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
Last week the Hard Line Rulers announced women were banned from attending university. Now on bbc news our world harvesting turkeys tea. Hello there. For most of us, Christmas Day is going to turn out to be quite a mild day with temperatures pushing into double figures. On saturday, we did manage a bit of sunshine across the midlands and North East England but otherwise it was a lot of clout around it we will continue to feed in rather cloudy skies for Christmas Day as well with the South Westerly Winds dragging in mild air around this area of low pressure to the north. Its really late in the day that well start to see some colder air returning, particularly to parts of scotland and in the northwest of scotland late on you could see a few snow showers. So one or two of you could see a white christmas. But for most, its going to be a mild day for christmas. South westerly winds then will continue to push bursts of rain across the country. The wettest weather will be across western areas,
fiery train crash in ohio. thousands forced to evacuate as flames shoot up to the sky the smoke traveling into the next state with fears it may be carrying toxins. primary challenge. the democratic party votes to make south carolina the first primary. how new hampshire and iowa are fighting back. and dramatic rescue at sea a boat flipped over by huge waves off of oregon. how the coast guard saved the man onboard and the bizarre back story that got him there announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening for at least five days a chinese spy balloon has been traveling over the united states it was spotted in montana and kansas and today over the carolinas. this afternoon its journey ended in dramatic fashion. this is the moment u.s. fighter jets took it out there we go they got it boom! and then witnesses watched it slowly plummet down into the ocean. the operation required shutting down commercial air traffic from at least three differe
nevada s governor declared a state of emergency. treacherous trip. the u.s.-canada border is largely desolate, undefended and now seeing a spike of illegal crossings. cbs news is there. and later, kicking off super bowl lvii. history being made by the quarterbacks and the navy aviators doing the flyover. we ll also have the line-up of the big game commercials. wow. this is really good, right? or am i just acting? announcer: this is the cbs weekend news, from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. there is breaking news tonight. an american fighter jet has shot down another unidentified object, this time over canada. just one day after a warplane took similar action over alaska and one week after a chinese spy balloon was shot down off the carolina coast. canadian prime minister justin trudeau says the shootdown happened over the yukon territory. in a tweet tonight trudeau said he ordered norad to take down the object that had violated canadian air space. cbs s
Roads were expected to be disrupted but the aa said it was not as bad as expected the taliban have now banned Women In Afghanistan from working for non Governmental Organisations saying they are breaking strict dress codes. Just days ago the taliban barred women from studying at university. French police and protesters have clashed for the second day running in central paris. The unrest was caused by a deadly shooting on friday at a kurdish cultural centre. The suspect has been taken to a police psychiatric unit for health reasons. Now on bbc news its time for review 2022. It has been a year where weve lost some of the worlds biggest names. Stars like meatloaf, Sporting Icons such as shane warne and actors including Robbie Coltraine and angela la nsbury. And of course her majesty the queen, who died in september. For the next half an hour on bbc news, we remember. Like a Bat Out Of Hell ill be gone when the morning comes oh, when the night is over like a Bat Out Of Hell ill be gone, go