bitcoin hitting record highs, the continuation of a rally that has been building for a couple of months. there are a couple of factors the mainstreaming of bitcoin. you may recall earlier this year regulators in the us open and investing opportunities attached to crypto currencies to more investors, and since then funds have been pouring into that. there was a report that huge figures have been raised. that has definitely increased things on the demand side. on the supply side, there is a 0n the supply side, there is a process called halving, part of the bitcoin protocol, only a certain number are issued, and once every four years, a reward for bitcoin miners, that number decreases. that may also have an impact on what investors think the supply will be. all of this i think you can safely say is leading to that craze for laser eyes, the meme that bitcoin fund is used when they are feeling optimistic about it. ~ . ., they are feeling optimistic about it. we will come back to
are taking place in thejenin refugee camp for some of the 12 palestinians killed during an intense 48 hour operation by the israeli military. hours after the israeli forces withdrew, crowds gathered outside the hospital to carry the dead to the mosque for prayers. earlier in the day, a different kind of march. hundreds of palestinians flashed victory signs and chanted support for armed groups through the streets ofjenin. it comes after israel said its air defence system had intercepted five rockets fired from gaza into southern israel in the early hours of wednesday. in response, the israeli defence forces said theirjets hit what they said was an underground hamas weapons manufacturing facility. the idf s two day military operation in the town ofjenin left one israeli soldier dead, as well as the 12 palestinians. israel says the action was an attempt to root out terrorists inside the refugee camp. palestinian leaders accused israel of mounting an invasion . live now to yolan
power, but some residents in remote areas may be cut off for 48 hours. aruna iyengar has the latest. storm gerrit swept across much of scotland, bringing heavy snow, flooding homes, causing power cuts and travel misery for many. the major a9 route has reopened after it closed in the highlands for several hours. meanwhile, thousands of homes across scotland have suffered power cuts. scottish and southern electricity networks said they d restored power to more than 25,000 homes but at least 16,000 are still cut off. for some customers especially those in rural areas it could be up until friday before power supplies are reconnected. but it is far too early for us to say at the moment, with scottish and southern electricity continuing to cause damage to the power network. 0n the railways, lner which runs services up the east coast from london to scotland is warning of major disruption this morning, with some services arriving several hours late. this tree fell on the li
meanwhile, in gaza, thousands of palestinian families are trying to find shelter as israel broadens its ground offensive across the centre and south of the territory. the hamas run health ministry in gaza has says more than 21,100 people have been killed during 11 weeks of fighting. live now to yolande knell, our middle east correspondent. hello to you duration at the escalation in northern israel between northern israel and lebanon. this is a situation with an international and diplomatic effort trying to resolve for months now since october the 7th, but those efforts don t appear to be working. since october the 7th of course much attention has been focused on the gaza strip and what has been happening there, but at the other end of israel on the northern border with lebanon we have seen the worst cross border violence since the devastating 2006 war between israel and the powerful iran backed lebanese militant group hezbollah. just yesterday we saw something like a barrage