Costs down and whether therell be more PrIce Cuts ahead. Good mornIng. In sport, a hIstorIc nIght for scottIsh Football CeltIc celebrate becomIng the fIrst scottIsh team to qualIfy for the maIn Group Stages of the womens ChampIons League. And as you saw, raIn Is stIll fallIng across parts of england and wales In partIcular but It Is set to clear two brIghter but colder weather. One of the forecast detaIls here on breakfast. All of the detaIls later. Good mornIng, Its frIday the 27th september. Our maIn story. HurrIcane helene, a dangerous category four storm has made landfall In the Us State Of FlorIda. One person has been kIlled and theres more than 350 Thousand homes and busInesses are currently wIthout power. AuthorItIes warn the hurrIcane could brIng a catastrophIc and unsurvIvable storm surge, wIth wInds of around 140 mIles an hour beIng recorded. Our North AmerIca Correspondent DavId WIllIs reports. HurrIcane helene touched down on florIdas Gold Coast brIngIng on FlorIdas Gulf
Would then have to go to the president to decide to avert a shutdown before midnight tonight. Within the last hour, we heard from the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. I have very good news for the country democrats and republicans have come to an agreement and the government will remain open. We will have avoided a shutdown. Bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the senate, has prevailed and the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a bridge cr and Leader Mcconnell and i have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for ukraine. We support ukraines efforts to defend its sovereignty against putins aggression. So, thank you. Thank you to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their excellent work. The bipartisanship here in the senate set the tone for todays result and i hope it sets the tone for the future. The Top Republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, offered this commitment. Most Senate Republicans remain committed to
It has been a day full of twists and turns of the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. They will be no government shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the houston republicans. Proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriate as. Madam president Susan Collins and leader mcconnell. Our Bipartisanship Work in the senate set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible. It showed the house we had to act. We will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current Funding Levels and we avoided all of the extreme, nasty and harmful cuts maga wanted. Lets take a look at what exactly is in the bill. The bill keeps the governments funding at 2023 levels, but only for now.
More aid for ukraine something opposed by some hard right house republicans. Heres Senate Majority leader chuck schumer. It has been a day full of twists and turns. The American People can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no government shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the house than republicans. Proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriators. Madam president Susan Collins and leader mcconnell. Our Bipartisanship Work in the senate set the tone for the bill we are about to pass. Our bipartisanship made this possible. It showed the house we had to act. We will keep the government open for 45 days with a clean cr at current Funding Levels and we avoided all of the extreme, nasty and harmful cuts maga wanted.
Nagorno karabakh was controlled by Armenian Separatists for decades, but is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan. The United Nations says its sending a mission to the region this weekend, to assess the humanitarian situation. The team will look at the needs of people remaining in the territory as well as those who are on the move. Azerbaijan has said it would allow such a visit to take place. Heres more from dickran khodanian, a Freelance Journalist currently in goris. Im actually in goris, which is 30 minutes right after the illegal checkpoint that azerbaijan has set up. As you can see behind me, there are a few tents set up. As of now, theyre reporting that around 100,000 armenians have entered the republic of armenia. And just to give you an idea, the population of goris is 20,000. So one of the first stops is the city, because this is where they are registering. This is where theyre getting a media assessment. And this is where theyre being then later sent for accommoda