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but russia s president putin says the missile strike is retaliation for what he called a terrorist attack by ukraine on a key bridge in crimea. we ll have the latest from kyiv and moscow and asking whether russia is now escalating the war. also this lunchtime. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng bows to pressure and brings forward his plan for balancing the government s finances. striking barristers deliver their verdict on a government pay offer they will accept it and go back to work. a nurse pleads not guilty to murdering seven babies and attempting to murder ten others, as her trial begins in manchester. and the scourge of plastic fishing nets that trap wildlife in our seas could a new recycling plan offer a solution? and coming up on the bbc news channel, sprinter cj ujah is banned for nearly two years after testing positive for two banned substances at last year s tokyo olympic games. good afternoon. they re trying to wipe us off the face of the earth the words ....
but russia s president putin says the missile strike is retaliation for what he called a terrorist attack by ukraine on a key bridge in crimea. chancellor kwasi kwarteng has agreed to bring forward the publication of his economic plans to october 31st. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted to suspend strike action after accepting a government pay offer. hello and welcome to bbc news. russia has carried out a series of missile strikes on cities across ukraine, in the most widespread bombardment since the early weeks of the war. the capital city of kyiv has been targeted for the first time in months. and there have been explosions in other cities including lviv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia. ukraine says at least 11 people were killed and 64 injured in the attacks. vladimir putin says the strikes are moscow s response to an attack over the weekend on a strategic road and rail bridge from russia to occupied crimea. the russian president says that was an act of ter ....
to test whether space rocks that might threaten earth could be deflected out of the way. as far as we can tell, our first planetary defence test was a success, and i think we can clap to that, everyone. cheering. so. right? so, yeah, well, i. yeah, i think the earthlings should sleep better. ukrainians in four russian held regions have one final day to vote in a referendum that kyiv and its western allies dismiss as a sham. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in the uk, chancellor kwasi kwarteng is meeting fund managers this morning after days of volatility on global markets. banks and building societies in britain have withdrawn some of their mortgage deals, and interest rates are expected to rise significantly over the coming months. so, what s caused it? well, the chancellor s mini budget last week has spooked the markets. it has been followed by a dramatic fall in the value of the pound. yesterday, it dropped to a record low against the us ....
s behalf. we will do it for all italians, with a clear objective of uniting the people, of underlining what unites it, rather than what divides it. nine people, including five children, are dead and some 20 wounded after a gunman opened fire in school 88 in the central russian city of izhevsk, the interior ministry has said. five rescuers have been killed after being swept away in flash floods caused by a typhoon in the philippines. super typhoon noru has brought winds of up to 175 kilometres an hour. and, nasa prepares to crash a probe into an asteroid to see how to stop a space rock from hitting earth. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the value of the pound fell to a record low against the dollar overnight, following the uk government s announcement of large tax cuts funded by borrowing. in asian trading, sterling fell four per cent, close to $1.03 it s recovered much of that ground this morning. the fall in the pound since friday threa ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. an independent think tank in britain says the uk government s mini budget is likely to leave the vast majority of taxpayers worse off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s 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 current parliament. ben king reports. here in reading and around the uk, people feel like they could do with a boost. bills are going up and interest rates are rising. across the country as a whole, the economy has been growing too slowly. and the chancellor has come up with a very bold solution tax cuts worth billions of pounds. he plans to cut the basic rate of income tax to 19p and the pound in england, wales and northern ireland next april and abolish the 45p top rate of tack for peop ....