the boundary with israel. hello and welcome to bbc news. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state, where the city of buffalo has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. 27 bodies have been recovered there; and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mexican border. montana has experienced the coldest weather, w
zero covid policy. the move comes as china struggles with the virus ferocious spread after restrictions were lifted. now on bbc news it s time for review 2022 and it s been a year where health news has again dominated the headlines. our correspondent dominic hughes looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uk s health services. was 2022 the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron variant, the virus still had us in its clutches. even as the new year s eve fireworks faded into the night, an estimated 1 in every 15 people in the uk would have tested positive for covid. it s because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we will move to plan b in england. you must wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, and from tomorrow, work from home if you can. faced with a huge number of infections, in early december of 2021, the government had already been fo
hello and welcome to bbc news. at least 60 people have been killed in winter storms across the united states and canada. president biden has approved an emergency declaration allowing federal support for new york state. the city of buffalo has borne the brunt of the arctic conditions. it lies in the great lakes region and near the canadian border 27 bodies have been recovered there; and more are expected to be found in cars buried in the snow. blizzards have blocked roads and brought down power lines making it hard to get food and medicine. sean dilley reports. forfive days, blizzard conditions have disrupted life and travel across america. dozens of deaths have been reported, more are expected in the coming days. emergency services are among those struggling with the weather. a quarter of a million homes and businesses are estimated to have been hit by power cuts on christmas eve and christmas day. the impact of the storm has stretched from canada to the mexican border.
with the virus ferocious spread after restrictions were lifted. you are watching bbc news. next, it s time for weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which set the uk s highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the uk s national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand our climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan, still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the biggest storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike. i am at raf coningsby, not only a place close to my heart in that it is where i began my broadcasting career, but to british meteorology, thi
you are watching bbc news. next it s time for click. rock version of: the twelve days of christmas. well, ho, ho, ho! ho! and merry clickmas! merry clickmas! it s the first one from our new glasgow base. so we are here in the middle of pacific quay, in the studio. yeah. yoo hoo. good, innit? and we ve got all the latest tech decks. ..low carbon log fire. ..cgi baubles. ..and sustainable signage. now, this is our last show of 2022, and i think we can all agree it s been a year, hasn t it? it s been a year. here we go. so he s doing the launch sequence now. seven, six. ..four, three, two, one. i started it with the maddest idea i ve heard of in ages launching satellites into space by throwing them into orbit. right. eating on camera is always very messy. i had some cocoa free chocolate. is that still chocolate? it s really good. lovely. i beg your pardon? you had help from the likes of me. the trimmer, younger looking, virtual version of you that has. helped with all of these