roller coaster of talks and more talks and rumors. i think that most of the hostage families are just committed to the work of doing everything we can and speaking to whom ever will listen about the importance and the true urgency of getting all the hostages home. find getting all the hostages home. and ou have getting all the hostages home. and you have been in those meetings with very, very crucial players in all this. do you think this makes a real difference? my this. do you think this makes a real difference? difference? my profession is as an historian. it s difference? my profession is as an historian. it s difficult difference? my profession is as an historian. it s difficult for - difference? my profession is as an historian. it s difficult for me - difference? my profession is as an historian. it s difficult for me to i historian. it s difficult for me to say right now what a difference it might or might not make in 50 years from now. i believe that future his
our business correspondent in new york, is erin delmore. if you re in the crypto world or curious about getting into it, then a spot bitcoin etf has been on your radar. it allows people to bet on bitcoin s gains and losses, even if they do not own bitcoin themselves. us regulators are widely expected to approve the new exchange traded funds this week. so, when a tweet was posted from the sec gov account, saying essentially that, it was noteworthy. it was also wrong. the sec and its chair, gary gensler, quickly posted on x that the sec account was compromised and the regulator had not yet approved the listing in trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded products. the erroneous tweet also included graphic with a quote from chair gensler, a second tweet that also said $ btc . bitcoin s ticker symbol was also posted but was then almost immediately deleted. for bitcoin s value, a bit of a ride. the cryptocurrency climbed to nearly $48,000 on the false news and fell back down to $45
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
thank you for being with us. we begin in ecuador, where police have detained a group of armed men who interrupted a live television programme a day after the president declared a nationwide state of emergency. the men, wearing balaclavas, burst into the studio of a public television station in the port city of guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members. this footage shows the attackers carrying rifles and grenades, forcing the crew onto the ground. the president has said that ecuador is in a state of internal armed conflict . ione wells reports from sao paulo. a moment of utter horror, broadcast live on television. armed men with balaclavas over theirface broke into the set of this public television channel in ecuador while it was live on air, brandishing guns and what appears to be explosives. it comes a day after the country s new president daniel noboa declared a state of emergency yesterday. ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks after the