Provisions to feed 11,000 people for one month. Washington is urging israel to do more to provide a sustained humanitarian access, and says it is deeply concerned about reports of imminent famine. Officials who called for the Rafah Crossing to be reopened as soon as possible. Egypt stopped allowing in supplies. The two countries have blamed each other for its continued closure. The us concern over the amount of aid getting into rafah has been echoed by the un. They are aid chief warmed that vernon is now an immediate threat and that un staff were struggling to help people displaced by the Israeli Offensive on the Israeli Offensive on rafah. We dont need to be a scientist to see the consequences of that lack of food. Forfamine there see the consequences of that lack of food. For famine there are a lot of medical care and nutritional care, which is the precursor to simon, kills for a disease, as well as hunger. Kills for a disease, as well as hunaer. , hunger. Our correspondent is in jer
Is planning to buy some of those apartments, relax the rules on Mortgage Borrowing and step in to put the finishing touches on unfinished units. Separately, one of those big developers, Country Garden holdings, was today given another four weeks by the high court in hong kong to sort out its 190 billion of debts before hearing a petition from debtors to wind the company up. Duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics joins us. What do you make of what weve heard today . Is it enough to contain the chinese Property Crisis . Yes, i think what weve heard today is from various officials, its helpful, but its probably not a panacea. So, you are right, there are moves to boost Housing Demand through easing mortgage terms, allowing people to borrow more, lowering Interest Rates and that should boost Housing Demand but a lot of that will go into the second hand Housing Market where there is a big overhang. The second big policy is allowing governments, especially local gov
To texas. Joining me now is erin delmore, our north America Business correspondent. We should stress that he is not talking about whether shareholders support the move and the paid package, but actually whether she can get a request It Percentage of shareholders to a ballot. What is that about . Shareholders to a ballot. What is that about . ,. ,. , that about . You are right. There are two issues here, that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting people that about . You are right. There are two issues here, getting people to l two issues here, getting people to vote, and getting people to vote at all. Shareholders approve this pay deal back in 2018. It was losing money back then. Now the company has a market value of nearly 570 billion dollars. Their argument is that they set these lofty targets that the company tied to mask s pay. They say he deserves the pay but a judge in delaware said that the process
Track on the mining industry. The founder and chairman of one of the Worlds Largest Mining Companies Vedanta Resources willjoin us. Well get his thoughts on the Trump Presidency, and likely drivers for Commodity Prices this year. And we also want to know your thoughts are you optimistic or pessimistic about the new leader of the free worlds economic plans . Will it be a trumpjump or a bump . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Or 0rdump or dump welcome to the programme. Lots going on, weve got that friday feeling. Later today donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Lets be frank. The Billionaire Businessman has gone from long shot candidate to the leader of worlds biggest economy in just a year and a half. His supporters will now be hoping that he can shake up the us economy in the same way the he shook up the president ial race. Lets ta ke lets take a look at some of the details that we know. He has promised to create 25 million jobs over ten years, and