To supplies due to conflict calmed down a day after saudi arabia pledged to stabilise the market. The neck he is up to. 6 this morning. 1. 2 mac 6 the central bank said it might hold steady on another Interest Rate hike as well. Federal reserve officials are embracing the higher for longer strategy. Thats according to the newly released minutes in the september meeting. The readout shows while people are divided on whether the Us Central Bank will hike rates before the year is out, theyve seen it has spill over effects in Financial Markets everywhere. Higher rates make it more expensive for americans to take out a loan on a house or a car and makes it more expensive for businesses to borrow money through loans or lines of credit, all of which slows growth. Meanwhile, the interest paid on Us Government bonds is also moving toward its highest levels in more than 15 years. That could end up having the same effect as a Fed Rate Hike without the fed having to act. During that september meet
Let me take you first of all to eat new york and show you the live pictures coming into the bbc. We are expecting the next few minutes to hear from the un expecting the next few minutes to hearfrom the un Secretary General. To new york. Also talking about the plight in gaza. You can see all the plight in gaza. You can see all the journalists assembled there. We are expecting to hear Antonio Guterres in the next couple minutes. That room beginning to fill up as all the details on the ground continued to get weaker and weaker on this day five bleaker. The update from the idf, talking about 1200 people being killed and many, many more being injured. They expect those numbers to also be up as they go through different parts of Southern Israel as they get to those places and actually find what has happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterresjust happened on the ground. Just as soon as Antonio Guterres just to speak, we will obviously return there to new york. We will also regula
We will have more on those stories in a moment or two. Lets go to the north of israel, to the borders with lebanon. Anna foster is our correspondence there. We have seen more shelling and more activity. What has been going on where you are . . ,. ,. Are . Im right on the border. We have spent are . Im right on the border. We have spent the are . Im right on the border. We have spent the day are . Im right on the border. We have spent the day trekking are . Im right on the border. We l have spent the day trekking along the border where there have been various incidents over the last few days. This morning, hezbollah fired an anti tank missile into israel, fighterjets from israel an anti tank missile into israel, fighter jets from israel then responded by striking at hezbollah bit of infrastructure inside lebanon. I am speaking from a shelter because as we were driving along the sirens went off here and we are sheltering with the local security team, because a lot of these border communi
Good morning. It is october the 10th. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned his country will use enormous force against the Hamas Militant Group as the conflict enters its fourth day. It comes as israels Defence Minister ordered a complete siege of the gaza strip, cutting off food, electricity and water supplies. Almost 690 people have lost their lives on the palestinian side while around 900 people have now died in israel. Hamas insurgants are now threatening to start killing hostages, if israel carries out more strikes without warning. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen reports. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attacks has onlyjust begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up thei
Looking a lot drier, and we remain in the warm conditions. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its monday the 9th of october. Good morning. More than 1,000 people have now been killed in israel and gaza after a Massive Attack by hamas militants that began at dawn on saturday. There are reports that israel has struck more than 500 targets in gaza overnight, my more than 125,000 palestinians i displace. President biden has ordered extra military assistance for the israelis, promising them rock solid and unwavering support. Israeli troops are still hunting down insurgents after one of the bloodiest attacks. 0ne down insurgents after one of the bloodiest attacks. One of the worlds most advanced military is taken by surprise by hamas, a military group kept behind barriers that were supposed to stop this happening. Their attack as brutal as it was brazen. Hundreds killed. For israel that has included scores of unarmed civilians as well as soldiers. Already the largest loss of