singing in italian. we start this week in one of europe s most breathtakingly beautiful destinations, venice, in north east italy. this city on water is made up of over 100 islets, interconnected by a labyrinth of picture perfect canals and elegant bridges. life around here has remained the same for hundreds of years and steadfast through that time have been the gondoliers of venice. they see themselves as custodians of the city. today, there are only 400 gondoliers left and they are almost exclusively used by tourists. so it was in the family? with the local population of around 50,000 people dwarfed by 20 million visitors every year, the gondoliers aren t short of a customer or two. and while that is good for business, the numbers swelling the main tourist areas inevitably create a huge problem. increased pollution, including discarded junk clogging up the famous waterways. but now some of the gondoliers who ply their trade in the 276 canals are doing something about it. th
election has been delayed, after concerns were raised that hackers could influence the outcome. a stark warning that the number of households with no savings is set to double to 5.3 million by 2024 due to the rising cost of living. and it s 50 years since nearly 30,000 ugandan asians began to arrive in the uk after being forced to flee their homes by uganda s then military ruler. we ve been hearing some of their stories. the speaker of the us house of representatives nancy pelosi has met the taiwanese president during a visit that s been strongly condemned by the chinese government. taiwan is self ruled, but beijng sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it. it s an island roughly 100 miles from the coast of south east china. china took the island from japan in 1945 after world war two, but after a civil war in china, defeated nationalist forces fled to taiwan. today it sees itself as an independent country, with its own constitution and democratical
Its on again. More shelling in gaza. The Israeli Defense forces saying theyre expanding Ground Operations as we speak. Is this the start of a ground water . Welcome. Im neil cavuto on a very busy day and now night. Its about 11 00 p. M. In israel as we speak. Lets go to trey yingst in southern israel. Trey . Good afternoon, neil. As we speak, the real military is shelling and striking the gaza strip the past several hours. They have ramped up strikes on the northern part of gaza. This is the heaviest that we have seen the israeli response since this war erupted 21 days ago. Weve seen the israelis using tanks along the border. According to israels spokesman, this is being considered you can hear the artillery going out there in to gaza, this is being considered an expanded raid in to the strip. Theyre stopping short of calling this the Ground Operation that everyone is anticipating. But the amount of fighting along the border is significant. Weve heard Machine Gun Fire in the distance.