freedom to all ukrainians. - wherever we are, we will be together today, and together we will look into the evening sky. and pope francis has called for an immediate end to the war in ukraine during his christmas day message. hello and welcome to bbc news. more than a million americans and canadians are facing christmas day without power as a winter storm continues to barrel its way across north america. the so called bomb cyclone has brought heavy snow, strong winds, and freezing temperatures. at least 20 people have died because of icy roads, and high winds uprooted trees. howard johnson reports. sub zero temperatures. ..whiteouts. .. ..and flooding. from toronto to new orleans, north america is experiencing a winter storm of epic proportions. nearly 250 million americans and canadians are believed to be affected, with more than 1.5 million people without power. thousands of flights have been cancelled and major roads closed, ruining christmas travel plans. a 46 car pile
is already facing winter pressures with people being told to avoid a&e. the i leads on the tory leadership campaign truss blow: voters want hand outs, not tax cuts its headline. in the guardian, nhs cannot be put on a pedestal quoting after prime ministerial candidate liz truss, who the paper says called for cuts. the daily mail tomorrow has an attack on nhs, accusing the health service of spending £1 million on woke groups for their staff. on the front page of the mirror, fergie s case for the defence after former manchester united manager sir alex ferguson testified in the ryan giggs trial. the express says the migrant crisis to last at least five more years. and finally, the financial times weekend pages carry a warning about a market rally from the bankers of wall street. do you want to kick us off with the front page of the times? michael gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. it gove bows out with a potshot of liz truss. , . , ., truss. it is a
meanwhile, quite a scary seen as you can see. the attack has been turned into a rallying cry for reform after the suspect was released under new york state law as congressman zeldin predicted. other big stories, president biden continuing his recovery at the white house after his covid diagnosis and the world health organization sounding the alarm over the monkeypox outbreak declaring the global emergency. we have live team coverage. christina coleman has more on this. we will start with alexis mcadams who has the latest. reporter: breaking moments ago the man who attacked leaves eldon is facing federal charges for assault after he spent a few hours in handcuffs and didn t post bail in new york even though the entire thing was caught on camera. what is he doing? reporter: you hear people shocked wondering what was going on. he is republican candidate for new york governor was on stage in rochester when a man tried to stab him, pulled out a sharp object. zeldin says he h
Chaos on capitol hill. A group of jewish protester are calling for an israel ham has cease far taking over the Cannon Office builder. Arrests have been made. The president pledging americas support for israel but also telling the jewish state to show restraint in gaza. Come to israel with a single message. Youre not alone. Youre not alone. As long as the United States stands and we will stand forever, the recent Terrorist Assault on the people of this nation has left a deep, deep wound. Theres no higher priority than the release and safe return of all of these hostages. But i caution this while you feel that rage, dont be consumed by it. After 911, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justin and got justice, we made mistakes. Moments ago, President Biden talking to reporters on Air Force One and calling the trip successful. It was a quick trip. Lots happening today. What do you make of the president s trip or even about this protest at the capitol . So he flies over th
Ceasefire talks in cairo. The good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. So thats hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. The not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team theyre not there to negotiate, theyre there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. The main Sticking Point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. So the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, theyre largely agreed. They can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. Theres a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. In return, a much larger number of Palestinians Prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been moved south into rafah