i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been 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. in 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. 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! visual confirmation. cheering they had a news conference after that and the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been achieved. it is wonderful to do something this amazing and we is wonderful to do something this amazing and we a
a nasa spacecraft is closing in on an asteroid in an attempt to change its course. it s a test of a technique to re direct any object in space which could cause damage by colliding with earth. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are author and journalist rachel shabi and political editor of the people and sunday mirror, nigel nelson. let s see what came in in the last 40 let s see what came in in the last a0 minutes or so. we will start with dft. with the financial times leads on the continued turmoil in the markets it says neither the government or the bank of england have been able to halt the fall of sterling. the metro appears to put the blame directly on the chancellor kwasi kwarteng the pound, it says, kwar tanks . the daily mail has a different scapegoat, however it blames city speculators whom it says have been making profits from talking the pound down. the i focuses on mortgage lenders pulling th
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
visual confirmation. cheering nasa successfully crashes a probe into an asteroid to test how any incoming space rock could be deflected away from earth. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the call up continue. some russians are happy to answer to answer president putin s call. clearly, many are not and in some parts of the country mobilisation is sparking social unrest and undermining trust in the authorities. a humanitarian catastrophe. the un s start description of haiti after weeks of protest at the economic and fuel supply crisis. a state funeral is set to get under way forformerjapanese prime minister shinzo abe as leaders from around the world gather to pay their respects. our correspondent mariko oi is in tokyo.