from loved ones as the war continues in their home country. hello and welcome to bbc news. a fierce arctic winter storm has triggered emergency alerts across parts of the united states and forced the cancellation of more than 2000 flights. forecasters say the cold snap could bring the coldest christmas in decades. presidentjoe biden has encouraged everyone to heed warnings and bring forward christmas travel plans where possible. this is what it looks like when a bomb cyclone descends on north america. these huge banks of snow in north dakota are the result of an intense blizzard that swept through the state. conditions that are set to engulf almost the entire country, just in time for christmas. but this is no winter wonderland. the storm could prove deadly. great swathes of the us will experience some of the lowest temperatures ever recorded here. there is already chaos at the airports. this is new york. for many, it should have been the first normal christmas after covid. b
than 200 million people learned weather warnings with temperatures dropping to 45 celsius in some places. china continues to grapple with major covid 19 outbreaks following the lifting of restrictions in to bring questions about the governments official death tally. and george: who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning england s1966 world cup winning team has died aged 83. more and support later in the bulletin. we ll tell you what you need to know about travelling ahead of christmas day. clashes have erupted after a fatal shooting at a kurdish centre. three people were killed in the incident and three others injured. possible racist motive is being investigated and when angry demonstrators gathered in the tenth near the kurdish centre. some carrying banners and pushing towards a line of police, projectiles were thrown and right please respond with tear gas. the clashes began shortly after the interior minister spoke to the media at the scene. he said the 69 year old
unless pay talks are opened, with even more hospital trusts expected to walk out than the december strikes. meanwhile, union chiefs say borderforce strikes could go on for six months unless the government joins pay talks. china continues to grapple with a major covid outbreak following a lifting of restrictions with growing questions about the government s official death tally. and the british husband and wife duo who ve had more uk christmas number one singles than the beatles meet ladbaby who ve bagged the spot for a record fifth time. for you watching in the uk, on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. the french president, emmanuel macron, has condemned a shooting at a cultural centre in paris as an odious attack on the country s kurdish population. three people were killed and three injured by the gunman, who had just been released from detention for targeting a migrant camp a year ago. clashes later broke out between police and a large crowd which h
From the turkeys, in review 2016 the year in film. Hello, and welcome to this review of the year in film. Im mark kermode, and were here at the Cinema Museum in south london where, for the next half an hour, we will be looking back at some of the best Movies Released In Uk Cinemas in 2016. 2016 was a pretty tumultuous year, what with the brexit vote in june, and the results of the American Election in november proving that the unexpected really can happen. In the world of politics, uncertainty can be alarming. When it comes to movies, it is the unexpected which really makes it all worthwhile. While the naysayers claim that movies today are just an endless slew of sequels, remakes and superhero franchise fodder, lets spend some time celebrating the films which offered something different, which prove that cinema today really is more vibrantly diverse than ever. 2016 got off to a remarkable start with room, irish director Lenny Abrahamsons film about a mother and child inprisoned, adapte
The afternoon, head of that, dry weather, but great again, fog lingering for some, nine or 10 degrees will be the top temperatures for many through new years eve afternoon, the evening, the Weather Front heads south, by midnight that is across Northern England, parts of wales, the south east, a lot of the mild and dry, turning much colder from the north, that will take us on into 2017. This is bbc news. The headlines. President putin says he will resist calls to retaliate against americas expulsion of 35 Russian Diplomats. The us has accused the kremlin of hacking the emails of senior democrats and then publishing them during the american president ial campaign. Mr putin also said that positive developments in relations between russia and the uk would be mutually beneficial. A Postmortem Examination into the cause of George Michaels death has proved inconclusive the singer was found dead by his partner at home on christmas day. The only survivor of a boat that capsized off kent on tues