Earlier on friday, huge plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the capital of lebanon, after israel said it fired a series of rockets into beirut. The israeli Defence Force says it was targetting hezbollah s headquarters, as huge explosions leveled buildings in beirut s densely populated Southern Suburbs. Hezbollah S Leader, Hassan Nasrallah was reportedly the target of the explosions. Neither Israel Nor Hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. At least six people died in the attack and more than 90 have been injured according to lebanese officals. The embassy of iran which backs hezbollah called the attack a dangerous, game changing escalation. Our bbc teams on the ground describe the situation as chaos, with ambulances rushing to the scene through roads packed with people trying to flee. Our Correspondent Hugo Bachega has the latest from beirut. Scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions
Wednesday in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament as borisjohnson is warned his covid controls arent working. Its the 3rd of february, 2021, with new variants in the country, our schools are shut and our borders are open. The number of people getting a jab reaches ten million, but the head of test and trace strikes a note of caution. The big concern and worry is that the virus mutates and succeeds in finding a form that can escape the vaccine. And remembering a long life, lived well. I invite members to nowjoin me for a minutes silence to commemorate sir toms life. But first, The Government says its a hugely significant milestone in the fight against coronavirus. Ten Million People in the uk have now received their first dose of the Covid Vaccine. But at Prime Ministers questions, borisjohnson was told that the biggest threat to the Vaccine Programme was his governments reluctance to order the complete closure of the uks borders to limit the arrival of new st
Inflation the worlds biggest economy last month dampened expectations. That decision comes a day before Second Quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april to june period. Rounding off the week will be the bank ofjapan. Last month they saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rising higher than the banks Inflation Target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. I earlier spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. I think the Federal Reserve isnt under immense pressure, as they were before the inflation data, as you rightly pointed that out. Because inflation is sitting at 3 and im speaking about the headline inflation, which is not that much farther from the Federal Reserve s target of 2 and especially if you compare what this number was. It wasnt too long ago when we saw this number in double digits and falling all the way to 3 . Whe
Inflation the worlds biggest economy last month dampened expectations. That decision comes a day before Second Quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april to june period. Rounding off the week will be the bank ofjapan. Last month they saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rising higher than the banks Inflation Target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. I earlier spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. I think the Federal Reserve isnt under immense pressure, as they were before the inflation data, as you rightly pointed that out. Because inflation is sitting at 3 and im speaking about the headline inflation, which is not that much farther from the Federal Reserve s target of 2 and especially if you compare what this number was. It wasnt too long ago when we saw this number in double digits and falling all the way to 3 . Whe
Inflation the worlds biggest economy last month dampened expectations. That decision comes a day before Second Quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april to june period. Rounding off the week will be the bank ofjapan. Last month they saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rising higher than the banks Inflation Target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. I earlier spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. I think the Federal Reserve isnt under immense pressure, as they were before the inflation data, as you rightly pointed that out. Because inflation is sitting at 3 and im speaking about the headline inflation, which is not that much farther from the Federal Reserve s target of 2 and especially if you compare what this number was. It wasnt too long ago when we saw this number in double digits and falling all the way to 3 . Whe