with israel warning ofan impending ground offensive. more than than half of gaza s population now lives in rafah. the potentialfor a ground campaign has sparked alarm from israel s allies, including the us. as the king and i discussed today, the united states is working on a hostage deal between israel and hamas, which would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm to gaza for at least six weeks, which we could then take the time to build something more enduring. nearly 100,000 people have been killed, injured orare missing. the majority are women and children. we cannot afford an israeli attack on rafah. it is certain to produce another humanitarian catastrophe. the situation is already unbearable for over a million people who have been pushed into rafah since the war started. we cannot stand by and let this continue. we need a lasting ceasefire now. this war must end. for more analysis on king abdullah s visit to washington, here s our north america correspondent nom
what do you think is happening to jobs and wages in the uk? i m excited to see the numbers today. on the surface, it looks like a tie market and a healthy market but underneath is really what the question is and i think there s a couple of things going on. the waters are pretty murky right now for employers. you ve got political and economic uncertainty and that will be in the job numbers as well. you are getting a lot of cross currents. we are definitely seeing a pull back in hiring, pretty broad based across the economy but at the same time you see hiring numbers increasing. there is a lot of hiring going on in skill short areas and people are continuing to go after the skills they need. and after this there s a couple of areas where we are seeing wages come down, there s always a couple of months lag in wages from the inflation rates so we ve been seeing that as we would expect. say you are suggesting there is no wages headache the bank of england? i no wages headache the