we begin in the us, where time is ticking for tiktok. the chief of the social media app shou zi chew was grilled by us lawmakers over a range of issues, mostly related to the company s chinese ownership. his appearance before the congressional committee comes after the biden administration threatened to ban the social media app if the company s chinese owners didn t sell their stakes. tiktok is wildly popular in the states it has 150 million american users, which includes almost five million businesses. well, our north america business correspondent michelle fleury has been following the story in washington dc and sent this report. it was never going to be easy but from it was never going to be easy but from the moment the committee chairman opened the hearing. committee chairman opened the hearing, calling for tiktok to be banned in the united states, there be banned in the united states, there was be banned in the united states, there was no let up. the tiktok ceo
but russia s president putin says the missile strike is retaliation for what he called a terrorist attack by ukraine on a key bridge in crimea. chancellor kwasi kwarteng has agreed to bring forward the publication of his economic plans to october 31st. criminal barristers in england and wales have voted to suspend strike action after accepting a government pay offer. hello and welcome to bbc news. russia has carried out a series of missile strikes on cities across ukraine, in the most widespread bombardment since the early weeks of the war. the capital city of kyiv has been targeted for the first time in months. and there have been explosions in other cities including lviv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia. ukraine says at least 11 people were killed and 64 injured in the attacks. vladimir putin says the strikes are moscow s response to an attack over the weekend on a strategic road and rail bridge from russia to occupied crimea. the russian president says that was an act of terrorism
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tonight. mary bruce traveling with the president here i new york. the category 4 hurricane barrelling up the atlantic. winds up to 130 miles per hour. now moving towards bermuda. a trail of destruction in its wake. the east coast soon feeling the affects from florida to maine. rob marciano in bermuda tonight with the new track. and we re watching the next potential threat. could it be coming to the gulf? tonight, the battle against inflation here in the u.s. the federal reserve today hiking interest rates another three-quarters of a percent. how this will affect credit cards, car loans, and new mortgages. rebecca jarvis breaks it down. tonight, news on the nba owner suspended and fined $10 million for racist and misogynist remarks. what he now plans to do. the washington monument vandalized. a suspect in custody. after months of waiting, the $1.3 billion mega millions mystery solved tonight. turns out there isn t just one winner. and tonight, the new nasa images n
this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what