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Home about why its taking so long. Speaking on prime Time Television on wednesday night, he said the timing of the offensive would be reached by consensus. Joining me now from tel aviv is idf Spokesperson Lieutenant colonel peter lerner. Welcome to bbc news. Can you tell us more about this what has been described as a significant incursion into gaza. The images that have been released, it does seem this is the most significant, limited raid since the start of this crisis . The start of this crisis . Indeed, over night the start of this crisis . Indeed, over night we the start of this crisis . Indeed, over night we conducted, the start of this crisis . Indeed, over night we conducted, what| the start of this crisis . Indeed, i over night we conducted, what is the start of this crisis . Indeed, over night we conducted, what is day 20 since the brutal massacre of israelis, the abduction of 222 and the murder of a massacre of over 1400 the murder of a massacre of over moo israelis in their
We have a feed through from the chinese economy to the rest of the world through chinese investment, particularly Property Investment and infrastructure investment, and the news on that front is not quite so positive yet. We are still seeing relatively sluggish investment in those areas. A lot of the recent improvement has actually come from the consumer sector, which is a good thing for chinas economy, where we are seeing some rebalancing away from investment, but in terms of chinese demand for what the rest of the world produces, it is not quite as positive a development. Having said that, despite the continued weakness in the property sector, there were some green shoots in the data today. I think we could see a bit of relief for the Housing Market over the next few quarters and that definitely will be a positive for the rest of the world as well. Todays gdp news comes as president xi hosts an anniversary belt and road forum in beijing. The meeting celebrates ten years of president
We highlighted the Human Suffering and negative added impacts of the war in ukraine with regard to global food and energy security, Supply Chains, Macro Financial stability, inflation and growth. Thats a departure from tougher language at last years 620 in bali, saying the 620 deplores, in the strongest terms, the aggression by the Russian Federation against ukraine and demands its complete and unconditional withdrawal from the territory of ukraine. We should note two key leaders were missing russian president Vladimir Putin and his key ally, chinese president xijinping. Disagreements over language on ukraine threatened to overshadow the 620 this year, as south asia correspondent Yogita Limaye explains. During the 620 summit in bali last year, member countries took a very long time to agree on the wording regarding the war in ukraine, so that was expected this time around as well. In fact, there were worries about whether there would be consensus on any statement at all. And so, its qu
hello. in the uk, we have new pictures of the search for the terror suspect who escaped from prison. but still no sighting of the suspect. this is the van being searched. we will explain all and just a moment. also, world leaders will start heading to india for the 620 summit this weekend. we ll see what they ll be talking about and how india will present itself on the world stage. in china, exports are down again. we ll look at what that means for the rest of the world. we can to start the in the uk, the latest on the terraces past mac terror suspect, latest on the terraces past mac terrorsuspect, daniel latest on the terraces past mac terror suspect, daniel khalife who escaped from wandsworth prison, strapped to the bottom of the delivery van. these are new pictures, let s take a look at them. this is the moment police searched the vehicle on the upper richmond road just a few miles away from wandsworth prison. it s understood that it was at this point police found straps