the boundary with israel. hello and welcome to bbc news. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state, where the city of buffalo has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. 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 border. montana has experienced the coldest weather, w
hello and welcome to bbc news. 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 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 border.
What the president has been saying in terms of dealing with anything like this. are preventing happening again? the military have come out and apologise for failing to shoot these down and saying that the reason they could not shoot them down was because they have the equipment and capability to shoot down larger drones, more serious drones that would be used for attacks but these were smaller, used for surveillance, and because they were so small, they were not able to shoot them down. clearly, it is embarrassing and it exposes a weak point in south korean defence. the president has come out today and said that he is going to review all the defence when it comes to drones and he is going to speed up the creation of a new specialist military unit which is going to deal with drones. it was already in the offing but they are going to speed it up and make sure it is established much quicker. what does it mean for relations
Flew to the west, one of them made it all the way down to the capitol just north of the capital, seoul, so this is clearly concerning because it had the potential to run seoul valence operations, it could potentially photograph areas of the capital, the south koreans want to keep secure. the south korean sent up keep secure. the south korean sent up a series of helicopters and jets to shoot the drones down but after hours of trying, they were not successful and lost sight of them. this caused concern to the public here. it was an embarrassment for the government which was not able to shoot these drones down on the way that it wanted to. tell shoot these drones down on the way that it wanted to. that it wanted to. tell us more about what that it wanted to. tell us more about what the that it wanted to. tell us more about what the south - that it wanted to. tell us more about what the south korean | about what the south korean president has been saying and dealing with anything like
The south korean president has been saying, in terms of dealing with anything like this or preventing anything like this happening again. well, the military have come out and apologised for failing to shoot these down and saying that the reason that they couldn t shoot them down was that they actually have the equipment, the capabilities to shoot down larger drones. so the more serious drones that would be used for attacks but these were smaller drones that would be used for surveillance, and because of their small size, they said that they didn t have the capability to shoot them down. but clearly, it s embarrassing and clearly it exposes a weak point in south korean s defences. so the president has come out today and said that he is going to review all the defences when it comes to drones and he s also going to speed up the creation of a new specialist military unit. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s gavin. good morning. the premier league is back, afte