Radio | Clear news | Friday 22 December 2023
Presidential election debate. The Czech shooting incident. Winter solstice. Snowing. Weather.
Election debate
Yle’s first major election debate of the presidential election was on Thursday.
All candidates participated in the discussion. There are 9 candidates.
The discussion focused especially on foreign policy and security policy, because they are the most important duties of the President of Finland.
Most of the candidates said the military needs more money. The reason is that Russia is Finland’s neighbor and Russia has attacked Ukraine.
The presidential election will be held at the end of January.
You can search for a suitable candidate with Yle’s election machine.
When you answer the questions on the election machine, it tells you which of the candidates thinks the same way as you do.
The election machine is at.
The presentations of the presidential candidates in plain language can be found in Selkosanomat magazine. The address is.
The Czech shooting incident
There has been a bad shooting incident in the Czech Republic.
A shooter killed 13 people in the country’s capital, Prague, on Thursday. After the deed, he killed himself.
25 people were injured in the shooting incident. Some of them were seriously injured.
The shooting happened at the university. The shooter was a 24-year-old student.
Winter solstice
Friday has been the shortest day of the year. They say it’s the winter solstice.
In southern Finland, the sun is in the sky for only a few hours. For example, a day in Helsinki is a little less than 6 hours long.
In the far north, the sun doesn’t rise at all this time of year. In Finland’s northernmost municipality, Utsjoki, the sun will rise next time in mid-January.
After the winter solstice, the day slowly begins to lengthen again. The longest day of the year is in 6 months.
Snowing
Snowfall has hindered traffic on Friday. There is a lot of traffic on the highways because many people travel to the country to celebrate Christmas.
The snowfall has also hindered buses. For example, many bus routes have been canceled in the Helsinki region on Friday.
Flights have also been canceled at Helsinki-Vantaa airport due to snowfall. In addition, many flights have been late.
Weather
It will still snow on Saturday almost all over the country.
The most snow falls in the middle of the country and in the east. More than 5 centimeters of snow can fall there, in some places more than 10 centimeters.
The temperature is between 0 and -5 degrees in the southern and central part of the country, it is colder in Lapland.