As he holds his Christmas Eve mass in the vatican. And looking ahead to the inevitably stressful cooking of christmas dinners well be getting tips from a chef from inside his restaurant kitchen. Hello and welcome to bbc news. An icy blast is affecting nearly 250 Million People in the us and canada, as one of the most severe Winter Storms in living memory takes hold with snow blizzards, strong winds and freezing temperatures. At least 19 people have died. Hundreds of thousands of american households and businesses are without electricity and thousands of flights have been cancelled. The Us State Of Montana registered a record breaking low of minus 45 celsius. Nomia iqbal reports. For much of america, this is the coldest Christmas Eve. Millions of them had plans to get away for the holidays. But the powerful bomb cyclone has thrown everything into chaos, causing Car Accidents, destroying power lines, leaving millions without electricity. The warning is, dont travel unless you need to. Do
The new restrictions were announced earlier this week. British Youtubers Ladbaby have gained their fifth consecutive uk christmas number one, beating a record set by the beatles. Our Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson reports. Theyve only gone and done it again. Ladbaby are number one the moment ladbaby found out that they had beaten the beatles. Its christmas time lets come together for food aid. This is ladbaby s fifth christmas number one the fab four only had four and celebrations have begun. Wheres the fifth one . Its on its way, its on its way down to us. I dont think they knew if we were going to get it right until the last minute. I think its in traffic on the motorway, actually its leaving london like everyone else, probably, yeah. Feed the uk. Bob geldof gave them permission to change the words of band aids do they know its christmas to make it about the uks Cost Of Living crisis. This is no all star sing along those are all lookalikes. The only famous name Money Savi
enters talks about pay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalist, john crowley, and joe twyman, who s the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the financial times leads with covid cases in china, which the paper says have reached up to 250 million in december since the country eased lockdown restrictions. the times reports on an initiative by the government to cut down early retirement the paper says prime minister rishi sunak plans a midlife mot to get over 50s into work. the daily mail says the nhs is wasting money on equality, diversity and inclusion related positions. the i leads on yesterday s vote in scotland on gender identification reforms, saying it could lead to what it calls an unprecedented constitutional clash with westminster. it s also on the front page of the telegraph, which says labour leader sir keir starmer wants updat
Enters talks about pay. You are watching bbc news. Now our north america correspondent Anthony Zurcher takes a look at the long awaited Senate Report into the storming of the us capitol back injanuary. There are flashing images in this report. Its going to happen. Somethings going to happen. Chanting whose streets . Our streets if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. On january sixth 2020, thousands of donald Trump Supporters on january sixth 2021, thousands of donald Trump Supporters stormed the us capitol building, intent on disrupting the certification of the 2020 election results. Hundreds of Police Officers were injured. 0ne, brian sicknick, would later die. Ashli babbitt, a protester, would be fatally shot by Law Enforcement during the attack. Another rioter would die in the throng of people pushing into the building. The crowd that gathered at the capitol that day ransacked the offices of congressional leaders, and posed for photographs in the Senate Chamber its
against the new ban by the taliban on women and girls attending universities. tuesday s late night announcement has triggered international outrage. george cohen, who was part of england s 1966 world cup winning team, has died aged 83. three people have been shot dead by a man who opened fire on a street in central paris. it happened outside a kurdish community centre. police are looking into the possibility that it was a racist attack and have arrested a 69 year old man. these are the latest pictures coming to us live from paris, an area with a diverse population, quite the garden know, one man witnessed the aftermath of the shooting. translation: we aftermath of the shooting. translation: aftermath of the shooting. translation: ~ ., ~ translation: we were walking in the street and we translation: we were walking in the street and we had translation: we were walking in the street and we had gunshot, translation: we were walking in the street and we had gunshot, we - t