Thank you. And thats bbc news at ten. Theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, with kirsty wark, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. The news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the almost a year since the start of the Women Life Freedom Protests in iran, we have a Special Report with defiant voices inside the country as the Morality Police double down on the repression of women. So how should the uk calibrate relations with iran . Well be joined by a Iranian American Human Rights researcher whose father was a political prisoner who died under house arrest and the former uk ambassador to iran. Also tonight, to raise or not to raise should the Bank Of England hike the Interest Rate tomorrow, or can the economy do its own work now . Two senior economists argue it out. The upcoming ruthergen and Hamilton West by election expected to be a major Snp Labour Battle could be a bellwether for the general
watching us here in the united states and around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom i turned around and i told the crowd come this way. people are dying. tragedy strikes a halloween celebration in south korea. more than 150 people have been killed. cnn is live in seoul on the search for answers into what happened. plus the u.s. is now nine days away from the midterm elections and voters have been turning out in record numbers. we ll have a report from one key state. and the white house is accusing the kremlin of weaponizing food as russia withdraws from a key grain deal with ukraine. we ll have reaction. south korea s president is offering support and condolences to families who have lost loved ones in chaotic crowd surge. images of the tragedy have been pouring in and we have to warn you, they can be very hard to watch. you will zeros of bodies see rows of bodies and now at least 153 have died including 24 nationals, some 82 have also been injured, among them at leas
upcoming elections. but first big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one includes spreading lies about the 2020 vote. we start with our breaking news. the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. sara murray joins us with that story. sources have told us that this is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search so you could imagine that trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. that s because the justice department has insisted to them in private discussions as well as publically in court filings that they believe that the former president still has government documents, even after the subpoena he was given, even after the august search at mar-a-lago. so this would be a potential way to try to satisfy the government s demands. there are of course people around former president tru
out with new details on the scope of its recent military drills and what role kim jong-un played in them . we twin in ukraine where two explosions have been reported in the country s capital. the mayor of kyiv says they happened in the city center and that all services are at the location. it comes after russia suffered a humiliating blow this weekend when an explosion damaged its bridge to crimea. a key supply line for his troops. president vladimir putin has blamed ukraine for the blast, calling it a terror attack. despite moscow s fury, a kremlin spokesman is playing down concerns that russia might respond with a nuclear attack. dmitry peskov was asked about it, but he simply dismissed the question. however, russia has been intensifying its missile strikes on the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia. hours ago, it reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week had killed 43 civilians in
those attacks in kyiv. friday, explosions in kyiv and elsewhere this morning two days after putin s bridge to crimea was damaged. reporter: yeah, certainly was a rude awakening for us here in kyiv early in the morning. a little past 8 when the first explosion happened. i ll get out of your way so you can see what s going on here, rescue recovery crews have been working this whole time. right now they re taking away some of the cars that were absolutely mangled by the explosion. we believe the impact crater is where those people are standing around there. you can see that water coming out as well. seems as though the water lines underneath were damaged, the explosions were that strong. there s also one person at least was killed here. we have seen the recovery crews remove at least one body from the scene as we ve been working here throughout the entire morning. in total, the authorities have said that at least five people have been killed, but of course, christine, as you c