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In northern israel. The us Defense Secretary Lloyd austin has given his support to israels objectives after speaking with with his counterpart, yoav gallant. Mr austin also warned iran it faced Grave Consequences if it carried out a direct attack against israel in support of hezbollah. This is the scene in beirut where explosions have continued overnight in the capitals southern suburbs. Israel had ordered the evacuation of 3 areas. These pictures show explosions and smoke rising near beirut int...

And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were u...

The two major sticking points between the international longshoremen S Association and us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation. Workers are unhappy with the current contract, which spanned the pandemic, when Dock Workers stayed on the job and endured months of soaring inflation on automation, the Union Boss has been warning Dock Workers that their jobs could be replaced by machines. In response, the us Maritime Alliance has said its offering to keep the current ban on fully automated equip...

The Israeli Military has been describing it as a targeted, localised limited incursion so far. We had some details from a senior israeli Security Official, saying that these are local raids, very limited in scope, in the area, so no crashes happening so no clashes happening at the moment between israeli forces and hezbollah fighters in the south according to this senior israeli official. Obviously hezbollah has remained defiant. Yesterday, we heard from the Groups Number two who said that hezbol...

0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers an...

Areas that threaten is really targeting the north of that country. In response we have seen hezbollah Firing Missiles again today towards israel into central israel, Hitting Highway and also again the sound of sirens in Tel Aviv sending people running to shelters. Hezbollah s response and how it will look at how sustained and the scope of it will be something we will see over the next few days, whether they still have the infrastructure to strike back at israel as they have said they would do. I...

United states where ports all across the East And Gulf coasts including here in baltimore have virtually ground to a halt. It means goods ranging from cars to machinery and fresh fruit and vegtables are going to find a lot tougher to get into or out of the worlds biggest economy. An estimated 16,000 workers have stopped working over demands for more pay and less automation. The stoppages could cost the us economy as much as 5bn a day according to the Investment Bankjp Morgan but other experts sa...

A ballistic Missile Attack imminently. All precautions and alerts in place. An israeli Army Spokesman says the country is on a high State Of Alert and that an iranian attack would have repercussions. Let would have repercussions. Me show you the live pictures let me show you the live pictures from beirut, you can see the smokes from some of the latest strikes and that is after the overnight start of the Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon by israel. We have seen the Build Up of troops and overni...

From raw materials and pharmaceuticals, clothes and toys, accounting for more than half import in containers. If it extends for weeks, it could lead to shortages and high prices ahead of the presidential election. That is something the new york governor rained in on. The something the new york governor rained in om rained in on. The potentialfor disruption _ rained in on. The potentialfor disruption is _ rained in on. The potentialfor disruption is significant. Rained in on. The potentialfor dis...

And pharmaceuticals, to clothes and toys, with ports accounting for more than half imports in containers. If it extends for weeks, it could lead to shortages and high prices ahead of the presidential election. That is something the new york governor weighed in on. The potential for disruption is significant. We have not had an event like this in our ports since 1977 and that lasted 12 days. We are deeply concerned about the impact that a strike could have on our supply chains, especially when it...