world. it is tuesday, october 18th. i m christine romans. just three weeks to go until the mid-term elections. today president biden will zero in on abortion rights when he speaks at a speech in washington. the latest cnn poll finds it s the economy, inflation, voting rights, guns all ranked ahead of abortion in the minds of voters. cnn s jasmine wright is live for us bright and early in washington. jasmine, what do you expect the president s message on abortion to be? reporter: the president is going to talk about how he believes there is an assault on women s bodies and their right to choose. they can go with the republican party who wants to ban abortion, he s going to say, or go with democrats who don t, who want to codify abortion. the president has been trying to drum up the democratic base hoping they ll come out and support their base. control is on the ballot come november. now of course two things stand in contrast here. first, we talked about a majority of voters
begins, the united states says president xi is leading the country in a more aggressive direction. and members of the south korean pop band bts have confirmed their next gig military service. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 11 in the evening in london, where the british prime minister, liz truss, has said she is sorry and accepts responsibility for mistakes in her economic plan. the majority of measures in her so called mini budget have been reversed by her new chancellor, jeremy hunt. in an interview with our political editor, chris mason, she said the plans had gone too far and too fast , but insisted she would lead the conservatives into the next election. inside 10 downing street tonight, today s prime minister in the corridors, those of yesterday on the wall. prime minister, who is to blame for this mess? first of all, i do want to accept responsibility and to accept responsibility and say first of all, i do want to accept re
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acres. reporter: as far as these farmers are concerned, they see americans need to decide where we want our food to be grown because the cost of growing these fruits, these vegetables is going up. if we want to know where our food is coming from, they re saying we need to be able to vote for that with what we buy at the grocery store because nay can t compete with prices coming out of other countries. nothing scheduled for that one farmer for next year. shows how scary it can be. great to see you. new day continues right n now. russia unleashing a deadly wave of kamikaze drone attacks on kyiv. i m breaianna keilar. alex marquardt in for john berman. loud explosions rocking the cap capital. so what you re seeing here in this video appears to be an iranian shahed drone coming under fire in kyiv. cnn has not been able to confirm the location. the drones were targeting ukraine s energy infrastructure just before the onset of winter. kyiv and washington have accused
i m beeianna golodryga. first if ukraine, another brutal wave of russian attacks across kyiv. explosions heard across the capital are civilians are urged to shelter after a barrage of kamikaze attacks. a pregnant woman was killed. those attacks involving drones and cruise missiles that targeted critical infrastructure, cutting powner some areas. and in china, a third term as the leader of the ruling community party. in his address xi bluntly threatened to seize control of taiwan by force if necessary. that line receiving the biggest applause of his two-hour speech. we ll have more on that speech in just a moment. latest wave of attacks on kyiv. our reports are standing by. let s begin with clarissa ward in kyiv. and clarissa, i want to talk more about the attacks but i want our viewers to look at what you saw firsthand this morning. this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from here. we also saw another elderly woman being