to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. as syrian television shows the aftermath, moscow strongly condemns the action, vowing to strengthen assad s air defences. the romanian tourist injured in the westminster attacks two weeks ago has died andrea christea fell into the thames during the incident. hello and welcome to bbc news. i m jane hill. a lorry has driven into a crowd of pedestrians in the swedish capital, stockholm. police say at least three people have been killed and many others injured. the vehicle is reported to have rammed into a busy department store on drottninggatan, one of the city s major shopping streets. the swedish prime minister stefan lofven has said that the country has been attacked and everything indicates that it was police have released this image of a man they want to question in relation to the attack. suddenly this afternoon, panic on the streets of central stockholm. people running for their lives. around the corner, a lorry has smashed a
has said it could take further military action against the syrian government. it comes after washington fired missiles at an air base from which it believes president assad s forces launch a chemical weapons attack. addressing an emergency meeting of the un security council, the us ambassador, nikki haley, saidthe use of chemical weapons was a vital national security interest. our military destroyed the airfield from which the air strike took place. we were fully justified in the air strike took place. we were fullyjustified in doing so. the moral stain of the assad regime could no longer go unanswered. his crimes against humanity could no longer be met with empty words. it was time to say enough. but not only sad, it was time to act. bashar al assad must never use chemical weapons again. ever. nikki haley, there. the syrian government denounced the attack as reckless and irresponsible. at less than 2a hours after the strike a syrian warplanes we re after the strike a syrian
chemical weapons attack, we also wa nt to chemical weapons attack, we also want to see now the results of the investigation by the opc w. it is theirjob to establish exactly what happened, it was a very wide measure of agreement last night that not just the syrian generals, but if we could show complicity by those russian officers who are helping the syrian military operation, they should also be sanction a ball as well. the syrians will never allow a proper investigation on what they regard as their sovereign territory. the bigger picture here is that we are moving now into an environment where i think the russians have to make a choice. they basically change the game in syria a couple of years ago when they came in and they saved assad and it turns out that the guy they have saved has absolutely no compunction about poisoning and murdering his own people with weapons that should have been banned 100 years ago. they have a choice of sticking with him like glue or deciding to
a fire destroys a migrant camp in france housing around 1500 people. the blaze spread to large parts of the camp near the port of dunkirk leaving nearly a dozen injured. plus a debate still rages in the us over whether to get your child vaccinated: we travel to vashon island to see if donald trump is helping the fuel the trend of worried parents. hello, i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. rex tillerson likes to think he has a good relationship with vladimir putin the russian president even gave him an impressive medal three years ago. but there was no warm welcome for the new us secretary of state in moscow today. he flew in for talks on syria and the russian promptly lambasted america for indulging in iraq style war tactics. the us wants moscow to drop its support for president assad. but the west has almost no leverage. on monday in italy, the british foreign secretary had told reporters this was a window of opportunity. it s time, he said, f
structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes they re going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if we re speaking to what the american people care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the electoral college vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our politics, then we re probably
initiative and school nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy than our government going after the press if they re issuing a story we don t like. i mean that s an issue that i think we ve got to wrestle with. and we will. people asked me how do you feel after the election? i say well, look, this is a clarifying moment. it s a useful reminder that voting counts, politics counts, what the president-elect is going to be doing is going to be very different