The Israeli Defence force say they have struck over 100 military targets overnight and killed a senior commander. Militants have continued to fire rockets into israel, towards tel aviv and other areas in the south. The World Health Organization has condemned israels Evacuation Order. It says forcing Hospital Patients to relocate would be a death sentence. President biden has spoken with the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, and urged him to provide safety for civilians amid the bombardment. Diplomatic efforts to prevent the violence from spreading have been stepped up, with mr biden s secretary of state, antony blinken, visiting cairo. Hes expected to press egyptian officials to restart talks on getting aid into gaza through the Border Crossing. The us is sending a second Aircraft Carrier to the eastern mediterranean, near israel. The Uss Eisenhower will lead a group of ships aimed at deterring further attacks against israel, in particularfrom iran or the Lebanese Militant Gr
Its newsday. Singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsda. ,. , its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in israel, where we begin our programme, as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, hundreds of thousands, on the southern border with gaza, the widespread expectation that a Ground Offensive across the frontier maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. This follows the unprecedented attack, five days ago, in israel, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel, and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1,200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestinians have been killed in retaliatory israeli air strikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, ru
Its seven in the morning in singapore, and two am in israel where we begin our programme as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, Hundreds Of Thousands, on the southern border with gaza. The widespread expectation, that a ground offensive, across the frontier, maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. It follows the unprecedented attack five days ago on the country, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestineans have been killed in retaliatory israeli airstrikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf. But we begin with a report from our International Edi
Area and look at this, a much different sort of negotiation, something we have not seen during any of the other ongoing protests at college campuses. Reporter in a first of its kind negotiation, encampment protesters here at sf state sat down with the universitys president to share their demands with her in person and also get her response in realtime. Its a negotiation that lasted just around a half hour and was attended by hundreds of students here on campus. Id like to give a very warm welcome and thank you to our San Francisco State University president , lynn mahoney. Reporter sitting face to face just feet apart surrounded by students, faculty, and media, pro palestinian student protesters who set up the encampment in the middle of San Francisco states campus laid out their demands to sfsu president lynn mahoney. We are students. We are faculty. We are staff demanding for the csu and sf State University to divest from all companies in partnership which actively participate in the
Struggle to revive downtown and new numbers show bay area tourism is still lagging behind. Good afternoon. The news comes as Governor Newsom said tourism and tourist spend 150 billion last year which is an alltime high for tourism spending in the state but here it is a different story. Visit california said tourists spent 2. 7 billion less in 2023 and they spent four years ago and the three counties that see the most have yet to make it back to prepandemic levels and taurus spend 14 billion compared to 14. 2 billion back in 2019. Businesses see the impact and here this cafe said they are surviving and not thriving and they say business was down about 25 when compared to 2019 and they are not alone. Many Small Businesses complained they are recovering from the pandemic. You need people coming through the door to survive and when they dont come, it is hard to keep the doors open. The owner said his tour bus business is down 40 in 2023 compared to 2019. Industry leaders blame a drop in in