Business headlines. Us Investment Firm Elliott Advisors has walked away from making a takeover bid for currys after being rejected by the retailers board in its own words multiple times. It had initially proposed an offer that valued the electricals chain at £700 million, and later raised it to 757 million. But currys rebuffed the approaches, saying they significantly undervalued the business. Currys could still receive a bid from chinasjd. Com, which said last month it was mulling an offerfor the firm. Earlier i spoke with russ mould, Investment Director at the stockbrokers aj bell. There is but it it will focus on what the two main shareholders in currys have got to say, redwheel and frasers. Any bid will have to get their approval and one can only assume that wasnt forthcoming this time. They said it undervalued the business. It is rare we are in a position where we are talking about a high street retailer at the centre of a possible bidding war. We thought that bricks and mortar w
earlier this season, he had to apologise after going out after a defeat to manchester city. he is available for their premier league game at wolves tomorrow, but ten hag was asked whether he was instilling the correct discipline at the club and if rashford was showing him disrespect. nothing to do with that with me, but in football, ute discipline you need. that is on the pitch, but also off the pitch, because also, there s a line. every player knows this. every professional knows this, what is required. we have to focus on winning football games, and that s all that matters. every talk professional knows what is required. a couple of matches. barcelona have moved up to third since manager hernandez announced he would be leaving at the end of the season. they won 1 0 at home. atletico madrid can move back, but no goals yet. japan either to the asian cup quarterfinals after beating bahrain 3 1 in qatar. after a spectacular effort, after the break, goals ensured the four tim
Palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get some sort of agreement towards a permanent ceasefire rather than a temporary one. So while it seems that the two sides are moving closer together, there is still a disconnect, i think, on that point. And i think also on the number of hostages to be released. Now, originally we were
Issues with the proposal. A phone call between President Joe Biden and israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, is said to have focused on the negotiations. Americas top diplomat Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudia Arabia at the start of a new trip to the middle east. Hes also expected to visitjordan and israel. Israels military says Aid Deliveries into gaza will increase in the coming days, as the un warns that palestinians are facing catastrophic hunger. The Israel Defense force chief spokesperson Daniel Hagari says aid going into gaza has increased in recent weeks. Lets listen to what he said. Over the last few weeks, the amount of humanitarian aid going into gaza has significantly increased. In the coming days, the amount of aid going into gaza will continue to scale up even more. Food, water, medicalsupplies, Shelter Equipment and other aid. More of it is going into gaza than ever before. Live tojerusalem and our middle east correspondent yolande knell. It is good to have you,
operations have resumed after a deadline to extend the seven-day long truce expired, an hour ago this. dashing hopes for the release of more hostages from hamas. according to the idf, hamas violated the truce by fired a rocket to israeli territory an hour before the deadline. it was intercepted by israeli air defenses. hamas officials in gaza report israeli aircraft now over gaza with the sound of a taylor fire in the north. the operational pause was extended on thursday after a last-minute deal, and despite israel s demands for ten hostages released daily, hamas released eight. according to israeli official two women were set free initially, followed by another six just hours later who are being held in a separate location in gaza. it s also thursday, another 30 palestinian women and children were released from israeli prisons, as part of the agreement with hasse. many had been held under detention, and never officially discharged. new reporting for the new york times that i