The white house also says the president has discussed the war with the leaders of the uk, canada, france, germany and italy. Frances president Emmanuel Macron and the dutch Prime Minister, mark rutte, have also now announced theyll visit on monday and tuesday. And at the rafah border crossing, several trucks from a second convoy carrying humanitarian aid from egypt have crossed into the gaza strip. The convoy had earlier been detained at the rafah crossing for several hours so that they could be searched to ensure they were carrying only aid. The un warns hundreds of lorries are needed every day, to help the more than two million people, living under an israeli siege, and constant air strikes. Israel says the bombing raids, which have intensified, are targeting members of hamas, the Group Responsible for murdering around 1,400 israelis in attacks on october 7th. Hamas has been designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. Palestinian health officials,
Hello. Good to have you with us. I am sally bundock. Lets now dissect the top business stories. We start in the us where tesla has revealed the biggest slump in earnings in more than a decade as the road gets increasingly rocky for the electric car industry. Tesla made profits of 1. 1 billion in the first three months of the year. Thats a fall of 55 on this time last year. Revenues were 9 lower and both numbers were worse than investors had been expecting. But tesla shares which have taken a pounding this year jumped around 11 in after hours trade after the company promised quicker progress on new more affordable models. From new york, heres erin delmore. Its been a rocky road fit for this year. High Interest Rate that taking a bite out of consumer Purchasing Power and pushing big purchases out of reach. Competition with china especially over electric vehicle maker byd is heating up. Sales have been falling and so has its stock. It up. Sales have been falling and so has its stock. So h
of catalyst is the ongoing bombardment of gaza is narrowing the window for a new truce. israel says its ground forces have now reached the centre of car newness on the south of the territory. israel has urged civilians to leave the city centre and move to safe zones, meanwhile civilians living on the other palestinian territory the west bank have had their rights and freedoms severely curtailed by israel since october seven. our international editorjeremy brian reports on the situation on the ground in both the west bank and gaza. at al nasser hospital in khan younis, they laid out the wrapped bodies of people killed in the night by israel. at the end of the line was a baby killed on the day she was born. laid across the bodies of her mother and her father. don t cry , he told theirson, mohammed. they are in heaven. gaza has been turned into a living hell for civilians by israel s offensive. thousands of children are among the palestinian dead. theirfamilies say there is o