message to the nation as monarch. i let sanding and waking chart is hosting his first royal christmas where crowds are here to see him and the rest of the royal family. 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 uprooting trees. howard johnson reports. subzero 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 up in ohio left four dead. while in kansas city, one perso
into the evening sky. and this is the scene live in the vatican where thousands of worshippers have gathered in saint peter s square for the pope s christmas day message. pope francis just arriving pope francisjust arriving on pope francis just arriving on the balcony, as you can see in these live pictures. 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 uprooting trees. howard johnson reports. subzero 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
areas around khan younis, a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they are overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it has been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours, although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children s charity, unicef, says there s nowhere safe for people to go. it comes as the us state department says it s too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. our gaza correspondent rushdi abualouf who is now in istanbul sent this update. very intense israeli air strikes around khan younis tonight, with reports of israeli tanks are moving from the eastern part and the northern part of khan younis. i have seen some footage f
around khan younis that s a city israel told civilians to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they re overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it s been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children s charity unicef says there s simply nowhere safe for people to go. all this comes as the us state department says it s too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. well, let s go live now tojerusalem and to our correspondent yolande knell. just talk to us more about these evacuation orders and warnings from both the us to israel and israel to gazans? ,., , both the us to israel and israel to gazans? , , gazans? indee
desert this is bbc desert news. the headlines: emergency services are responding to reports of a serious in the ascendant in aberfan in south wales. it follows reports of a serious assault which happened just after 9am this morning. we are trying to get more details of this breaking story, we will bring you as much as we can when we get it. other news: as israel intensifies its operation in southern gaza, there are a fresh warnings from the worsening situation for civilians there. the home secretary is signing a treaty with rwanda in the hope that the government can fulfil its promised to send migrants to the country. moore and that breaking news. emergency services responding to reports of a serious incident in aberfan in wales that happened after nine o clock this morning local time. we cross live now to our correspondent in cardiff. we are stillt in: correspondent in cardiff. we are still trying to correspondent in cardiff. we are still trying to get correspondent in c