Hello, im ben thompson. Youre watching the context on bbc news. British Prime Minister rishi sunak launches the conservative Election Campaign after calling a snap General Election forjuly fourth. So we begin with The Big Story of the day here in the uk news that the Prime Minister rishi sunak has announced a General Election will be held onjuly fourth. Lets speak to my colleague Geeta Guru Murthy whos in Downing Street. You have been following the story of the day. Farcical at some point in the day. Farcical at some Point In The Rain with the loud music but the conservatives and rishi sunak launching his campaign in somewhat dryer circumstances a bit later in the evening, focus or what went on today. The evening, focus or what went on toda. ~ ,. , the evening, focus or what went on today. Absolutely, an extraordinary few hours, today. Absolutely, an extraordinary few hours. Just today. Absolutely, an extraordinary few hours, just to today. Absolutely, an extraordinary few hours, just
Palestinian, arab, jew, muslim, christian, everyone. You cant give up what makes you who you are. If you give that up, then the terrorists win, and we can never let them win. President biden back at the white house this morning after a jampacked trip to israel where he promised continued support for americas ally and cautioned against ragefilled vengeance. Meanwhile, his administration is working to address the growing humanitarian crisis in gaza ahead of the an expected Ground Invasion by Israeli Forces that could begin any day now. Well go through all of that straight ahead. Plus, another vote on the house floor leads to yet another loss for jim jordan. Well look at where his support stands heading into a third ballot for speaker, which is set for later today. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, october 19th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin this morning with president joe bidens historic trip to israel to reaffirm ameri
More than 4,000 are injured. Hamas says itll kill hostages if air strikes are launched without warning. It refuses to negotiate their release. In all honesty, i try not to imagine, because its too difficult, and these are the times where i break. And i dont want to break right now, because i want to keep pushing for the release of my mum and brother. More on those developments in a few minutes. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Lets start with the latest Market Reaction to the events unfolding in israel and gaza. Markets have been on edge as they absorb the many potential ramifications from the conflict. Israels central bank moved to calm markets and stabilise their currency by saying it would sell up to 30 billion of foreign currency. The price of oil has been in focus jumping up by 5 on monday at one point but has since stabilised. But the big mover has really been us bonds with treasury yields falling the most since march as the conflict pushed investors to
Comments. Thank you very much. Good evening, im bret baier. We are coming live from fox news World Headquarters in new york. We will have a live interview with the israeli ambassador to the United Nations shortly. We again our coverage of the war in israel with President Biden calling the hamas attacks act of here is evil. The white house bhooefs at least 14 americans were kill, at heats 20 missing. Some may be hostages. Israeli military official says the death toll has eclipsed one thousand in that country. The israeli response is underway. Warplanes are hammering the gaza strip as we speak and 300,000 israeli reservists being called. Terrorists are believed to be holding more than 150 people hostage there. Could be americans in that group using all of them as Human Shields. Hamas is threatening to execute the prisoners. Air raid sirens have sounded in northern israel near the border with lebanon raising possibility that hezbollah could attack the jewish state from the north. Correspo
At one point they were down by almost a third. Metro bank is the youngest lender on britains high streets. It launched here back in 2010 in the wake of the Global Financial crisis to take on the likes of lloyds and ba rclays. It was the first to do so for more than 100 years. But its had a series of Financial Issues and on thursday there were reports that its urgently trying to raise up to £600 million to shore up its finances. So should customers be worried . Heres our Business Correspondent theo leggett. Well, i dont think customers should be too worried at this stage. Although a 25 drop in the share price is clearly not a good look, metro bank insists that, fundamentally, its finances are pretty sound, it made a profit in the first half of this year, and it continues, crucially, to meet all regulatory requirements in terms of the financial buffers its obliged to give. 0n terms of the financial buffers its obliged to give. On top of that, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme d