The strikes killed at least 230 people in gaza while hamas militants have killed at least 300 israelis and taken dozens of hostages, both military and civilian. Overnight, Israeli Security forces rescued some hostages who had not been taken back to gaza and re took a captured Police Station. In the last few hours, they have shelled Enemy Positions in lebanon after reports of incoming artillery in northern israel. Our reporter simon jones has the latest. What israel is describing as its Mighty Vengeance on the Palestinian Militant Group hamas. Overnight, gaza has been rocked by explosions. Earlier, warplanes at several buildings in the centre of the city. Earlier, warplanes hit several buildings in the centre of the city. The Israeli Defense forces has released these pictures, which they say are hamas cells being targeted. The Israeli Military trying to show they are on the front foot after being taken by surprise by the hamas attacks. The israeli Prime Minister issued this morning in a
Is very much in the e. U. As close neighbor britain prepares to get out. Plus could hockey diplomacy end the standoff between the two korea theyve agreed to field a joint Ice Hockey Team at the Winter Olympics next month but despite talks other world powers want to keep up the pressure on the north. And hes one of millions of chinese rarely seen in public we look at efforts to empower the mentally disabled in china rather than hide them away. Im going to thank you for joining us at home in austria he governs in a coalition with a far right party today courts austrias new chancellor is in berlin for talks with america his anti immigration euro sky. Stance clashes with the german chancellors views cts has been a vocal critic of michaels open door policy but the two want to find Common Ground on the protection of the use borders and it was trip to berlin quite stressed that germany is an important partner for austria. The pair held a press conference a little while ago lets listen to what
Really make it happen. But quarter after quarter the company has been able to deliver with a surprise when it came to sales for pcs which we know are in decline but perhaps not quite as much decline as wed anticipated particularly on the commercial side on notebooks where they choed real strength. That did help the quarter and on the revenue side, printing went fairly well. They did come ahead on revenues and on profit. One of my favorite notes Morgan Stanley saying they are achieving the impossible keeping expectations low while increasing revenue and cutting costs and investing and so forth and cash as well. Well talk a lot about that with meg in a minute. The futures are up a touch which means the s p could post its first threeweek win streak in three months. Meantime, were keeping our eye on the tenyear yield and overnight in asia the nikkei was almost up 3 as the markets liked the manufacturing data out of the u. S. Yesterday. First up, though, ukraines government said a tentative
I dont know. And the reason im thinking, you know, the comparison that would make that point best is saudi arabia, qatar, right . I mean, qatars a very interesting place in the sense that it has no citizens, right . I think its about 275,000 now, everybody else is an expat. All there is is money, and there has been extremely effective use of that money and qatari diplomacy. And if you compare sort of the last ten years of diplomacy, aljazeera, qatari use of money with the saudis, you would absolutely conclude they punch below their weight. But if you compare to iran, you know, iran has roughly three times the population of saudi arabia, and the percentage of the population that is in a sense involved in the life of the country, that is, for example, has a decent education, are professionals, women who are active in some way in the economy, iran is a much more, much more modern country than saudi arabia. And it isnt surprising in a way that the saudis would have a very hard time taking
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