good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that really should get started on its christmas shopping. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, december 23rd. we ll start with the news. president biden is defending his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. here he is in a new interview with abc news. we re nearly two years in into the pandemic, presidency, empty shelves, no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it s so important. is that good enough? no, nothing s been good enough, but, look, look where we are. when last christmas we were in a situation where we were, we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled, hospitals had backups, causing great difficulties. we re in a situation now where we have 200 million people fully vaccinated. 200 million people fully vaccinated. we have more than that that have had at least one shot, and they re getting these booster shots as well. the president also reportedly told abc
major cities reporting outages. service wasn t fully restored until a little after 3pm today, some 11 hours after the first reports began. that s it for us. the news continues the source with kaitlan collins starts now in straight from the source tonight, one powerful image and one clear message. president biden, embracing alexey navalny s widow, and morning that his punishment is coming tomorrow is navalny s mother accuses putin of blackmail over her son s body. also a massive outage leaving at&t customers unable to make a receive calls for hours, including some emergency ones. what happened and why also a dramatic touchdown. hold your breath moment is america lins, a spacecraft on the mood for the first time in more than 50 years, we ll take you inside the lunar i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight. alexey navalny s mother says that putin s thugs are blackmailing her after they finally took her to see her son s lifeless body in the morgue more on that
is cnn world s news hello everyone, and thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m pregnant the whitfield and we begin with a major development in the war in gaza after month seven tenths fighting. israel says, it is withdrawing. its ground forces from the southern city of khan yunis. israel described the area as a major hamas stronghold and it put together its biggest ever military division for the operation there as the city became a key battleground in what is now a six month war. were also so learning that israel s planned reopening of the erez border crossing in the north of gaza is being delayed. it would have allowed more aid to flow into gaza. today s developments follow a call last week between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. sources tell cnn during read that call president biden gave netanyahu a list of things he wanted to see done to ease the human suffering in gaza and it all comes as israel marks a grim mi
which will become more widespread as we go through the day. for many of us, a beautiful day, cloud and drizzle in the north west of scotland. most likely to develop across central england, southern england, eastern counties, the fog could be dense enough to cause delays on the road and possibly even some of the airports in the south. they re that in mind if you are travelling tomorrow. look at the extent this morning. some freezing fog around as temperatures dipped to zero. a lot milder in the north west due to south westerly winds. southern parts of the uk, the airports, in some places the fog will last through the afternoon, in many areas it will lift and disperse. where it lingers, it could be around 0 degrees. most of us won t get that. a lot of low, grey cloud. the odd spot, 14 degrees in aberdeen. this is an unusual meteorological phenomenon. we had a weather front living in tomorrow night, fog forming in some parts of the country. wednesday is gloomy, less foggy, the w
in the third test in perth. massive win. good morning. it s monday 18th december. i m annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a review into building regulations following the grenfell tower fire says there should be a ‘culture change‘ to ensure that safety is prioritised over cost. dame judith hackitt, who is carrying the review for the government, makes a series of recommendations to simplify the rules and change the way they are overseen. in her first report out this morning, she also says regulations are confusing and open to interpretation. the interim report tells us that what we have in place today is a system which has evolved over a number of years. it is overly complex and that complexity does not lead to it being as effective as it needs to be. what sort of things specifically are we talking about? we re talking about a system where there is too much prescription, where there is a very heavily layered system of guidance currently, which is not helpful i