Range was expected, now were waiting to hear the reaction from various parties including from the floyd family themselves because Derek Chauvin did speak today. Well give you the details of that. First to Matt Finn In Minneapolis that has been chronicling the case from the beginning and how things are going now. Matt . Hi, neil. Right now peaceful in the streets. Theres a semi large crowd outside the courthouse. People were chanting black lives matter no protests or any riots in minneapolis that weve seen. Moments before, judge cahill handed Derek Chauvin a 22 1 2 year sentence. The judge said that he did not make his ruling on emotions or on public demand. He said instead he based it on the rule of law. Hes releasing a 22page memo that will explain how he arrived at his sentencing. The big question is whether Derek Chauvin was doing to speak. In fact, he did for the firstime since George Floyds death. He never gave an interview and did not speak during the time and he did not testify.
this hour, we re tracking a deadly winter storm. temperatures plummeting to life-threatening lows on this christmas holiday. more than 55 million people remain under windchill alerts this morning. right now, blizzard conditions across the great lakes. at least 26 people have died from the arctic blast across eight states. in hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable after two straight days of snowfall. a very dangerous situation, driving bans still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. i want to remind everybody, there was a period, hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews. we could not send out department of public works crews, because it was too dangerous. bitter cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast, and southeast this morning. even florida is feeling the chill. much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. power o
the programme. hamas, regarded as a terrorist organisation by the uk, says more than 30 people have been killed in an israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in gaza. israel says it s investigating whether its forces were operating in the area at the time. heavy fighting is continuing in the north of the territory, with the united nations warning nearly 1.5 million gazans have now been displaced. our middle east correspondent mark lowen reports. night brings no peace to the purgatory of gaza. inferno is light the skies as israel pounds from the air. a listing that an israeli strike hit a refugee camp in central gaza late on saturday, killing at least 30. israel says it is looking into the reports. but night brings out anguish on the other side as well. in tel aviv, loved ones of the more than 240 hostages seized by hamas on the seventh of october demand there return. 0ne missing chairfor demand there return. 0ne missing chair for each demand there return. 0ne missing chairfor eac
companies can t find enough workers, so do they need to look harder? underrepresented groups like autistic and dyslexic people could do a lot to plug the skills gap, but employees need to do more work to recruit more of them. there is a greater level of innovation. you have people who think different, who act different, and who bring a totally new level of thought process into the solutions. i m going to hearfrom jane gratton from the british chambers of commerce, about their skills gap findings. plus, i speak to these two. there they are lars backstrom, an autistic data analyst, and kurt schaeffer, who runs the biggest company in the world with a majority of autistic staff, more than 400 in his company alone. also on the show, the big boss of one of the world s largest jobs companies, recruit holdings, which operates in 60 countries, joins me to talk about how to fill the skills gap and how to spot lies on people s job applications. wherever you rejoining me from around th
Range was expected, now were waiting to hear the reaction from various parties including from the floyd family themselves because Derek Chauvin did speak today. Well give you the details of that. First to Matt Finn In Minneapolis that has been chronicling the case from the beginning and how things are going now. Matt . Hi, neil. Right now peaceful in the streets. Theres a semi large crowd outside the courthouse. People were chanting black lives matter no protests or any riots in minneapolis that weve seen. Moments before, judge cahill handed Derek Chauvin a 22 1 2 year sentence. The judge said that he did not make his ruling on emotions or on public demand. He said instead he based it on the rule of law. Hes releasing a 22page memo that will explain how he arrived at his sentencing. The big question is whether Derek Chauvin was doing to speak. In fact, he did for the firstime since George Floyds death. He never gave an interview and did not speak during the time and he did not testify.