To help priced out renters find somewhere to live . In sport, theres no stopping liverpool as they hit five in europe against Sparta Prague including a stunner from in form darwin nunez. Including a stunner good morning. A good deal of dry weather on the cards today, some will say sunshine but they will be a cold easterly wind blowing. I will have all the details for today and for the weekend throughout the programme. Its friday the 8th of march. President joe biden has used his state of the Union Address to criticise donald trump his likely opponent in the election and to claim that freedom and democracy are under assault around the world. President biden also announced that the us military will construct a port in gaza to allow the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the territory. Tonight, im directing the us military to lead an Emergency Mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine a
Officials, so it was quite a target for opponents to a match. Several explosive laden drones hit the building just after the ceremony had finished. And just after the Defence Minister had left and caused terrible carnage, there is thought to be Something Like 1a of the 100 plus people who sadly died were thought to be civilians. Plus people who sadly died were thought to be civilians. There was a time when we thought to be civilians. There was a time when we used thought to be civilians. There was a time when we used to thought to be civilians. There was a time when we used to report thought to be civilians. There was a time when we used to report on thought to be civilians. There was a i time when we used to report on Drone Strikes in syria with much more frequency. How unusual is this latest attack . It frequency. How unusual is this latest attack . Frequency. How unusual is this latest attack . It is quite unusual. There was so latest attack . It is quite unusual. There was so much
And coming up on bbc news arsenal drop points in the race for the Premier League title after losing to aston villa. They are now two points behind manchester city. Good afternoon. Israels war cabinet is meeting now to discuss options for retaliation against iran after its drone and Missile Attacks on saturday night. Israel says 99 of the iranian weapons were safely intercepted. One senior israeli minister says his country will exact a price on iran for the attack when the timing is right. But World Leaders are urging israel to show restraint. From jerusalem, heres Yolande Knell. Israels air defences called to action. In the early hours on sunday, fighterjets battled waves of iranian drones and missiles, fired at israeli targets. It marked the first time iran has attacked israel directly from its own soil. Explosions could be heard widely, Including Injerusalem and tel aviv. Israel says that 99 of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by iran were intercepted. Some of those that go
Of its choosing. Oil prices are particularly volatile, given the regions role in producing a commodity so vital to the functioning of the Global Economy. Well, oil prices have actually been falling and thats because many traders think the risk of escalation is already factored in to the price. The American Bank citigroup though is warning that if there is more direct conflict between the two, oil prices could soar above 100 a barrel. And its likely that all of this will dominate the agenda for central bankers and Finance Ministers who are gathering this week in washington dc for the annual International Montary fund and world bank meetings. Ahead of that, the head of the imf Kristalina Georgieva has been warning the Global Economy faces a sluggish and disappointing decade amid all the uncertainty. Any impact, as small as it might be, is not desirable in an economy with high uncertainty. And inflation still not being brought down to target, very simple, oil prices go up, inflation goes
To exercise restraint. It is because we inherited the biggest deficit in history. The Prime Ministerfound £1 billion to keep her ownjob, why cant she find the same amount of money to keep nurses and teachers in theirjob, who after all serve all of us . Contrary to all of what he said, we have more nurses working in the nhs today compared to 2010. Let me remind the right honourable gentleman of what happens when you dont deal with the deficit. Its not a theoretical issue. Lets look at those countries who failed to deal with it. In greece, where they havent dealt with the deficit. What did we see with failure to deal with the deficit . Spending on the Health Service cut by 36 . That doesnt help nurses are patients. Or patients. I hope the Prime Minister is proud of her record of controlling Public Sector pay to the extent that hard working nurses have to access food banks in order to survive. And the frozen wages of teaching assistants, paramedics and council workers, but it is not just