provisions to feed 11,000 people for one month. washington is urging israel to do more to provide a sustained humanitarian access, and says it is deeply concerned about reports of imminent famine. officials who called for the rafah crossing to be reopened as soon as possible. egypt stopped allowing in supplies. the two countries have blamed each other for its continued closure. the us concern over the amount of aid getting into rafah has been echoed by the un. they are aid chief warmed that vernon is now an immediate threat and that un staff were struggling to help people displaced by the israeli offensive on the israeli offensive on rafah. we don t need to be a scientist to see the consequences of that lack of food. forfamine there see the consequences of that lack of food. for famine there are a lot of medical care and nutritional care, which is the precursor to simon, kills for a disease, as well as hunger. kills for a disease, as well as hunaer. , hunger. our corresponden
is planning to buy some of those apartments, relax the rules on mortgage borrowing and step in to put the finishing touches on unfinished units. separately, one of those big developers, country garden holdings, was today given another four weeks by the high court in hong kong to sort out its $190 billion of debts before hearing a petition from debtors to wind the company up. duncan wrigley, chief china economist at pantheon macroeconomics joins us. what do you make of what we ve heard today? is it enough to contain the chinese property crisis? yes, i think what we ve heard today is from various officials, it s helpful, but it s probably not a panacea. so, you are right, there are moves to boost housing demand through easing mortgage terms, allowing people to borrow more, lowering interest rates and that should boost housing demand but a lot of that will go into the second hand housing market where there is a big overhang. the second big policy is allowing governments, especia
investors. are you likely to see that continue? the decision makin: see that continue? the decision making means see that continue? the decision making means that see that continue? the decision making means that executive i making means that executive reforms and administrative reforms and administrative reforms can happen. but as a result of the decision making reforms, we have not seen land reforms, we have not seen land reforms or agricultural reforms. now, this is a new landscape, and the reason that we might still see labour reforms happen is because there is an alliance, there is an impetus with employment becoming a key issue, and hence, we could see more dialogue. sol hence, we could see more dialogue. so i think eventually, investors will come around and see that this is not such a bad outcome. the government such a bad outcome. the government spending - such a bad outcome. the government spending on capex has been a priority. what more needs to be done? is pr