Hezbollah after the deadliest day of conflict across the border in nearly 20 years. Lebanese officials say nearly 500 people were killed on monday, including dozens of women and children, and at least 1,600 others injured after israeli strikes on town and villages in the south and the eastern bekaa valley. The Israel Defense forces say they hit 1,300 hezbollah positions. The iranian backed group, which is designated a Terrorist Organisation by many western countries, including the uk, says it fired dozens of its own rockets back at israel. The increased hostilities between the two countries have caused many people in Southern Lebanon to flee their homes these pictures show a Mass Exodus of cars heading to beirut in the north. We will bring you those pictures a little later. World leaders are trying to defuse tensions with the G7 Group of foreign ministers warning that no country would gain from a wider conflict. The White House said president biden will present concrete plans for endin
Will it work . Yes. Will it work . New will it work . Now, new figures that the figures have revealed that the number of Civil Servants earning over £100,000 a has over £100,000 a year has increased to fold just over the last seven years. Extraordinary is it time the Government Cut the number of Civil Servants . Our very own Jacob Rees Mogg will join later on to give will join us later on to give his take. Nobody will giving them nobody will be giving them both barrels and here the liberal democrats are reporting that more than three quarters of all burglaries last year were closed without a suspect even being identified in england and wales. And thats around an eye watering 584 burglaries every single day. They dont every single day. They dont even get cleared up. Even get cleared up. Yes. And as always , please do yes. And as always, please do get in touch on all of the conversations were having, all of the talking points today. Lee anderson has been causing quite a of a stir, too,
against rivals manchester united. good morning. as we go through this week it good morning. as we go through this week it will good morning. as we go through this week it will turn much colder with some week it will turn much colder with some of week it will turn much colder with some of us week it will turn much colder with some of us seeing snow. today we had snow across some of us seeing snow. today we had snow across parts of the north and north-east snow across parts of the north and north east of scotland. as we can further north east of scotland. as we can further sound cloudy with limited sunshine further sound cloudy with limited sunshine and still relatively mild. the cold sunshine and still relatively mild. the cold air will feed into night and through the rest of the week. all the and through the rest of the week. all the details later on in the programme. it s monday, the 6th of march. our main story. asylum seekers who cross the channel in small
Ceasefire resolution passed by the united nations. Chair order, order. Welcome to this session of the liaison committee. We are taking evidence from the Prime Minister. Welcome, Prime Minister, and thank you for being with us. We have two particular overriding, or rather underlying, themes to the discussion today. One is the pressures on public spending and the challenge of squaring the circle between all the demands on public spending, particularly the rise in threat and Security Issues and the pressure on the defence budget and the need to control public spending something that no doubt preoccupies you every hour, Prime Minister. The other is in the context of our ongoing inquiry into how parliament and select committees in particular can promote better Strategic Thinking in government. And so in this session, we will start with a postbudget section on the economy and Public Services. We will move on to global issues, and conclude with a few questions about scrutiny of Strategic Thin
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Festival of Central Banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. Down 1 5 of 1 . Uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. Hasnt fallen to one dollar 1587 on November November 7. Sterling up by 1 10 of 1 today. Today, but its politics thats affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. Theyre changing their governments planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. Coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s p governor thomas jordan. But get to bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek sebastian the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. We also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. Saiding chair janet yellen this underlines tha