Suffered minor injuries from shell fragments. It happened as checks were carried out on a second convoy of trucks waiting to take humanitarian aid from egypt to the gaza strip. The seventeen vehicles at rafah were being searched to ensure they were carrying only humanitarian aid. Twenty vehicles loaded with medicines and food passed through on saturday, the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory more than two weeks ago. The Rafa Crossing is on the egyptian border, and is the only route not bordering israel, which means its currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. In other developments, irans foreign minister, has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza, and warned the situation in the middle east, risks spiralling Out Of Control. Israel has been continuing to carry out out aerial bombing of gaza. Its nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which iii hundred people were killed. The Health Ministry in gaza
Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
Industrial sentiment, the worlds biggest maker skf says the outlook is uncertain, but better than expected figures. Well hear from the ceo in 30 minutes. Warm welcome to you. Plenty to look at. Well dig into the resource sector fairly shortly. Before that, Goldman Sachs reports before the u. S. Bell this morning with analysts expecting another stellar set of figures. The investment banks beat expectations for the last four quarters. Analysts are estimating a 20 increase in revenue this quarter. We also expect cocacola to postearnings of around 63 cents a share, down from 1. 21 per share for the same period last year. The companys expected to remain pretty focused on emerging markets for growth. As far as Johnson Johnson is concerned, performance has been solid across all Business Segments with strength in pharmaceuticals, and health care. Shares up over 30 in the last 12 months. And then after the bell today, well hear from yahoo . Not expected to dazzle. The stock has. Up over 70 sinc