Is preparing to set sail for gaza along a new maritime aid corridor. Its been loaded with around 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies. But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few hours. Well, weve done truckloads of food through the rafah crossing. Weve done airdrops with thejordanian army. This is the next step into providing
In the 90s and early 00s. Now this comes hot on the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday showing exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic. Global demand for chinese made goods is falling, down more 14 in the year tojuly. But domestic demand is down too with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Earlier, i spoke to janet mui, whos the head of Market Analysis at rbc brewin dolphin, and she explained where the deflation was coming from. Deflation data, basically mostly coming from food prices and also commodities prices like raw materials, energy, etc. Actually, if you look at the underlying inflation, things like services, things like tourism, leisure, hotels, actually they are up. The Core Inflation is up from 0. 4 to 0. 8 , but obviously its still pretty muted. So overall, i think it is a concern that china prices are contracting and it could be lasting for a while as well. How likely do you think it is, though, that china is going to be
In the 90s and early noughties. This comes hot off the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday showing exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic. Global demand for chinese made goods is falling down more 14 in the year tojuly. But domestic demand is down, too, with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Earlier, i spoke to janet mui, whos the head of Market Analysis at rbc brewin dolphin, and she explained where the deflation was coming from. Deflation data, basically mostly coming from food prices and also commodities prices like raw materials, energy, etc. Actually, if you look at the underlying inflation. Things like services, things like tourism, leisure, hotels, actually they are up. The Core Inflation is up from 0. 4 to 0. 8 , but obviously its still pretty muted. So overall, i think it is a concern that china prices are contracting and it could be lasting for a while as well. How likely do you think it is, though, that china is going to
Good evening and welcome to politics nation. 2024. We are a couple of hours out from tonights Academy Awards in hollywood. We are awaiting the Biden Versus Trump action franchise to premier. With the president and his predecessor for the day to primary. I have my own awards to hand out. The best actor has to go to Congressional Republicans where they act like they care about the issues theyve been crying over. From the southern border to inflation. That is because they are taking cues from best director. Another easy choice in 2024. Who gave the best performances out of the worst actors. Even if it is not what the public wants to see. Just as the best award is for the producers, the best this year has been the president. They have actually produced something. A far better picture than what trump and the gop have to offer. That leads me to the last category, the best screenplay. Biden versus trump sequel will not be finished for another eight months. As the nation finishes the final dra
of extreme weather, heat alerts are stretching from california to texas and parts of south florida as well. while in the northeast, a state of emergency. in vermont, the capitol city devastated by flooding there with some people still stranded in their homes. and then new this morning, what we know about the fourth migrant child to die while in u.s. custody. we begin this hour, though, with a war in ukraine taking center stage at the nato summit in lithuania. later today, the president will give a major speech on the u.s. support of ukraine and the actions that world leaders are taking to address global challenges. just last hour, the president sat down with ukraine s president zelenskyy for their third face to face meeting this year. while ukraine will not become a nato member right now, ukrainian leader is coming away with a series of security guarantees announced by nato and g-7 leaders and this assurance from the u.s. president. we re going to make sure you get what y