Likely a prelude to a new stage of conflict with incredibly high stakes for israel, the palestinians and for the United States and the world. Air strikes in gaza have intensified today ahead of a possible Ground Invasion intended to crush hamas. Nbcs ellison barber captured this video of a steady stream of tanks about two miles from the border with gaza. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel today reiterating the yaunts decades long and steadfast commitment to israel. Here is what he had to say about the conflict ahead. On the humanitarian situation in gaza, i think its first important to remember fundamental issue that makes this complicated. Hamas continues to use civilians as Human Shields, something thats not new, something that theyve always done, intentionally putting civilians in harms way to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. So thats one of the basic facts that israel has to deal with. Of course, civilians should
Weve got our forecast down from 1. 7 in april, down to zero point a present. We have already said risks were the downside when we made this forecast was up is down by almost one percentage point. There are number of factors, the continuing crisis in the world that we see and now of course we have the crisis in The Middle East. We have the slowdown in growth in china, we also have high Interest Rates that have continued. We see weak demand across the board for them in most sectors in most geographies. Thats why we cut the forecast. Cut the forecast. How much of this is actual cut the forecast. How much of this is actual policy . Cut the forecast. How much of this is actual policy . Were. This is actual policy . Were hearing from the west this idea of nearshore income of french or income of Rebuilding Supply Chain away from east asia for the friend sharing. How much of this is here to stay and how much of a problem is that . We saw there much of a problem is that . We saw there is much o
Pyromaniacs and saboteurs are the republican words about his colleagues responsible for removing the speak e of the house, and now furious phone calls in a fight the replace the speaker, and what we are hearing from those jumping into the race now. And reversal of President Biden now supporting a new barrier on the mexican border. A massive strike in ukraine today, and the deadliest russian strike in ukraine for over a year. Im kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, and this is cnn news central. This morning, the house is essentially frozen and unable to legi legislate, because it has no leader. The house members have gone home to their districts and that means any legislative work is stalled until the House Republicans can come together to elect a new speaker to replace Kevin Mccarthy hoohios jim jon and Steve Scalise say they will take the job, but the road to 218 votes is fraught. This is what one republican congressman told john berman last hour. If we dont change the found
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