volatile fuel and energy prices and the numbers remain higher things to persistently high housing costs. combating inflation, higher interest rates make it more expensive to borrow money and that is supposed to attempt on spending which should pay runaway prices. president biden prays the data is good news and called on corporations to pass savings on to consumers and press return to normal, that means hoarding interest rates steady and as of the expected to do on wednesday. what investors really want to know is when they think will be time to cut rates and will almost never wait and hope for next year. there will almost have to wait and cut for next year. and china, the economy is calling for the deflation as prices and deepening property crisis, credit ratings agencies been, rivalagencies crisis, credit ratings agencies been, rival agencies fit and also the credit rating of the lawmakers flirted with the default as they wrestled over nation debt limit. chief asia economi
hello. i m sally bundock. we start with breaking news, and within the past few minutes, israel s military has said that a truce israel has agreed to extend its temporary truce with hamas. they said it will continue in light of the mediators efforts to continue the process of releasing hostages, and subject to the terms of the agreement . as you can see, this is a live shot of gozo this morning, as they wake up to the news that they wake up to the news that the truce is still in place. it was due to end just a few moments ago at 7am, local time. on wednesday, the sixth day of the deal, 16 hostages were freed from captivity in gaza. they included two russians, ten israeli citizens and four thai hostages, who were all handed over to the red cross. their release was delayed by what hamas called logistical issues. on wednesday, 30 palestinian women and teenage boys were freed from israeli prisons, in exchange for the hostages. this, as the us secretary of state antony blinken
those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a plan for