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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 hik...

for a rematch. and we begin this hour with tropical storm ian, and that's churning in the caribbean and getting stronger as it heads north towards cuba. now, ian, is expected to reach hurricane status monday before hitting western cuba. officials say they're expecting strong winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges. now, ian then expected to turn into a major hurricane tuesday and forecast to hit the florida coast some time later this week. now, people in florida as you can imagine already preparing for ian. florida's governor has activated 2,500 national guard troops. tampa r...

europe. we will continue to have all the analysis and coverage here on bbc news. for now i will hand you back to london. back with you shortly, but let's turn our attention out of the uk. —— now to the the labour leader sir keir starmer has said that if the party won the next general election it would reinstate the 45% top rate of tax, which the government is to scrap — but that they would keep the one pence cut in basic rate tax also announced by the chancellor. as the labour party conference got underway, sir keir said the party would take a very different approach to economi...

and later we will take a closer look at the movement to ban certain books in schools and libraries across the u.s. what can be done to fight the bans, that's coming up. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn "newsroom," with kim brunhuber. we begin in the atlantic basin where tropical storm ian continues to strengthen. fueled by warm energizing waters off the caribbean the latest forecast shows it growing to a category 4 hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. now, it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. president j...

the taliban have now banned women in afghanistan from working for non—governmental organisations saying they are breaking strict dress codes. just days ago the taliban barred women from studying at university. you are watching bbc news. now it's time for weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which hit the uk's highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the uk's national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used t...