welcome to our look at the top business stories. i m lukwesa burak. today, global markets will be watching the latest us inflation data for clues as to whether the federal reserve might move again on interest rates. inflation was 3.7% over the 12 months to september which is the same rate recorded for august. while inflation has cooled significantly from last year, it remains higher than the 2% target. this month, the us central bank held its key interest rate at its current 22 year high as it seeks to stabilise price rises, which had recently reached near record levels. joining me now is steven blitz, chief us economist, ts lombard. hello and welcome to the programme. hello and welcome to the programme- hello and welcome to the - programme. what are programme. thank you. what are ou programme. thank you. what are you expecting programme. thank you. what are you expecting later programme. thank you. what are you expecting later today? - programme. thank you. what are
cross border fire into in the west bank yesterday, cross borderfire into lebanon in the past few days and growing fears that yemen could be being pulled into this conflict as our international editorjeremy bowen reports. more palestinians left their homes moving along salah al din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who s 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians
colombian media reports say the father of the liverpool footballer luis diaz has been released by the eln rebel group. he was abducted nearly two weeks ago. live now to bogota and our correspondent daniel pardo. he correspondent daniel pardo. was given away by co| old est he was given away by columbia s oldest guerrilla group, who took him 12 days ago and happy to agonise a complicated and generated a huge memory for most colombians for the past 12 days. he was given into un officials, take it into a helicopter and then he went, now he is being seen by doctors. huge relief from colombians, but also anger because colombians, but also anger because colombians are tired of dealing with this situation, especially with a gorilla group that has no political means, according to colombians, and they are only looking for money and trying to increase their capital. i know this story has onlyjust broken but is anything emerging about how this release was actually secured because it has
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