from loved ones as the war continues in their home country. hello and welcome to bbc news. a fierce arctic winter storm has triggered emergency alerts across parts of the united states and forced the cancellation of more than 2000 flights. forecasters say the cold snap could bring the coldest christmas in decades. presidentjoe biden has encouraged everyone to heed warnings and bring forward christmas travel plans where possible. this is what it looks like when a bomb cyclone descends on north america. these huge banks of snow in north dakota are the result of an intense blizzard that swept through the state. conditions that are set to engulf almost the entire country, just in time for christmas. but this is no winter wonderland. the storm could prove deadly. great swathes of the us will experience some of the lowest temperatures ever recorded here. there is already chaos at the airports. this is new york. for many, it should have been the first normal christmas after covid. b
unless pay talks are opened, with even more hospital trusts expected to walk out than the december strikes. meanwhile, union chiefs say borderforce strikes could go on for six months unless the government joins pay talks. china continues to grapple with a major covid outbreak following a lifting of restrictions with growing questions about the government s official death tally. and the british husband and wife duo who ve had more uk christmas number one singles than the beatles meet ladbaby who ve bagged the spot for a record fifth time. for you watching in the uk, on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. the french president, emmanuel macron, has condemned a shooting at a cultural centre in paris as an odious attack on the country s kurdish population. three people were killed and three injured by the gunman, who had just been released from detention for targeting a migrant camp a year ago. clashes later broke out between police and a large crowd which h
happening right now, martial law. putin is cracking down on several regions. another sign that his war is losing momentum. hours from now, president biden will announce new actions to tackle gas prices, including another release from strategic oil reserves, as voters say inflation and rising prices are key issues heading into the mid terms. let s begin in ukraine. earlier this morning, i wrote with a cyberexpert, and asked what he thinking of the move for martial law. it s an act of desperation. things are going from bad to worse. he s losing more and more territory in these four recently annexed territories. just yesterday, the new head of the russian ground forces said they have to make some hard decision where their position is particularly untenable on the right bank of the river. that s probably an indication they re looking to withdraw potentially from that. what putin is trying to do there is forestall t. of course, any further loss of territory, desperately tryi
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. who is counting? yeah. the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation s oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that s been put under contract since this past spring. the reserves are at a 30-year low. with my you a nounsment today we are going to continue to stabilize markets and decrease the prices at a time when the actions of other countries have caused such volatility, and i ve told my team behind me here to be prepared to look further look for further releases in the months ahead if needed. we re calling it a ready and
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