decription of haiti after weeks of protests at the economic and fuel supply crises. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, in central london. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. within the last few hours, nasa has successfully managed to test the world s first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object roughly the size of a football stadium. the probe is thought to have hit the asteroid targetjust i7 metres off the bullseye. a live camera relayed the spacecraft s final few seconds to nasa scientists before it crashed into the rock. there, oh, my goodness. oh, wow. four, three, two, one. oh, my gosh! whoo! oh, wow! confirming visual confirmation. cheering at a press conference following the succesful mission, the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been ach
been hearing incoming and are coming shells. it really doesn t stop. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, within the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the world s first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object, roughly the size of a football stadium. the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust i7 the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust 17 metres off the bullseye. a live camera relayed the spacecraft s final few seconds to nasa scientists before it crashed into the rock. there, oh, my goodness. oh, wow. four, three, two, one. oh, my gosh! whoo! oh, wow! confirming visual confirmation. cheering at a press conference following the succesful mission, the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been achieved. it is absolutely wonderful to do something this amazin
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
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. we start in the uk where the bank of england says it won t hesitate to take action to control inflation, after the pound slumped to an all time low against the dollar. take a look at this chart from this morning s asia trading. at one point sterling fell to $1.03 the lowest since 1971 though it s since recovered slightly. there s been speculation that the bank of england may announce an emergency hike in rates to control rising prices. for the moment, that hasn t happened. well there s lots to unpack. first to understand what s happening today we must go back to friday and to this annoucement in parliament. i can announce today that we will catch the basic rate of income tax to 19p, in april 2020 three, one year early. that means a tax cut for over 31 million people injust a few months time. t