and outgoing shells, every 30 seconds or so. it really doesn t stop. and science fiction made reality as nasa plans to try to divert an asteroid by crashing a rocket into it. we start in the uk where the bank of england says it won t hesitate to take action to control inflation, after the pound slumped to an all time low against the dollar. take a look at this chart from this morning s asia trading. at one point sterling fell to $1.03 the lowest since 1971 though it s since recovered slightly. there s been speculation that the bank of england may announce an emergency hike in rates to control rising prices. for the moment, that hasn t happened. well there s lots to unpack. first to understand what s happening today we must go back to friday and to this annoucement in parliament. i can announce today that we will catch the basic rate of income tax to 19p, in april 2020 three, one year early. that means a tax cut for over 31 million people injust a few months time. t
please, call now, or you can go to lovesshriners.org. thank you so much for lets us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. you know what time it is. we re inside one week to the mid terms. the record-breaking turnout is happens. the latest numbers show more than 29 million americans have already voted, competing those trump mid terms of 2018. we re in full gear, and it s a tense backdrop for the races. there are active federal warnings about threats and attacks on poll workers and the voting process itself. we have seen records of these self-appointed poll watchers showing up in tactical gear, like that shot out of arizona. and election deniers are running for office, it s not normal. threats to lawmakers have increased tenfold over the several years over the trump era. more campaigns will turn on the question of whether candidates will honor democracy itself. these are truly unusual stak
these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson in the south and cover around 15% of ukraine s territory. the so called referendums have been widely condemned. president biden described them as a sham and a false pretext to try to illegally annex parts of ukraine. our correspondentjames waterhouse reports from kyiv. russia s version of their so called referendums a free and fair democratic process where ukrainians in kherson decide whether they want tojoin russia. but, on the same spot today in the city centre, it s deserted. ukrainian officials have posted footage like this. apparently, ballots being taken door to door with the support of armed men. on this unverified cctv clip, a man is asked what apartment he s from. i don t live here. are you sure? yes, he says. he carries on down without looking over his shoulder. we ve spoken to several people under russian occupati
vladimir putin of sending russian conscripts to their death in ukraine by forcing them to fight in the war. a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. 0pinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. 0ur rome correspondent, mark lowen, reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s at the fore today in a crunch election. it was sparked injuly when the
for families. pain for workers as public sector squeezed, says the times, experts warn of an inevitable decline in services due to tax cuts and inflation. in the telegraph leads with a warning from the us that russia will face catastrophic consequences if it deploys nuclear weapons. let s start with the front page of the metro, and it highlights the very start policy divide now between the two biggest parties when it comes to tax. ciaran, kick us off with this one. it comes to tax. ciaran, kick us off with this one- with this one. this is a big bold front page with this one. this is a big bold front page by with this one. this is a big bold front page by the with this one. this is a big bold front page by the metro - with this one. this is a big bold front page by the metro that i with this one. this is a big boldl front page by the metro that as with this one. this is a big bold - front page by the metro that as you say, highlights the chasm that exists now between th