Bombarding gaza. The military says they targeted homes of highranking members of hamas In Gaza and nine miles of tunnels. On the other side of the conflict, israelis in ber sheeba, Ashkelon And Ashdod ran for shelter 56 dozens of rockets were fired from gaza. Senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joins us now from jerusalem. Ben, the pressure to get a ceasefire is mounting. What is holding the israelis and hamas back from getting to that point . It appears at least from the israeli side they have certain objectives they want to achieve and they havent achieved them yet. Over the last 24 hours or so, theyve been focusing on whAt They claim are network of tunnels, they call it, metro under zgaza thAt They say hamas is using to move troops and material and rockets around. Hamas, for its part, continues to fire rockets into israel. Both sides are speaking with the egyptians, with the americans and others to try to perhaps work something out. In the past essentially the fighting st
one of life s most underappreciated talents is to know when it s time to move on to life s next chapter. so i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. for more on mitch mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, here s our north america correspondent gary o donoghue. after repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some other spending bills that they have been arguing about. it looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the house of representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass spending bills on six separate departments. now, they haven t reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. so in some ways, this is progress being
of the biggest companies in the world, owned by asia s richest man, mukesh ambani mix it mixing that with the huge presence that disney has, there, means it is a huge disrupter for that sector, and it ll probably be subject to regulatory approval because of that. let s turn to the us, where its economy grew at an annual pace of 3.2% from october through december. that figure is less than the commerce department s initial estimate. but consumer spending grew by 3% in the same period. also, strong exports also contributed to fourth quarter growth. from the world s biggest economy to the world s fastest growing economy india s latest gdp figures are due out later today. the south asian country experienced an impressive first half of 2023. but then, its growth is expected to have slowed down in the last three months. the bbc s archana shukla explains. after an impressive first half of the year, economic growth is expected to slow down in the october to december quarter. wha
peter bowes has moran if this came as a surprise. has more. i think it was inevitable that this would end up in the supreme court. donald trump s claims averted been rejected by a lower court and he claims he is immune to this kind of criminal prosecution because he was president at the time. this relates to the allegations that he tried to overturn the result of the 2020 election and mr trump faces multiple charges including one that he conspired to defraud the come of this was a trial does do to start very soon next month and it is been delayed and it is now on hold reading from the supreme court that they intend to hear arguments in april, the third week of april and a decision expected at some point injune and we know now that this trial, if indeed it goes ahead, it will not be happening until at leastjuly and were getting into political convention season in the election is looming in november and one of donald trump tactics has always been to try to delay these legal
one of life s most underappreciated talents is to know when it s time to move on to lives next chapter. so i stand before you today, was a president, and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. for more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, here s our north america correspondent, gary o donoghue. after repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides of at least reached a partial agreement on some other spending bills that they have been arguing about. it looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the house of representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday by which time they will pass spending bills on six separate departments. they haven t reached an agreement on the other six departments but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22 so in some ways, this is progress being made an