we start in florida, where the state is being battered by hurricane ian. this is the scene live in tampa bay, showing the sunshine skyway bridge, which is getting battered by the heavy wind and rain. there are warnings of catastrophic damage, both from the high winds, which are gusting at up to 235 kilometres per hour, that s around 145 miles per hour, and from the heavy rain. combine that with what experts are saying could be the highest storm surge on record, and there are fears for the safety of thousands of people. azadeh moshiri is in tampa for us. a life threatening hurricane is now barrelling towards america s sunshine state. and put millions under evacuation orders across the west coast. ian is unpredictable. it s already caused widespread damage in cuba, wiping out power to the country s entire grid, with some residents killed. but now its hurricane force winds are leaving the gulf of mexico and taking aim at florida s coast. this satellite image shows the eye of the
after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraine s leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving in the ukrainian army fighting the russian invasion. art and culture are not immune from the impact of war. my guest today knows that well. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer with roots in both russia and ukraine, once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, and now putting on a special production of giselle with the united ukrainian ballet, to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? thank you very much, it s an honour to be here. delighted to have you here. you are here in london because you are mounting this extraordinary set of performances of giselle, performed by ukrainian dancers. how can you go about putting on a performance with ukrainians when their country is at war? there was an extraordinary project, it started in march. i received a call from my friend
protesters. we start in florida where the state is being battered by hurricane ian. there are warnings of catastrophic damage both from from the high winds which are gusting at up to 235 kilometres per hour, that s around 145 miles per hour. you can see the image that this is the seen life in florida at the moment. the gusts of wind that are blowing throughout that are blowing throughout that state as i was saying at around 230 kph that is around 145 mph and also the damage thatis 145 mph and also the damage that is being caused by the heavy rain. combine that with what experts are saying could be the highest storm surge on record and there are fears for the safety of thousands of people. azadeh moshiri is in tampa for us a life threatening hurricane is now barrelling towards america s sunshine state. and put millions under evacuation orders across the west coast. ian is unpredictable. it s already caused widespread damage in cuba, wiping out power to the country s entire gri
financial markets spooked by downing street s economic plan. us vice president kamala harris is set to travel to south korea as she continues her asian tour. she s expected to visit the demilitarised zone hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the writer and broadcaster mihir bose and the sun s political and environment correspondent natasha clark. welcome back. same stories still dominating come of that for us us to look a0 minutes ago, different papers this time, though. squeaky fun time is the main headline mayor you can see and the sun, which reports that britain s pension funds nearly saved from having to sell many of their assets by the bank of england s intervention. xpress it was a day of turmoil on the markets again, quoting ministers who say the tax cut budget was still the right plan. the eft focuses on the bank of england £65 billion plan to buy government debt and has a chart showing how that move b
Drivein format. Both candidates are Holding Events in three states today, including the critical battleground of wisconsin. More than 81 million votes have already been cast in this election. Okay, but lets start with where we are in the worsening pandemic. Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, were here, its here. Look, everything that people you, doctors, had warned about today, its here. And the worst of the you just heard, the hardest part of the pandemic is right now. What are you seeing . Yeah, i mean, look, it saddens me to say it. Its one of these things that as you point out, people could see coming for some time, by looking at the data, looking at sort of what was happening. And now the increasing number of people who are becoming infected is growing, but its also growing at a more rapid pace. As you know, some of the highest total days of new infections have happened just over the past few days. And if you look at these numbers closely,