been hearing incoming and are coming shells. it really doesn t stop. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, within 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. the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust i7 the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust 17 metres off the bullseye. 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! confirming visual confirmation. cheering at a press conference following the succesful mission, the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been achieved. it is absolutely wonderful to do something this amazin
the pound remains under pressure from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid travelling at 14,000 miles per hour! it s the first time it s ever been done, and it s hoped that it ll teach us how to change the speed and path of future asteroids and planets. our science editor, rebecca morelle, has been taking a look at what happened. closing in on the target. images beamed back from 7 million miles away as a nasa spacecraft approaches an asteroid. the details of the rocky world are revealed. but this probe isn t here to study it. itsjob is to knock the space rock off course by
we begin with the turmoil on financial markets today, the pound sterling continues to languish against the us dollar and several other currencies. the slide in its value was triggered by last week s mini budget, with its controversial package of tax cuts. let s get historical for a moment. we have records for sterling against the dollar going back through history, and in the early hours of monday morning it reached an all time low that is since the creation of the us currency in 1792. let s take a closer look at the past few days the dollar has been strong but this further drop down is about sterling weakness, with a bit of a recovery and then falling back again. you can see this dramatic few days, sterling weakness with a little bit of recovery before it fell back again. on friday and monday there were massive moves within a day, which for a currency like sterling is rare. and one of the impacts of a low pound means that we import inflation, oil and gas is more expensi
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the pound has a roller coaster day on the financial markets as the uk government and the bank of england try to offer reassurance. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the kremlin admits it made mistakes in the way it mobilised reservists to fight in ukraine as protests against the call up continue. it s six in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in moscow where the kremlin has admitted it made mistakes in the way it tried to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in ukraine. the call up triggered widespread protests and there were reports that people with no military experience or who are too old or disabled were being handed draught papers. draft president putin s spokesperson acknowledg
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