been accepted by hamas. from jerusalem, our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports you may find some of her report distressing. the panic and confusion as rescuers pull the wounded from the rubble after an overnight israeli airstrike in rafah. and today, another all too familiar scene in gaza, a mother struggling with unbearable loss. after israel seized control of the key crossing with egypt, it says it s continuing a limited offensive in gaza s southernmost city, battling hamas gunmen in the east of their last stronghold. but for hundreds of thousands of palestinians who fled to rafah to escape the fighting elsewhere, there s renewed fear. translation: last time i they told us to go to rafah, saying there s aid and it s a safe place, and look, they came into rafah. for now, i won t go anywhere. i ll stay here. it s enough. we re tired of being displaced, and i don t know where i want to go. world powers have warned israel against a full assault here, saying it wo
ceasefire talks in cairo. the good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. so that s hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. the not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team they re not there to negotiate, they re there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. the main sticking point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. so the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, they re largely agreed. they can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. there s a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. in return, a much larger number of palestinians prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been move
were expecting, up 15%, thanks to people taking more rides and also using its food delivery service, but the thing is the right hailing and food delivery company still disappointed investors and one thing that wall street was focused on was gross booking. that number came in lighter than forecast and its predictions for the coming three months also were disappointing. so, despite turning in higher revenue, uber posted an unexpected loss of around $651; million, up from 157 million this time last year. earlier, i was speaking to andrew hawkins, transportation editor at a new service covering the tech industry, and he told me what wall street was worried about. while uber s fundamental business model appears to be improving and gaining strength, it s still not completely out of the woods. and what i mean by that is that there are still a lot of regulatory issues, there s a lot of legal expenses that the company has been having to pay. it had to make a massive settlement brought