Final preparations are under way to send the first shipment of aid by sea to gaza. Humanitarian organisations are co ordinating a delivery of about 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies, which will go via a maritime corridor with israels agreement. But its unclear how or where the boat will actually dock, and even if the aid does arrive, some groups are warning of problems in distributing the aid across gaza. Wyre davies reports from jerusalem. In the cypriot port of larnaca, they have been working around the clock. The spanish ship, open arms, is preparing to tow a barge with 200 tonnes of food with medical aid all the way to gaza. Its a precarious, untested plan with obvious risks. Translation yes, we will tow this platform to gaza, where The Last Mile will be the most complicated operation. The disembarkation will be done on a pier that is being built right now by the world central kitchen. How the aid will be unloaded into gaza, where there is no port or functioning harbour, is n
margaret: millions taking to the roads and skies ahead of the holiday weekend. may see wet weather out west. rudy giuliani files for bankruptcy, just days after a jury because he has to pay nearly $150 million. and tonight s eye on america, we ll tell you about the ai program that s helping airports track down your lost items. once we find that i am for them, they are so happy. margaret: and visiting children and newborns and even e christmas spirit under watch. merry christmas. [laughter] margaret: good evening. i m margaret brennan in tonight for norah o donnell. an intense storm is slamming the west, impacting holiday travel, and we will get to it in a moment. but we begin in central europe, with a rare deadly mass shooting at a university campus. at least 14 people were killed and 25 others wounded when a lone gunman opened fire from the roof of a building at charles university in prague. that is the capital city of the czech republic. police say they late
as he hailed what he called productive talks with his political rivals. this as the clock ticks towards a deadline to avoid missing a payment on the us government s loans. the government is set to hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion next week, raising fears it could run out of money to pay its bills without a deal to increase the debt ceiling . joining me now is danni hewson, head of financial analysis at aj bell. do you think investors are happy to take president biden at his word that no matter how difficult these negotiations get, no matter how much they go down to the wire he will somehow ensure there is no default? i think investors are increasingly nervous as we get further down to the wire and we have seen markets lose about 2% this week as that clock counts down. at the moment i think investors do assume that politicians will not want to tank the us economy. there is some kind of agreement will be reached before it reaches a point of defaulting on debt becaus
the reaction in israel that the country s military accidentally killed by her maths. seen here left to right was shot by military forces as they were identified as a threat. aljazeera is one of the few networks still broadcasting out of gaza. the network says one of its camera operators has been killed in the south of the strip. as a result of the israeli strike. by shrapnel or a drone strike in khan younis. we will begin our coverage with this report from lucy williamson. israel s army is in gaza to kill hamas fighters and bring hostages home. clear targets obliterated in the chaos of conflict. three of those shot dead in the northern district of sharjah. not hamas gunmen, but the captives. israel came to save. one of them was yotam haim, 28 years old, a drummer with a heavy metal band kidnapped from kibbutz kfar aza. his mother spoke to the bbc last month. they are talking about release, a few here, a few there. i know that they are playing with us, with our minds, with our
arthel. arthel: hello eric, hello everyone i am arthel neville. two other major stories we are filing for you at this hour buried the blizzard warnings in southern california, the first in san diego history and the first in l.a. in 34 years as a massive winter storm slams the region with heavy rain, wind, and snow and some parts. president biden back home from historic overseas trip only to face a familiar headache, inflation spiking again. raising concerns the fed may hike interest rates longer than expected. we have fox news team coverage on all of these stories. trey isn t ukraine. nicole in l.a. on the wild weather there. the first lucas tomlinson but lucas is light at the white house, lucas. arthel hi inflation introduce savings increasing credit card debt with higher interest rates means more americans are feeling the squeeze. we do not have a tell our viewers they feel it every day. now have new economic data shows inflation is getting worse. let s take a look. the p