more compelling. twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. # well, i was born a coalminer s daughter. #. and musicians and fans pay tribute to the american country music star loretta lynn, who s died at the age of 90. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with ukraine where the country s forces have retaken more territory from the russians in the south. the focus is near the city of kherson in one of the regions unlawfully annexed by russia last week. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenzky says his troops are making rapid and powerful advances against russian forces and dozens of settlements had been recaptured from the russian military in the south and east. over the weekend, ukraine retook the strategic eastern town of lyman, which the russians had been using as a logistics base. but both sides paid a heavy price for the fighting there. 0ur senior international correspondent,
what happened here wasn tjust a defeat for president putin, it was a complete humiliation. twitter confirms that the world s richest man, elon musk, is going through with his bid to buy the company. australia announces plans to halt its extinction crisis and save more than one hundred endangered species. # when i was born a coalminer s daughter. and, musicians and fans pay tribute to the american country music star, loretta lynn who s died at the age of ninety. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it is one of the most severe humanitarian crises anywhere in the world right now. somalia is in the grip of the worst drought since the 1980 s. hundreds of thousands of people, many trapped by conflict, are facing extreme hunger and death. a full blown famine, where households have no food children suffer acute malnutrition and people die every day from starvation is likely within a matter of weeks. 0ur africa correspondent andrew harding reported on soma
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and we celebrate a0 years of christmas classic, the snowman, and its iconic soundtrack, walking in the air. good morning. it s christmas eve. our top story. around 250 million people in the us and canada are under severe weather warnings, as an unprecedented winter storm sweeps across north america. from alaska to texas, bone chilling temperatures, blizzards and icy winds have caused widespread disruption and left more than a million homes and businesses without power. at least 12 deaths have been linked to the conditions. tom brada reports. once ina once in a generation whether out of the worst possible time. ice, wind, rain and extreme cold are wreaking havocin rain and extreme cold are wreaking havoc in the build up to christmas. trees have been ripped from the ground and power lines have been knocked out across the country. from maine to texas, more than i million people are without electricity. people are very frustrated because we pay our bills. all day it has been goin
and in ukraine, ukraine racking up more battlefield devastation. that is what we re watching at this hour. the search for survivors in florida, rescuers going door-to-door in neighborhoods decimated by hurricane ian still nearly 2,000 have been rescued so far an the death toll from this monster storm jumping to more than 100 people now. more than half of the deaths are in one county alone, lee county. the sheriff there is about to hold a press conference. we re going to bring you that live when it begins, when it happens. there is so much tragedy from this storm. we ve seen this for days now. but we re also hearing incredible stories of survival. a fort myers man who clung to a palm tree for hours as the storm surge flooded everything in site. his daughter fearing the worst after their last desperate phone call. they re now reunited and they will join us this hour. let s get started with the very latest on the recovery. boris sanchez is live in fort myers. in this press con