party will keep its majority in parliament. and ukrainians gathered in london s trafalgar square this evening for their traditional carol singning service. hello i m tanya beckett. in a sign of the growing hunger and desperation in gaza, crowds of people have looted aid trucks entering the besieged strip through the rafah crossing. for the first time since the war began, israel has also opened one of its crossings into gaza to aid. it s hoped the opening of the kerem shalom crossing will double the amount of food and medicine reaching gazans. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah crossing from egypt. israel has kept up its bombardment of gaza, killing dozens more people. gaza s hamas run health ministry says 90 people were killed injust the jabalia area of gaza city. in a change of tone, the uk and germany havejoined calls for a sustainable ceasefire . prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists israel will fight to the end, but the reuters
It is unclear how many israeli hostages would be released under this proposal the Israeli Media has put the figure at 33 in return for the release of an unspecified number is he says he is hopeful hamas will accept what he described as a very generous proposal. Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of israel. And in this moment, the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a ceasefire is hamas. They have to decide and they have to decide quickly. The British Foreign secretary, David Cameron also in riyadh said the deal on the table is for a 40 day ceasefire, roughly in line with the six week pause that negotiators say they have been working toward for months. There is now, you know, lets be frank, a very generous offer of a sustained 40 day ceasefire, the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners in return for the release of these hostages who have now been in captivity for over 200 days, so i hope hamas d
of england andrew bailey dismissed any hopes of an interest rate cut in the near term. speaking at a conference hosted by the central bank of ireland in dublin earlier today, bailey said that it s too early to talk about a rate cut, given the continued risk of inflation. also today the international monetary fund warned that rapid wage growth in the eurozone will also keep inflation higher for longer. the imf urged the european central bank to hold interest rates at or near record highs through next year to keep a lid on price pressures. here s one economist we spoke to earlier. i think the imf is very much in tune with what the european central bank has been saying, which is that although the headline inflation rate has come down a lot, the labour market is still strong, wage growth has been quite strong. and it s going to be a very difficult and slow process to squeeze out that last bit of inflation from the system. so, i mean, we re thinking interest rates are likely to
presence of this industry. but we at citizen lab released a report a few weeks ago looking at another very concerning company, also based in israel, and we found evidence that there spyware was being used to targetjournalists, activists and civil society all around the world. so it is not that there are just one or a small number of bad apples in this industry. the problem is with the industry and the lack of regulation. untilthat the industry and the lack of regulation. until that changes may be nso group goes away but they will be ten other nso to take its place. they will be ten other n50 to take its place. they will be ten other n50 to take its place. thank you very much indeed take its place. thank you very much indeed for take its place. thank you very much indeed for that. - stay with us on bbc news. still to come: as anti games protests continue, more olympic athletes and officials are either infected with coronavirus or are in quarantine, just five days before the games