While the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. And coming up in half an hour on bbc news, amol rajan takes a look back at a year dominated by the power of social media, in review 2019 the media year. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing in them and about on my sixth or eighth card, there was. Somebody had already written in it. There was a message which read, we are foreign prisoners in shanghai, china, forced to work against our will. Please help us
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
Europe too. Also coming up afghanistans president appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in the long delayed results from septembers election but his rival of beloved warns he wont concede. Plus its halftime in the bundesliga sunday saw the final 2 matches of 2019 look at how the teams stand as they walk off into a winter break. And wave glue cruft thanks for joining us Syrian Government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the liberation the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and home to 3000000 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkish president heir to one fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to 3700000. 00 syrians its the largest refugee population 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 c
To the wet roadways or not but be very careful, slick conditions but more than three accidents right now. Oh, boy. Thankfully not ice but you can never let your guard down on a light rain like this and scattered showers, that messes with your commute and it will slow you down, so yeah, heed warning it seems as though, folks have already been trailblazers on the road are running into some issues, weather related or not but thankfully the rain is pretty scattered, at this point, most confined as you will notice in the three hour loop looking at current tristate sweep most confined across new jersey, toward the shore counties atlantic, cape may, ocean, it is all generally light to moderate rain at worse but good news even up to the northern most suburbs, you will notice it is all green. There is no icing, no worry of that. Look at the temperatures in mount pocono at 41. Simply too mild to worry about that, and temperatures are going to, only rebound from here despite this being a cold fro