A powerful typhoon has hit the philippines and is projected to sweep across the island of luzon, where the Capital Manila is located. Super typhoon noru made landfall within the last couple of hours and could bring winds of up to 200 km h. Our weather forecaster Helen Willetts has more. Hello. This large mass of cloud is a strong, powerful typhoon called noru, which has been throwing rain across the philippines for at least the last 2a hours, but has been developing intensively into that powerful storm, so a life threatening storm because it has got destructive winds, and it will give extreme amounts of rainfall, potentially catastrophic flooding and a large storm surge. Once it moves out into the south china seas open waters, expected to still be a typhoon, it could well intensify again and head into parts of vietnam, threaten china with some heavy rain and also give rains to thailand, cambodia and laos where it has been very wet already because of low pressure. So some destructive wi
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Pakistan with 46 billion of investment. And primed, shined, and ready. Cars go on sale in shanghai, but will the roll out of new modelings be enough to stop sales from slowing down. First the Italian Coast Guard is on its way to answer yet another distress call in the mediterranean. It follows the sinking of aship that could have had as many as 950 people on board when it went down. Two vessels carrying hundreds of people are in danger of sinking right now off the libya coast. Meanwhile, a boat carrying Asylum Seekers are smashed into rocks. All this as e. U. Leaders meet in luxembourg. Theyre calling for Decisive Action on the growing problem. First lets go to Barnaby Phillips who joins us live from catania. Barnaby. Another day and another incident in the mediterranean. Tell us about these two vessels that are in danger. What weve heard is from the Prime Minister renzi. There were two boats. The first with 100 to 150 people on board. The second boat is throughout to have perhaps as m
In the United States 12 republican senators say theyll raise objections this week to president elect joe bidens victory. Theyll do it when congress meets to review the results of the Electoral College vote. It wont be enough to alter the outcome. But it could force other republicans to take sides over mr trumps claims of Election Fraud. Our washington correspondent lebo diseko explains how the republican strategy will work. It is a bit of a complex progress but basically, congress will meet. That is both houses of congress the senate and also the house of representatives will meet and they will essentially receive the votes of the Electoral College and certify them. During that process if any member of the house can get a senator to come along with them and object to a particular state results then it forces a discussion and then a vote on those particular result. Now for an objection to be successful both the house of representatives and the senate have to vote in favour of that objec
Theres mounting pressure on the British Government to close all schools in england for face to face teaching for two weeks after the christmas holidays. Teaching unions say a move to Home Learning for most children is necessary to curb the spread of coronavirus. 0ne union is advising teachers not to return to school on monday over safety fears. Figures released in the past hour show a further 57,725 positive coronavirus cases in the past 2a hours here in the uk the highest daily total. There have also been a further a45 deaths. Heres our education correspondent dan johnson. In liverpool, teachers are already at the head of the queue for tests, but there are more and more voices saying schools shouldnt reopen on monday. It seems to me just to be inexplicable that the government is getting this so badly wrong. We said all schools should be closed for the first two weeks, and we regret to have to say that. We dont want to have to say that schools will close, but our fear is, if we dont do