Doing so would be a serious escalation of the war, but Keir Starmer said moscow started the conflict and can end it by withdrawing its troops from ukraine. Our Political Editor Chris Mason was on the prime Ministers Plane, and sent this report shortly after landing. The Prime Minister arriving here in washington with the foreign secretary, David Lammy Sir Keir Starmer s second visit to the White House in two months. Ukraines allies remain rather guarded in their public remarks about a change in policy on the use of Western Missiles inside russia. But the diplomatic dashing to arrive at a decision is in plain sight and that has proved enough for President Putin to say this. Translation if this decision is made, it will mean nothing other than direct participation of nato countries, the United States, I European countries. In the war in ukraine. It is their direct participation and this, of course, significantly changes the very essence of the conflict. This will mean that nato countries
We start with Breaking News from The Middle East where israel says its forces have rescued a hostage from an Underground Tunnel in the Southern Gaza strip. This image of qaid Farhan Al Kadi a Bedoin Arab Has just been released of him recovering in hospital speaking to members of his family. An Israeli Government spokesman has described it as a complex rescue operation. Here you can see the 52 year old talking to Israeli Soldiers shortly after he was rescued. He was abducted ten months ago close to the israel gaza border. Farhan al kadi the eighth hostage rescued by Israeli Forces since the start of the war in gaza is in a stable condition in hospital, where he is undergoing examinations. And this is his Family Running through the corridors and out to the helicopter after he was admitted. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was working to secure the release of all the remaining hostages. But a group campaigning for those still held said that though this rescue had been mir
meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
an economic recovery huge protests happened and there was no fuel and gas supplies were cut was of now sri lanka, after getting $2.9 billion from the international monetary fund,is from the international monetary fund, is slowly making a recovery. now it has to work at what to do with its huge debt. that is why they are discussing this five days. they approve the proposal yesterday and now they want to take it to parliament. basically, they are asking those who are holding the dollar denominated bonds to write off some of out of it. they outstanding the loan period as well, of up to perhaps 15 years and no interest free payment for at least nine year. this will give them some space to develop this economic recovery. because of these bonds are being held, they do not want to destabilise the banking sector. there will be a meltdown of the banking system if people start selling and buying, that is why the sri lankan government declared this five day bank holiday, which is also h
the move also comes as janet yellen met with the chinese ambassador ahead of her visit to china this week. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductors. this is seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question will be subject to export control starting august one. in a statement, the chinese ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interest. china is the largest producer of gallium and german