Monday. John roberts, great to be back after a few days not being able to talk. Gillian and glad to be back with you on the new set, its awesome. This is america reports, the desperate search for survivors is continuing across maui. John Recovery Teams with cadaver dogs going building to building with the 1,000 that remain unaccounted for. Gillian survivors reporting Warning Sirens never went off and crews say hydrants had no water pressure. No idea what was going on, no siren, nothing. My son was like oh, mom, is this it . What do you tell your kids . Right now the government is letting us down, so its really important that all the people of maui stick together, Come Together And Support One another at this crazy time. Some of my friends are saying you know who is missing, so and so, so and so, so and so, and thats when it clicks in my head a bit. We will build back together, find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life. John max gordon live on the scene, are official
Find some of the images in her report upsetting. A truce cant come soon enough. In rafah, another day of harrowing loss. Palestinians mourn for 20 members of the abu ansa family, killed in their beds by an israeli air strike, according to Hospital Officials and gazas civil defence. Among the dead, five month old twins, as old as the war. They were laid down gently with their relatives. Their mother spent ten years trying to have them and endured three rounds of ivf. Now all she can cradle is their baby clothes. I gave birth during the war, she says. It started on saturday, i gave birth next friday. I didnt get enough of them, i swear i didnt get enough. I have no one else, she says. They have gone with their father. We were sleeping, i swear. Israel continues to say it takes feasible precautions to lessen civilian harm. There were about 35 people in the house, says farouk abu ansa. Most were children. There were no fighters. The house collapsed on them, three or four storeys. In israel
editorial report. we hook ahead to 2024 and a new set of challenges and opportunities for the country. i m edward lawrence in this week for paul gigot, and we begin with the u.s. economy which defied expectations in 2023 as inflation fell and recession fierce faded. now the santa claus rally in the stock market giving us another record close this week for the dow jones industrial average and the federal reserve signal rate hikes are done and cuts could be in store for 2024. let s bring in jason trennert, he s the chairman and ceo of strategists and investment strategy firm. jason, let s start overall here, we get this. you know, overall we get some the contrarians won in 2023. so people were projecting the most predictive recession in history, and it didn t happen. so is the recession then off the table for 2024? edward, it probably is. i will say that the recession didn t happen in 2023 partly because we ran a budget deficit of close to 6% of gdp, $2 trillion at full em
now, 15 million barrels does sound like a lot, and it does have the potential to drive down gas prices in the short term, but it is not a new release. it has been planned for a while now. the final tranche of that 180 million barrels the white house announced last spring. so why announce it today? again, president biden said it was not about politics, but the election is 20 days away, and polls show the economy is dominating the national consciousness. around 80% say the economy or inflation or both will play a major role in how they cast their vote. the president wants to remind voters his team is trying to do something about it, especially as democrats try to say it is, republicans say it is all the democrats fault, as voters tend to blame the party in power when they worry about the state of things. is that fair? probably not. the economy is extremely complicated. and people who spend decades studying it say presidents have very little control, if any at all, over immedi
let s start here in the uk where the new chancellor has been holding crunch talks with the prime minister on sunday to thrash out plans on tax and spending. jeremy hunt says his focus is on growth underpinned by stability. the value of the pound has gone up against the dollar in early trading today in asia. we will look at the market numbers in a moment because the new chancellor has the tough task of restoring economic credibility in the financial markets. our international trade correspondent dharshini david explains some of the tough challenges he faces. as international trading resumed for the first time after the chancellor wrapped up an economic strategy launched just one month ago, but his version, will it reassure other financial markets? let s look at those challenges, because this is the cost of new government borrowing, as dictated by the bond markets, which also impact mortgage rates. that rate remained high on friday then it was prior to september s mini budget.