Thanks for being with us. Trade unions and groups representing the families of israeli hostages are holding a General Strike to press the government to reach a deal to free those still held by hamas. Its already affecting some flights at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of seventh 0ctober. That led to mass Demonstrations Injerusalem and Tel Aviv On Sunday with the organisers calling on prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a deal with hamas to bring home the estimated 100 remaining hostages. Sundays protests were largely peaceful, but some crowds broke through police lines, blocking a major highway in Tel Aviv. 0ur Correspondentjon Donnison has been following the story. After the biggest protests in israel since the start of the war in gaza, with hundreds of thousands of people dem
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying
pills in the ice. a short time ago a federaljudge in texas hold of the approval of the abortion pill method bridgestone and put the decision on hold for seven days to allow for the biden administration to appeal mifepristone. it was a short time after the ruling was made public, district courtjudge in washington issued a glittery ruling, partial preliminary injunction which prohibits the fda from immediately pulling the drug off the shelves. let s take a closer look. the drug mifepristone,, as a medical bulletin to go home and is than half of us pregnancy terminations. there was first approved for use more than 20 years ago in 2000. the lawsuit in texas was filed by the alliance for hippocratic medicine, an anti abortion organisation. and it was decided by judge matthew kacsmaryk, an appointee of former president donald trump. he cited several reasons for the ruling, including that the fda failed to consider the pyschological effects of the drug. we have a statement from a