In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Front door. Some had riot shields and guns in their holsters. The officers presented a search warrant and questioned her for three hours. At one point they had the great grandmother stand outside in her nightgown. According to their warrant, officers were looking for records including applications for ballot by mail, a list of voter banks and documents about elected officials and candidates. Martina said the officers told her they were there because she filled out a report saying older residents were not getting mail ballots. That is quite an aggressive response to that report, which she confirms she did file. Martinez is a retired educator in san antonio who spent 35 years as a member and volunteer with lulac, the civil rights group in america. Part of her work with the organization includes helping older residents and veterans registered to vote and that is what made her suspicious to republican texas attorney general ken paxton. Martinez and other leaders heldn a news conference out
Pete: it is the 7 a. M. Hour of fox & friends weekend starting with a tragedy. In the world of sports as an nhl star and his brother are killed by a suspected drunk driver. Johnny and matthew guy degree s college hockey coach joins us live to honor hair legacy. Rachel: and former president trump rallying voters in pennsylvania and telling voters they re too smart to fall for this back and forth. There s no question i m in favor of banning fracking. I would not ban frack. As vice president, i did the not ban fracking. As president, i will not ban frack. Fracking. Joey: and oklahoma standing up for the flag after a school stopped this student from flying old glory. The second hour of fox & friends weekend, it starts right now. running through our blood. joey: look at that beautiful skyline. Do you know where that is? pete: joey, have you played the skyline game with us before? joey: no, i don t play that game, but i know this skyline. Rachel: can i say it first, joey? joey: go ahea
man, oh, man, that looks good out there, can t wait to be out there with rob to talk about that. It s labor day weekend and i told my staff, if we don t get food, hopefully free food, i m not hosting the show. And adding to the barbecue prices pretty fast, we are going to get there with chef rob get thoughts on this. And vicepresident harris and former president trump fired up on the campaign trail. See what we did there, fired up on the campaign trail. Love the puns. He was busy with two events yesterday, one in pennsylvania and the other in washington d. C. He made a little bit of news at that rally in johnstown, pennsylvania with a fox news interview with our colleague bryan llenas, where he said he would vote now on abortion after six weeks, he says that democrats allow abortion too late in the process. He, also, neil, like vp harris he would consider putting a democrat at the table. If i found somebody that had the right views and was very talented and was going to do good thing
By 2030, and that estimate is at the conservative end of the scale. But falling birth rates and some of the highest inflation rates we ve seen in decades have created challenging conditions for manufacturers and retailers, and signal more tough times to come. While the covid pandemic boosted sales of toys and games temporarily, big name companies report that sales have started to slip back once again. Let s have a look at some of those numbers. Global toy sales reached $108] billion in 2023, a 2% drop compared to 2022, with toy companies calling it a normalisation process after that exceptional growth linked to the pandemic. But across the 612 countries, including the uk, france, germany, and spain, sales declined by 7% in 2023 compared with the previous year, but they were still 17% higher when compared to 2019, before the pandemic. I caught up with the boss of build a bear, a much loved company which allows shoppers to customise their own teddies. She s also the head of the global or