Hello and welcome to world news today. Religious leaders around the world have delivered their annual christmas messages, covering issues including terror attacks, injustices and natural disasters. At the vatican, pope francis denounced attacks by extremist groups in west africa, he prayed for venezuelans to receive the aid they need, and urged the world to ensure security in the middle east. From rome, heres the bbcs mark lowen. Under a perfect christmas sky, 55,000 came to st peters square, beside the colonnades of the 16th century sculptor bernini, watching the balcony beneath michelangelos dome. At noon, he emerged, the leader of the worlds 1. 3 billion catholics. Greeting pope francis, the anthems of the vatican and italy, and a parade by the swiss guard, as he spoke to the city and the world, urbi et 0rbi. Ci sono tenebre nei cuori umani, ma piu grande e la luce di christo. His message was a tour of trouble spots, calling for peaceful syria and yemen to venezuela and ukraine. All
A beautiful city on the top of the river in the northern german state of shes the choice. And i chose this distillation for a very specific reason. Music is known as a Christmas Town and thats why im here at christmas time i really hope to get into the christmas the mood and of course get to know the city as well. Ill definitely make my way to the heights gate its the best known landmark and symbol of the city. Will also check out a few museums like the buddha. And well enjoy a christmas video sent in by two viewers from cousin in russia. There are a number of chris. Those markets in new big this one is in the north of the old town. How about a kiss. To his ive never seen this before a Christmas Market with maritime flare. All this reminds us that the sailors and fisherman used to live in this area because not only located on the river but also close to the baltic sea its only about twenty kilometers away from here and this is st the mariners church. This stately church is a memorial s
Go into a position or once again grit their teeth and become. Junior partners. First thing that will come to conflict so well during and after the election compay in your party said it would not i repeat not enter a Coalition Government against with Angela Merkel has called so over to lives but thats just were headed. Well the point was grand coalitions all the time. Strengthen the extreme know that this is the past when the yesterday you said after the election thats right no and thats the right thing to do if the voters tell you twenty point five percent for the s. P. D. Minus fourteen percent for the partners of the grand coalition their problem well thats our problem too so that the right answer on election day was to say are places in the opposition that your party leader repeated the no well and this was clear that it was no on you it to enter into discussions and he said no well put it this way we made a mistake which is not very often and probably thinks we overestimated the co
Blustery Christmas Day tomorrow. Yeah, no White Christmas for us but we are in for a windy one. We will see the wind gusts up to 45 mrl. It will be windy. If you are visiting homes tomorrow, make sure you are bundled up. And is the wind advisory, if you are in the shaded brown tan area here, we have a wind advisory. Here is tomorrow afternoon. After that, its still going to be freezing out here. Here is a look at your holiday weather. Blustery christmas. We did get flakes out there earlier. And that ends around midnight in the next couple hours. The middle of the week, we have an arctic blast coming up. If you think tomorrow will be would, wait until the end of the week. Thank you. Meanwhile, Sheriff Deputies responded to a domestic dispute. And investigators suspect shot them. News 4s chris gordon is live with how it happened. Chris . Reporter tonight, investigators tell us exactly how they think the shooting went down. Take a look behind me. You see an active crime scene. Investigato
To appeal to do session also in moscow a bus crashes into a subway underpass killing at least four people several others have been injured police are now questioning the driver and investigating what caused the crash plus. Pope francis delivers his traditional Christmas Day blessing and his message he calls for israelis and palestinians to come together and resume talks aimed at a two state solution the pontiff called that the path to peace in the holy land. Meanwhile in his christmas address germanys president urges germans to not lose hope in times of uncertainty as the country struggles to form a new government will bring you Frank Loesser shine Meyers Christmas message. Sarah harmon welcome to the show its good to happy with this. One critic alexina volley is urging the russians to boycott next years president ial vote this comes as the countrys Election Commission bargain a volley from running against Vladimir Putin and all his president ial bid was unanimously rejected by a vote