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Israel has admitted that it carried out the airstrike in Gaza Last Night that killed seven people working for the food aid Charity World central kitchen, including three british nationals. The bbc has learned their names arejohn chapman, James Henderson and james kirby. The Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, said Israeli Forces had caused Unintentional Harm to innocent people and called it a tragic incident this despite the charity having coordinated its movements with the israeli military. The strike has been condemned by governments around the world and raised fears that the already fragile system of delivering aid to starving palestinians could collapse completely. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza claims nearly 33,000 people have been killed there since the war began in october. From jerusalem, our correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. Hey, this is zomi. Were at the Deir Al Balah kitchen. They came from australia, poland, the us and the uk. Their mission to feed people, one o
Lets return to the issue of small boats crossing the channel from france to england and yesterday was another grim milestone as five people died trying to get across hours after the British Parliament passed legislation designed to deter such journeys. French Officials Say 112 people were on board the overcrowded vessel. A new law in britain aims to send people arriving on small boats to rwanda to have their asylum claims processed. The deaths in the channel are not an isolated incident. Yesterday alone, there were reports of migrants dying in other parts of the world trying to reach another country by boat. We heard from the uns Migration Agency that at least 21 people died off the coast of djibouti. 23 are still missing on the so called Eastern Migration Route between the middle east and africa. On the same day, the Tunisian Coastguard said they retrieved the bodies of 19 migrants who had been trying to reach italy. The un has called crossing the mediterranean the deadliest route for
and also crypto prices higher. specifically, i think two factors actually drive these two classes. the first one is liquidity and the second one is the us dollar. now, let s talk about liquidity i think in the past few weeks we have seen actually easing from china, and also from the us, the fed has been injecting liquidity through running down its overnight repo facility. also, from a seasonality perspective, november, december tends to be actually quite favourable in terms of financial conditions. indeed, the rally in bonds or the fall of interest rates have helped also financial conditions to ease in the past few weeks. hence, we have seen a surge in liquidity in the system and that propels both gold and crypto currencies higher. the next reason is the us dollar. now, of course, both gold and crypto currencies are denominated in us dollars and when the us dollars become weaker, that is actually a tailwind for both asset classes. obviously, as we mentioned, given that the