rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, is there and they promise they will bring back the rate of interest tax to fund nhs staff. other news this afternoon. a moment of history in italy georgia meloni looks set to become its first far right leader since the second world war and its first female prime minister. a school shooting in russia has left at least 13 people dead, seven of them children. and nasa prepare to crash a space probe into an asteroid to find out how hard it would be to save the planet. welcome to bbc news, very good to have your company and it is going to be a busy afternoon. the pound fell overnight to its lowest level against the dollar for half a century. asian markets were reacting in part to the government s announcement last week of tax cuts and increased borrowing to pay for them. of course, that had come too late for their trading week on friday. at one stage, sterling plunged to around $1.03, before regaining ground. a weaker pound raises the cost
six iranian fighters are dead evera the u.s. strikes two targets in syria overnight. one was a training site and the other a safe house. you are watching fox and friends first on monday morning, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. these attacks were in retal retaliation. defense secretaries more can come if the violence doesn t stop. seeing new video when the inter interceptor hit on october 31st. [siren sounding] just look at the video. an active war scene over in gaza and israel today. carley: trey yingst is reporting live for us in southern israel. trey: it is day 38 of the war between israel and hamas. overnight israeli ramped up airstrikes and into today striking northern part of the strip. my cameraman pushes in, black smoke rising. israelis working to support infantry troops pushing into gaza. palestinians reported airstrikes in khan yunis over night. israelis have al-shifa hospital surrounded, trying to get people to evacuate from the eastern side of th