Thousands on the blink of famine in somalia. And Atletico Madrid with a little revenge, beating real to win the spanish super cup welcome to the programme. The palestinian president , Mahmoud Abbas, is calling for the resumption of peace talks with israel. They broke down last week, leading to the resumption of host ilties after a weeklong ceasefire. Mahmoud abbas will submit a draft resolution to the arab league. Translation who concerns us at the moment is to put an end to the bloodshed, any act that costs us more sacrifices. Once that happens, the humanitarian rebuilding efforts must start. In other words, the same day the ceasefire comes into effect relief aid, food and medical supplies spontaneously with the rebuilding efforts under international sponsorship. There has been continued fighting in gaza. With the five killed in one israeli strike. Israelis Officials Say more than 80 rockets were fired on thursday. Now we have the announcement from the palestinian president seeking mo
The streets of the capital bangkok. Jacob zuma is sworn in as south africas president for the second time. And preparing for the pope. Jordan welcomes pope francis on his first trip to the middle east. Im wayne reporting from new zealand where a maori tribe is trying to find a use for one of its products. Breaking news coming from the somali capital mogadishu. Latest reports suggest that there have been several explosions outside the Parliament Building in mogadishu. Heavy gunfire has been reported. Witnesses spoke of rebels appearing to launch an attack during a parliamentary session. Now, we understand that alshabab, the militant group, is behind the attack. Lets speak to our correspondent who jones us on the line from joins us on the line from mogadishu. Tell us what is going on at the moment. There has been an exchange of gun fire between alshabab inside the Parliament Building. And how long has this been going on. How many people have died. We are hearing of their being four bodie
Reacting. Ukraines government calls a daylong ceasefire to let crash investigators to reach the site of the Malaysia Airlines disaster. Hey, look, no hands. How Driverless Cars could be about to motor away in the u. K. Welcome to the programme. Lets start with developments in the conflict areas of the gaza strip , and the Israeli Government threatening to destroy all crossborder tunnels regardless of a ceasefire. Israel called up more reservists and requested military resupplies from the united states. Israels Prime Minister held a meeting of the security cabinet and made it clear that they were determined that the offensive will continue. It is continuing. These are live pictures from gaza. Day 24 of the offensive, and diplomatic efforts to end have stalled. The cost of it all is in human lives. That is rising. This was the result of an Early Morning strike on a house in gaza city. It wounded several palestinians and left a crater filled with debris. Lets join diplomatic editor james
Factors into all of that the q4 Consumer Spending looking odd on a day when the nasdaq is posting a new 52week low. Last year, the encouragement was everybody get out and buy your stuff early because supplies are uncertain. This year, it seems like retailers are trying to get people spending early because theyre not sure if theyre going to spend later, even though theres actually oversupply in some cases yeah, and that sort of estimate from adobe shows people are getting out and spending you saw that number higher that doesnt say anything about the uncertainty that were going to face for the rest of the Holiday Season when consumers are still facing higher gas prices, higher home prices, higher rent, higher food prices so will those discounts lure them back in this is certainly something we have been asking for a while now. How is that going to weigh on the bottom line. We just heard from courtney reagan, that was interesting how is the consumer heading into this Holiday Season, yes, s
[ music ] a new ceasefire was reached in gaza, israelis in palestine yans agree to begin palestinians agree to begin another cae fire today at ceasefire today at 5 00 pm. Let turn to Jane Ferguson in west jerusalem, can you tell us the details of how the latest temporary deal was reached . Well, its a surprise to some on the ground. This morning, after the Israeli Cabinet meeting heard stronger talk. Basically Binyamin Netanyahu saying that they would not be coming back to cairo for the talks unless there was a cessation of violence, rockets, coming out of gaza. During the cabinet meeting, members had called for an escalation, an increase in Israeli Operations in gaza, some calling for a full occupation. Its been a dramatic day. Theres no confirmed reports as to how this came about. We know that the egyptians have been hosting and shuffling between the two. The egyptians have a pump card when it comes to pressuring hamas in the palestinians, because of the rafah boarder crossing with e