Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the n
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Joining me is frank lowenstein, who served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president barack ob
The attacks left craters several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted, including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites in the city of masyaf was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. But israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Frank lowenstein served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president
Good morning on Bloomberg Radio, good morning on bloomberg television. Too much to talk about. You hear it within those voices, that maybe it is the morning after, and the vaccine is really not out there. Now we get into a churn of the immediate news. Jonathan it is a tugofwar between the forward outlook looking better and the nearterm outlook looking worse. A real divergence between the two. How policymakers navigate the former will allow markets to keep the help about the latter. That is the hope for the market. First half of the week about cyclical appetite. 500 downhalf, the s p 0. 6 and nasdaq futures just about positive on the day. Tom we are going to roll the data check here through because it is a mess this morning. I just saw a 93 print on dollar. That speaks to the resiliency of dollar. Weve had a weaker dollar, but we just seem to come back when the uncertainty reigns. Lisa that seems to be the theme with all of the uncertainty on the dollar. When there is a risk off feel, p
Woodward in march this was terribly deadly and contagious at the same time he was saying to the rest of us do not worry so much. Jeanne this is not the conversation the president wants to be having. Any top of the pandemic does not work for him politically. This is not what the campaign wants to be talking about. More importantly, we have a president on the record admitting he knows how devastating and deadly this is, and many months later you have 190,000 americans dead, many of whom have been sick and ill as a result of this, and you had the president , months after he told bob woodward how bad this was inviting people to places like tulsa and saying you do not have to worry about safety protocol, you do not have to worry about masking, you do not have to worry about social distancing. This is being drummed up by people who want to get me. When he is on the record with bob woodward he is saying the opposite. The president and his team have to explain why he is saying one thing privat