president zelensky welcomes the announcment of us military as ukraine celebrates its orthodox christmas, russian backed forces say they have downed a drone. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! i from republicans in the house. the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after republicans won a slim maj
in the country s history. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are baroness ros altmann, former pensions minister in david cameron s conservative government, and the broadcaster penny smith. hi there. lovely to see you. the daily mirror leads with cctv footage of a gunman fleeing after the fatal shooting of olivia pratt korbel. merseyside police say the shooter used two guns in the attack that killed the nine year old. the daily mail suggests a leading qc, lord pinnock, will say the way mps are conducting an inquiry into borisjohnson and partygate, risks damaging democracy. the prime minister is being investigated by the commons privileges committee, over whether he misled parliament over gatherings in number ten during lockdown. the guardian says two out of three police forces in england and wales are experiencing rising gun crime, according to the home office. job vacancies in the health service make the front of the i
bbc sport centre. marc is there with the latest. thank you, matthew. we will start with football. manchester united manager erik ten hag says his squad are together , dimissing suggestions he has a split dressing room. united are seventh in the premier league and bottom of their champions league group. adding to the mix, the club took the unusual step of excluding four media organisations from their scheduled news conference on wednesday after reacting furiously to reports up to half of the squad were either unhappy with ten hag or his training and tactics. they should come to us first and not go around our back. printing articles, that is not the right thing. i think we have another relationship and they can give that to us beforehand. we have a normal and a professional discussion and debate about it. there are always, in every team, players who are less playing, less happy, but this is no different as normal. we have seen our first premier league sacking of the season. we
because i m a forward myself, wanting to score goals and living score goals. so russo is my favourite player. i m an arsenal fan as well. she s created so many good goals. in theirfirst as well. she s created so many good goals. in their first match, as well. she s created so many good goals. in theirfirst match, she did a back flip into the goal. things you wouldn t expect women to be doing. years ago, there wasn t coverage. she has to be my favourite player but there are so many that are role models now so i think russo has to be my favourite player. i m has to be my favourite player. i m auoin to has to be my favourite player. i m going to combine my question here. like i said, you take lots of boxes. you re teaching the next generation, a pe teacher. talking about leading ling levelling the playing field. what would your message be to him? i think you ve now got to put that think you ve now got to put that dream into a career and think you ve now got to put that dream into a car