awaiting visual confirmation. bullseye! nasa successfully crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it can push it off course in its first planetary defence mission. not quite lift off for england, but a second half comeback against germany sees gareth southgate s side produce a confidence boosting 3 3 draw in their world cup send off. good morning. another day of sunshine and showers. some of the shower especially in the north and north east will be heavy and thundery, windy again, and it will feel cool for the time of year. all the details throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 27th september. our main story. banks and building societies have withdrawn some of their mortgage deals because of the volatility on global markets. interest rates are expected to rise significantly over the coming months with analysts predicting they could edge up towards 6% next year. vincent mcaviney reports. a volatile start to the week for the pound and the uk. the early morning plu
the pound has stabilised today after hitting a record low yesterday. we ll be explaining the impact of what s going on in the markets. also this lunchtime. sir keir starmer will promise a fresh start for the uk in his keynote speech to the labour party conference today. the prince and princess of wales make their first visit to the nation since they were given the titles. and nasa smashes a spacecraft into an asteroid to test whether they can be deflected away from earth. and coming up on the bbc news channel: scotland are in poland seeking nations league promotion. avoid defeat tonight against ukraine and they ll also be assured of a play off spot for euro 202a. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. many banks and building societies are reviewing their mortage deals because of forecasts of a sharp rise in interest rates. the bank of ireland has withdrawn all mortgages. virgin money and skipton building society have closed offers for new customers, but will consi
groups as shoplifters have become more violent and employees more terrified. grocery stores may soon lock up their items. we began with a white house insisting that it s being transparent over the investigation into classified documents found in president biden s personal space. white house correspondent kevin corke is live for us in the nation s capital with more on this. good evening. critics argue that the white house s definition of the word transparent is decidedly different than, say, merriam-webster s definition which says it means among other things free from pretense or deceit, to be frank or obvious, readily understood or characterized by visibility or accessibility of information. all right, that all sounds simple. critics say none of that is how they would describe the process that saw the white house make a major discovery back on the 2nd of november and then not divulge it to the public until mid-january. so much for transparency. case in point: the infamous g
at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want transpar
leaders from around the world gather to pay their respects. i m outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there was growing opposition from protesters citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen in central london. welcome to the programme. it sounds like a hollywood film, but in under 15 minutes time, the american space agency, nasa, is going to crash a rocket into an asteroid. it is the agency s first planetary defence mission and scientists there are about to try diverting the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft the size of a small car into it. it s a test to see if something similar could be done if an asteroid was heading towards earth in the future. our science editor rebecca morelle has the details. it s a cataclysmic scenario. an asteroid headed for our planet, with the potential for mass devastation. it s happened before. a space rock wiped out the din