And coming up in half an hour from the cricket world cup to a Game Changing summer for women s sport. We look back at the biggest sporting moments this year. Good morning, and welcome to bbc news. At least 16 people have been killed by a typhoon in the philippines, which has left a trail of devastation through the centre of the country. Wind gusts reached 200 kilometres an hour, tearing roofs off houses, and leaving tens of thousands of people stranded at ports. The storm has been following a similar track to typhoon haiyan in 2013 the most powerful to hit the area in decades. Catherine karelli reports. A far from peaceful christmas in the central philippines. Typhoon phanfone has brought sustained winds of almost 200 kilometres an hour. Terrifying local people. Screaming. And leaving a trail of destruction. Heavy rain has left many homes flooded. More than 16,000 people had to spend the night in improvised shelters and at least 100 families have been left homeless. In this majority ca
Of a new citizenship law. And hit by Corruption Cases and to repeat election failures israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. And im were harding with sports it was a basketball battle in l. A. With le brons lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this hour. Itll be with us here on the news hour we begin with breaking news in turkeys president recipe the one says that he will be sending troops to libya after a request from the internationally recognized government turkey says it wants to support the tripoli based administration which has been under a months long defensive by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar president and also says that hell present a bill on the deployment to parliament when it reconvenes in january. From the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assista
Turkish troops to libya based on the Security Cooperation agreement once indorsed by the parliament we will be able to effectively back the legitimate government some states who support the coup general with their jet fighters tanks and militia object to this move and criticize turkey because of it well minister has more from antakya. Well for the process is drawing closer to a conclusion and the realisation of no ones plot to send troops to leave hes already passed the 1st hard on which was getting parliamentary approval for his military Cooperation Agreement with libya that passed last week and now a new legislation has to be brought to parliament on the 7th of january as he ses and debated on the 8th and passed it on the day or the following day on the 9th in which he is seeking a monday for troops to be sent to tripoli to help the government internationally recognized the government of course this is what the law stipulates he haas to do that otherwise he will not be able to deploy
Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. At least 16 people have been killed by a typhoon in the philippines which has left a trail of devastation through the centre of the country. Wind gusts reached 200 kilometres an hour tearing roofs off houses and leaving tens of thousands of people stranded at ports. The storm has been following a similar track to typhoon haiyan in 2013 the most powerful to hit the area in decades. Adam hancock reports. Christmas was far from peaceful in the central philippines. Typhoon phanfone has bought sustained winds of almost 200 kilometres per hour and made a nine volt several times gcioss and made a nine volt several times across a number of islands. The trail of destruction it because it is now becoming clear. Fishing trawlers tossed on the beach and seaside towns left devastated. Heavy rain has left many homes flooded, more than 16,000 people had to spend christmas night in improvised shelters and at least 100 families have been left homeless. The rescu
Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his audi. Turkeys president typewriter one says he will be sending troops to libya after a request from the internationally recognized government to he says it wants to support the tripoli based administration which has been under a months long offensive by forces loyal to wall otani for have to offer president present a bill on the deployment to parliament when it reconvenes in january. From the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assistance to libyas legitimate government against the coup plotter who is receiving support from certain european states libya is a neighboring country as we share maritime border lines in the Mediterranean Sea once the Parliament Comes into session we will present the proposal for dispatching turkish troops to libya based on the Security Cooperation agreement once indorsed by the p