Home. A service was held. Our middle East Correspondent Lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. Lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, Israels Army says they were shot by hamas in a Tunnel Under Rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, ori danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, theyve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her Cousin Today inconsolable. Its too late for us. Its too late for carmel. I will never hug her again. But 101 people can still hug theirfamilies. For them, make the deal. Save lives. As pressure on israels Prime Minister builds, today, he blamed hamas for the failure to fre
Lauren i know, it was a rough one. It is worst day since june. Take a look. There is the damage. The dow retreating from that 29,000 level. At one point it was down 1026 points. So i guess being down 810 is good news . The nasdaq and s p 500 also retreating from record closes. All 11 sectors in the red. Tech and consumer stocks hit the worst. The reason, look, guys, there is a lot. Uncertainty over timing of an effective vaccine. Profittaking ahead of a long holiday weekend. September really living up to its reputation as the worst month of the year historically. Let me show you what weighed the most on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Apple, sales force, microsoft. Along with amgen and home depot. Shaving some 400 points off the bluechip average. On nasdaq which snapped a fourday winning streak. Amd, nvidia, tesla, all of them are lockdown winners. Nvidia doubling this year. Tesla up almost 400 this year. After todays drop it is down 20 in the just the past three days. Were seeing mo
Couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show presents, the Democratic National convention. Electing americas first black president s friend. Trevor the final night of the Democratic National convention gave air time to rising democratic politicians who hadnt made appearances yet, from pete buttigieg, to tammy duckworth, to keisha lance bottoms. Everyone got a chance to speak. They also made space for michael bloomberg, democratic sugar daddy and bruce wayne who never became batman. Bloomberg used his speech to continue his yearslong beef with donald trump, and then apparently, started a new beef with a fly. And some people wondered why bloomberg didnt swat the fly away, but in his defense, bloomberg has probably never even seen a fly. He only knows about richpeople insects, like junebugs and goldplated beetles. But you see, my friends, this is what happens when you remove steve bannon from the ecosphere. He stops eating flies, and they immediately get out of c
Into our freedom the Chinese Party getting into strength and Services Also pushes the french print past expectations retail rebound uk sales urge past expectations in june as the lockdown lifts while the uk starts to enforce new rules on face coverings. European stocks struggle after chip maker issue earnings dpi guidance and delay the launch of a key next generation product a very warm welcome to street signs. A big day in terms of data we have the flash pmi coming through. Weve heard from germany and france better than expected now we have the eurozones overall for the region the flash composite up from 54. 8 we cross into growth territory we look at the breakdown and the flash manufacturing pmi that has come in at 51. 1 versus 47 in june on the services side, the pmi has surged to 55. 1 up from 48. 3 in june. So a big, big step higher in terms of the overall numbers for the eurozone that is reflecting strength in germany and france lets get out to williamson. The organization that p