Welcome to the programme, im lewis vaughanjones. You join us as Significant Development have been taking place, in the last hour or so, we heard from the idf, a spokesperson, saying backGround Forces are expanding their operations tonight. And we have seen an intensification of airstrikes on gaza. First thing we are going to do is show you the live pictures we have, these are the feeds coming in, this is gaza which over the last few has reported increasing bombardment and an intensification of airstrikes. The other thing to tell you about gaza tonight is that communications have been cut, the internet seems to be down, telecommunications down, potentially as a result there was airstrikes but we do not know for certain why. But we do not know for certain why. But we have now got numerous reports that the communications within gaza are down. We also have another live feed from gaza to show you as well. We are keeping across these two live feeds for you as the airstrikes from israel into
For Public Services or pensions. So that was the chancellor on National Insurance and interestingly when asked about another tax increase we have seen, the freezing of thresholds, its quite complicated but as peoples salaries go complicated but as peoples salaries 9 up, complicated but as peoples salaries go up, and you pay certain levels of tax and it is frozen, when salaries go tax and it is frozen, when salaries 9 up tax and it is frozen, when salaries go up people are paying more tax and that looks to what has been leading to fiscal drag. He did not commit the chancellor to unfreezing those thresholds any earlier than 2028 which is the current projected plan. That will lead some to suggest that the tax cutting is a bit selective when it comes to the conservative but the key thing the chancellor was trying to do was set eight a Dividing Line for the election and he produced this document claiming labour would have to increase tax because of a spending commitment. Weve been through i
Moment. Lets start by bringing you these latest pictures weve just had in from the reuters news agency. These strikes were last night. These are the scenes immediately after those moments. So many times actually we see pictures of skylines. This on the ground giving you an idea of what they are actually dealing with. You can see Palestinian Health and rescue teams operating here. In the next piece second, you will see another strike back hunting. Few seconds. That was the moment of the second strike. They are still trying to ascertain in terms of numbers of casualties. This is one of a number of strikes overnight by the israelis. We know those have continued in terms of gaza health officials. They say overnight 324 people have died in the last 24 hours, another 1000 wounded. According to other reports, those amongst the fatalities include 126 children and 88 women. Some of the latest pictures coming into us from the reuters news agency. In terms of the major developments, lets spend th
Well. How it the euro is performing. We are at one dollar 1016. The emergency button. We are trading 2 lower. In terms of concern. It has been seen as a haven. I want to look at the u. S. That. Money u. S. Debt. Money moving into treasuries this morning. Chinese bonds have been rallying. Similar in japan and germany. We are looking for that safety right now. Money tentatively starting to go back into italy. Hope that we might see some sort of deal struck in greece. Finance ministers talking about all of this. Let us look quickly at all of the stocks. Barclays up 2. 6 . Euphoria potentially did when barkley comes out with his earnings, it may benefit. Potentially more restructuring to come. John mcfarlane immediately making this changes, deciding to get rid of the chief executive Antony Jenkins. He will be the interim ceo. This particular drug maker higher. Done by 3 . Down by 3 . They reduce their forecast for organic sales for the year. Downgrading their forecast. Down goes the stock,