feel any significant relief at the grocery store or gas pump. fuel costs just hit another new high, $4.40 a gallon on average for the first time ever. cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond is traveling with the president. jeremy, the president gave a speech about inflation yesterday. today it s supposed to be more about food supply. what can we expect? reporter: yeah, victor, but inflation will still be very much top of mind for the president as he addresses this dueling issue of rising food prices, as well as this global food shortage. part of it sparked by the war in ukraine. ukraine/russia, key suppliers of wheat around the world. we ll hear the president address both of those. and the fact that he s talking about inflation for the second day in a row, a reflection of the extent to which he s facing serious political pressure on this issue, a top issue for voters heading into the midterms. today we ll hear the president announce several new steps to help farmers
To travel outside of tel aviv, jerusalem and beersheeva. The us embassy said it had made the order out of an abundance of caution, due to fears about a possible attack by iran. Earlier the Israeli Defence minister, yoav gallant, has told his us counterpart that israel will respond appropriately if it is directly attacked by iran. Washington continues to try to dissuade iran from launching a retaliatory strike following the attack on its consulate in syria last week. Lets speak to our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega, in jerusalem. Heightened sense of alert. What more can you tell us . Can you tell us . Four days we have been talking can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about those can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about those warnings | been talking about those warnings that have come from american officials saying the iranian response is a matter of when and not if. Ithink response is a matter of
carried out a mass shooting. why wasn t he stopped some. and taking action, the plan to counter anti-semitic threats on college campuses. the president himself saying he is very concerned. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it is tuesday, october 31. h happy halloween. israeli military says they hit some 300 targets on monday including hamas compounds inside tunnels. the idf say their troops killed four prominent operatives. the mmprime minister rejecting calls for a ceasefire saying this is a time for war. i want to make clear israel s position regarding the ceasefire. just as the united states would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of pearl harbor or the terrorist attack of th9/11, israel will not agree after the horrific attacks of october 7. calls for a ceasefire are calls to surrender to hamas, to terrorism, to barberarbarbarism. that won t happen. and the number of hostages is updated to 239. freed
Also this hour, how Climate Change is transforming the british garden. They will be looking at new techniques because of rising temperatures. And looking for love online one rhinos search for a partner on the dating app tinder. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The labour party has switched its Election Campaigning to the nhs today pledging to give a bigger pay rise to nhs staff in england if it wins The General Election. Labour says it would scrap tuition fees and Restore Bursaries for Student Nurses and midwives which are due to end in august. The party says it would end the current 1 cap on Wage Increases, in part because nhs staff had been undervalued, Overworked And Underpaid by the government. Labour says. And it says its policies would be paid for by reversing Corporation Tax cuts. The party says a Labour Government would also introduce tougher rules to ensure that Staffing Levels in hospitals are safe. The Shadow Health secretary, jon ashworth, said the money was ther