Woman architect. E keeper. Mentor. A Raymond James Financial Advisor tailors advice to help you live your life. Life well planned. Narrator funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. And by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. Announcer and now, bbc news. Christian hello, im christian fraser, and this is the context. The israelis were telling them they were going to issue an Evacuation Order effectively for everybody north of halfway down the gaza strip, to move south, and that there 24 hours to do so. The israelis say for their own production. Civilian people whose injuries mean their only chances of survival is being on life support such as mechanical ventilators. Moving those people a death sentence. I everybody to evacuate because that is the right thing to do. We are going to commence significant military activity. It is going to be an active combat zone. We are going to strike hamas targets, and we dont want civilian c
Youre watching the context on bbc news. The republican partys search for a new House Speaker continues, with Steve Scalise nominated then dropping out of the race all in a day. Now itsjim jordans turn to try and win over the house. Welcome back. Alljournalists, cameramen and women know that they are putting themselves in grave danger, its a risk weve all taken in conflict zones. And today we saw the horrible consequences of that a videographer from the Reuters News Agency was killed earlier in the day in Southern Lebanon by an israeli rocket. The agency has confirmed the death and said that two of his colleagues have been injured, as well. Reuters said it is deeply saddened by the death and they are urgently investigating with the israeli authorities to understand what happened. Afp and aljazeera say the members of their staff who were in the same position were also injured and hospitalised in that same strike. I want to play you a clip from her International Editor jeremy bowen from t
Im seema mody im dominic chu we are seeing green this morning, a nice reversal from yesterday. The s p is latslated to open 1 points to the upside the dow slated to open up about 130 points, the nasdaq by 35 also checking in on whats happening with the tenyear, 2. 8 4 we see 2. 835 the last trade of the tenyear a key piece of inflation data out today, the Consumer Price index could have an effect on that bond market lets check the temperature overseas in asia stocks are relatively higher with japan being once again the exception. Thats on the back of a rising yen which is at a 15month high against the u. S. Dollar. We also got data out overnight in japan, growing at a pace of 0. 5 last quarter, thats slower than expected, but still its eighth consecutive quarter of growth hang seng, shanghai composite and kospi seeing gains of 1. 2 the hang seng helped by tencent shares a lot of these tech names in asia that sold off last week did rebound overnight. Eurozone gdp hitting the tape, up 0.
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Russias largest Arms Expo Set to Desk Plisplay the fighter je hyper sonic missile. Another way they want to challenge america. Guys. Fascinating. Fred live for us this morning in russia. Thank you. Three minutes past the hour. Imagine a world where you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how the investigation proceeds. President trump using monday about pushing Robert Mueller aside and running the russia investigation himself. In an interview, the president has chosen not to get involved in the probe. He says i dont have to stay out as you know. I can go in and i could do whatever. I could run it if i want. Jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. He was out of it. It was better if he did. It is interesting. He was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the
decision to stay out. It wasnt the only option he had. President trump also said he is concerne
All the big moments and the networks new mission. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 21st. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the latest. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. Microsoft stopped the attack last week. The company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. Lets bring in fred pleitgen. Reporter the organization that were talking about, the Hacking Group, called fancy bear. That is the group that hacked into the dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. U. S. Intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by Russian Military intelligence known as the gru. As far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institute. Both critical of President