Mentation is going to radically improve this case has been a lifesaver. Im our Life Signs in rehoboth beach, delaware. And this is cnn you are in the cnN Newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im Jessica Dean in New York, and we have a Breaking News in the Israel Hamas War He Israeli Military issuing a rare announcement, their forces have discovered a number of bodies in the gaza strip, moments ago, President Biden acknowledged the discovery to reporters. Now thIs News has prompted the hostage and hostages and missing Families Forum in israel. To call for the public to mobilize, to pressure the netanyahu government to reach an agreement on a Hostage And Ceasefire deal. There are currently 107 total hostages living and dead are still being held in gaza. That is, according to israel and the Hostage Forum see Cnn International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is In Jerusalem and nick, its been several hours now since the idf put out what youve categorized and explained as a very rarE Statement, what more
Economy and help families with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. Ben king reports. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means Better Health care services. Itsjust much more important. I would prefer not to have a tax cut, but to see more money invested in the community. If the Public Services were properly organised, theres more than enough money to do it
And extend their lead at the top. In the womens super league, Everton Score a cracker against Manchester City. Also coming up on sportsday. Well have all the latest at the World Athletics Indoor Championships as home Favouritejemma Reekie makes it through to the 800m final. Hello there, and welcome along to the programme. A day of drama in the football to come, but we start with formula one, and the season opening bahrain grand prix. With all the drama off the track for red bull, the team and defending champion Max Verstappen picked up where they left off last season. Verstappen leading his teammate in a dominant win. Our correspondent laura scott reports. If there is one person keen to get a grip on the narrative, it is christian horner, having spent weeks denying allegations of inappropriate behaviour, he arrived for the first race flanked by his wife and former spice girl geri horner. A display of unity in the desert amid the drama. It is light out and away we go who better to diffu
been diagnosed with cancer and is postponing public duties. he left the hospital a week ago after treatment for an enlarged prostate. joining us is nbc s molly hunter. i understand the palace has just released a statement. what are they saying? chris, that s right. we just got the statement. i m just reading it for the first time as well. the big thing to understand, as you know, we covered the king s health scare last week which was really presented as a routine procedure. he was only in the hospital for three nights. he was in the london clinic right here in central london. right now we have the statement from buckingham palace. it says during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate enlargement of owes that s what we knew. we knew he had gone into the hospital for what he and the palace called a routine procedure. a separate issue of concern was noted. subsequent diagnostic tests have identified a form of cancer. this is coming directly from buckingham pa
of 3.3% in the last three months of 2023 much stronger than expected. that s raised hopes that the us federal reserve might have achieved a soft landing getting inflation under control by raising borrowing costs without crashing the economy. the strong economic numbers helped stoke an ongoing rally on us stock markets. both the dowjones industrial average and s&p 500 closed at new record highs on thursday. and traders weren t the only ones celebrating. the gdp figures have been seized upon by president biden, who is battling for re election. he s been suffering poor approval ratings for his handling of the economy, as american households feel the impact of higher prices on their finances. from new york, here s michelle fleury. for an economy many said was headed for recession, the us continues to defy expectations. in the final three months of last year, the american economy grew faster than expected, expanding at an annual rate of 3.3% while inflation fell. growth for th