The National Health service this winter. A number of hospitals have declared critical incidents. Three people have died after fire broke out at a hotel in perth in scotland. Emergency services, including 21 Ambulance Crews and nine fire trucks, were called to the incident. Thousands have waited in line to pay their respects to Brazilian Football legend pele, whos lying in state at the ground of his former club, santos. The three time world cup winner died at the age of 82 on 29 december. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Kevin Schofield, whos Political Editor of huffpost uk and eleanor langford, political reporter at politicshome. Tomorrows front pages, starting with. You the ft leads with its annual survey of uk economists, finding a majority believe the recession here will be worse than in other countries. The i reports comments by a leading health boss that extreme pressure on hospitals will continue for at least ano
right now on early start, going nowhere. almost 1,000 flights canceled as freezing rain pelts airports and roads from texas to west virginia. plus more fallout from the memphis beating. seven police officers off the job, three fired from the fire tent. > department. and secretary of state antony blinken is meeting with abbas after his sitdown with netanyahu. good morning, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with a major winter storm. overnight arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders activating the national guard as severe weather moves across the state. sleet, freezing rain, bitter cold temperatures impacting some 38 million people from texas to west virginia. a winter storm warning is in effect for a large portion of texas including dallas/ft. worth. schools in the area are closed due to the dangerous conditions. according to flight aware nearly 1,000 flights have already been canceled. chad myers, wh
paying hush money to porn star, stormy daniels, during his first presidential campaign. nbc news has confirmed that the grand jury has been convened for this. but former trump lawyer michael cohen, who went to prison for his role in the hush money payments, is now playing witness in this latest case. donald will ultimately be held accountable for the stormy daniels payment. this investigation, that was to be brought by alvin bragg s office, previously cy vance junior, is the most detrimental to him, is freedom, his livelihood, his business, et cetera, because it s the easiest to proof. the checks are the checks. we know a lot. there is recordings. the first three months payment was made by donald trump. and i think those to the house oversight committee who posted them and so on. and so, he s not in the same position, where he can deny or lie the way that he will he will in some of the other matters. meanwhile, the current president is focusing on his agenda how he s goin
and as ukraine celebrates its orthodox christmas, russian backed forces say they ve downed a drone in breach of a temporary ceasefire. hello and welcome to bbc world news. kevin mccarthy has been elected speaker of the us house of representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow republicans come to blows. it took four days, 15 votes, and numerous concessions, but the 20 or so rebels within his own party were eventually persuaded. sancha berg reports. after more than four days, it was over. ..of which the honourable i kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 216. cheering and applause ..to cheers from republicans in the house. chanting: usa! usa! usa! the democrat leader, hakeem jeffries, handed over the gavel. . .. kevin mccarthy. cheering and applause ..to the new speaker s clear relief. that was easy, huh? laughter i never thought we d get up here. this should have been a straightforward process, after republicans won a slim majority in the house
robbie williams was talking to colin patterson. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. let me entertain you for the next two and a half minutes. not many songs i could have chosen, a few dodgy titles there. we will be warming up in the next few days mainly because the wind direction is changing, more of a southerly breeze. later in the week, a band of rain will come down from the north west, from the atlantic, and it is this cloud here that will bring the rain. that is continuing to thicken, still a long way off. ahead of that, i thin a band of cloud threatening rain in the north west. many parts still have cloudy skies like yesterday. thin in places, a bit of sunshine around, especially across southern counties of england, parts of wales and northern ireland. most places will be fine and dry, 17 19 c, warmer than yesterday. this evening and overnight, a lot of cloud will break up, so clearer spells developing. still the potential for some rain up, so clearer spe