His comments came after a second day of explosions in lebanon this time involving walkietalkies used by hezbollah. Lebanon s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed in tuesday s walkietalkie explosions. More than 400 others were wounded. Hezbollah, coming to bury its dead in south beirut today. Casualties of a new chapter in middle east warfare. Killed not by air strikes, but by exploding pagers. Apparently, a message from mossad. Among the dead, an 11yearold boy. But even the mourners weren t safe. Explosion. Suddenly, the sound of another blast. Chaos and panic filling the street and a rush to evacuate one of the wounded. The authorities say this time, walkie talkies exploded, not just in beirut. Here, at a cell phone shop in the southern city of sidon. Israel is being blamed for the past 2a hours of unprecedented attacks. Sirens. Well, one more ambulance there passing by. We ve been seeing them in the last halfanhour or so. Also fire brigade trucks. People have been loo
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Of people around the world. Here in the uk, theres been another fall in the inflation rate, the global picture is somewhat mixed and thats giving central bankers the people who decide how much it should cost to borrow money plenty to think about. Uk inflation for march has been reported at an annnualised rate of 3. 2 . That data coming out earlier today. Thats a long way from its recent peak of just over ii . The latest figures show a fall in the cost of meat and furniture, among other things. But many forecasters had been banking on a more significant drop than this. So where does that leave the Bank Of England and its 5. 25 Interest Rate . There had been an expectation that the banks policymakers could reduce the cost of borrowing in may orjune, but many forecasters now think it could be later in the summer. The uks central bank has a similar dilemma to its us counterpart, where inflation is at 3. 5 after last weeks unexpected jump. And that stubbornness is why theres a Growing Warin
which started the year at under $500 a share and closed on wednesday at over $1,200 a share. that is just such a huge jump in a short time. it rose over 5% in value on wednesday alone, giving it the market cap of just over $3 trillion. let s hear more from our north america business correspondent erin delmore. wall street s on a record breaking run. the latest all time high closes for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq. the latter powered by you guessed it nvidia. the chip makerjoined the $3 trillion club on wednesday, overtaking apple as the world s second most valuable company. microsoft is still the world s number one. nvidia is only the third company to ever exceed $3 trillion in market value. it s leading in the race to develop the chips needed to enable new artificial intelligence applications. and that s where the other tech giants and a lot of companies are spending big bucks right now. nvidia shares ended the trading day up more than 5%. alphabet, amazon, apple, meta,
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