By sending around 700 additional Uk Military personnel to cyprus as part of a possible evacuation. They willjoin 500 british troops who are already based at raf akrotiri. Meanwhile, Israel And Hezbollah continue to exchange heavy cross borderfire, defying calls from World Leaders for an immediate de escalation. The lebanese government has called on the us for help to end a wave of israeli assaults, the deadliest bombardment the country has seen in decades. Health authorities there say 569 people, including many children, have been killed since monday. Hezbollah continues to launch rockets in the other, direction. The purple dots on this Map Show where those rockets landed. Israels Air Strikes within lebanon are marked here in red. And as World Leaders meet in new york, the un Security Council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Aru na iyengar reports. Firing across borders, there is rarely iron Dome Defence System intercepts rockets fired by hezbollah from lebanon
Progress. A signal we are entering a new phase of our economy and our recovery. I believe it is important for the country to recognise this progress because if we do not, progress made will remain locked in the fear of negative mindsets that dominate our economic outlook since the pandemic began. Investors have cheered the cut, the dowjones industrial the neck i added 1. 5% in us dot markets. And the s&p 500 rose to all high times. Bbc s samira hussain has more from new york. 0ur the s&p 500 road i. 7%, the s&p 500 road i. 7%, extending this years gains to 20% and meanwhile the dowjones surged over 500 points to topping 32,000 for the first time in the majority of industry groups closed out the interest is higher and big tech outperformed as it was spurred to investors return to risk on mood and tesla gained 4% and more than 7% respectively. Stocks traditionally tied to economic growth jumped withjp economic growth jumped with jp morgan economic growth jumped withjp morgan chase and ca
up even the price of oil has gone up a little. so what is going on? well, investors are looking ahead to the latest us inflation data which is out later today. the consumer price index figures will be closely watched by the us federal reserve as it begins its twoday meeting to decide on its next move on interest rates. consumers in america feeling more confident inflation is on its way down, according to the latest by the federal near term inflation expectations and for two years. the survey is a closely watched metric, because of consumers believe inflation will fall, they will already adjust spending patterns in anticipation of what is to come. those consumer expectations happen to die pretty closely with what economists are expecting for the latest inflation figures. they will likely show inflation went up slightly month over month but it will drop year over year. month but it will drop year overyear. numbers month but it will drop year over year. numbers like that would b
from new york, the bbc s michelle fleury reports. major western brands have found themselves hit by a grassroots often unplanned boycotts because of their stance on the israel palestine conflict. this includes mcdonald s. the burger chain came a target became a target after videos online showing them giving away thousands of free meals to the members of the israeli military. this resulted in boycotts of the brand. owners and muslim majority countries such as kuwait and pakistan put out statements distancing themselves. in a message on linkedin, mcdonald s ceo wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impacted due to the war and associated misinformation. all of this in the middle east and beyond because of the war in gaza. he added, this is disheartening and ill founded, pointing that many of the restaurants are operated by local owners. he didn t elaborate on the scale of the impact, but mcdonald s has around 2,000 restaurants in the region. it isn
that are left, there needs to be points picked up and the difficulty is you are looking at the fixtures, we start with an easy one on saturday, you can t get any easier than manchester city away, but i enjoyed the game so much, to try to be able to keep this in the premier league is a big responsibility and a big challenge, but one i m prepared to take, because of who leeds united l. at the other end of the table, arsenal s stint at the top could be cut short by manchester city if they beat west ham later on. arsenal climbed back to the top after beating chelsea 3 1 but pep guardiola s side are only two points behind. they have won ten of their last 11 league games and are unbeaten against the hammers since 2015. three new players have been added to the premier league hall of fame earlier rio ferdinand and petr cech were announced. and in the past hour, a third has been named, and it is. and a third to a few hours later, and it was. ..tony adams the former arsenal capt