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Hurricane milton has re—strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in whic...

You can see this time lapse here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick — showing how this storm looks from space. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the southeastern us — 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlantic ocean. President biden has postponed...

tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what theyre now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a po...

pressure, temperature starting to edge down during the second half of the week, feeling a bit fresher. there might be some extant fog patches by day, but on thursday showers around. —— there might be some mist and patches. some places inevitably stay dry with sunny spells. here is the low pressure again, moving across the sun is moving away by the weekend. we are into a gap between weather systems which allowed something drier before the pressure looks like moving back in at the st...

a total of thirty seven people — including 23 children — were killed in an attack that has shocked the nation. those are the headlines. now on bbc news its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. lebanon is experiencing one of the most disastrous economic collapses of the last 100 years. the national economy is less than half the size it was just three years ago. one powerful symbol of the catastrophe, people are holding up banks in a desperate attempt to get the...

in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanons minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, were delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your gove...

Despite pressure from the Presidential Office the Verkhovna Rada rejected the Cabinet of Minister's draft law on restarting the Bureau of Economic Security (BES). On Feb. 23, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine rejected the Cabinet of Ministers’ draft law #10439 on the fake restart of the BES. Despite huge pressure from the Office of the President and persuasion from the Justice and Economy ministries, the law only got 222 out of the 226 votes needed for it to pass.

The Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy will submit a revised alternative draft laws on the Bureau of Economic Security reform. The Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy on Feb. 12 submitted the draft law on restarting the Bureau of Economic Security which is an alternative to the Cabinet of Ministers’ draft law #10439. The Committee’s draft law is based on the text of the draft law #10088-1 which was supported by key Ukrainian business associations, experts and ...

The Gaza Strip has endured an extensive level of destruction as Israel continued its brutal campaign by land, air, and sea during the month of November. During the 24 days of aggression in the month of November, 6,283 Palestinians were killed at a rate of 261 Palestinians per day, and more than 14,022 Palestinians were wounded at a rate of 584 per day, bringing the total since October 7 to more than 15,000 Palestinians killed. The aggression during the 24 days preceding the temporary ceasefire w...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has presented two new laws designed to make it easier to draft new soldiers urgently needed on the front line. Due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the mobilisation procedures must be "improved," according to one of the two draft laws published overnight. It comes after Ukraine's army called for reinforcement on the front lines. According to the new legislation, the age requirement for reservists would be lowered from 27 to 25, w...