seems a little odd that the black kid are there with a white santa. it s all good. to each his own. you was scared of santa. he s got the cutest things. you can t really see my phone. there s a black santa and white santa stocking that we found. ryan, you re the best. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. so glad that you could join us this morning on the eve before the eve of christmas. good morning, everyone. poppy and kaitlan are off and i m here with the lovely and smart and talented sara seidner. i was wondering where you were going with that but you re good. we re going to catch you up on the five big stories this morning. more than half the population is under winter storm and wind chill alerts as a major storm moves across the country. it s not like a snow day when you were a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. more than 820,000 power customers are in the dark, thousands of flights have been cancel
intended to intimidate lawmakers. if we have to, we re going to go to homes and let them know what we think about them. there were multiple protests. i don t remember the exact number, three at least outside either my district office or my home. you re correct. my then 15-year-old son was home by himself for the first one. all of my personal information was online. it was my personal email, my personal cell phone, my home phone number. in fact, we had to disconnect our home phone for about three days because it would ring all hours of the night, would fill up with messages. brian butt cutler, we re outside. outlining pressure from trump aides and the ex-president himself to peddle the big lie even as team trump admitted they didn t have any evidence. he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. and i don t know if that was a gaff. maybe he didn t think through what he said. both myself and others in my group and my counsel both remembered tha
Minister xijinping outlining the countrys to ties. Ahead of an election year, labours keir starmer sets out his partys key messages. Hello, im Annita Mcveigh welcome to bbc news now, 3 hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. South africa has filed an urgent request to the International Court of Human Justice in the request to the International Court of humanjustice in the hague request to the International Court of Human Justice in the hague asking that the court all delete in order israel to halt its offensive in rafah and do more to protect its civilians in gaza. In its findings, south africa described rafah as a last refuge for palestinians in gaza and said israels assault on a population meant that new measures needed. It is the latest intervention by the South African Government and its legal case against israel. It argues that on top of direct military attacks, israel is starving palace unions in gaza by Obstructing Access To Food and fuel and medicines. Israel, meanw
Pivotal moment. A group of swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of human rights. Here they are. The court found switzerland had violated some of their human rights by not taking sufficient action on Climate Change. Switzerlands efforts were called woefully inadequate. This ruling could influence the law in 46 other europen countries, including the uk. It comes after last month was officially declared the worlds warmest March On Record. We start with this report from climate editorjustin rowlatt. The swiss women arrived at the European Court ready to fight. There has been a violation of article 8 of the convention. And they won, persuading the judges that switzerlands failure to do enough to cut Planet Warming Emissions could help create heat waves that could threaten the lives of older people. I am so, well, shocked, positively shocked, so happy we could contribute to the future, to a Better Future for our children. Todays ruling is not only to
any hostages come home? that s tonight on news night. good evening. i m in washington. just hours from now families were hoping to welcome their loved ones that were held by hamas and instead they are waiting anxiously at least for one more day. possibly much longer. at this point the fighting has not stopped in gaza. there is no truce. israeli officials have not given a reason why the deal approved by israel s cabinet last night is now on hold. we start in tel aviv and kaitlan collins is there. what do we know about what might be causing this delay? reporter: i think it just speaks to how fluid this entire agreement, this entire negotiation has been. it s something they ve been working on for so long. and officials are not surprise that had it is delayed. it is a little surprising because we did hear from the prime minister netanyahu talking about how difficult it was to sign off on this agreement. to come to this agreement, to exchange 50 israeli hostages for 150 palest