5. 25 . Susanna streeter is a friend of the bbc and is waiting in the wings. I saw you react as soon as that announcement came up. Your reaction, please . Reaction, please . Yes, finally the Bank Of England reaction, please . Yes, finally the Bank Of England has reaction, please . Yes, finally the Bank Of England has pressed reaction, please . Yes, finally the Bank Of England has pressed the | reaction, please . Yes, finally the i Bank Of England has pressed the big red pause button on Interest Rate hikes and this will be a big relief for those consumers and those companies who have been really struggling with higher Borrowing Costs. And it is clear that that the drop in inflation in the year to august and also that caught rate of inflation, stripping out volatile food and fuel prices, really did come as a surprise because they voted with the majority of 5 4 to maintain the bank rate and to keep rates on hold. Whereas if you look at the last time they had to make this decision, only on
hamas. they are waiting desperately for any news of any kind of deal. we have no confirmation of any deal at all but senior israeli officials have been talking to the bbc saying at least 50 hostages could potentially be released in any deal. 12 every day. we re also hearing in the last couple of hours the security bodies in israel are in favour of this deal, a pause in the fighting. as for the politics of this benjamin netanyahu had previously said before in meetings there had been progress on a potential we ve been working on this intensively for weeks. as you all know. i ve spoken recently about it to benjamin netanyahu and amir qatar. my team down in the region shuffling between cabinets. we re now very close, very close. we could bring some of these hostages home very soon. but i don t want to get into any details of things because nothing is done until it s done. in when we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. to get more on this, i spoke
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