good to have you with us. right now the second in person summit of the quad is under way in tokyo. leaders of the informal alliance of the u.s., japan, australia and india are now holding talks one on one. u.s. president biden has been meeting with indian prime minister. also expected to speak with australia s new prime minister. one key focus of all these meetings, russia s war on ukraine. russia s assault on ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. fundamental principles of international order. territorial integrity and sovereignty. international law, human rights, must always be defended. regardless of where they are violated in the world. so the quad has a lot of work ahead of us. this caps off his trip to asia in attempt to bolster u.s. alliances in the region. and counter china s growing dominance. the visit hasn t been without controversy. the white house is walking back biden s comments that the u.s. would be willing to defend taiwan militarily if chi
market. major industries in the mud yesterday part of a week-long slide chipping away at your retirement funds, 401k coming off the worst quarter since the start of the pandemic. dana: adding insult to injury the price of gas hitting another all-time high. $4.41 a gallon right now. close to $6 in some states. bill: president biden blaming these issues on just about everything and everyone from climate change to covid but according to larry kudlow it s time to take a look in the mirror. president biden should start to own this problem. the blame game doesn t work. it is not working for him. ordinary working folks don t buy into the blame game at all. you are in an emergency inflation crisis. and so you have to start taking emergency action. peter doocy rocks off the show report being live from the north lawn this morning. good morning, peter. good morning. we have new insight this morning from inside the white house. we know more this morning about how the president
Minister xijinping outlining the countrys to ties. Ahead of an election year, labours keir starmer sets out his partys key messages. Hello, im Annita Mcveigh welcome to bbc news now, 3 hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. South africa has filed an urgent request to the International Court of Human Justice in the request to the International Court of humanjustice in the hague request to the International Court of Human Justice in the hague asking that the court all delete in order israel to halt its offensive in rafah and do more to protect its civilians in gaza. In its findings, south africa described rafah as a last refuge for palestinians in gaza and said israels assault on a population meant that new measures needed. It is the latest intervention by the South African Government and its legal case against israel. It argues that on top of direct military attacks, israel is starving palace unions in gaza by Obstructing Access To Food and fuel and medicines. Israel, meanw
All right. The break news over just the last several minutes. New israeli air strikes in Northern Gaza, and you can see the smoke rising over that part of the region, and now if you are looking at gaza, this is where the air strikes have been taking place, but here, down to The Rafah Crossing in the extreme southern border of gaza and egypt, our cameraman has been seeing the critical aid crossing from egypt into gaza. Six u. N. Fuel trucks entering at that border, and that is a major development. Southern gaza is also where israel has told more than 1 million palestinians to move from Northern Gaza into Southern Gaza, and this is where israel says they will be safer, kate. It is happening as the u. S. Secretary of state tony blinken is back in israel today. He has been in the region traveling all throughout the region for days now, and we are standing by to see if blinken is going to speak to reporters now, and the critical update given the news that we are giving, and this and the sob