rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is there and they promise they will bring back the rate of interest tax to fund nhs staff. other news this afternoon. a moment of history in italy georgia meloni looks set to become its first far right leader since the second world war and its first female prime minister. a school shooting in russia has left at least 13 people dead, seven of them children. and nasa prepare to crash a space probe into an asteroid to find out how hard it would be to save the planet. welcome to bbc news, very good to have your company and it is going to be a busy afternoon. the pound fell overnight to its lowest level against the dollar for half a century. asian markets were reacting in part to the government s announcement last week of tax cuts and increased borrowing to pay for them. of course, that had come too late for their trading week on friday. at one stage, sterling plunged to around $1.03, before regaining ground. a weaker pound raises the cost
to his predecessor. the former pontiff will be lying in state from today, until his funeral on thursday. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. britain mourned the death of queen elizabeth in ways that combined the intimate and the personal with the grand and ceremonial. for most of us, of course, death and grief remain a very private affair. an irreversible, life altering shock when we lose someone close for which there is no guide or preparation. my guest today is the one time pop star turned church of england vicar, the reverend richard coles, whose frank account of his own grief has struck a chord with many. why did grief nearly break him? richard coles, welcome to hardtalk. britain has just lived through a rather extraordinary, momentous experience, the death of queen elizabeth, the mourning that came with it. and many people have said that the death of the queen revived very sharp memories for them of their own losse
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
double what it was a year ago. and a famous football that could fetch £3 million at auction, the hand of god ball used by maradona at the vital victory over new zealand for england at the t20 world cup which keeps their hopes of regressing very much alive. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has been suspended as a conservative mp after becoming a surprise addition to the cast of the reality tv show i m a celebrity get me out of here. instead of representing his west suffolk constituents in westminster, he will be joining the other contenders in the australian jungle from next week. it is understood he wants to use his appearance to promote his campaign on dyslexia. the prime minister s spokesman said mitty sunak believes mps should what you work hard for their constituents at the challenging time for the country. our deputy political editor vicki young has the story. there are plenty of ways a politician can get that mes
hello and welcome to bbc news. reports from ukraine say armed soldiers have been going door to door in occupied parts of the country to collect votes for self styled referendums onjoining russia. russian state media says door to door voting is necessary for security reasons. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15% of ukraine s territory. the so called referendums have been widely condemned. president biden described them as a sham and a false pretext to try to illegally annex parts of ukraine. our correspondent, james waterhouse, reports from kyiv. russia s version of their so called referendums a free and fair democratic process where ukrainians in kherson decide whether they want tojoin russia. but, on the same spot today in the city centre, it s deserted. ukrainian officials have posted footage like this. apparently, ballots being