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. At the moment, everyone seems to be sharing their most listened songs of the past year. What was top of your list . Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. France is waking up to a second day of strikes, with trade unions warning they wont stop until the government scraps its reforms to the pensions system. The disruption is the worst for decades, with trains cancelled, schools closed and Oil Refineries shut. There have been rallies in major cities, with some protests turning violent. Rich preston reports. Teachers, transport workers, hospital staff, even theatre employees turned out. Hundreds of thousands of workers in a show of force against the government of emmanuel macron. 90 of trains were cancelled, as well as hundreds of domestic and international flights. Schools were locked and the countrys biggest tourist attr
Know . The kids laying on the floor. It was just terrible. Five women who accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them say Prince Andrew witnessed massages at the sex offenders homes. Their lawyer says he plans to force the prince to testify as a witness. He knows what happened. I know what happened. And theres only one of us telling the truth, and i know thats me. Donald trump arrives in the uk for a nato summit. He says hes not interested in the nhs, not even if it was handed it to us on a silver platter, and insists hes not going to get involved in the election. And festive hot chocolates and lattes from high street chains contain masses of sugar who knew . the starbucks signature caramel hot chocolate in the middle here has 23 teaspoons hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Do get in touch in the usual way. Details are on screen. In the next half hour were going to hearfrom the mum of one of the School Pupils injured in that hit and run in essex yeseterday. He
Spending your money this year. Good morning from Blenheim Palace and youre listening to the oxford gospel event choir. Alice in the palace here, some wet weather but mild compared to as of late. More details later. Its monday, december 23rd. Our top story there are calls for a government inquiry into racism in football. Its after the Chelsea Player, Antonio Rudiger, complained of racist chanting during yesterdays premier league match at tottenham. The professional Footballers Association said it was disgusted by the reports, and insisted urgent action was needed. Heres our sports correspondent, andy swiss. It was a day english football was once again overshadowed by racism. Chelseas Antonio Rudiger clearly showing hed heard abuse from the crowd an hour into his teams game against tottenham. He informed his captain, who in turn told the referee, and after he spoke to both managers, for the first time in the premier league, a warning was made over the public address system, twice repeate
Slow to clear. The fog will reform this evening and overnight, particularly across east wales, the midlands and northern england. Cloud and rain in the south west will begin to slide south, taking gusty winds with it. A breeze blowing gcioss winds with it. A breeze blowing across the southern half of the uk, so across the southern half of the uk, so the fog not quite so extensive, the frost not as sharp. Elsewhere, clear skies, a few showers clipping northern and eastern scotland, ten two on eastern coast, and in parts of Northern Ireland. It is a dry and cold night for many, lowest temperatures across northern england, Northern Ireland and into scotland. Tomorrow, High Pressure building from the west, low pressure sliding south. Quite a breeze, will continue to feed showers in. For many, a dry and bright day with good spells of sunshine, the fog not lingering quite so long. Still a cold day. Hello, this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines tributes are paid to the first victim to
Mental Health Patients in england are being left in limbo even after they start treatment, according to Research Carried out by the bbc. Last year more than half of the million referrals are made to a fractured talking Therapy Service. Dominic hughes reports. From day to day, most of my governing thoughts were around about whether i should make it through the next day or not. Paul has struggled with his Mental Health ever since he developed post Traumatic Stress disorder, following a violent attack while working as a police officer. He relies on talking therapies provided by the nhs, but sometimes the wait for treatment to begin has been too long and dangerous. When youre actively that unwell and all youre after is help and support with what it is that youre going through, the symptoms i was experiencing. Just a delay of several weeks or a month or six weeks is literally a lifetime for people when youre acutely unwell. And i have no doubts that with the right timing and the perfect sto