hamas laid out a process to release hostages in phases in exchange for palestinian prisoners and a period of time to allow a dram why the increase in aid to gaza. but they said that it had to have a permanent ceasefire. a senior hamas official says a delegation will head to cairo for peace talks with egypt and qatar. mr netanyahu s remarks are a blow to a sustained push by the us to reach an agreement something the country s top diplomat, antony blinken, says there is still room for as negotiations continue. while there are some clear non starters in hamas response, we do think that it creates space for agreement to be reached. and we will work at that relentlessly until we get there. while the war continues in gaza, there are potentialflash points for a wider conflict, including on israel s border with lebanon from where our international editor, jeremy bowan, send this report. israel s border with lebanon feels isolated and empty. in metula, israel s most northerly commu
to allow a dramatic increase in aid to gaza. but hamas also said any truce had to guarantee a permanent ceasefire, something israel has rejected. a senior hamas official says a delegation will head to cairo for peace talks with egypt and qatar. mr netanyahu s remarks are a blow to a sustained push by the us to reach an agreement. something the country s top diplomat, antony blinken says there is still room for as negotiations continue. while there are some clear nonstarter is in hamas s response, we do think it creates space for agreement to be reached, and we will work at that relentlessly until we get there. while the war continues in gaza, there are other potential flashpoints for a wider conflict, including on israel s border with lebanon, from where our international editorjeremy bowen sends this report. israel s border with lebanon feels isolated and empty. in metula, israel s most northerly community, the only residents left are mobilised army reservists. here, they re
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where sentiment has been weakening since about mid january on the lack of stimulus measures by the government. so after the last inflation numbers, so we could have an overreaction, but then again the trading restrictions being what they are right now it s very hard to play out the numbers especially with ten days of holidays coming up after tomorrow. yes. so what do you think the reaction from the chinese government is going to be then to these numbers that are worse than expected 7 i think because of the holiday period, they may be buying themselves a few days to think about what to do. it s really a demand side issue with them. as we saw with the alibaba earnings, people don t have the confidence right now to spend or take on debt. all of the measures we have seen so far have targeted the supply side, increasing loans, increasing liquidity. these are not enough. investors want to see some job creation type of investments, some reduction in some of the maybe the bureaucra