meanwile the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l it is continuing. we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and to eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way, and in the south, we will continue that effort. the bbc s us partner, cbs news spoke to one family awaiting the news of whether their loved was one of the 50 released hostages. 3 year old abigail mor edan is the youngest known american hostage. herfamily members, liz hirsh naftali and noa naftali spoke to cbs morning to share abigail s story as they await her potential release. we are hoping and praying that she is in one of the first groups but we can only know, thatis groups but we can only
Reserves in the tank, so that as we embark on the journey that we take over the next couple of years, we are confident that we have got enough gas in the tank to see us through that journey. There are two kinds of budget, those that have a specific problem to solve, normally a crisis in the public finances. And there are those where there isnt much to do, chancellors just have to stand up and look like theyve been keeping busy. Well, this one is more in the latter category. Part of the reason for that is that brexit is looming over everything at the moment. The old slogan used to be, you must fix the roof while the sun is shining. Today might be, there is no point in fixing the roof if you think a great big tree might come toppling down on top of it. You should wait to see what happens. Until brexit, getting the deficit down was the main goal, and it slowly came under control. The idea is it carries on going down but the basicjob is farfrom done. Its fair to say that a lot of people, p
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In this weeks programme. Inside North Waziristan. Owen Bennett Jones finds the Pakistan Army back in control of the tribal area on the afghan border, after a huge Military Operation to clear out alqaeda and the taliban. Around one Million People from North Waziristan fled when the conflict was at its height, and the question now is will they come back . Saved from slavery and worse. Naomi grimley meets the Young Yazidis who escaped the so called Islamic State to find refuge in germany. A genocide in the making. Alastair leithead reports from south sudan on claims of new atrocities by Government Forces and local militia. Making chinas skies blue again. Carrie gracie investigates beijings new measures against old polluting vehicles. The chinese economy is still fuelled by coal. And in the one party state there is little the public can do, to force the pol
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In this weeks programme inside North Waziristan. Owen Bennett Jones finds the Pakistan Army back in control of the tribal area on the afghan border, after a huge Military Operation to clear out alqaeda and the taliban. Around one Million People from North Waziristan fled when the conflict was at its height, and the question now is will they come back . Saved from slavery and worse. Naomi grimley meets the Young Yazidis who escaped the so called Islamic State to find refuge in germany. A genocide in the making. Alastair leithead reports from south sudan on claims of new atrocities by Government Forces and local militia. Making chinas skies blue again. Carrie gracie investigates beijings new measures against old polluting vehicles. The chinese economy is still fuelled by coal. And in the one party state there is little the public can do, to force the poli
But it was not to be. And everyone is asking what next for europe . Our question here on quadriga this week is dutch vote what does it mean for europe . I am joined here in the studio by three seasons analyst and observers. Let us begin with job janssen who is a journalist from the netherlands and an expert on rightwing populism. He says wilders may have maye there wilders have lost the election but his political agenda did not. Alan posener joins us. He says the conflict with turkey helps the dutch government and Angela Merkel will take no. And a warm welcome to rieke havertz. She says that the strength of democracy is shown but europe should not lean back and relax after the election in the netherlands. To job janssen. A lot of anxiety around europe regarding this row. What is your assessment . Job it is a surprising outcome. It was uncertain until shortly before the election, what would happen. Voters that of remained undecided until the end. I was surprised with these numbers. Am m