The us national Security Adviser has warned the risk of an escalation in fighting between Israel And Hezbollah |s acute a nd real these are the latest pictures weve received, showing explosions lighting up the Night Sky in southern lebanon. Saturday has seen a string of Cross Border attacks between israel and the iranian backed lebanese group, hezbollah. An Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Daniel hagari said, the military was using dozens of fighterjets to attack hezbollah targets, saying the group was threatening a large scale attack. Lebanons Health Ministry now says 37 people, including women and children, were killed in yesterdays israeli attack on beirut. Rescue workers have been searching through the rubble of a high Rise Building that was targeted in the attack. Hezbollah has confirmed two of its senior commanders were killed in the strike. Jake sullivan said the killing of a top his brother of a top Hezbollah Leader was justice. The Cross Border attacks follow the Pager And W
Hello and welcome. We start with an apology from americas top Infectious Diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci after he criticised uk regulators over their rapid approval of a new coronavirus vaccine. Britain on wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer Biontech vaccine for mass use. Speaking earlier to cbs, dr fauci said the uk was not as rigorous as the us in its vaccine approval process. But when he spoke to my colleagues earlier on this channel, dr fauci backtracked. The point i was really trying to make, i did not make it well, which is why i welcome to the opportunity to get on your show and say it came out wrong. In the United States, there is such a considerable amount of tension of pushing back on the credibility of the safety and efficacy that if we in the United States had done it as quickly as the uk did it, and thats no judgement on the way uk did it, and even though my statement did come across looking that way, if we had a, for example, approved it
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours
Singapore and malaysia doing pretty decent. Aligned coming from apple daily. Hong kong has found a third a gym. Irus links to if my memory serves me correct, this is the paris gym. It is slowly making its way into the second week. This,s talk more about italy has had more people died than any other nation including china. Stephen. Bring in he is doing his best to keep abreast of all that is going on. We heard a lot of headlines. What has been announced in california . Has basicallyr ordered everyone to stay home. They want to control the outbreak and the governor actually saying that the outbreak and infections could of thepwards of 56 population of california. Last year they had nearly 40 million residents, 20 million infections is what the governor is saying. We had a separate order with the mayor telling people to stay home. Heels of san the francisco and the bay area being on lockdown, so it looks like a lot of the local governments and federal governments are taking this much more
And any barriers to goods and workers should now be removed. U. S. Business is pleading for help as demand and production fall. The president calls says that china will pay. Shery we are looking at how markets are trading. U. S. Futures are under pressure after we saw the nervous rebound in the trading session. The s p 500 slipped between small gains and losses. We have energy in a discretionary stocks leading the gains. We actually saw the nasdaq composite really rising more than 2 because of bargainhunting going on. Twitter andtesla, netflix as well. So we have seen a little bit of upside, especially the energy sector. Take a look at what oil. Is doing it just hot its best day on record. In fact, climb back most of the clawing back from most of the losses we saw earlier in the session. We are coming back from the lowest level in 18 years. This has the president said he would get involved at the appropriate time in the state of between russia and saudi arabia. We have seen the u. S. G