More than 4,000 are injured. Hamas says itll kill hostages if air strikes are launched without warning. It refuses to negotiate their release. In all honesty, i try not to imagine, because its too difficult, and these are the times where i break. And i dont want to break right now, because i want to keep pushing for the release of my mum and brother. More on those developments in a few minutes. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Lets start with the latest Market Reaction to the events unfolding in israel and gaza. Markets have been on edge as they absorb the many potential ramifications from the conflict. Israels central bank moved to calm markets and stabilise their currency by saying it would sell up to 30 billion of foreign currency. The price of oil has been in focus jumping up by 5 on monday at one point but has since stabilised. But the big mover has really been us bonds with treasury yields falling the most since march as the conflict pushed investors to
All right, where do you want me . Bouncing on my knee where do you think i want you . And David Beckham makes his Big Screen Debut in king arthur but his cameo gets mixed reviews. Good morning. Its thursday 11th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A draft of labours 51 page General Election manifesto has been leaked and seen by the bbc and a number of other news organisation. The leak came as the document was due to be formally signed off today. The document contains a number of eye catching policies including bringing the railways back into Public Ownership as franchises expire and repealing the 1993 railways act which privatised the network. Plans to reverse the privatisation of royal mail at the earliest opportunity. The reintroduction of Maintenance Grants for University Students and a pledge to abolish University Tuition fees. 0n energy the document includes a policy of creating at least one publicly owned Energy Company in every region of the uk, with public con
what they feel the government might be doing next in other words, are they putting down a marker against any further moves towards vaccine meditations? mandates. during his press conference last week. i think that was very worrying to a lot of conservative mps. it is this sense of mandating things. i ve heard people say this evening conservative mps were voting against masks. it s that idea that government is mandating people to wear masks and not trusting people to use their bestjudgment. i think on a number of fronts, this is a big steam to the prime minister, but also, if you look at the range that people who voted against him, they come from sort of various different areas of the conservative party. even the fact that the newest conservative mps who s only been there for days
are political decisions and he would not make them to resign would be a political move, they did not seem to have any problems talking to any kinds of people writing political books in washington and when he is talking about elections is the senior military adviser, that is generally for people in uniform forbidden. so mark milley has a political narrative, a political position and it seems like he makes his decisions based on those things and not his bestjudgment for the commander in chief revolving around military readiness or the ability to secure our safety and including in afghanistan. secure our safety and including in afghanistan- secure our safety and including in afghanistan. thank you very much indeed. the fuel situation and the uk speaking to improve according to the prime minister borisjohnson. petrol pumps have been running trade in recent days after a panic buying