Says the death toll has now passed 7000 and they say that includes almost 3000 children. Meanwhile irans foreign minister has weighed into the conflict, claiming hamas is ready to release hostages and the world should support the release of 6000 palestinian prisoners. And that comes as the prisoners. And that comes as the arab nations released a joint Statement Today condemning what theyre describing as the forced displacement and collective punishment of palestine , as punishment of palestine, as israel maintains its only targeting the terrorist group hamas. Now, targeting the terrorist group hamas. Now, in other targeting the terrorist group hamas. Now, in other news today hamas. Now, in other news today in the United States, a manhunt is continuing after 18 people were killed by a gunman and 13 more left injured. Police in the more left injured. Police in the state of maine have named 40 year old robert card as a person of interest, describing him as armed and dangerous. The us army
Year old robert card as a person of interest, describing him as armed and dangerous. The us army armed and dangerous. The us army has confirmed that hes in the us army reserves. The shootings us army reserves. The shootings happenedin us army reserves. The shootings happened in at least two locations in the city of lewiston. In the us, president lewiston. In the us, President Joe Biden has responded, urging republican lawmakers to enact stronger gun controls. Today the stronger gun controls. Today the Prime Minister warned that Artificial Intelligence could threaten Human Extinction on the same scale as global pandemics or nuclear war. His comments came after touring Moorfields Eye Hospital in london, which uses ai eye hospital in london, which uses al to diagnose sight problems. As rishi sunak says, problems. As rishi sunak says, humanity could lose control of ai and criminals and terrorist groups could use it to spread fear and destruction. An hes fear and destruction. An hes also an
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. E have great guests coming your way. First thing a check on your markets. This is what we have seen overnight. The dollar gained on the back of what we heard from janet yellen. Probably one of the most significant things that were watching. Were watching dollar and the bloomberg u. S. Dollar index and also im interested in crude oil. We had the i. A. Report yesterday. It traded at 45 a barrel. A couple of big investors said it means it is probably going to change the trade wagon and what we also need to look at is some of the australian bonds after we saw the rally yesterday in treasuries and were looking at swiss u. Now lets get straight to the first word news. In the u. S. , the special council investigating russias interference in the 2016 election will examine whether trump tried to slow the probe into michael flynn. The move expand scope of the investigation. Meanwhile trump and his wife melania
Speaker, i had meetings this morning. Other than one meeting with her metastudent queen, the diary for the rest of my day is remarkably light. Other than one meeting with her majesty the queen. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. The Prime Ministers congratulations to Andrew Murray and all the other winners. May we thank the Prime Minister for all his hard work and his leadership. And particularly his commitment to the union and to Northern Ireland visiting in auckland and swimming to working with the next Prime Minister. Im told there are lots of leadership roles out there at the moment, at the english football team. Top gear. [laughter] even across the big pond a role that needs filling. But if i can go to my pet subject, brexit really threatens Prime Minister cameron in your own time. Brexit threatens the unions. Will the Prime Minister work with his successes to ensure we have somebody that is going to pull together all the countries of the union and the overseas territories and make