A runoff ahead all eyes are on the 2 right wing candidates vying for 2nd place. Also coming up afghanistans president ashraf ghani appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in the long delayed results from septembers election but his rival Abdullah Abdullah warns he wont concede. And Hong Kong Police cracked down on a city that has activists call attention to chinas reported abuse of its weaker muslim minority. Im way of blue cruft thanks for watching polls have closed in croatias president ial election preliminary results show a tight race between 3 candidates tight enough to trigger a runoff between the top 2 the winner will lead croatia as the country takes up a prominent task for the european union. Its an election thats being watched closely in european capitals. She is due to take over the e. U. Council presidency on january 1st so the women will have a role in setting the tone in brussels for the next 6 months its been a close 3 way rice being competent conservative kali
Reelected by a narrow margin in long delayed results from septembers election but his rival of della bella warns he wont concede. And Hong Kong Police cracked down on a city as activists call attention to chinas reported abuse of its weaker muslim minority. Im william good craft thanks for joining us. Syrian Government Forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the region the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and home to 3000000 people tens of thousands of them are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkish president right ship Tayyip Erdogan fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to 3700000. 00 syrians its the largest refugee population anywhere in the world now if that were to pass everyone has warned there will be consequences for europe. The desperate search for people buried in the rubble left by another bombing in syria as strikes by russian and Syrian Forces continued throughout the weekend. Theyre aiming for Al
His country wouldnt be able to cope with the influx warning of consequences for europe too also coming up afghanistans president he appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in long delayed results from septembers election but his rival. Was conceit. Plus firefighters hope a break in scorching weather will help them fadel massive bush fires raging across the country at least 6 people have died in more than 100 homes have been destroyed. Good to have you with us Syrian Government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the bridge in the last major. A bit of rebel held territory in syria and home to 3000000. 00 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkeys president richard that one theory is they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly 3700000 syrians the largest refugee population in the world or one has warned there will be consequences for europe if that happens. The desperate search for people bu
Trumps big tax win signing the new tax bill into law. I consider this very much a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs. The changes already in the works and when you could see the difference in your paycheck. And sky show. The dazzling display overnight. We thought it was santa claus. The rocket launched creating confusion and excitement what this mission is all about. All right. Good morning, happy day before the day before christmas and were happy to have mary bruce filling in. Thank you for having me. Watch out for that one. Ive heard about you. Youve been warned. Thank you for having me and on such a busy day in politics and in the runup to christmas. Yes, so dealing with two big preholiday radar, one of the storms hitting right now, the other, theres the radar will swoop in on Christmas Eve. Rob will have more on those storms coming up but start with a pair of preholiday terrorrelated stories. One of them breaking overnight involving a series of shootings targeting Police
Works and when you could be seeing a difference in your paycheck. Liftoff. And sky show. The dazzling display overnight. For a second we thought it was santa claus. The rocket launch thats creating confusion and excitement. What this mission is all about. All right. Good morning. Happy day before the day before christmas. Paula is off but were very lucky to have ace Congressional Correspondent mary bruce filling in. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Watch out for that one. Ive heard about you. Ive been warned. Thank you for having me and on such a busy day in politics and in the runup to christmas. Yes, so were dealing with two big preholiday storms. Look at the radar from the eastern half of the country. One of the storms hitting right now, the other, theres the radar, will swoop in on Christmas Eve. Rob will have more on those storms coming up but start with a pair of preholiday terrorrelated stories. One of them just breaking overnight involving a series of shooti