Meanwhile, hamas has fired two rockets at israels largest city, Tel Aviv. Hamas released footage of what it says shows the rockets being launched towards the city. Explosions were heard there but there were no casualties reported. It comes as world leaders scramble to de escalate tensions, Iran And Hezbollah are vowing to avenge last months killings of the hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and a top Hezbollah Commander. More on those peace efforts in a moment. But as they continue, so does the war in gaza. Israel claims to have killed around 100 hamas fighters in rafah in southern gaza in recent days, and palestinian medics saying 19 people where killed in israeli Air Strikes on tuesday, with four day old twins, their Mother And Grandmother reported to be among the dead. Lucy Williamson has more from jerusalem. For four days, mohammed abu alqumsan was a father. This day will haunt him for ever. The day he left his newborn twins, Ayssel And Asser, at home with their mother, while
been downgraded bringing dangerous wind and heavy rain. looking at these latest pictures out of carolina where wins are heading across the beach there as idalia heads across the coast. early wednesday idalia lashed florida, making landfall as a category 3 storm. at least two people have died due to driving accidents in wet conditions, and more than 500 thousand are without power across florida and georgia. florida s governor ron desantis warned 1.5 milion people to evacuate tuesday night, but not everyone chose to leave. these are the latest pictures now that we can look at coming out of south carolina where the wind is whipping across the beach there is tropical storm idalia continues along the coast. 500,000 people are without power across several of the state so let s go live now to our reporter in florida. helena, what is the situation where you are? in this area where you are? in this area where i am, the hard hit area of cedar key it is also without power tonight. of ce
and comes as the war in ukraine rages on. more from new york. when news broke on friday that alexei navalny, the foremost critic of russian president putin, had died in an arctic prison, questions arose of how the us would respond. now we have one answer. the us is expected to announce further sanctions against russia. this comes as washington struggles to agree on funding to assist ukrainian armed forces. this week marks the two year anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. at the start of that conflict, the us enacted a slew of economic sanctions against russia. those included freezing russian banks and businesses out of western financial markets, and along with europe, canada and japan, freezing some $300 billion of russian central bank assets. the us also enforced economic restrictions on russia s oligarchs and banned russian energy imports. all this was intended to dampen the country s economic and military power and ultimately stem its might in the war. b
good to have you with us. let s start with the banking giant hsbc which has just released its latest annual results showing pre tax profits soared by nearly 80% to just over $30 billion. the record high annual profit was marred however by a $3 billion impairment on the bank s stake in china s bank of communications. hsbc makes most of its money in china. joining me now is the independent banking analyst frances coppola. who s been having a look at the numbers. hello to you. so, record earnings, a big number but not as good as expected? no, and they were down on the communication stake, 3 billion, quite a big kid in the fourth quarter last year. the really rather reflects the weakness of times economy and i would much worry for hsbc s management because they do make a significant batch of earnings in asia and particularly in china. ~ . ., , china. what was really the fuel further this china. what was really the fuel further this big china. what was really the fuel further
more from new york. when news broke on friday that alexei navalny, the foremost critic of russian president putin, died in an arctic prison, questions arose of how the us would respond. now we have one answer. the us is expected to announce further sanctions against russia. this comes as washington struggles to agree on funding to assist ukrainian armed forces. this week marks the 2 year anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. at the start, the us enacted a slew of economic sanctions against russia. those included freezing russian banks and businesses out of western financial markets, and along with europe, canada and japan, freezing some $300 billion of russian central bank assets. the us also enforced economic restrictions on russia s oligarchs and banned russian energy imports. all this was intended to dampen the country s economic and military power and ultimately stem its might in the war. russia s economy has weathered the effects of these and is growing