begin with developing news from the middle east. the syrian army says israel has struck a number of targets in homs province north of lebanon. state media said they shot down several missile the syrian observatory for human rights put the number of dead at four. since the war in gaza broke out in october, israel has escalated attacks on what it says are iranian backed mischa targets. we ll have more as it develops. hamas says it has given approval for a ceasefire hamas says it has given approvalfor a ceasefire in approval for a ceasefire in gaza. approvalfor a ceasefire in gaza. details have not been released but there are reports that there are be a truce in exchange for return of israeli prisoners. here s a little of antony blinken s statement. we had meetings already on this trip in riyadh. in cairo, and now today in doha, focused on ensuring that we can use any pause. to continue to build out plans for the day after in gaza, security humanitarian, all bringing challenges
game. we begin with the high-stakes summit where nato leaders are discussing a possible place for ukraine in the alliance s future. kevin corke has all the latest developments including what is upsetting ukraine s president. kevin: as you know from your time covering previous nato summit, there are lots are one-on-one breakouts of the sidelines. so this is hardly novel. but very few in recent memory will be as anticipated as the one that is set for tomorrow between president zelenskyy and our own president biden. the meeting comes against a backdrop of controversy given by the prophets recent decision to send cluster munitions to the war-torn country which a number of nato members have effectively banned because of concerns over the weapon s ability to harm civilians. the audience comes after mr. biden said ukraine was not ready for nato membership. so if you have been following the story for a while, that means reading which has finally cleared its last hurdle to receive n
way it. this shocking new video out of colorado is the latest example of employees being scolded or even fired for tryin to stop brazen thieves. this isn t good. really, you ve got to resort to that. the economy is not that bad. they recorded this video i kings supermarket in colorado. santino borello filmed this, stealing hundreds of dollars of laundry detergent. he said supermarket policy prohibits employees from physically engaging with thieves , although he says he just filmed them and dad did no touch them. i would never let any criminal conducts like him especially if it s happening right in front of me. hopefully this changes the shoplifting policy and gives power back to retailers like myself. since this video the driver in the green shirt was arrested. the police are looking for the other two men who go by the names robert and in a statement the grocery stores at the disappointment by the increased level of crime bu is unable to comment on persona matters a
designed to restrict china s ability to buy high tech microchips and it is now considering an executive order to curb us investment in sensitive areas. but ms yellen told her chinese counterparts that any such measures will be highly targeted. i that any such measures will be highly targeted. highly targeted. i emphasise that it would highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly - that it would be highly targeted and clearly directed narrowly at a few sectors where we have specific national security concerns. i want to allay their fears that we would do something that would have broad based impacts on the chinese economy. that is not the case. that is not the intention. and i think this is an example of what i said about how to address national security concerns. a, how to address national security concerns. a senior market analyst security concerns. a senior market analyst told - security concerns. a senior market
we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale