Welcome to Bbc News. Fighting is continuing between israel and the iran backed group hezbollah, as the Middle East braces itself for a possible retaliation by israel on iran. Israel has bombed a mosque in the south of the country. Israel says it was targeting hezbollah fighters inside the mosque, which was next to a hospital. The humanitarian situation in lebanon is worsening. At least four hospitals have been closed in Southern Lebanon because of the israeli Air Strikes. The World Health Organization says at least 37 Health Care facilities have closed over the past two weeks, since israel began its Air Bombardment of lebanon. An Apartment Building was hit by an israeli strike in the Northern Port Of Tripoli where a commander of hamas, saeed atallah, was reportedly killed, along with three members of his family. Hezbollah says its fired rockets at the Ramat David Airbase near the city of haifa in Northern Israel. Israel has not commented, but sirens sounded across Northern Israel this
Through the region in what has become the deadliest u. S. Mainland hurricane since katrina. Well take you live to North Carolina in just moments. Welcome to Fox News live, im Jacqui Heinrich. Griff im griff jenkins. Meanwhile, former President Trump is returning to butler, pennsylvania, today at the same field where he was nearly assassinated less than three months ago. Elon musk will be among the notable guests there. Alexis mcat also, who covered that event in july, is there again in butler with more. Hey, alexis. Reporter hey, griff. Yeah, things are going to look much different than they did 12 the weeks ago, last time former President Donald Trump was up on that stage here. Were 30 days away from the election, so thats his message again today, he will do what it takes the fight for america. But this time hes going to be standing behind bulletproof glass as people say theyve noticed much more security. What looks different Today Security wise when youre back . Theres a lot more, it
Stepping down after arguments over strategy, the bank prepares its search for his successor. Morning, under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Equity markets under pressure. The futures picture shows relief. Ftse futures up 0. 4 . U. S. Futures point to the upside, up 0. 8 . Global stocks up 12 in november, the biggest monthly gain on record. Lets not forget that will me think about the losses yesterday and the rally he will maybe see today. Greens what we see now, a picture and it comes to the asian stock markets. Data from to take asia whether chinese or korean on the factory side. Be taking aems to turn for the better. In china a decade high for chinese manufacturing. Up on thed enthusiasm, and commodities in focus. Oil prices moving to the downside for a third day. No deal yet on opec and opecplus, and their plans for january. That will be a focus on thursday. Lets get a first word news of eight. Laura president elect joe biden has chosen janet yellen as his treasury
Los angeles orders residents to stayathome. The clock ticks. France warns it could veto a trade deal between the u. K. And the eu if it doesnt like the terms. It comes as officials on both sides of the deal could be done in the next few days. Increased scrutiny. The house of representatives clears a china delisting bill, sending it to president trump. The measure could lead to companies being kicked off of the american exchanges. 6 00 in london. 7 00 in paris. 10 00 in downtime see iop. We have the lifeline of stimulus. Stimulus against the risk, the u. S. Deadliest day of hospitalizations so far. The reality of covid is trumped by stimulus. Good morning. Annmarie if i would have told you a few years ago that we would have the s p 500 hitting a fresh record high at the same u. S. Had its deadliest day with 2700 people dying due to covid. You would not believe me. This divergence between the market and the reality of covid is yet again playing out. Manus indeed. I take you back 24 hours
Is theail sales number only surprise i suppose. Juliette that is quite interesting given this had been this consumer driven recovery and the positive numbers we have seen and domestic travel. Gold is a miss. Still seeing the incredible strength coming through in offshore youuan. Onhave been seeing a risk momentum coming through in equities across the region. Signing havinghe a positive boost to markets. We are seeing momentum on the asiapacific index. It is going to close at a record high. When we look specifically at Chinese Markets themselves, we did have the csi 300 already near the fiveyear high. The csi 300 a little weaker, down by a 10th of 1 . Korean airlines coming out and saying they are going to to buy. 8 trillion yuan an airline. Raising 2. 5ng to be trillion. That is a bit of corporate breaking news. Lets get over to julia. She is at jp morgan. Thank you for joining us. What was your main takeaway . Controls glance have been maintained. Still looks like their recovery is pr