hello and welcome. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states and canada. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state. the city of buffalo, in new york state, has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border 27 bodies have been recovered there, and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines, making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mexican b
a powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the capital manila is located. super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km/h. our weather forecaster helen willetts has more. hello. this large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. once it moves out into the south china sea s open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. so some des
48 teams 16. Asia get eight, africa get nine. All in all that is 46 places amongst the confederations, and the last two places will be decided by a play off tournament, to be decided amongst six teams. That will take place potentially in the november pre seeding the tournament year, fifa saying it could be a test event, that could be the death knell, then, perhaps, for the confederations cup. But fifa making clear that this is exactly how it wants to see the 2026 world cup divided amongst the confederations. It will now go forward to ratification in may. That would seem to be a formality, and for fifa this is the final step that has taken towards that expanded, 48 tea m has taken towards that expanded, 48 team world cup, from 2026. On their debut in the competition, manchester citys women have made it into the last four of the uefa champions league. Lucy bronze scored the only goal in thursdays second leg, to seal a 2 0 Aggregate Win over danish side fortuna hjorring, and they go on to