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Let’s stay in the Middle East because the boss of McDonald’s has said that the fast food giant is seeing a meaningful hit to its business because customers in the region and elsewhere have been boycotting the chain for its perceived support of Israel with more here’s the BBC’s Michelle flurry in New York some

Major Western brands have found themselves hit by Grassroots often unplanned boycotts because of their stance on the Israel Palestine conflict and this includes McDonald’s the burger chain became a Target after voting phot and videos on social media showed franchise stores in Israel giving away thousands of free meals to the members

Of the Israeli military and this led to calls for boycotts of the brand by those angered by Israel’s military response in Gaza while owners in Muslim majority countries such as Kuwait Malaysia and Pakistan will they put out statements distancing themselves in a message on LinkedIn McDonald’s CEO Chris Kinski

Wrote that the burger chain is experiencing a meaningful business impact due due to the war and Associated misinformation all of this in the Middle East and Beyond because of the war in Gaza he added this is disheartening and ill-founded pointing out that many of the restaurants are operated by local

Owners M what he didn’t do is elaborate on the scale of the impact but McDonald’s has around 2,000 restaurants in the region and McDonald’s isn’t the only Global brand to face controversy over its response others include Starbucks and unil lver showing how tough it is for companies to navigate

Such a politically charged conflict

You’re live with BBC News let’s turn to another breaking story in the last hour because Ukraine’s President Vladimir zelinski has announced he has sacked the commanderin-chief of the country’s armed forces that news just coming into us because the dismissal follows weeks now of speculation over General valer jal’s future after the leaders became

Embroiled in an argument over strategy especially strategy over the winter summer offensive on telegram Mr zinsky thanked the general for defending Ukraine but said the time for such an update is now the statement added the president and the general had discussed what kind of renewal the Armed Forces of

Ukraine actually needs well in his own statement the general said a decision was made about the need to change approaches and strategy one further line of information because Colonel General Alexander cki has apparently been named as the new military leader but a significant change after that sacking in

Ukraine more on that a little later

The tech billionaire Elon Musk is saying his neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its Wireless brain chips in a human for the first time he made the announcement on X his social media platform saying the procedure happened on Sunday he says the subject is recovering well and that initial

Results show a promising neuron Spike detection Mr musk says the product has been given the name telepathy and the plan is for it to enable control of a phone computer or almost any link device just by thinking about them several uh rival companies have already implanted what are known as brain computer

Interface systems in humans after tests were carried out initially on monkeys with more here’s on North America correspondent Peter Bose what Elon musk’s neuralink is trying to do is what a number of other companies have been attempting for quite a while now and that is essentially to create a brain computer interface that

Will allow a human being to carry out an action through thought alone now it involves implanting a number of microchips into the brain that connect to a part of the brain that is responsible for movement intention it has the effect that wirelessly it can send a signal to an app that can

Interpret a person’s intentions it sounds very futuristic but according to Elon Musk he says in a post on X he elaborates a little bit saying that this device will enable control of your phone or computer and through them almost any device just by thinking he says initial

Users will be those who have lost use of their limbs it seems that targeting people with debilitating neurological conditions now it should be stressed that this study is in the early stages his company was given the go-ahead only last year by us regul to carry out this human trial which is in

The safety assessment stages and clearly there is a lot to assess over the following months and your question mark over whether this device will still be operating as it is designed after 3 months 6 months possibly a few years and the results will be scrutinized very closely so with that in mind

Realistically and practically it could be several years if indeed it is shown to be successful before this kind of thing is available on a wide scale

A man armed with a crossbow has been shot dead by armed police in southeast London the Met police said the man was trying to force his way into a building in the Su Keys area just before 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday and was threatening to hurt the people inside live now to sou

Where our news reporter Sam Harrison is at the scene and following development Sam what more do we know about what happened there well yes it’s around 5:00 a.m. this morning a man said to be in his 30s arrived on Bywater place in Rive here in East London now after arriving he tried

To force his way into a house along the street behind me he’s now known to have been armed at the time as well with a number of different weapons including a crossbow now we’re then told that he managed to get into one of the properties here that’s when police were

Called to the scene for the very first time however once local officers were here they were still unable to diffuse the situation and in response the man threatened to harm the people that he was with inside that house that was what prompted the arrival of armed police

Officers here they arrived on the scene and shot the man who died after two other occupants who were also involved have received minor injuries during the incident it’s obviously something that shocked local residents this morning and it’s now been since been confirmed that the iopc will launch an investigation

Into the events that happened here okay Sam thank you

The foreign secretary Lord Cameron has suggested Britain is ready to bring forward the moment when it formally recognizes a Palestinian State he told a reception at Westminster that the Palestinian people had to be given a political Horizon to encourage peace in the Middle East well let’s get more on

This James landel our diplomatic correspondent is here with me really interesting these comments James and and you were there listening to David Cam and so to just tell us more about how he framed this essentially what he was saying is that something has to be done to start to political discussion so not

Just the immediate short-term talks to try and end the fighting now but actually something that can start unpicking a political process and his suggestion one of the suggestions was he said look you know there are lots of preconditions Hamas has to stop fighting it has to be guaranteed no longer a

Threat the leadership have to leave Gaza Etc but he also said on the Palestinian side some movement has to happen to try and give an incentive to Palestinians to engage in a in politics rather than fighting and his idea was to say look why why don’t you have the recognition

Of a Palestinian State not as the end outcome of long-term solution to the Middle East crisis but something that would be part of the negotiation so it’s more immediate as as as he said it provides a political Horizon for Palestinians now that is a change in the British position the British position

Was always you know we’ll support you know two State solution at some point he’s just saying well maybe we bring that earlier it’s really interesting and certainly the timing of it is also interesting would the UK consider doing this unilaterally no I mean the minister was asked about this in the house of

Comms today he made it very clear this is not something that’s going to be done unilaterally is a straightforward you know oneoff thing this is clearly something that Mr Cameron wants to do with allies uh but what he said and it’s certainly not going to happen tomorrow

Um there has been some criticism in the House of Commons about this some conservative MPS have said you know this whole idea of re would be rewarding Hamas for the atrocities of October 7th I think the government’s position is this is not that this is not anything

Immediate it’s just saying in the future when those negotiations potentially if they happen maybe you bring forward that process to give Palestinians some confidence that in Mr Cameron’s words uh that there is irreversible progress to a two-state solution and really briefly I mean you are talking about longterm

Because obviously in the immediate and the short term I mean the number of obstacles to actually getting to that place are just enormous enormous there’s very very little trust and that’s why Mr Cameron is in the region again his fourth trip since he’s only been in post

For two and a half months he’s in Oman um just trying to keep everybody talking for all the problems that are many at least there are conversations going on at the moment James SEL thanks very much for taking through thank you

The world’s most indebted property developer everr has been given a winding up order by a court in Hong Kong the company which has extensive Holdings in China has more than $300 billion doll in liabilities everr shares fell by more than 20% on the news before trading was

Suspended on The Exchange in Hong Kong let’s go live to Beijing now and speak to our China correspondent Steven McDonald Steven this has been r rumbling on for a long time finally a court in Hong Kong has said enough is enough yeah and I don’t think anyone in

China would have been surprised by this decision I mean the court had been giving ever Grand more chances they’ been adjournments and the judge said today look you know you haven’t given me a plan that shows are restructuring that would enable you to make the repayments

You have to make and so I’m going to order you into to liquidation now people who’ve been following the story will know that ever Grand was like a huge pillar of the economy here until 2021 when it started to miss its repayments now it as it turned out had

Been going further and further into debt to stay one step ahead of its creditors selling Residential Properties before it could even finish the ones that already promised and as it went further into debt it kept borrowing more and eventually it it’s all come undone for it actually should add we have just had

A statement from the company by the way um so according to the executive director of ever Grand today’s Court ruling is contrary to our original intentions Shan sh said we can only say that we have tried our best and that the decision is very regrettable but the decision has been

Made which means now uh ever Grand is going through this very long and complicated process of paying back those that it owes money to but in some cases people might not see any money they they may have invested families for example who’ve put deposits on a on a flat that

Was going to be built one day yeah I mean very long and very complicated I mean I people are already trying to understand how this is going to play out one problem is it’s not even guaranteed that officials in China will recognize the um Cor appointed Liquidator their their right to be able

To seize Assets in mainland China I mean according to some asset estimates that a only a very small percentage of what’s owed can possibly be repaid via you know this method and so in a funny way it’s also the Chinese system on trial if I could put it that way you know this

Country wants more foreign investment and investors are going to be look at how this play plays out and and if these International creditors and they’re the ones who’ve brought this to the courts in Hong Kong in the first place if they can’t get their money back if they can’t

Get access to these assets that ever Grand has in mainland China well you know I think yet again there’ll be people questioning should I really be investing that much money in China is it too risky and so yeah a lot to be played out yet and and funnily enough in the

Interim for the for potentially years to come everr will keep building buildings here uh because there’s a lot of unwinding a lot of reorganization that has to take place and even would you believe the chance of yet another attempt to strike a deal to somehow bail them out