a record tenth australian open, beating greece s stefanos tsitsipas in straight sets in the final. the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi had to pay a penalty to settle a multi million pound tax dispute. an investigation ordered by rushi sunakfound he had broken the ministerial code. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches, and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. here s our political correspondent david wallace lockhart he arrived in the uk as a young refugee before becoming a successful businessman. he served as the vaccines minister, rising to become chancellor, this morning he was chairman of the conservative party but his ministerial career now lies in tatters. he had faced questions for some time about his previous tax affairs and the fact he paid a penalty to hmrc while he was in charge of the treasury
unleashing a new wave of deadly drone attacks and ukraine has a new problem to the north. plus a deadly fire at a iranian prison as protesters across that country grow. the journalist who was wrong wrongfully imprisoned for a year and a half is our guest. and k pop bts putting musical careers on hold taking on a very different job. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. kyiv under attack this morning once again. russian forces started yet another week of strikes on civilians across ukraine. [ sound of gunfire ] explosions as you see could be heard in the capitol as russia launched a barrage of kamikaze drone attacks. four people were killed according to the city s mayor so far. rescue operations are still underway at this hour to try to pull people from the rubble. ukraine has accused iran of supplying russia with the drones but iran denies it and now a new concern at ukraine s northern border. russian troops are now in belar
Power now. The winds are extremely high. And water is rising. Just clinging to i dont know what that is. Theyre flying around the streets. A cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. Theyre coming through. We had some of the strongest winds here so far. Good to be with you this morning. Im francis rivera. And im philip mena. It is 4 30 in the east. Thank you for joining us for this Special Edition of early today. The strong winds of ian already impacting Daytona Beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. The storm has been downgraded to a category one. It is still packing a powerful punch. There are nearly 2 1 2 million power outage as cross the state. Ian made land fall in Southwest Florida in the ft. Myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. It could take days or weeks to know the full impact. The County Manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decimated. And in port charlotte, n
power now. the winds are extremely high. and water is rising. just clinging to i don t know what that is. they re flying around the streets. a cinder block wall that was the entire width of this area came down. they re coming through. we had some of the strongest winds here so far. good to be with you this morning. i m francis rivera. and i m philip mena. it is 4:30 in the east. thank you for joining us for this special edition of early today. the strong winds of ian already impacting daytona beach along the western coast as it slowly moves towards orlando. the storm has been downgraded to a category one. it is still packing a powerful punch. there are nearly 2 1/2 million power outage as cross the state. ian made land fall in southwest florida in the ft. myers area where the storm surge submerged buildings. it could take days or weeks to know the full impact. the county manager tells nbc news overnight they are getting a sense that the community has been decima
that, as well as the real needs surrounding the issue of immigration, and how to address. that then, the rollback of more women s rights in more multiple states. how abortion advocates are responding to new demand new bans now in effect. and why senator lindsey graham s national abortion ban proposal might be about more than what meets the eye. you are watching simone, and we have got a lot to get to. lots of developments in the litigation between donald trump in the department of justice. all surrounding the documents seized by the fbi from mar-a-lago last month. the doj failed to convince trump appointed to district court judge a lean cannon at a court appointed special master not only wasn t necessary to review the seized material, but it could be even harmful to national security. cannon appointed a former chief federal judge, raymond thierry, to pour over the thousands of documents, including classified ones in order to weed out any potentially privileged information. ju