Its newsday. Singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsda. ,. , its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in israel, where we begin our programme, as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, hundreds of thousands, on the southern border with gaza, the widespread expectation that a Ground Offensive across the frontier maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory, where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. This follows the unprecedented attack, five days ago, in israel, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel, and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1,200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestinians have been killed in retaliatory israeli air strikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, ru
where do you stand? i remember when the numbers jumped from 9% to 8.6%, i was happy. because i cheer for america. i have been in a family with an unemployed, you know, father, i like seeing people get back but i was immediately shouted down from a lot of people on the right going oh, those numbers are ridiculous, you re a fool, et cetera, et cetera, and it s just because people stopped looking for work. since that number, we ve had weekly jobless claims that have also been hopeful. don t we have a reason to hope that this 8.6% could be 8.4% or 8.2%? both sides are right. people are dropping out of the workforce, the 8.6% isn t as good as it looks. but at the same time, the jobs picture has been improving slowly. it won t be great next year, but it will be moving in the right direction. we have to go, but housing, i m fascinated by this. we don t talk about it enough. housing hit the highest level in several years 685,000 housing
On phone and why our washington guests are having trouble getting to the tv studio, it is snowing the i left that fine city this morning and it was already snowing but i made it here. where are they? the same of the and the housing hit after the hit and the girly man who cannot show up to work.