hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world as we continue our coverage of israel at war. i m paula newton. and we begin with despair, outrage and arguments over a deadly airstrike on a densely packed refugee camp in gaza. and now a huge cloud of smoke can be seen from across the border in israel. israeli military has claimed responsibility for the attack saying that it was aiming for a top hamas commander and infect succeeded in killing him with gleams. the critics are asking at what cost? the scope of the devastation and the camp is not yet clear. the civilian casualty count appears to be significant. the impact of the explosion left huge craters in piles of debris that are being scoured for signs of life. one of them told cnn, quote, there were 78 huge hold in the ground full of killed people. body parts all over the place. it felt like the end of the world. and now earlier i spoke with the spokesman of the israeli defense
growth and uncertain growth. the aussie dollar is falling sharply on that news. australian stocks, on the other hand, rallying more than 2% on the news. in asia, japan s markets were closed for the constitution day holiday. china s manager s index shrinking to a 14-month for its 14th month coming in below forecasts. a bit of a mixed picture. shanghai compost up 2%. and hang seng almost the lower. all eyes on? yeah, go for it. moving forward, in pretty negative territory. and germany is lower than 2. ftse lower than 1%. italy and spain off by more than 2% perhaps because the eu trimming its 2016 growth forecast to 1.8% from 1.9%. it s 2017 growth forecast from 1.9 to 2%. also cut inflation forecasts despite their efforts to do everything possible to try to lift inflation. watching european financials, ubs reporting a sharp decline in management wealth business. which was supposed to be all the european banks going into wealth management, they were going to be smoother
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version of the health care website, in their spare time by the way, for fun. the kicker? it works. here in a fox business exclusive are the three men. thanks for joining us. let me start with you. why did you guys decide to do this? where did you get the idea? sure. we were trying to buy a health plan for ourselves. we have our own companies and looking to see if we can save money for our plans. when we went to the health exchange website, took us 45 minutes to see prices. we figured most people would lose their patience at that point. there has to be a better way to show the choices and options out there. melissa: george, is this a stunt? do you guys have, is there a political message behind this? are you trying to get people to sign up for your own business? there has to be, the show is called money. there has to be a profit motive in there somewhere. absolutely not. is not a stunt. we re hoping people find the right health care plan for them. it is about taking options
of u.s. energy policy. at 11:00 p.m., q&a with timothy naftali, former director of the nixon presidential library. studentcam video and trees are now do, friday, january 18, for your chance at the ground prize the grand prize. for more information, go to studentcam.org. in a rare address to the nation, syrian president bashar al assad talked about moving forward but made no mention of stepping down. he proposed a new constitution, which he said would have new laws. he thanked russia and china for their support of syria and stressed that his country would defend itself against outside forces. the last time the syrian president addressed was in 2012. this comes to was courtesy of aljazeera english. comes to us. and this is the first time since november that the president has given a public address in his own country. [crowd chanting] not so long after, it was said that maybe as many as 60,000 people have lost their lives in during the course of the 21- month conflic