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After more than 180 people died in flash floods and landslides. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the conditions, which were triggered by a Tropical Storm. President Rodrigo Duterte is to visit communities, affected by Tropical Storm tembin later on sunday. The island of mindanao is the worst hit area so far and the storm is now battering the island of palawan. Sarah corker has the latest. In the raging floodwaters, rescue effo rts in the raging floodwaters, rescue efforts are frantic and dangerous. Roads are all these villages have the pull each other to safety. Storm tembin tore through mindanao, the second largest island of the philippines at home to 20 million people. Entire communities have been cut off. With more than 100 people missing, that death toll may rise. This remote village has been burie ....
Coming up later this hour. With just over a month to go until the winter just over a month to go until the Winter Olympics in south korea, i will be checking out some of team gbs will be checking out some of team gbs biggest medal prospect in part for the pyeongchang in path to pyeongchang. Good morning, and welcome to bbc news. Merry christmas. The queen will pay tribute to the cities of manchester and london in her Christmas Day broadcast for the way in which they dealt with this years terrorist attacks. Shes at her estate at sandringham with other members of the royal family, including prince harry and his fiancee, Meghan Markle. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. The queen recorded this years broadcast a few days ago at buckingham palace. Its main theme is the importance of home, a place she describe ....
As their candidate for president. The russian leader wont even be attending that event some will see that as a sign that hes pretty confident. Theres now very little standing in the way of his re election in march. Virginia langeberg explains. He has spent almost 18 years in powerand is a manfamiliar with a grand entrance. However on this occasion, Vladimir Putin is expected to not even turn up to his own nomination event. Some have read that decision as a sign of confidence, but the kremlin says the president has a prior engagement. Today marks the official launch of Vladimir Putins president ial campaign. He runs as an independent and has until the end of january to collect 300,000 signatures to register his bid. There is little doubt he will be re elected. There are no strong rivals now that Anti Corruption campaigne ....
In a statement, the us treasury named the men, on the left, ri pyong chol, and on the right, kimjong sik. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin added, treasury is targeting leaders of north koreas Ballistic Missile programmes, as part of our maximum Pressure Campaign to isolate north korea and achieve a fully denuclearised korean peninsula. Pyong chol is believed to be one of the top people in charge of the controversial programme. Kimjong sik is thought to be behind the work to switch from liquid to solid fuel. New United Nations sanctions were introduced last friday in response to north koreas latest intercontinental Ballistic Missile test in november. Earlier, i spoke with dr balbina hwang, visiting profe ....