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We will bring you the very latest from across the region. Also on the programme. Four children are in hospital after a School Bus crashed in County Down more than a0 people were on board. And protecting the earth from dangerous flying Space Rocks a mission is launched to study an Asteroid System. 0n Newsnight at 10. 30pm tonight well bring you fresh insight on the stories of the day, with big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters and of course, look at what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Good evening from Tel Aviv, where rockets have just been fired towards central israel and this city, which has been marking one year since the hamas attacks of October 7th, at the same time that israel has been striking targets in southern beirut. As we were about to come on air, several ballistic missiles were fired into israel for the third time today. Our team took ....
let s ta ke let s take a look at how the stock market is doing. flat to high. trading at a 33 year home. the last quarter it outperformed any major global indices partly because investors are hopeful about japan s economy. nobuko kobayashi, from professional services firm, ey, explains. yes, it beat expectation by one point which is quite phenomenal. if you peel down, break down the difference, the positive surprise comes especially from the investment in private sector. the personal consumption, which was considered to be jumping up, was in line with expectation, but particularly on the business side, it was a positive surprise. i want to ask you about consumer spending because we have been talking about how japan has never really had inflation for many decades and now, having one, albeit much lower compared to other parts of the world, and yet wages have not been growing as much as expected, so why is consumer sentiment quite strong? consumer sentiment, i think, tempo ....
accusations of chaos one of the biggest train operators in the uk is stripped of its contract. and eurovision fever heats up. 16 countries take to the stage in liverpool later for the second semi final. welcome to bbc news and we start with the war in ukraine and a significant development with confirmation from the british defence secretary that cruise missiles are being sent to ukraine. the missiles have a long range capability and are typically launched from the air. the move prompted an instant response from the kremlin saying the decision required an adequate response from our military. he has ben morris with the announcement in the house of commons. ican i can confirm that the uk is donating storm shadow missiles to ukraine, a conventional precision strike give ability complementing the long range system already gifted including happen missiles as well as ukraine s on neptune christmas oh and longer range missions elsewhere gifted. the donation gives ukraine the be ....
success welcome to the programme. in the us, just hours to go until donald trump s controversial immigration legislation title 42 expires. the us homeland security secretary says their borders are not open and warns of tougher consequences for those who try to cross illegally. we ll look at what will it mean for people waiting to cross the us mexico border. also in the programme. the uk is to supply ukraine with long range cruise missiles to help push back russian forces. we ll look at exactly what these missiles are. interest rates in the uk go up again. now at their highest level in the uk for nearly 15 years. what does that mean for the economy? and it s eurovision the second semifinal is getting under way right now in liverpool. we ll be live with the latest from the contest. we re going to start in the us with title a2. that s the name of the legislation that makes it easier to expel people he who cross the border from mexico. it was introduced in covid times, ....