Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news from the middle east where the israeli defense forces say they have located, quote, a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, nic reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that they ve located bodies during a combat operation. They don t normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and that s what they so as precisely happening at the moment. They re saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operation and that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indica
The family, which owns mlb side the chicago cubs, had made the shortlist of bidders. but have now opted not to make a final bid. the consortium included billionaire hedge fund entrepreneur ken griffin and cleveland cavaliers owner dan gilbert. chelsea fans have protested against the ricketts bid in recent weeks. in tennis, great britain has the chance of qualifying for the finals of the billiejean king cup they re in action against czech republic on friday and saturday, with the best of five matches across the two days. the czech republic won the opener marketa vondrousova with a comprehensive win over harriet dart but world number 12 emma raducanu has battled back beating tereza martincova. raducanu fought hard to win 7 5, 7 5. that s all the sport for now. i ll have more for you in the next hour.
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