This is bbc news, the headlines more than 5,000 people are confirmed dead in libya 10,000 more are still missing after devastating floods. The father, stepmother and uncle of sara sharif are on their way back to the uk from pakistan. Ten year old sara was found dead at her home in surrey last month. Search and rescue teams in morocco Reach Mountain Villages Flattened by last weeks earthquake. At least 2,900 people are dead. Ukraines air force chief congratulates the pilots who attacked russias Black Sea Fleet in crimea, causing a large fire at sevastopol shipyard. Sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres sarah. Ben stokes has blasted his way to his First Century since returning to 0di cricket. He reached 100 injust 76 balls for england as they look to post a big score in their third match of this series with new zealand, which is level at 1 1. Stokes is at the crease with liam livingstone, following a huge partnership with dawid malan which rescued england fr
winners dortmund saw the french side through, as eddie howe s side finished bottom of group f. you see everything that goes on the pitch and i see what goes on behind the scenes and the players and i can for them at all. fault them at all. i don t think we were at our absolute best tonight. i think if we had have been, we would have won the game. but i can t fault the commitment and what they re giving me, especially under the circumstances we re playing in. so that s why it s painful for me and for them, because i know how professional they are, and i know how much they want to achieve success. confirmation, then, of city progressing as group winners, along with rb leipzig who beat young boys on wednesday. a shock for barcelona who were beaten 3 2 antwerp they still go through as group winners, porto progress with them, after beating shakhtar. celtic got theirfirst champions league win in ten years, beating feyenoord. but atletico and lazio go through in that group.
chairjerome powell suggested as much. as we approach the end of the year, it s natural to look back on the progress that has been made toward our dual mandate objectives. inflation has eased from its highs, and this has come without a significant increase in unemployment. these are things we want to see. why might the rate hiking cycle has included 11 increases. government data showed inflation dropped from 9.1% in mid-2022 to 3.1% in november. that is above the target of 2% and jerome powell cautioned the committee had not ruled out raising rates again in the future. for wall street the dowjones international average jumped to record close. this is the third time in a row of the central bank decided against another rate hike. for investors satisfied with what the fed has done is when it will start cutting rates? there is a lot to digests in america big questions about whether a cut is likely. we will talk about that than i want to come onto the uk and europe. what is your as
couple of times today. we ve also seen chan tien, the female panda. a big moment for people getting this final opportunity to say goodbye to these two giant pandas. all final opportunity to say goodbye to these two giant pandas. these two giant pandas. all right, lorna, these two giant pandas. all right, lorna. thank these two giant pandas. all right, lorna, thank you these two giant pandas. all right, lorna, thank you very these two giant pandas. all right, lorna, thank you very much - these two giant pandas. all right, l lorna, thank you very much indeed and chris fawkes has the weather forecast. how chilly is it for those pandas in scotland? pandas in scotland 7 chilly pandas in scotland? chilly for them, chilly for us. we ve got temperatures will be below freezing and snow fall affecting north east england and eastern areas of scotland and this was cornwall just earlier this morning, with some quite thick snow on the ground. take a look at this chart. you can see ho
dies at the age of 70. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, hello from the bbc sport centre mark mccall, saracens director of rugby criticised the shameful treatment of his captain owen farrell in what he believes should be a wake up call for the game. farrell who also skippers england, will miss the men s six nations after deciding to take a break from international rugby in order to prioritise his and his family s mental well being . he will though continue to play club rugby. mccall says just like england head coach steve borthwick, he s fully behind farrell s decision to step away. social to step away. media we have zero control over. social media we have zero control over. but for me this began in the mainstream media, and the narrative that was created around on from everybody, and soaking up from everybody. that is what happened, i think everybody will, somewhere in their heads, agree with him, and then there was a pylon on social media, but i