Good evening, were live injerusalem, as diplomatic efforts to try to ease the worsening humanitarian situation in gaza intensify. The german chancellor olaf scholz has been meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in tel aviv, and Tomorrowjoe Biden is expected in israel for talks. But its a tricky diplomatic mission. The us wants to show solidarity with israel, but also press for ways to ease the suffering in gaza, where the United Nations says supplies of food, fuel and water are dwindling, and access must be allowed for aid. All this as Israel Masses troops on the border, ahead of a possible ground invasion, and its aerial bombardment of the territory continues. It says its Targeting Members of hamas, a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, and responsible for last weeks attack on Southern Israel, which killed at least 1,400 people. Palestinian officials in gaza, say around 3,000 have been killed in israeli bombing, and around 12,00
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Significant moments, the levels of energy and the response to this, the way people are feeling about this on both sides is extremely strong. That is because this is the first time in a generation we have had this level of public pressure applied by the white house onto the israelis, trying to change their tactics, and specifically using a hold on us Weapon Shipments to the israelis to do that. It is why for example hearing from republicans who were have come up republicans who were have come up with a better rebuke over the announcement last night of President Biden over this and democrats who eagerly have said they believe this is the right policy and in some cases have asked the question do they think it should have happened earlier . I was outside the Relations Committee earlier and we caught up with some of the senators during the meeting. They do not need to fight with their they do not need to fight with their fingernails, this is more political their fingernails, this is more po
Yeah, its great. Nice to see you. Some Breaking News for you, official figures released in the last hour show the uk economy is no longer in recession. The economy grew by 0. 6 in the first three months of this year. The uk entered recession after output fell during two consecutive quarters at the end of last year. Most economists had predicted growth of 0. 4 . This is the fastest growth rate for more than two years. Well, i think its encouraging that we, in the last quarter, have grown faster notjust in france and germany, but also the United States. But i think more significant is the longer term data that is coming out now about the uk economy. We can see that since 2010 we have created morejobs in the uk than anywhere else in europe. Weve attracted more greenfield foreign direct investment, notjust done anywhere in europe, but anywhere in the world outside of the United States and china. In terms of the most rapidly growing industries, we have by far the largest Tech Industry in eu
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