hello. i'm david eades with bbc world news. our top stories. as a temporary cease fire between hamas and israel enters the fourth hour, reports from the army say three morters were fire into southern israel after the start of the truce. an apology for the death of four palestinian children in an irali attack wednesday. israel's president says it was an unintentional. russia warns relations with the u.s. could be headed to a

dead end after washington imposes wide ranging sanctions over ukraine. australia votes to scrap a carbon tax. critics warn the move is a backwards step. cat owners get their claws out in a right to have their pet recognized as the world's oldest feline. hello. thanks for joining us. a five hour cease fire is underway, but in the last hour, we've had reports from israeli police three rockets have been fired from gaza since the cease fire started. israel hasn't responded. the cease fire nonetheless

appears to be holding. we've got a picture across gaza city. traffic still moving, relatively heavy. looks like a normal day from the street level doesn't it? obviously an opportunity for everyone to get out while they can over this five hour period. we've had our correspondents saying they're accused at the bank to get cash out. any chance to bring in essential supplies while they have the chance. the conflict itself was continuing up to five to seven "gmt" time. the truce by in large seeming to have held. one example of the conflict itself, just hours before this, coming in from pictures we received from the israel ily military reportedly showing hamas militants using a tunnel to get in.

an ire strike was launched at scene. one of the militants was killed as they propelled. that pushed them back. kevin is there. can we start on reports of rockets from gaza? what are we being told? >> i understand they were mortgager shots. they're shorter range and less powerful weapons than rockets fired from gaza. they landed in what is largely an agricultural area of israel near the border. for the moment there's no response from israel. it continues to hold the fire. the cease fire was descent grate if they responded. it remains as things stand an isolated incident. it shows this a delicate situation. any cease fire only lasts up until the moment when it is

broken. >> that is not far away in any case. do you get any sense there's a readiness to extend it? >> no. i don't think this this will build into a broader cease fire. we need to look at two separate processes here. today pulls many hostilities. requested by the united nations on behalf of aid organizations to get a little bit of daily life flowing in gaza, to allow people to buy food and go to the bank, allow humanitarian organizations to set about the beginning of the immense task that a waits them. there's no reason to believe it will build to something more substantial. there's talks in cairo aimed at a cease fire. this is light in the darkness, small taste or normal for the

people. a cease fire depends on those talks and not events over this five hour break. >> thanks very much kevin from jerusalem. let's have a look at issues faced by u.n. bodies on the ground. we have someone describing the impact of the cease fire on people. >> first day in nine days they've been stuck in a traffic jam which is a nice change i suppose. streets have been desserted, shops closed, banks closed. to have people on the street active is a very positive sign. >> from your perspective, five hours is something. that's poultry stuff isn't it? >> it's a start. it's something to be built on. the coordinator worked on this hard yesterday. it's not a solution, but hopefully it's a step wartoward

one. >> what can you do in a window like this to assist? >> i think the bigger impact for this is it's less on us and more on the people particularly those as you said earlier, able to get out, get to shops and restock. there's also been a problem with you till ity workers. the water infrastructure has been damaged. there was two utility workers killed in a strike. they had stopped working out of fear for their lives frankly. i think this window is a good opportunity particularly for the water infrastructure and power utility workers to get out and make repairs. >> do you think five hours is long enough or perhaps they'll extend this somewhat? >> that's up to the parties. as i say, we hope it will continue. certainly it's a positive step. the fact that both sides for the moment are adhering to it is a good sign.

we hope it continues and they build on it. >> what do you do for those -- we've seen the pictures over the course of the past few days. buildings blown up, left right and center. a lot of people forced out of homes wondering what to do. to what extent can you provide them help? >> there's a couple ways. one is make sure our ongoing programs continue. we run 21 primary health clinics. we've seen during the conflict yesterday 9,000 patients in our clinic. it's critical that continues. we have food distribution program for 830,000 people. they depend on food. it's critical to keep that going. we collect solid waste in refugee camps. our labor has been wasting their lives iic picking up gash act. we've had thousands displaced into our schools.

we need to make sure they're protected. we're getting together with the world food program, one meal a day. they have to have the gift card meal after the sun goes down. we make sure we have community mental health workers on site to provide for children. fresh water. they need to feel secure and safe. they need the basic supplies and basic goods they need to keep going. >> that's the u.n. robert turner. want to give you the picture of gaza. this relative normality. the in less than two hours forget it. all those cars will be off the streets, cease fire will be over. all that animosity and hostility still building. this morning the israeli president apologized for the deaths of those four palestinian children killed as they played on a beach. the killings were not

deliberate, he says. >> i think it was -- we are really sorry to see children being killed. i think the air force is really taking maximum care not to hit children. even single violence. if they see a child they don't do it. that was an accident because it was an area that we warned that will be bombed. there was a great concentration of weapons. unfortunately they didn't take the children. >> the israeli president there. president obama has announced the most wide ranging sanctions so far against russia

targeting defense, financial and energy company as. he said moscow failed to take the key steps needed to stop violence in ukraine. eu stepped up level of sanctions. the russian prime minister condemned new sanctions. he described them as evil. >> for months the conflict in eastern ukraine has flared. no amount of western pressure has brought it to an end. in recent weeks ukrainian troops stepped up their campaign trying to push back the pro russian separatists. civilians and soldiers have died in the fighting. russia accuses kiev of firing shells across the border. united nations blames russia for arming the separatists and massing troops on the border. that's why it issued new sanctionses. the list targets leading russian firms including the oil giant

and leading financial institutions. it includes russian arms suppliers and five individuals including the russian intelligence officer from the fsb. president obama explaplained wh he wants russia to do. >> russia must halt the flow of fighters and weapons across the bo borders. russia needs to pursue internationally mediated talks and agree to meaningful monitors on the boarder. >> in ukraine, some civilians are fleeing the east. separatists and government forests fight on. the eu has backed u.s. sanctions with its own and says details will follow. russia has shown no sign of vowing to western pressure. president putin said sanctions put america's relations with russia at a dead end.

bbc news washington. to australia has parliament voted to scrap a controversial carbon tax and plans for emissions trading scheme. the conservative prime minister abbott says the axing will boost business and push down household power bills. critics insist mr. abbott is taking australia backyards. phil mercer reports. >> the matter resolved in the affirmative. the clean energy legislation bill and seven related bills passed. so australia's price on carbon is no more. the vote in the upper house of parliament came after the government finally won the support of micro party as and independent senators. the controversial tax saw the nation's biggest pollutants pay a fee for each ton of carbon dioxide they emitted. abbott, the prime minister who

came to power 10 months ago said it was a break on the australian economy. >> you voted to scrap the tax in september last year. today the parliament finally listened. today the tax you voted to get rid of is finally gone. a useless destructive tax which damaged jobs, hurt families cost of living and didn't help the environment is finally gone. >> ministers contend because australia is responsible for less than one and a half % of global emissions, whatever they do is inconsequential. australia is among the world's highest per capita emitters of green house gases thanks to reliance on cheap supply of coal. critics say the prime minister has created a monumental blun r

blunder. >> today abbott made australia the first country to reverse action on climate change. history will judge abbott very harshly for refusing to believe genuine action on climate change. abbott is sleep walking australia to an environmental and economic disaster. >> this is the world 's driest inhabited continent. in 2013, australia had the toughest year on record. temperatures forecast to increase. is this a man man problem getting worse or simply part of a natural cycle? australia is torn. the debate over climate change grows. bbc news sydney. let's bring you the breaking news. getting reports from ukraine, a russian military plane has shot down an su-25 fighter yet

according to the ukrainian national security and defense council. let's get more on that. daniel sanford is in moscow for us. daniel, can you expand on those accusatio accusations? >> incredibly serious allegations. what the national security and defense councilman said was yesterday a su-25 jet belonging to ukrainian military was hit by a missile fired by a russian air force jet. that is the allegation that the plane was shot down. the piloting managed to parachute out and has been taken to safety by ukrainian forces. the allegation again from the ukrainians is that it was a russian jet, russian air force jet that shot down one of their own jets in their own territory on ukrainian territory. we haven't had comment yet from the russians about whether or not they accepted this

allegation is true. there have been a number of incidents this week. a transport plane which the ukrainians also believed might have been shot down by a missile fire ed from the russian side of the border. last night videos emerged of rockets, powerful rockets fired from a multiple rocket launcher which appeared to be fired from russian territory towards ukraine. troops in some parts of the border area complained they believe they're fired on from the russian border zone. a number of allegations but certainly the most direct allegation made by the ukrainian national defense council themselves that russians are more involved in this conflict. >> i see one line saying the pilot appears to have ejected out of the plane. nonetheless this looks day by day a downward spiral at the moment. >> it does. it could be the start of a real russian involvement in this

conflict. that's obviously the fear of the ukrainian government and of people in western europe and united states. people imagine it's going to be great moment when war is decl e declared and conflict changes mode. that's not likely to be what happens when russia is involved. quite often there's a degree of hiding of people's intentions. i think the fear and of course at this moment this is based on one allegation made by the ukrainians. the fear is this conflict is sliding slowly without announcements into a different mode. >> thanks very much indeed. just to remind you of what that accusation is. it's kiev accusing russian air force jet of shooting down a ukrainian warplane over its territory in the course of wednesday. you're watching bbc world news. stay with us if you can. coming up, something more

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booking.com booking.yeah! this is bbc world news. i'm david eades. these are the latest headlines. a temporary truce between hamas and israel does appear to be holding despite a report from the israeli army three mortgager shells were fired from gaza after the cease fire started. russia condemns new western sanctions over ukraine as evil. one target of the u.s. sanction is the giant oil corporation. there's been a fierce battle between taliban insurgents and afghan forces near to the airport. that's the airport used by nato forces as well as civilian aircraft. grenades were fired from an empty block of flats.

afghan police say insurgents were killed. bill is in kabul and gave us details. >> afghan special forces arrived immediately to the scene. the battle was handle fwid deputy security minister, a four star general. after a four hour gun battle, all the attackers were killed. they were using rocket propelled grenades, heavy machine guns. they targeted the military side of the airport which is where nato and afghan air force parked their helicopters as well as military planes. kabul airport was closed to all flights many and out. flights i ddiverted to other cis in afghanistan. while it was a security success, no one was killed. it was a huge intelligence failure. special units are placed in this area as well as in other parts of the city specifically to

provent an attack like this from happening. you of course remember earlier this month a taliban fired two rockets which which hit the presidential helicopter. afghan pilots were attacked in the suicide attacks. lots of them were killed. clearly the afghan air force is targeted in the past few weeks. >> is it clear how much damage its done to the airport? is it still operational? >> it is very much operational. flights have resumed. there's no major damage. what it has done david, it has shattered the confidence of the afghan people. this is not the first attack. in the last few weeks we have seen several attacks launched by the insurgents. not a complex attack as today. you've seen a lot of sticky bombs attached to vehicles of government officials and in several cases killing top

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david eades with bbc world news. our top stories. as a temporary cease fire between hamas and israel appears to hold, reports from the israeli army say three mortgagers for fired into israel after the truce started. the apology for four palestinian children from the president wednesday. he says it was unintentional. reports from the ukrainian national security say a russian military plane shot down a jet

fighter over the east of the country. australia votes to scrap a carbon tax. the prime minister says it will boost business. critics warn it's a backwards step. keeping newborns connected to their umbilical cords longer can give better benefits, according to new research. hello. a five hour cease fire between israel and the palestinian group hamas is well underway. in the last hour or so we've had reports from israeli police that three rockets have been fired from gaza since that cease fire began. israel says it hasn't responded. the cease fire itself appears to be holding. we'll give you the picture now across gaza.

clear, empty, blue skies. this is the scene we've been looking at for nine days or so. pretty quiet there as you can see. certainly much busier if you look closer to gaza city itself. this is a picture we haven't seen quite a while. cars getting out while they can in this five hour window. residents of course heading out onto the streets off to shops buying whatever proof visions they can, going to banks as well. correspondents tell us there are queues for cash at the bank. conflict went up the start of the cease fire. we have these from israeli military reportedly showing hamas militants using a tunnel to get into israel. the military launched an air strike killing at least one of them and propelling that attack. kevin is in jerusalem and give us an update first of all on

those reports of rockets coming in from gaza. >> my understand they were mortgager shells. small but important distinction. they're shorter range and less powerful weapons than rockets fired from gaza. they landed in what is largely agriculture area of israel near the gaza border. for the moment there's no response from israel. it continues to hold the fire. the cease fire would desen at the grate if there was response. it stands an isolated incident. it shows this is a delicate situation. any cease fire of course only lasts up until the moment it is broken. >> yeah that is not far away in any case. do you get any sense there's a readiness to extend it? >> no. i don't think the this will build into a broader cease fire. we need to look at separate

processes here. today hostilitiehostilities, let that. to get gailygaily -- daily life flowing. to set the beginning of the immense task that a waits them. there's no reason to think it will build something more substantial. in parallel, there are talks in cairo aimed at a proper cease fire. this is a light in the darkness, bit of hope, small taste or normal for people in gaza. hopes for a proper cease fire depend on political talks and not evolution of events over the five hour break. >> robert turner is director of the united nations relief operations in gaza itself. he's been describing to me the impact of this cease fire for

most people in gaza. >> well first time in nine days they've been stuck in a traffic jam which is a nice change. streets have been desserted since this started last week. shops and banks closed before that. to have people on the street and have them active is a positive sign. >> from your perspective, five hours is something. that's poultry stuff isn't it? >> it's something to be built on. the special coordinator worked on this hard yesterday. it's not a solution but hopefully a step towards one. >> what about your own situation? what can you do in a window like this to assist? >> well i think the bigger impact for this is less on us and more on the people. particularly those that as you said earlier are able to get out and get to shops. they can restock. also there's been a problem with

utility workers. the water infrastructure has been damaged. there was two utility workers killed in a strike. they had stopped working out of fear for their lives frank ily. i think this window is a good opportunity particular ily for water infrastructure to get out and make repairs. >> do you think five hours is enough or is there scope to to extend cease fire somewhat? >> that's going to be up to the parties. as i say, we hope it will continue. certainly it's a positive step. the fact that both sides for the moment are adhering to it is a very good sign. we hope it continues and they build on it. >> what do you do for those that -- we've seen the pictures over the course of the last few days. buildings blown up left, right, center. people forced out of homes wondering what to do. to what extent can you provide

them help? >> there's a couple of ways. one is to make sure our ongoing programs continue. we run health clinics and we've been seeing over 9,000 patients in our clinics. it's critical that care continues. we have a food distribution program for 830,000 people. we collect solid waste in refugee camps. sanitation workers have been risking their lives out everyday picking up garbage to make sure there's no environmental health disaster. that needs to continue. we have 0,000 people displaced into 24 schools. we need to make sure they're adequately protected, we're doing together with the world food program. one meal a day. they have to have gift card meal after the sun goes down. community health workers on site particularly for children. fresh water. they need to feel secure and

safe. they need the basic supplies and basic goods they need to keep going. we'll bring you that breaking news. we've just heard senior israeli officials told the bbc there will be a comprehensive cease fire beginning at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. so the picture we've got here in gaza is something maybe we'll get to see again tomorrow. this scene of traffic out on the roads for the first time in nine days is due to come to an end in where are we, just under an hour and a half? the breaking news we've just heard from israeli senior government official talking directly to the bbc is that a comprehensive cease fire is to be put in place from 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. this on the back of talks which are going on in cairo. that would be seen as an encouraging step for these

people desperate to get out in the short window of opportunity to do shopping there. banking, whatever they've had to do. it looks like there well may be extension after. that it doesn't get over the extension and animosity running between these two sides. this morning, israeli president was apologizing for the death of four palestinian children. they were killed as they played on a beach. perez told bbc those killings were not deliberate. >> it was not intent. we are really sorry to see four children being killed. i think the air force is really taking maximum care not to hit children. even single violence.

if they see a child they don't do it. that was an accident because it was an area we warned that will be bombed. there was a great concentration of weapons. unfortunately they didn't take out the children. we didn't have the slightest idea about it. >> peres, israel's president. we get reports a russian military plane shot down a ukrainian fighter jet over eastern ukraine. this is according to the national security and defense council which says the pilot ejected safely. the plane was on military operation oef operations over the east of the country. daniel has more details for us. >> yeah incredibly serious allegations. what the national security and

defense council spokesman said yesterday an su-25 yet belonging to the ukrainian military was hit by a missile fired by a russian air force jet. that is the allegation that the plane was shot down. the pilot managed to parachute out and has been take ton safety by ukrainian forces. the allegation again from the ukrainians it was a russian air force jet that shot down one of their own jets on their own territory on ukrainian the territory. we haven't had comment yet from the russians about whether or not they accept this allegation is true. there's been a number of incidents this week. a transport plane which the ukrainians also believed might have been shot down by a missile fired from the russian side of the border. last night, some video emerged of rockets, powerful rockets fired from a multiple rocket

launcher which appeared fired from russian territory. troops in some parts of the border area complained they believe they're fired on from the russian border zone. so a number of allegations but certainly the most direct allegation made by the ukrainian national defense council themselves that russians are getting more involved in conflict. >> i see one line that the pilot appears to have ejected out of the plane. nonetheless this looks like day by day a downward spiral at the moment. >> it does. it could be the start of a real russian involvement in this conflict. that's obviously the fear of the ukrainian government and of people in western with europe and in the united states. people imagine it's going to be great moment when war is declared and a conflict changes mode. that's probably not likely to be

what happens when russia is involved. quite often there's a degree of hiding of people's intentions. i think the fear and of course at this moment it's based only on one allegation made by ukrainians. the fear is this conflict is sliding slowly without announcement into a different mode. >> certainly seems to be the case doesn't it? situation in ukraine receive ago tension from the white house and european union leaders as president obama and the eu have announced wide ranging sanctions against moscow for what they say is russia's continued help for separatist rep els. russia's prime minister condemned new sanctions and called them evil. >> for months the conflict in eastern ukraine has flared. no amount of western pressure has brought it to an end. in recent weeks ukrainian troops have stepped up the campaign trying to push back the pro russian separatists.

civilians and soldiers have died in fighting. russia accuses kiev for firing across the border. united states blames russia for arming troops on the border. that's why it issued sanctions. the list including the oil giant rosneft and leading financial institutions. it includes russian arms suppliers and five individuals including the russian intelligence officer from the fsb. president obama explain what is he wants russia to do now. >> i made it clear russia must halt the flow of weapons and fighters across the border into ukraine, russia must urge separatists to release hostages and support a cease fire. russia needs to support internationally mediated talks and agree to monitors on the

border. >> the separatists and government forces fight on. eu backed u.s. sanctions with its own and says details will poll. russia has shown no sign to vowing to western pressure. president putin says this puts relations at a dead end. australia's senate voted to scrap the country's tax on car box emissions. this is one of the main priorities of the prime minister abbott many many the course of last year's campaign. australia is one of the world's biggest emitters per capita. critics say this is something of a backwards step. mr. abbott said it's a destructive tax. >> you voted to scrap the tex many september last year, and today the parliament finally listened. today the tax that you voted to get rid of is finally gone.

a useless, destructive tax which damaged jobs, hurt family's cost of living and didn't help the environment is finally gone. >> tony abbott there. stay with us on bbc world news. coming up shortly, after a pretty brutal terror attack and the hundreds of muslim weegers, what's the impact on the minority group? we'll find out. vo: this is the summer.

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we have breaking news for you. that is a senior israeli official told the bbc there will be a comprehensive cease fire. those are the words in gaza from 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, friday morning. this is on the back of talks taking place in cairo. the the temperature today appears to be holding.

we have reports from the israeli government that three mortgager shells were fired from gaza after the start of this truce. it does appear to be holding. the bigger and breaking news is that a comprehensive cease fire is to be put in place from friday morning. kevin is bbc correspondent in jerusalem. kevin came out of the blue with this? >> we know there's been talks going on in cairo. it's a time of caution. there are lots of moving parts in any peace deal. israel is one of them. we haerp talk of that comprehensive cease fire. nothing from hamas yet. that's also important. nothing from the egyptians either. this is one report of a multidimensional process but by far the most encouraging thing that's happened over the life of the conflict so far. it's interesting because we know the high powered delegation has

been in cairo. representatives of the intelligence service, personal envoy from prime minister netanyahu. certainly people on the ground in cairo who have had the power to make a deal. we know there are various players from the gulf involved. those background talks have been going on. we have referred to them a few times but had no idea how close they were to a break through or break down. this from the israeli side. this first report certainly suggests that they have gone remarkably well. we wait to hear from the other players of course. >> yeah. we're in this brief truce at the moment. to use the word comprehensive given what both sides said they really want, that's a big word. comprehensive in this context

means israel gets what it wabts wants, that's end to rocket fire. they want something more substantial on that. hamas got all sorts of demands. it put a lot of demand on the agenda. this is some kind of economic relief for people of gaza. after all suffering and destruction, it needs to offer the people of gaza improvements in their daily life. that means some kind of opening of the border kept under tight restrictions both by israel and by egypt. so those things are doable and perhaps they have been done. we have to remember of course that even if there is a cease fire, there's no trust between hamas and israel. everything will remain delicate many the coming hours. i say crucially. we wait to hear the perspectives of the other players in this deal on how its gone. the first word from israel is encouraging. >> thank you very much indeed.

kevin in gentlemen redujerusale after a series of terror attacks blamed on the weeger minority. one of the most notorious case as, three men and a woman a wait sentencing for an attack at a railway station where 29 passengers were hacked to death. our reporter is there. >> it's not hard being a muslim in china, but it is now hard to be i a weeger. the government blames weegers who want a separate state or weegers depending on holy wall for every major terror attack it faces. once there were uns in a mosque across china. now only a handful brave police checks here. training to make sure an attack

never happens again. a handful of murders armed wi b civilians. training comes too late for 29 who died. the many more who were wounded. four months later, she's still in a coma. her brother describes that terrible night. he's gone ahead with their luggage. when he heard shouting and rushed back, he found bodies strewn across the concourse. his sister was lying in a pool of blood. he feels they should face the death penalty. >> among the weegers there's more good buys than bguys than . government has to crack down hard on them. >> china was spending more on

internal security than national defense. now armed police are out across the country. there are victims on all sides here. the murdered and injured were from the ethnic hand majority mostly. also victims of the innocent chinese weeger citizens who struggle now to find a job, to rent a flat, or even to to travel on a train without with being resented or suspected by the person sitting next to them. at this week at a restaurant, business nose dived. this staff and their families outnumber the customers. fasting is suspect or growing a beard. >> we weegers are under a lot of pressure. it's hard to travel anywhere. police ask where you're from and what you're doing. >> these waiters are not

interested in freedom fighting. they'd like someone to dance with and customers to serve. as the security crack down escalates across china, anyone can become a terror suspect. no swift return to days when weegers were famous for love of music and dance. bbc news. we want to bring you rather lovely pictures from northern japan where villages depict japanese images in the paddy fields. these are rice plants that are painted. this is fuji for you. an ice field art. in this case, a scene from the legend about mount fuji and heavenly maiden. it's part of the mountain's recognition as a world heritage site. there are ten rise plants in

various colors used to create the piece there. lovely. let me remind you of our top story. it's breaking news as we've heard. in the last few minutes, a senior israeli official has told bbc that there will be what he called a comprehensive cease fire in gaza from 6:00 friday morning. this comes after talks which are taking place in egypt. we only have this at this stage from the israeli side. we wait to hear from hamas which of course would provide confirmation required. the picture we're showing is the picture live over gaza now. we are in the middle of a temporary humanitarian cease fire as its called which started under four hours ago and has another hour to run at which point we expect that to change. at the moment the situation in

gaza is one of traffic out on the roads, people on the streets as if per normal. that is expected to stop again in about an hour's time. the news is that possibly we have a comprehensive cease fire about to be put in place from friday morning. that is the latest breaking news here on bbc world news. trying to stay fit but miss real pleasure? the pleasure you crave just got real. light & fit greek nonfat yogurt. irresistible flavors, like toasted coconut vanilla, with a thick creamy texture. never have 80 calories tasted so satisfying. light & fit greek. taste satisfaction without sacrifice. ♪ dannon

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hello. you're watching "gmt" on bbc world news. i'm lucy hockings. bbc has been told by israeli officials 245i6 agreed a comprehensive cease fire in gaza to begin friday morning. it follows a 2e6r7 rare cease fire today allowing palestinians on the streetss as humanitarian work takes place during the five hour window. an air force jet has been shot down by a russian plane over eastern ukraine. we'll take you live for that breaking story.