Saturday after wrangling over procedures and inspections of the aid trucks. All of this taking place as the bombardment over the gaza strip has intensified on behalf of israel and more than a Million People in gaza have been displaced, moving to the south of the city. Excuse me, to the south of gaza. We heard recently from the chief Military Spokesperson for the idf. Rear admiral Daniel Hagari has updated the number of hostages inside gaza as 222. Thats an increase in the number taken on the 7th Of October following the unprecedented attack inside israel in which moo people unprecedented attack inside israel in which m00 people were massacred. This comes as the United States says israel has agreed to continue a flow of aid into gaza as it intensifies its aerial bombardment of the gaza strip. The United Nations has been warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. There are hundreds of aid trucks on the border although we are hearing initial reports of a third convoy of limited trucks being a
Its monday 23rd october. Our main story. More aid has reached gaza, as Rishi Sunakjoins other western leaders in calling on israel to respect International Humanitarian law. Fourteen trucks crossed from egypt through the Rafah Crossing Yesterday but the un and charities are warning it is still not enough, as israel continues to launch air strikes on gaza. More than two weeks after the attack by hamas, which is regarded as a Terrorist Organisation by the uk, the Israeli Defence minister has warned the conflict could go on for months. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell reports. A sleepless night in gaza. From afar, the flashes of successive israeli air strikes in gaza city as israel stepped up its bombing campaign. And amid more and more destruction, and a mounting death toll, the un is warning of a catastrophic humanitarian situation. Over the weekend, more than 30 lorry loads of aid were allowed into gaza from egypt, carrying food, water and medicines. Its just a fraction of w
Down. Goldman says we may be stuck in this range for awhile. Lets start markets and fed today, jim, a lot of discussion about whether it would be a good idea for yellen to say lets have a presser in july on the off chance we move. We might be able to explain it better. I think that would be terrific. I think yellen has been the person who has been the least yelling. She doesnt yell. She is considered. When you have someone considered as she is. She is looking at the data. A lot of people criticize the fed. Im not going to. She is trying to arrive at the right thing. Imagine if you tighten it and they got the 38,000 number. They dont know what theyre doing. The evidence shows they do. The endless criticism of all Federal Reserves and all of Central Banks around the world bothers me. I dont think im a fan because he had to reverse rate hikes. I dont know what japan is doing. They seem erratic but im not a critic of the fed. I think the fed is trying it do it right. I think yellen will do
In europe in this early hour, this has been our focus all week as concerns about the brexit rose. Weve been looking at weakness in european stocks. You can see in early trading that most of these shares are up by 1 . Dax up by 1 . Ftse up close to that. Take a look at crude prices. Crude under pressure once again and again this morning. Wti is below 48 a barrel. Sitting at 47. 95. Brent sitting at 49. 12. Lets get you through the big stories were watching today, it is another day and yet another survey on the brexit survey. Coming from comres showing that the poll remain leads, in favor of the uk staying in the eu which is recovery from 55 reported yesterday. On some of the polls, by the way, the margin of error, on some of these, is looking like 10 . Hard to make a judgment whats going on. On the economic front, prices expected to rise. 3 . The fed announces its decision as we said 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. I laugh, because we know what the decision will be. And we will look for, as jo
Morning, the point breeze row home on the 1700 block of south taylor was fully ablaze. The arriving companies, fast, aggressive attack. Philadelphia firefighters racing against time, to douse flames and rescue elderly man reported trapped on the homes second floor. It was a laid nay car going by and kept saying oh, my god the house is on fire. Ruth heard screams and then let me look out my window. The shade up there, i seen the flames. Hours later sad to learn firefighters were unable to rescue her long time neighbor, whom she says, lived in that house for decades. The man she tells us was a loving father, and a world war ii veteran by the name of benjamin boone. Very nice person. Firefighters say, the victim was found on the first floor of the home, he would not survive. This fire ultimately brought 11 fire companies, and more than 40 firefighters and medics, other Fire Department personnel to the scene. Again, every fire death is a tragedy. Official say one key part of their probe wi