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According to israels public broadcaster. Three Israeli Soldiers have been moderately wounded thats accordind to the broadcaster on x. They added attackers had been killed. With all of this in mind, talking this evening, i just want to begin by getting your reaction to what weve been seeing. Gosh, well, i mean the hostages massively complicate situation there because obviously in the israeli psyche, hostages are extremely important, every israeli life is really important, and they have been known in the past to, you know, in releasing israeli hostages to give up a lot in return. A few years ago when an israeli called gilad shalit was released by hamas, that was in return for 1000 Palestinian Prisoners. So, the fact that there are so many other hostages who are still being used as Human Shields essentially by hamas ....
Hamas. The us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was in saudi arabia today, to discuss gaza and the post war plans. We will get the thoughts of two us diplomats who served in the region. Good evening. Scotlands beleaguered First Minister, humza yousaf, is stepping down from the job after it became clear to him this morning he had run out of road. On wednesday, mr yousaf walked away from a Coalition Agreement with the scottish greens, having only recently ditched their agreed targets on climate change. Soon after, the greens had their revenge, agreeing to side in an Unlikely Alliance with the scottish conservatives and their vote of no confidence. Scottish labour had gone further promising a vote of no confidence in the entire scottish government. And so in ....
britain s ecomomy is expected to have gone into reverse shrinking by 0.1%. and if that continues for the rest of the year two quarters of negative growth that would constitute a recession. the bank of england has raised the cost of borrowing to a 15 year high, to try to rein in soaring prices, and that s weighing heavily on many businesses and households. on thursday, official data showed a steep jump in the number of people falling behind on mortgage payments. our cost of living correspondent, colletta smith, reports. good morning, donna speaking, how may i help? with rates on the up, more people have been struggling to pay their mortgage bill. don t worry, i m sure we can get this sorted out for you. ..and an increasing number are now officially in arrears. you know, nobody wants to send debt collectors to your door. nobody wants that. that s not what we want. we want to help you, we want to get a solution in place with you, but we can only do that if you give u ....
as real s military has struck an ambulance, they said it was being used by hamas, they accuse hamas of using ambulances to transport weapons. we ll tell you what has come out of those meetings, this as the leader of hezbollah gives a speech praising the hamas attacks saying the possibility of war is realistic. israel says its troops in gaza, are engaged in face to face combat with fighters from hamas. the israeli military says its troops have now completely encircled gaza city, in the north of the territory, almost four weeks since the start of this war. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has been back in tel aviv as washington increases the pressure for a humanitarian pause. meanwhile, the leader of hezbollah, like hamas a proscribed terrorist organisation, has spoken from a secret location. hassan nasrallah praised the hamas attacks and said the possibility of total war is realistic . more foreign nationals have been getting out of gaza at the rafah crossing ....