since his takeover. and singer and rapper aaron carter is found dead at his home in california. hello and welcome to bbc news. the crucial us midterm elections, which will decide who controls congress, are just a couple of days away and president biden and former president obama have taken to the stage together at a campaign rally in pennsylvania. mr biden urged the cheering crowd in his home state to back the democrats john fetterman for the senate. he said the elections would shape the country for decades to come. this isn t a referendum this year, it s a choice a choice between two vastly different visions of america. vastly different. maybe it s in our blood, butjohn and i believe that all it s all about fighting for working and middle class people. the way i ve said from the beginning of my my objective when i ran for president was to build an economy from the bottom up and the bottom up and the middle out. it s a fundamental shift compared with the oz and the meg
good morning to you. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we re following several major stories this morning. overnight ukraine rocked by a barrage of russian missiles. the defense minister saying it s the most massive missile attack since the invasion began in februariment we know power is out in several regions including parts of the capital kyiv. we ll be live on the ground ahead. plus, the u.s. reinstating covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing drops its own restrictions despite an overwhelming surge in cases. a fresh apology from southwest airlines today, plus new steps the airline is taking to reimburse passengers whose holiday travel was ruined. still more than 2,300 southwest flights canceled today. we re told the scheduling nightmare could end as soon as tomorrow. let s begin this morning on the ground in ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in kyiv. ben, you saw firsthand some of this damage. tell us
and the economy is also a key issue for us voters three weeks out from the crucial midterm elections as inflation continues to rise. tonight with the context, paul waugh, chief political commentator for the i newspaper, and democratic strategist mary anne marsh. as government u turns go, and there have been a few of late, this was a big one. britain s new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has dumped nearly all of the flagship economic policies of the liz truss government in an attempt to end weeks of financial turmoil. it has left the prime minister fighting for her political survival with a few mps openly calling for her to quit, and more doing anonymously. this gives you an idea of the scale of how much has been dropped from the pm s plan for growth last month which the then chancellor kwasi kwarteng announced in parliament, and how little now remains. the 1p cut in the basic rate of income tax has been dropped indefinitely. it will remain at 20p. the 2 year cap on energy prices h
acres. reporter: as far as these farmers are concerned, they see americans need to decide where we want our food to be grown because the cost of growing these fruits, these vegetables is going up. if we want to know where our food is coming from, they re saying we need to be able to vote for that with what we buy at the grocery store because nay can t compete with prices coming out of other countries. nothing scheduled for that one farmer for next year. shows how scary it can be. great to see you. new day continues right n now. russia unleashing a deadly wave of kamikaze drone attacks on kyiv. i m breaianna keilar. alex marquardt in for john berman. loud explosions rocking the cap capital. so what you re seeing here in this video appears to be an iranian shahed drone coming under fire in kyiv. cnn has not been able to confirm the location. the drones were targeting ukraine s energy infrastructure just before the onset of winter. kyiv and washington have accused