the pound remains under pressure from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid travelling at 14,000 miles per hour! it s the first time it s ever been done, and it s hoped that it ll teach us how to change the speed and path of future asteroids and planets. our science editor, rebecca morelle, has been taking a look at what happened. closing in on the target. images beamed back from 7 million miles away as a nasa spacecraft approaches an asteroid. the details of the rocky world are revealed. but this probe isn t here to study it. itsjob is to knock the space rock off course by
message is even more stark. the bank of england won t hesitate to raise interest rates if needed. also on the programme. flinching from the constant shelling the struggle for survival on ukraine s front line. in the last few minutes we have been hearing incoming and outgoing shells, every 30 seconds or so. it really doesn t stop. and science fiction made reality as nasa plans to try to divert an asteroid by crashing a rocket into it. and coming up on the bbc news channel. worcester warriors have been suspended from all competitions after failing to meet the deadline set by the rfu to provide evidenced they could continue as a viable business. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government is under pressure tonight as the financial markets give their verdict on the government s so called mini budget last friday. the value of the pound plunged to an all time low against the us dollar this morning though has since somewhat. and the amount it costs the governme
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the pound has a roller coaster day on the financial markets as the uk government and the bank of england try to offer reassurance. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the call up continue. it s six in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in moscow where the kremlin has admitted it made mistakes in the way it tried to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine. the call up triggered widespread protests and there were reports that people with no military experience or who are too old or disabled were being handed draught papers. draft president putin s spokesperson acknowledg
leaders from around the world gather to pay their respects. i m outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there was growing opposition from protesters citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen in central london. welcome to the programme. it sounds like a hollywood film, but in under 15 minutes time, the american space agency, nasa, is going to crash a rocket into an asteroid. it is the agency s first planetary defence mission and scientists there are about to try diverting the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft the size of a small car into it. it s a test to see if something similar could be done if an asteroid was heading towards earth in the future. our science editor rebecca morelle has the details. it s a cataclysmic scenario. an asteroid headed for our planet, with the potential for mass devastation. it s happened before. a space rock wiped out the din