iam in i am in stroud, where it is snowing. it may not be real but it is probably as close as many of us will get to a white christmas. a cloudy and damp day, murky in the west, rain crossing the north of the country. tonight and tomorrow the wind becomes a feature. details later. good morning. it s wednesday, the 20th of december. junior doctors in england are about to start a three day strike in a dispute over pay. they ll walk out from seven o clock this morning, after five weeks of negotiations failed to reach an agreement. this time of year is traditionally one of the nhs s most busy periods. our health correspondent sharon barbour has the details. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? our nhs! dr greenhaus, a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patien
oslo pride parade after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv. it s a significant moment. reflect on the fact that this is the biggest city to fall since mariupol, this is the place we have been talking about for many weeks now. but in many ways its fall had become inevitable. the ukrainians said they were withdrawing, they now, since yesterday, it turns out that they have actually been pulling out for a few days but doing it without telling people, for obvious security reasons. what they say is they are now going to pull b
As soon as possible. On wednesday, us President Joe Biden and egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al sisi agreed to open up the Rafah Crossing, to allow up to 20 trucks of aid into gaza. But President Biden has warned the shipment is not likely to cross until friday, because repairs to the road are needed. Of course, our website has a live page updating all the time if you wish to give across that news. Now on to business and we start with netflix its shares have been surging, after the Streaming Giant said it signed up almost nine million new subscribers in the last three months. Thats way more than expected and the best quarterlyjump since the early days of the pandemic when we were all stuck at home. So whats going on . Its mostly down to a crackdown on people sharing their passwords and now netflix is putting up prices basic subscribers in the uk will pay an extra pound the premium plan has gone up by £2, to £17. 99. Michelle fleury has more. It has been less than six months since ne