Good afternoon. Water companies in england and wales have been ordered to repay nearly £158 Million to their customers. The Regulator Ofwat says its because the firms have failed to meet performance targets such as cutting Sewage Spills and leaks. Some future Water Bills will be reduced to reflect the missed targets. Our Environment Correspondent Jonah Fisher reports. A warning this report contains flashing images. This Report Card does not make pleasant reading for the Water Companies. Targets for reducing leaks are not being hit, the number of Pollution Incidents has hardly changed in the last five years and Customer Satisfaction has continued to fall. Three Water Companies anglian, southern and welsh are rated bottom of the class. The others are just average, with none rated in the top category. So we think the sector suffers from a culture of poor performance, that companies are not taking responsibility for their performance. They are too often blaming the weather or the circumst
Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with breaking news, a brandnew Jobs Report beating expectations. The government reporting employers added 254,000 jobs in september, thats well above the 150,000 predicted by most economists. The Unemployment Rate fell slightly to 4. 1 . And when you break it down by race, both the black and hispanic Unemployment Rates fell by. 4 last month. There you see the drop. This report comes hours after Port Workers and Port Operators along the East And Gulf coasts reached a tentative deal to end a strike that began on tuesday. That walkout threatened to bring chaos at the start of the holiday shopping season. With us now, cnbcs dominic chu. Dom, good morning. This was a strong Jobs Report. What else did we learn from it . Good morning, jose. Yes, it stands in stark contrast, this Jobs Report, what we saw the previous month, which got read as a very big at least disappointment. What we did note beyond
International aid agencies say they are struggling to contact their teams inside gaza after most Communication Networks were cut overnight. The Un General Assembly adopts a resolution, put forward by arab countries, calling for a humanitarian truce. Hello, im anna foster, this is bbc news. Were live in Southern Israel, near the gaza border, where theres been a significant intensification of israeli air strikes over gaza. There is so much smoke and fog on the line where you can normally see the line where you can normally see the Apartment Buildings in the distance, it has now been almost obliterated by fog and you can smell the smoke in the air and you can hear regularly the sound of mortars, Artillery Fire, as the bombardment by Israeli Forces of the gaza strip continues. It has been a real intensification in the last 2a hours Orso Intensification in the last 2a hours or so last night where there were bright flashes and they lit up the sky above gaza. In the israeli army have said thi
Im anna foster. Were live in Southern Israel, near the gaza border, where theres been a significant intensification of israeli airstrikes over gaza, with bright flashes and huge explosions overnight lighting up the night sky above the territory. It comes after the israeli army said that it was expanding its Ground Operations there. It comes after the israeli army said that it was expanding its Ground Operations there. A spokesman for the Israeli Government would not confirm that this heralded the start of a much anticipated Ground Offensive against hamas. The armed wing of hamas, which is a proscribed Terror Organisation by the uk and the usa, has said it is involved in violent confrontations with Israeli Forces in northern and central gaza. There has also been rocket fire from the territory into Southern Israel. This is the scene live in gaza. The United Nations has warned of what it described as an unprecedented avalanche of Human Suffering there and the Un General Assembly called fo
Bowen joins us from jerusalem. Your assessment, jeremy, after the last few hours of what we might expect in the coming hours and days . Well, hamas say that they are fighting against israeli troops and tanks in the northern part of the gaza strip, that there are some big battles going on there. One big question, is this the invasion people have been talking about for the last three weeks . I think what the last three weeks . I think what the israelis seem to be doing is to cut off one northern part, one slice, one tranche, if you like, and then perhaps, i dont know, move on from that. A lot of reaction coming in. The Palestinian Authority, which is the rival Palestinian Group to hamas, is absolutely condemned what israel is doing as unhinged aggression, which is significant, because there are some people who hope that if israel removes hamas from power, then the Palestinian Authority might be tempted to take Overin Authority might be tempted to take over in gaza. At the way they are ta