In beirut right now. Again, we have had strikes here through the day, and smoke once again rising on the skyline of the lebanese capital. The prime minister of this country, the Acting Prime Minister has called again for a diplomatic solution to the conflict and he warns that up to A Million people here in lebanon could be displaced by the ongoing violence. The streets of dahieh, this is the Beating Heart of hezbollah in beirut, now looking like a ghost town. Thousands have left, many more are still trying to leave. Driving through dahieh this morning, we saw cars packed with mattresses and bags. Some people seemed to be leaving on foot. Israeli Air Strikes destroyed this building yesterday. The smell of the explosives was still hanging in the air and we could hear the sound of drones flying overhead. Israel says it will continue to target hezbollah, even after killing the groups leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Dahieh is no longer safe. There is a tense and anxious wait in lebanon following
Hopeful robertjenrick explained why he is the man to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party after losing out to labour in the general election. In the article that i wrote in the hours after the election, then i came on your show that weekend. I said that we failed to deliver on the economy, on the nhs and our borders. So there are multiple failures that we need to acknowledge as a party. Whilst obviously defending the things we got right in government, and then weve got to listen to the public and set out serious answers to those challenges. Ive spent the last few months thinking very deeply about how we do that, and i dont want to waste the next five years debating those things. Thats a recipe for more infighting and for further loss of public trust. I want to use this Leadership Contest for us to settle those things and have a clear plan as to how we take our party and our country forward, and i have that in particular on immigration. Competing with robertjenrick for the
meta, which owns facebook, says threads will be part of its instagram platform so it ll be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts to begin with. but the app has already been criticised for the amount of data it may collect. ray wang is a principal analyst constellation research and explained why threads could be a serious threat to twitter. it s a massive threat if you think about twitter, it only has one of 150 million active users. if you see what s going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking 2.96 billion users, so let s look at this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we used to say mass adoption of technology has occurred, chatgpt did it in 30 days, facebook live in 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get the 50 million users in probably less than hours and probably get 150 million users in less than two months. that means it s a direct threat to twitter. at the same time some users aren t happy with recent restrictions like the number of tweets you can lo
an economic recovery huge protests happened and there was no fuel and gas supplies were cut was of now sri lanka, after getting $2.9 billion from the international monetary fund,is from the international monetary fund, is slowly making a recovery. now it has to work at what to do with its huge debt. that is why they are discussing this five days. they approve the proposal yesterday and now they want to take it to parliament. basically, they are asking those who are holding the dollar denominated bonds to write off some of out of it. they outstanding the loan period as well, of up to perhaps 15 years and no interest free payment for at least nine year. this will give them some space to develop this economic recovery. because of these bonds are being held, they do not want to destabilise the banking sector. there will be a meltdown of the banking system if people start selling and buying, that is why the sri lankan government declared this five day bank holiday, which is also h
the move also comes as janet yellen met with the chinese ambassador ahead of her visit to china this week. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductors. this is seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question will be subject to export control starting august one. in a statement, the chinese ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interest. china is the largest producer of gallium and german