Hitting Halifax News Today

hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. an independent think tank in britain says the uk governments "mini budget" is likely to leave the vast majority of taxpayers worse off. the chancellor kwasi kwartengs package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny. the institute for fiscal studies says that only those with incomes of more than 155,000 will be net beneficiaries over the curr...

the economy with the biggest tax cuts in four decades. at spitalfields market in east london, they are taking stock of a mini—budget thats ignored a massive shift in political direction. what do you make of moves like reversing the national insurance rise? will that help, do you think? i think it probably will help. to a degree. but it depends what bracket you are in in terms of income. yeah, i think it will help. i mean, it does not even touch the sides. i dont know. we will see. th...

Into greenland as well, we could continue to see that back and you can see the progress and further showers behind it, really life—threatening rip currents along the east coast, but we are now starting to get concerned, obviously this is going to give some severe impacts but we also have another storm forming, and running a major hurricane into parts of the south—east usa next week. it is very active. it is this unusual in this part of the world? yes, it is. it does not happen every day. eve...

Is still calling to migrate, we here believe mustapha is better off because we are all dead here anyway. we are hopeless. all of these people would risk the sea to reach the journey to there are grave. post—tropical storm fiona has made landfall along canadas atlantic coast and has already left hundreds of thousands of people without power. these are the latest pictures of the storm hitting halifax in nova scotia. torrential rain and winds of up to 140 kilometres per hour have been reported. s...

In the last few days. earlier, bbc weather presenter helen willetts, gave me the latest on the storm. it was the first major hurricane of the season. things are getting very active now. it is absolutely pummelling parts of eastern canada. you can see it there, moving back out of puerto rico and the dominican republic where it caused catastrophic flooding. its widns, hurricane force winds in excess of 100 miles an hour, those gusts of winds, and the coastal storm surge, 10—12 metre high waves b...