Elsewhere in the territory. The Israeli Military had previously urged civilians to go there but now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has approved plans for an assault on hamas militants believed to be based there. The un issued this warning. The consequences of a Ground Operation in the current circumstances would be catastrophic for the people of gaza, for the palestinians. Catastrophic for the humanitarian situation. It would be catastrophic all round. The us is one of israels most important supporters but it seems that the Israeli Government has not shared details of the planned assault on gaza with officials in washington. Heres Us National Security council spokesman, john kirby. We have not seen it. We certainly welcome the opportunity to see it. As i said, we cannot support a major offence in rafah the doesnt also include a credible, achievable an executable plan to take care of the safety and security of malt in a million gazans. To move on right now in a major way wit
hello from the bbc sport centre, i m delyth lloyd. let s start at the australian open, where there s been plenty of drama on day nine in melbourne. not so much though for the number two seed carlos alcaraz, who eased through to the quarter finals with a commanding display on the rod laver arena. the wimbledon champion lostjust eight games on his way to beating miomir kecmanovic of serbia in straight sets. it is great to find this level, to play this level in the matches, on the court, i am feeling better and better every day, i m feeling better every match that i am playing, coming into the quarterfinal with a lot of confidence. and in that quarter final, alcaraz will face the sixth seed alexander zverev, who was taken to a fifth set tie break by the 19th seed cameron norrie. the british number one twice came from behind to force a decider but it was zverev who booked his place in the last eight, sealing the tie break10 3. despite the loss, though, norrie remains optimistic.
await today s opinion. shannon bream is standing by outside the court. hi, shannon. this is it, dana and bill. we re down to the wire. we know the student loan cases are coming today and know the case on the colorado web designer the free speech issue is coming today as well. the question continues to be does it punted get to an issue of standing. they talked about whether these parties, the group of states, red states that brought the case and borrowers who brought a separate case that they joined together at the court, do they either one of them have the right legal posture to be the ones to have the case heard? it was a lot of doubt. not just the left leaning justices. do they get to the merits of the case? i feel like because they ve held it to the last day my gut says they should have gotten to the merits. they ve taken a long time. we would expect they do. we ll know within moments. the first case it looks like that we have is the colorado web designer. the web design
this is gps , the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live. we ll begin today s program with the stunning developments in russia over the last few days. i ll be joined by top analysts who will help us understand what is happened so far and what might happen next and what is all means for the war in ukraine. also, french president emmanuel macron. i talk to him at a global summit he hosted in paris this week about how the west could help end extreme poverty and curb climate change. and about the striking rise of china and the potential of a thaw in its relations with the u.s. it is been an extraordinary 48 hours in russia as the world watched what president putin called an armed rebellion. the rebel leader prigozhin was the top caterer before he threw away his kitchen apron and now wears military fatigues as the head of wagner group which has provided mercenaries in africa and the midd
from £1,900 a year or so tojust £1,620 from april. that s a fall of more than £300 a year, or 16%. just a reminder, 0fgem sets this cap every three months, it s the maximum suppliers can charge per unit and these figures represent a typical bill if you use more, you pay more. we spoke to dr craig lowrey from cornwall insight and asked him why the situation in the middle east isn t pushing up energy prices. the situation we have is that the uk market and indeed the european market is being relatively well supplied by liquefied natural gas cargoes from america, so that is just coming straight across the atlantic and, as a consequence, what is occurring in the red sea isn t currently affecting uk or european suppliers. energy, of course, plays a big role in that basket of goods that adds up to inflation. this good news obviously, does this look like the cost of living is starting to ease now? can i tell my wife she can put the heating back on? well, certainly what we saw wh