Hurricane milton has re strengthened to a category five storm as it barrels straight towards florida. People there are evacuating en masse, ahead of its projected landfall on wednesday night local time. The national hurricane center says the storm has doubled in size since tuesday. You can see this timelapse, here shared by american astronaut matthew dominick, showing how this storm looks from space. Local authorities and weather experts say milton will bring a destructive storm surge, in which some areas will not be survivable. Hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of its landfall, which is expected to bring strong winds of up to 165 mph or 270 kph. Milton comes just days after hurricane helene tore through the south eastern us; 225 people were killed by the natural disaster across six states. The back to back storms are expected to leave historic levels of damage that could take years to recover from. Unlike helene, milton will only pass through florida on its way to the atlan
A typical temperatures to end the week, will be around 11 or 12 degrees. Over the weekend, temperatures will rise just a little, most of the rain is coming into Western Scotland and northern ireland. Much of england and wales, it should be a dry weekend. Some early mist and but otherwise some sunshine. China slaps new tariffs on brandy from the European Union are two of the worlds biggest Trade Blocs heading for full blown Trade War . More than a dozen Us States say that tiktok is dangerous and addictive for children. Welcome to business today. A row between two of the worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the European Union. It follows last Weeks Decision by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariffs of up to 39 to the chinese
Analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to | analysis. Lets break this down, when it comes to state backed threats, he was accusing russia and iran, rather than anybody else, saying, because we are them in terms of so called diplomats and spies who have nearly all been expelled, because of that, those states are turning to proxy groups, to Criminal Underworld gangs, to do their job for them, he says, and underworld gangs, to do their job forthem, he says, and in the case of russia, 750 russian diplomats and spies have been expeued diplomats and spies have been expelled from europe since the start of the full Scale Invasion to them a half years ago of ukraine, that is. Two and a half years ago. He accuses the russian military intelligence, the people accused of the salisbury Lover Chop poisonings, of trying to sow mayhem on the streets of the uk and Europe Novichok poisonings. He talked about ten plots to attack iranian nationals or ir
Good Evening And Welcome to the Bbc News at six. The head of the security service, mi5, has given a rare public Speech Warning that russia is on a mission to bring mayhem to The Streets of the uk. Ken mccallum says there has been a marked rise in the threat from Russia And Iran. And he spoke of a staggering rise in children being investigated for terrorism with very young people are being drawn into what he called poisonous online extremism. Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports. State back to sabotage and other plots in britain late today at the door of Iran And Russia according to mis. Door of Iran And Russia according to mi5. From the russian embassy In London the last remaining military Intelligence Officer has been expeued Intelligence Officer has been expelled This year. But russian State Subversion according to mi5 continues. The gru, the same russian organisation are blamed for the 2018 salisbury Nerve Agent Attack is on a mission to generate mayhem on british and Eu
Involved in either. There are so many layers of complexity to what is going on in seven lebanon at the moment. As hezbollah sends those missiles towards israel for that and the idf tries to push for that you heard Antonio Guterres defending the palestinian refugees and the work that they are doing for the place talking about the number of people displaced, 60,000 In Northern Israel for the more than1 million here in lebanon for the people who had to flee their homes because of the fighting. You listen to what is being said and you listen to whats going on, hes talking about diplomatic solutions, ways to try and solve theirs. None of those seem to be getting any closerjust yet. And he had some pretty blunt things to say also about israel is conducting the campaign in gaza. He said there is something fundamentally wrong with the way israels war in gaza is being conducted. He also said they are ordering civilians to evacuate does not keep them safe if there is no safe place to go. That wi