The world as the annIversary of October 7 approaches. In other news. Tech BIllIonaIre Elon Musk joIns republIcan NomInee Donald Trump On Stage In butler, pennsylvanIa as he returns to the sIte of hIs attempted assassInatIon. You are watchIng Bbc News and you joIn us here In the kr boots not far from the Gaza Border In front of one of the homes as you can see was brutally attacked In the early hours of october seven a year ago. Everybody who lIved In the homes behInd us are dead. Some of the famIlIes that are gatherIng near to not farfrom where we are broadcastIng to commemorate the lIves that were taken and the hostages stIll beIng held In gaza. The communIty suffered terrIbly In the october seven attacks. A small communIty of 400 people saw 117 people kIlled or kIdnapped. That Is a quarter of thIs communIty. In a moment, we wIll speak to someone who saw sIx members of herfamIly taken and someone who lost Loved Ones In the attack. Lets look fIrst at the latest development, begInnIng wI
as inflation cools. from new york, our north america business correspondent michelle fleury sent this report. the december notes from the us central banks last meeting showed policymakers are feeling better about inflation. they agreed with investors that interest rates are at or near the peak for this cycle. they also agree it will come down this year. but they offered no clues as to how or when that will happen. to remind viewers, the federal reserve started raising rates in march 2022 to tame inflation. it did so 11 times, taking the benchmark rate to 5.5%. inflation, by the time of the last meeting, had dropped to 3.2% from a peak of 9.1%. meanwhile, new data out on wednesday showed the number ofjob openings in the united states fell to 8.79 million in november. this points to weaker demand for labour but is still well above pre covid levels. that is consistent with the fed s goal. to slow the economy without triggering a nasty recession. the feds first rate setting meeti
interview with bbc, elon musk, the owner of twitter, admitted he only went through with the purchase of the company because a judge was about force him to do so, that his takeover of twitter was painful and quite a rollercoaster, but that he would sell the company if the right person came along. musk purchased twitter for a whopping $41; billion, just over £35 billion pounds. just over £35 billion. he inherited a workforce of over 8,000 employee which he has defended cutting down to around 1,500, saying the company would have gone bankrupt otherwise. it s been just over a year since mr musk began his takeover of twitter. he purchased his first shares on 5 april, 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold, he said because of the volume of fake accounts. twitter denied that and invited musk to a me
flights stuff are not responsible. long running dispute about parking former soldier convicted of murder. signed recent united states can julian assange should be sent to united states? priti patel says he can but he has the right to appeal. how day of the year so far. and kate bush s bracket number one. hottest day of the year so far. kate bush back at number one in the chart up bush back at number one in the chart up a0 years. prime minister borisjohnson has travelled to kyiv, to have talks with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. during the visit, the pm offered a uk led military training programme which he said could change the equation of the war . downing street says the operation would have the potential to train up to 10,000 soldiers every 120 days. both leaders have been speaking about the talks in kyiv. let s have a listen to what they said. translation: we do not have any doubt that - ukraine s going to prevail, so we are preparing for postwar reconstruc
tomorrow to meet with victims of this week s mass school shooting part however along with the morning and anguish there are now angry mounting calls for action people want to know what in the world happened in the small community after we all learned that 19 police officers waited more than 45 minutes in a hallway outside the classroom. leaving students and teachers trapped inside with a gunman armed with an assault rifle. arthel: so many questions, jeff paul is live with more questions were. days of sadness and frustration are now turning into anger for many people here in this community and uvalde texas after law enforcement community admit mistakes were made for texas investigators saying they now know there are children in the classroom with the shooter for nearly an hour who might have been helped. this all goes back to investigators saying the local incident commander at the time about the situation has shifted from an active shooter investigation into a barricaded su