A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. The traditional christmas dinner in the uk is likely to cost more due to extreme weather conditions hitting supply of turkeys and some veg. Whats on the menu in your home . Are your festive traditions changing . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. So lets get started. Two years after the murder of the maltese journalist daphne ca ruana galizia, a volley of resignations has thrown the government into crisis. Three senior politicians have stood down and angry crowds have called for the Prime Minister to resign as police step up their investigation into the murder. Now out of government are the chief of staff to the Prime Minister, the tourism minister and the economy minister. All deny involvement in the death of ms caruana galizia, who had been investigating corruptio on the island. Corruption. Rich preston reports. O
There will be some heavy rain coming in tonight. Sonoma county and marin county and San Francisco along the peninsula and the Santa Cruz Mountains overnight into early tomorrow will have heavy rain. We will have what dirt roads. I would think that there is some rain not too far away. It is making a move and there is a line of moderate to heavy rain showing up wayne will return they will be in the 50s and rain is developing later today and then we have snow on wednesday on thursday with highs in the upper 40s and very low 50s today. 51 to 56, below average. That is a rarity. The bay bridge, not the commute direction. This is the eastbound direction and there is an alert with a couple shutdowns because of an earlier crash and i will show you what we are talking about. This is eastbound 80 before treasure island, a collision and two lanes are blocked because of it. If you are driving in the opposite direction, the commute direction to the carquinez bridge, it is 23 minutes. Once you get t
Many more are still unaccounted for. Thank you very much for being with us. Thirteen french soldiers have lost their lives in mali they were killed when two helicopters collided in the dark as they h hunted down islamist militants the part of aerial reinforcements cold in during an intense gun fight. With the biggest loss of french troops in a single day since an attack in beirut some thirty six years ago when fifty eight soldiers died. The president of france among american has expressed his deep sadness at the loss and his government said it would not back down in its fight against terrorism. Thirty soldiers lost their lives a station in the sahel region but for some the home base is imposed. In Southwestern France and our reporter nadia massey is that we can join alive now. At ninety getting to you. What more could you tell us from the scene. Yes good evening mark as you can imagine its a pretty somber atmospheree hit in po tonight im just outside. The town hall was several hours ag
Joint session for the purpose of receiving the annual message to the legislature from the governor of the state of new york. Ladies and gentlemen, i am proud and honored to present the 57th governor to the state of new york, kathy hochul. [applause] [applause] gov. hochul thank you and good afternoon. Its an honor to be back in this Hallowed Chamber a place since 1879, civicmind new yorkers have wrestled from everything to the great deinteresting to world wars to the every day issues that matter most to the millions of people who call new york our home. Generations are past lead verse shared the so william responsibility of representing their citizens and im honored to be joined by the leaders of today. First, let me thank our Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, hes done an amazing job. So proud to have him at my side i want to thank Senior Pastor for the invocation and i look forward to seeing you perhaps in church. Save me a see state comptrollers, tom denaply, state attorney genera
Pure sunt to a resolution duelly adapted in each of the houses of legislature, the senate and the assembly of the stitt of new york are met in joint session for the purpose of receiving the annual message to the legislature from the governor of the state of new york. Ladies and gentlemen, i am proud and honored to present the 57th governor to the state of new york, kathy hochul. [applause] [applause] gov. hochul thank you and good afternoon. Its an honor to be back in this Hallowed Chamber a place since 1879, civicmind new yorkers have wrestled from everything to the great deinteresting to world wars to the every day issues that matter most to the millions of people who call new york our home. Generations are past lead verse shared the so william responsibility of representing their citizens and im honored to be joined by the leaders of today. First, let me thank our Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado, hes done an amazing job. So proud to have him at my side i want to thank Senior Pas