This will get the hostages out and get a significant amount ofaid in. This would allow us to build something more enduring, to ensure israel is secure, and to respect the right of the Palestinian People to dignity, freedom and self determination. Crowd cheers hamas claims it wants a cease fire. Well, there is a deal on the table. And as we have said, hamas needs to agree to that deal. Lets get a cease fire. Lets reunite the hostages with their families. And lets provide immediate relief to the people of gaza. Lets speak to Tommaso Della longa who is the spokesperson for the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies. It is good to speak to you again. Those are some of the strongest words we have heard from the us. Could you tell us what youre hearing about the humanitarian situation there on the ground . Thanks a lot for having me today. The humanitarian situation in the gaza strip is still desperate and every day that the conflict continues, the more the nude wil
Hannah miller, has the story. In homes across the country and Public Services on the ground, it can seem like everyone is crying out for cash. We have got roads full of potholes. Are you confident that the chancellor will be persuaded to give you more money to spend on housing in the budget in a few weeks time . Well, im doing everything that i can. I mean, short of laying siege to his own home. Well, i want us to be, you know, l Cutting Taxes in a responsible way. Under pressure from backbenchers and with less money to play with than hed hoped for the chancellors scrabbling around for ways to pay for a tax cut on a scale that voters will notice. Today, mr speaker, im going to cut the main 12 rate of Employee National insurance. Last year, he chose to cut National Insurance contributions and its thought he may do that again. A tax cut for workers that brings no benefit to pensioners. The Number Crunching going on inside number 11 is not just about the state of the nations finances its
Economic growth . You know more housing, more Infrastructure Investment and development and the government needs to be agile about that. About that. And shes exhausted. Queen camilla so shes taking a break for the First Time Since stepping in to lead the royal family after prince charles. After king charles, of course. Uh, diagnosis with cancer. You wont how few royal wont believe how few royal engagements. However, shes carried year and carried out this year and unsolved burglaries are on the rise, damning new figures show the police have failed to solve a single house burglary in nearly half of all neighbourhoods in england and wales in the past three years. Do you remember the metropolitan police commissioner, sir mark rowley, said every single burglary will be investigated. Burglary will be investigated. Every single one. Well, there we are. In the last three years, are. In the last three years, half of them know no burglary. Sold. Its appalling because they say its not important.
And just manage to get some sleep wherever you can . Yeah. It can be really tough. Yeah. Its still very hard for some of us to get a nap. Oh, the worlds biggest yawn. With osaretin off work on maternity, three mouths to feed and three babies to hold, life and finances have been a juggle. He has reduced his hours to 20 hours a week. So the moneys really not coming any more. So youve had to cut back your hours at work then, just to just to manage physically with looking after the babies . And it was really it was something hard, but we had to do the sacrifice. But laurens been able to help out by giving a £370 grant. Hi are you 0k . Its gone straight on nappies, baby formula, and paying the energy bills. For lots of families. That weve supported itsjust meant, you know, feeding their children, heating their homes, you know, just those really important butjust basic things that you really need to raise small children. Laurens team have now given money to 82 families through the governmen
Have all the details. And well be getting the inside track on the man bringing the family name back to the chocolate business. James cadbury will be here to talk about his ethical chocolate business. And new Research Suggests the price of christmas is rising significantly. Today we want to know if you will be celebrating this year, do you have any clever tricks to bring the price down . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Welcome to the programme. We start with a major step for the Digital Currency bitcoin. Its begun trading on a Major Exchange for the first time. The Cboe Futures Exchange in chicago opened trading in Bitcoin Futures on sunday, and the Cryptocurrency Rose above 18,000. Bitcoin started the year at around 1,000, but the crypto currency has surged in value recently and last week hit 17,000 for the first time. Last friday, it fell by 14 in a single day, but supporters say this weekends introduction of futures trading will make