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Sa warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. With spotify gearing up for a multibillion dollar market floatation we want to know have you embraced the music streaming revolution . Or are you still using an ipod, cds or vinyl . Get in touch just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Three people have died as storm eleanor swept across most of northern europe, causing widescale disruption. Tens of thousands of people have had their power cut and air travel has been affected. The dutch authorities have, for the first time, shut all major sea barriers. Sarah corker reports. The storm swept into france with brute force. Winds exceeding 150 kilometres an hour battered the northern coast. The Atlantic Ocean crashed over and through cedar fences. Sea defences. High tide in brittany saw ....
And hip problems force andy murray to pull out of the Australian Open. Hes not played a competitive match since wimbledon last year. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. All the action from Tonights Premier League as spurs battle to remain within touching distance of the top four. What a shot good evening. Theresa may has apologised for the postponement of thousands of operations because of winter pressures. Speaking on a visit to a hospital in surrey, the Prime Minister said she acknowledged the difficulty and frustration for patients. And new figures compiled by the bbc show that, for the last six weeks of 2017, more than 75,000 patients were left in ambulances for half an hour or more. Thats one in every eight patients enduring a delay. And last week was the busiest for the nhs iii helpline since it began ....
We will have more on that in just a moment. Now, moving on to the weather. In canada they tend to call it winter but in parts of north america the current ferocious weather is a very nasty surprise and is being called a bomb cyclone its powerful effects as deadly as the name implies. A severe drop in air pressure has triggered a powerful blizzard thats battered the north east of the United States and canada knocking out power for tens of thousands of people. The week long cold snap has left at least 12 dead and wrecked travel plans for millions. We begin our coverage with this report from andrew plant. Several inches of snow, winds up to 60 miles an hour, blocked roads, black ice, power cuts, and a storm stretching hundreds of miles. New york city like a fairy tale for some. The snow, though, a serious hazard to many. We are enjoying it. We are from Southern California so ....