Iam not i am not asking this court to say whether the Prime Ministers assessment is correct or incorrect. The relevance is that they are strong evidence to be added to the material referred to by the inner house as to the Prime Ministers motive in trying to close parliament for five weeks during this negotiating period. The other point i want to make on the facts is that it is, we say, a remarkable feature of these proceedings that the Prime Minister has not made a witness statement explaining why he decided to advise her majesty to Prorogue Parliament for a period as long as five weeks. And that is even though we made very clear in commencing these proceedings that an important pa rt of these proceedings that an important part of our case is that the Prime Ministers advice to her majesty was motivated, or at least strongly influenced, by the Prime Ministers desire to prevent the risk, as he saw it, of parliament damaging government policy. And we set that out in our statement of facts
Shares in Germanys Thyssenkrupp surge after theyre set to buy them. They go wild for hasboros purchase of pep pa pig at a huge premium. And g7 leaders prepare to meet in france with the summit unlikely to end with a formal communique for the first time in its 44 year history fed chair Jerome Powell is set to address the group at jackson hole later on today. The fomc minutes released this week showed members remained divided over a decision to lower rates by a quarter percentage point but policy makers agreed that the move should not be seen as a signal that rates are on a preset course. Now this morning in europe were seeing stocks move higher as investors await this key speech from the Federal Reserve chairman at jackson hole we have the ftse 100 up 0. 6 the dax up a third of a percentage point and the cac and the italian index also moving higher and in italy were all watching Political Developments there. The president has given the Political Parties until tuesday to try to get toget
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We start with the latest on the Israel Gaza War. The United Nations Security Council has been discussing calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in gaza. Its Secretary General warned that the situation there has reached a dangerous new low, as israel prepares for a Ground Offensive. Its a week ago today that hamas a group designated as a Terror Organisation by many western governments launched its attack on israel. During the night the Israeli Military continued, as you can see from these pictures, to hit targets from the air. The Israel Defence forces also released this video of air strikes on what it says are anti tank Missile Launchers in gaza. The army also confirmed it has carried out localised raids inside gaza ahead of its expected Ground Offensive. Officials say the raids were to eliminate the threat of terrorist cells and infrastructure. In other developments, the United Nations estimates than Tens Of Thousands in gaza have fled after the israeli evacuation warning. The original de
Thousands of people have already left, those who remain have been told there are two safe routes to the south, one to the centre of the gaza strip and one along the coast. They have been told to move south. Israeli troops say they are preparing to hunt down and destroy hamas, which is regarded as a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. There are reports that hamas commander, who led the attack, is already dead. Officials say at least 2215 people have been killed so far in an israeli air strikes on gaza. Limited rates have already taken place and there are reports that bodies of some israeli hostages had been recovered. Those reports earlier in the media today. Later the Israeli Defence force denied that those that the hostages were snatched a week ago by hamas militants in raids which left this is the scene. 1300 people killed. There are tanks amassing on the boundary between gaza and israel. We have been watching these images for the last hour or so and ha