the shutdown has affected production at auto manufacturers across southern Ontario

and has disrupted and plants from Ohio down to Alabama.

“This I had a direct call with President Biden to talk about

our shared challenges at the .

President Biden and I both that for the security of the people and the economy these blockades cannot continue.”

Lisa while businesses are suffering there's almost a party-like atmosphere here with as defiant as ever.

Just before the 7:00 PM deadline for protesters to clear out: “Let me hear it!” (cheers) The group took a vote and overwhelmingly to stay.

“I’m not giving up. This is for a great .

It affects everybody.” The mood almost festive and the including families seemed to grow instead of thinning.

“We want the  free we want the mandates gone

and we want our back.”

– “I’m not about it.

They’re not going to come in with against all these people. Clearly there’s unity, there’s power in numbers. People just want some change.”

This is BBC World News the headlines:

The World Food Programme is warning that millions in Afghanistan die within weeks 

if the international community help.

People already on the brink of disaster at a time when winter is starting to close in.

The US reopened its land and air borders

to travellers twenty months after a ban first imposed.

It allows visitors who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to the country.

Analysts from an environmental group say the fossil industry has the largest delegation at the UN climate summit in Glasgow.

Campaigners want them from future talks, but some lobbyists say they are helping companies transition away from fossil fuels.

China’s top communist leaders beginning a four-day session

which tighten President Xi Jinping’s grip on power.

He expected to declare a third term in office next year.

And those are your headlines.