welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, i m christine romans. just moments ago you watched live ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking via video link in berlin marking one year since russia s invasion. one year ago today russia invaded ukraine believing that they would overwhelm the country in short order. instead a straightforward russian victory has become less likely by the day and this morning instead of dwelling on ukraine s losses, president zelenskyy released an inspirational video urging people to face the enemy, resist and fight. he says we know 2023 will be the year of our victory. melissa bell is live this morning in kyiv. what is the mood there on what one would think is an unhappy milestone here? reporter: mixed really. on one hand ukrainians are bracing this morning for more russian strikes. that is what the head of ukraine s military intelligence has been warning about on this grim one year anniversary. but th
they have four shelters opening this morning at this hour here. they can hold about 4,000 people. but the evacuation order right now under way for zone a is about 40,000 people. so they re hoping that they will use those shelters as a last resort and go find family or friends on the east coast of florida or just get out of town. i spoke with the spokesperson for the emergency operations center here in punta gorda and he told me that their motto is hide from wind and run from water. he said a wall of water is not your friend. so you don t want to stick around here in punta gorda. certainly the north of here as you know, there is a lot of concern and the tampa area, the st. peterburg mayor certainly has been voicing his concern saying this could be the storm that they never hoped would come to their shores. and, of course, the director of the national hurricane center saying that this could be the storm of a lifetime and the near worst case scenario for tampa bay and that is be
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] watching the fire glow take me back to the little farm rachel: good morning and merry christmas eve. the day is almost upon us. one day until christmas and our stockings are all hung by the virtual fox and friends hearth. how about that? good morning. chris:the producers started with taylor swift, a full-body cutout of tyler swift, she is wearing a christmas sweater and open the show with the taylor swift christmas song, it was a surprise. i have new york city care and taylor swift christmas. here we go. will: we will get to new york city here in a moment. that requires follow-through but i did not look at the rundown, no idea what is coming up, but the show playing out was that very song. it is by taylor swift. thank you, our secret or non-secret, she consumes our mind every waking hour and i am and prepared for that. carley: most think that i would know that and i m the only one who didn t which is a uniq
and revelling in its return the notting hill carnival comes back to london s streets for the first time in three years. good evening. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in khyber pakhtunkhwa have also been badly hit by heavy rainfall and swollen rivers. sindh province is low lying and it s received eight times its average rainfall for august. the catastrophe is not yet over water is still surging down the mighty indus river, with fears it could cause more flooding and landslides down river. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani, who has sent this report from the city of sukkur. a moment of quiet in
time in three years. and, coming up at 8.30pm we meet the members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, who ve become army medics in kharkiv, helping the military to fight invading russian forces. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. international help has begun to arrive but water is still surging down the indus river and will flood low lying sindh even more over the next few days. the province has received eight times its average rainfall for august. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani who has sent this report from sukkur, a city in sindh. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern