caroline modarressy tehrani and seb payne, director of the centre right think tank, onward. welcome to the programme. the us secretary of state antony blinken, has urged israel and the palestinians to take steps to calm tensions during a spike in violence that has put the region on edge. in the latest incident, just hours before mr blinken was due to arrive in israel palestinian health officials say israeli forces shot dead a palestinian man at a military checkpoint in hebron. the violence was sparked on thursday, when ten palestinians were shot dead in the occupied west bank by israeli forces. then on friday, seven israelis were killed when a palestinian gunmen opened fire outside a synagogue in east jerusalem. secretary blinken has already met prime minister benjamin netanyahu and will also meet the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abas. from the moment mr blinken s plane touched the tarmac he made it clear that addressing the violence of the last week
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profits but the money is rolling in as it benefits from high interest rates. and qatar looks to cash in on the world cup to boost its economy we have a special report from doha. financial markets reacted calmly as it emerged that rishi sunak is set to be the uk s next prime minister. the pound is broadly unchanged against the dollar and government borrowing costs stayed lower after commons leader penny mordaunt dropped out of the leadership race. but the new prime minister inherits a daunting in tray with the cost of living crisis soaring energy prices and rising inflation. not to mention the war in ukraine and brokering a good relationship with europe. our business correspondent theo leggett has more. the news that rishi sunak is the new leader of the conserve the new leader of the conserve the party and will therefore become the next prime minister of the uk is something international investors seem to have taken in their stride. there has certainly been no return to th
will take immediate action to help people with the cost of their energy bills and i will be making an announcement on that tomorrow. and we ll report from pakistan and the deadly flooding there. officials the threat of the country s largest lake bursting its banks is receding. we start with the war in ukraine. the russian president vladimir putin says the sanctions imposed on russia following the invasion of ukraine represent the biggest current threat to the world economy. have a listen. translation: after the pandemic, different challenges arrived that have also been global in nature and pose a danger to the whole world. i m talking about the west s sanctions fever. its brazen and aggressive attempts to force others how to behave, deprive them of their sovereignty and force them into submission. there is nothing unusual about that. this policy has been used by the west for decades. the kremlin has repeatedly tried to downplay the effect of sanctions on its economy. with s
good evening. you are going to see a number of extraordinary things over the course of this next hour. it is very rare that we see history happening in realtime. we ve all seen the images of what happened to outside the capitol on january 6th, of the capital being breached. people wandering around, destroying property. that was historic, but it is even rarer to see what was happening behind closed doors, where the people in power were making decisions. that is what you are about to see tonight. in this hour ahead, one of the most consequential moments in living memory, in a way you ve never seen it before. footage from january 6th, 2021, obtained exclusively by cnn as the attack on the capitol unfolded, showing how congressional leaders, speaker, nancy, pelosi and others were forced to flee the capital from their offices and moved to a secure location where they frantically coordinated with then vice president pence and trump cabinet members to quell the insurrection and fini