we went inside part of her operation in lebanon, to see how the project is making a difference. sam everett reports. wherever there is poverty, there is purity poverty and never talk about it. you have people living in refugee settlements to do not have the products they need. and because the stigma is so strong, they don t know who to ask and don t know how to ask because they are so scared of talking about periods in the first place. three years later she has built a team of thousands of volunteers who have sown more than 100,000 pads. now she has come to lebanon, one of the countries the charity helps. translation:, women are ashamed to ask for pads and still embarrassed. i to ask for pads and still embarrassed. to ask for pads and still embarrassed. ., ., , ., embarrassed. i am washing and d in: embarrassed. i am washing and drying them embarrassed. i am washing and drying them inside embarrassed. i am washing and drying them inside the - embarrassed. i am washing an
minister benjamin netanyahu has been meeting his cabinet to vote on a proposed deal that could see hamas release dozens of israeli hostages over the next few days. they were seized at gunpoint when hamas designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government launched its attacks on israel on october 7th. it s thought, in return, israel would release more than a hundred palestinian prisoners and there would be a four day pause in fighting. but amid the hope, an announcement from the palestinian islamichhad group that one of the hostages it was holding has died. we start with this report from our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, who is in tel aviv. after six long weeks, there is hope. here are some of those who could soon be coming home. oriya is four and loves football and ice cream. and kfir is just ten months old and recently started crawling. he is always smiling, relatives say. in tel aviv tonight, campaign standing together as israel s government deb
things economically, there is always huge scope to cut or raise taxes, or spending, and then there is what his room for manoeuvre is within his self imposed targets. we must be clear on this. a government s finances are completely unlike a household finance. we live in a currency where the government issues currency, we cannot do that, ferns cannot do that, whereas the government issues a currency and has a lot more freedom than us. not many of us have a money printing press in our front rooms. of us have a money printing press in ourfront rooms. but of us have a money printing press in our front rooms. but the chancellor must calculate his own self imposed targets so wriggle room is against those, and those are a political judgment. they are based on what the government thinks the markets will wear. just like in the mini budget wear. just like in the mini budget we had last year, there seemed to be no constraints on what the government will blow on tax cuts, for example, so
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