This came through in the early hours, a release for forward, not signed and sealed but it would seem tough negotiations have ended in an agreement. Good morning. Thank you for having me. This is good for the workers, this deal, because it is a 25 Wage Increase for workers, a Reference Point for the other Car Companies that are still striking and i think there is a lot of pressure to negotiate with workers and come up negotiate with workers and come up with a deal because the financial cost to the company to simply huge. We originally had the Third Quarter results from General Motors and they say the strikes so far have cost 800 million, a big hit in their profitability and the overall estimate for the strikes so far is nearly 2 billion. It is costing. Absolutely, they had to try to come to some agreement quickly. As you say, it was costing these car makers huge sums of money. Also installing production, impacting supply of new cars, at a time when the us economy is really trying to get
Ground attack. Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. President joe biden has urged israel not to be consumed by rage this was confirmed soon after by Prime Minister netanyahu whose office which said no aid will enter from israel as long as its hostages arent returned and it will not block the delivery of food, water and medicines from egypt. Joe biden his visit was overshadowed by a devastating explosion and hospital in gaza city. Hundreds more were wounded. Israel has blamed it on a palestinian islamichhad rocket, which it says misfired, hitting the hospital. President biden appeared to agree with that that it was caused by what he called the other team will stop in the last hour say israel was not responsible based on the latest information. Responsible based on the latest information. But arab countries have joined hamas in blaming israel for the explosion. President biden appeared to agree wi
Strike hamas targets and we dont want civilian casualties. Want civilian casualties. We have uraed want civilian casualties. We have ura ed the want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis use want civilian casualties. We have urged the israelis use every urged the israelis use every possible urged the israelis use every possible precaution urged the israelis use every possible precaution to urged the israelis use every| possible precaution to avoid urged the israelis use every possible precaution to avoid harm to civilians the israeli army has mounted the first raids into Northern Gaza to dismantle and disrupt hamass ability to fire rockets. But the bigger incursion is pending. Israel has given the palestinians 2a hours to evacuatei Million People from Northern Gaza before the expanded operation begins. One hospital al awda to the south of gaza city has been told tonight it has two hours to evacuate. The doctors are still tr
The bbc witnessed migrants on several beaches trying to get onto boats to cross the english channel. These are some of the pictures from another attempt just after dawn. The Uk Border Force has brought around 70 migrants, inluding young children, ashore. Of thought there could be around of thought there could be around 300 people. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on the beach where a boat ran aground and left five people dead. Lets take a look at what he witnessed as that ill fated crossing began. Theres a real battle going on on the beach here. Must be more than 100 migrants trying to get to the water. Theyre letting off firecrackers to try and keep the police away from them, but the police are moving in. Theyre trying to stop them from getting to the water. Lets go ahead and see what we can see. You can see the smugglers here. Some of them have sticks. Theyre trying to protect the migrants as they head towards the sea. Lets cross live very briefly to new york, because this is the
Back on track with targets like ending extreme poverty and tacking climate change. And president s and Prime Ministers will take the opportunity to seize the global spotlight including us President Joe Biden who arrived On Sunday Evening in new york. To talk about all of this and what we can expect from the week ahead, im joined now from new york by michael bociurkiw, Global Affairs analyst and Non Resident Seniorfellow at the atlantic council. Lets talk about who is not going to be there, rishi sunak, emmanuel macron, and modi, xi jinping. Quite a list. What do you make of those absences . Quite a list indeed. Un Secretary General laid it down and says this isnt a chauffeur vanity fair. Show for vanity fair. Id more leaders are using that excuse, that they are very busy, so they are sure show up in certain summits. In the case of rishi sunak, if reporting is to be believed, he is not only very busy but afraid to be called out at the un Climate Summit for not performing well enough on