tonight at 10: ukraine s president zelensky urges the world to act swiftly to stop the nuclear threat from russia. as his forces continue to regain [and taken by the russians, he says president putin is not ready to use nuclear weapons, but his rhetoric is dangerous. they begin to prepare their society. that is very dangerous. they are not ready to do it, to use it, but they begin to communicate. we ll bring you more on the bbc s interview with the president in kyiv. also on the programme. overwhelmed by grief parents and relatives mourn their children murdered in thailand by a former police officer. the conservative mp conor burns has been sacked from the government following what it said it is a complaint of serious misconduct. european champions take on the world champions as england play the united states in night s and the bbc announces which city will host the eurovision song contest next year. liverpool. congratulations! and coming up on the bbc news channel: england
a full report from idaho is just ahead. biden intends to visit the southern border for the first time since he left office. take a look at what biden said in the past about the border visit and the common sense department is wondering what changed. we begin in the nation s capital where they adjourn without electing a speaker for a second straight day. kevin cork is live in dc with the latest. three more failed votes today. a round of closed door talks to boot. and congressman-elect kevin mccarthy looks no closer to securing the speakership that s speaker of the house, if you haven t been watching. the battle continues tomorrow at 12:00 nooning. we i think this is interesting. i crawl before i walk, before i run. a bit of optimism, perhaps, for kevin mccarthy. see if that s warranted. in all, the californian has fallen short in six, count them, six, votes over two days as a group of 20 conservatives who have deemed him i d logically unreliable, i would say, have refused t
ahead on cnn newsroom. hundreds if not thousands of americans who are stranded all across the nation are unable to get home. i have no clothes. i have nothing. i have no way to get home. i m beyond frustrated. it hurt because i can t see my dad. i ve lived here my entire life. i remember the blizzard of 77. it was worse. anyone who declares victory and says it s over, it s still a dangerous situation to be out. announcer: live there loren done, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast where thousands of people are stranded at airports after months of arctic storms that pummelled much of the country over the holiday weekend. if you re planning to travel into the new year holiday you could be impacted. the flight tracking website flight aware shows more than 2700 total cancellations occurred in the u.s. today and of those 90% are southwest airlines flights.
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a bbc investigation has found that albanian drug gangs are offering to pay for migrants to cross the english channel, if they are prepared to work in the uk drugs industry when they arrive. gangs are using the migrant camps of northern france as a recruitment ground. there s been a sharp rise in the number of albanians crossing the channel in small boats this year. they now account for around a third of the almost 40,000 people who have landed on england s beaches this year. lucy williamson reports. for each boat, each migrant, there can be many smugglers albanian fixers, uk guarantors, kurdish criminal gangs. the journey starts in towns like laknas, now marked by absence. the shuttered houses and empty streets signs of an exodus this year. most were drawn by uk wages ten times higher than here. and each departure makes business in laknas even harder. as the price of crossing to the uk has dropped the suburbs around tirana ar