we really haven t got the detail. and i m geeta guru murthy in the studio our other headlines. the un security council hears calls for a security zone to shield ukraine s zaporizhzhia power plant, which is under russian control. reports say documents seized by fbi agents at donald trump s home include highly sensitive nuclear papers of a foreign power. welcome to the heart of british government where politicians hope to make the weather politically but they cannot do much about the weather we are experiencing at the moment. . , , , ., moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, the moment. excuse the sunshine and shadows. certainly, the cabinet i shadows. certainly, the cabinet misses me in down the street a few minutes ago were in sunshine and the smiles which is entirely understandable, many of them around the cabinet table for the first time. the new politically office yesterday and begins to get her feet un
suffer the most. also coming up: called to account. hundreds of uk post office managers were falsely accused of fraud because of faulty software. we look at role of the tech giant fujitsu in a massive miscarriage ofjustice. and the rugby league world cup kicks off today after a covid delay with the biggest sponsorship deal in the tournament s history. absolutely, 100%, iam not going anywhere. a defiant uk chancellor on whether he and the british prime minister will still be in theirjobs at this time next month. as you have been hearing, he has flown back early from iff meetings in washington for meetings with the pm. imf. washington for meetings with the pm. imf. they are expected to pause plans after weeks of economic crisis. people are panicked about the impact of billions of pounds of tax cuts funded by more borrowing on the u.k. s debt and on inflation and that sent government borrowing costs and mortgage rates are soaring and force the bank of england to come to the