jasem albudaiwi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. now, we are talking as the temporary truce in the war between israel and hamas continues in gaza, but benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, has made it plain that it will come to an end very soon and then, he says, israel s military operation will continue with full force until complete victory . when you hear the israelis say that sort of thing, what is your response? thank you, stephen, for having me. i m not surprised. he s been neglecting all international calls to cease fire for a long time. we re happy to see that the efforts by our brothers in qatar and egypt bear fruit and reach that agreement where exchange of prisoners, civilian prisoners, is done, and some of the goods and humanitarian and development assistance is moved through. it s not enough. the assistance is not enough. on that question of assistance, the gcc did pledge substantial amounts of money
from jerusalem. the weather is changing, conditions will worsen for the hundreds of thousands displaced inside gaza. there have been reports of an israeli airstrike on an indonesian hospital, the hamas run health ministry says the number is 12. israeli forces have not commented on a specific operation but maintain their forces are targeting what they say are terrorists and terrorist infrastructure. in another development of the last few hours the israeli defence forces have released sets of videos which they believe will bolster their argument that hamas have been using the largest hospital al shifa hospital as a command centre. it released cctv images, which it says show two hostages being taken by hamas into al shifa, after they were abducted from southern israel on the 7th of october. one is injured and wheeled in on a trolley. the bbc has not been able to verify the video. the idf also released video which it says shows a 55 metre long tunnel, beneath the hospital complex
after aggressively raising interest rates for the last year and a half, the federal reserve believes it s in a place where it can leave rates, where they are to cool the economy and to slow inflation from its current 3.7% on a yearly basis to closer to 2%. but even though america s central bank opted not to hike right now, fed chairjerome powell suggested officials are prepared to do more if inflation flares again. the idea that you wouldn t would difficult to to raise again after stopping for a meeting or two is just not right. i mean, the committee will always do what what it thinks is appropriate at the time. right now, things look good, even though it s pricey for americans to get a mortgage or carry credit card debt. growth was stronger than expected over the summer. the world s largest economy is still adding jobs on a monthly basis. and the government s latestjobs report is due out this friday. fed staff also don t see a recession, so they don t want to rock the boat,
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government says it s investigating claims by a hackers that they have stolen the details of 560 million of its global customers. it could be a fresh crisis for the company s owner live nation whichjust last week was hit by a us government lawsuit accusing it of having a monopoly over the live music business and seeking to have it broken up. the bbc s monica miller is looking at this for us in singapore. this news just breaking, this newsjust breaking, what is the latest? we this newsjust breaking, what is the latest? is the latest? we know the u-rou is the latest? we know the grow) that is the latest? we know the group that emerged - is the latest? we know the group that emerged is - is the latest? we know the i group that emerged is named shiny hunters and online later they have stolen data including they have stolen data including the names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details of customers and in the post it said the data was available for $500,0