security prison east of moscow. more people tuned in this year to see that and all the other winners from sunday. this year s academy ayears 19 million viewers. that s a 12% increase from the previous year. the show held its own against the season finale of hbo s hit the last of us. in 2021, the oscars dipped to an all-time low of 10.5 million viewers. thank you for your company. i m rosemary church. have yourself a wonderful day. cnn newsroom continues with max foster and bianca nab low, next. let s be more than our allergies! zeize the day.y. with zyrtec.
axios, saying that the president has decided that doubling down on an economic strength message is a good way to go right now, which is sort of a controversial idea. considering if you look at the polling, more than half of americans say they aren t happy with the way that president biden has handled the economy. a large plurality say they don t think they re as well-off now economically as they were beforehand. but i would point you to a couple statistics i think we re going to hear today and keep hearing. one is 12 million jobs created since he took office. another is a record 10.5 million small businesses having applications over the course of his first two years. yes, republicans are going to be talking about inflation. yes, medicare and social media will continue being these kind of, you know, messaging wars, but when you go to a place that is truly a purple district in what s been increasingly, you
revenue a year. these are high stakes, markets are high sta kes, markets are looking high stakes, markets are looking closely, and this kind of own goal from google looking closely, and this kind of own goalfrom google is exactly what they didn t want. james clayton, there are. there. let s go to asia, now, where we are expecting results from the world s top carmaker toyota and its rival nissan. toyota wears the crown in the global car industry in terms of numbers it sold $10.5 million vehicles last year butjust a fraction of those some 25,000 were fully electric. and there are worries the company is falling behind in the transition to zero emission cars. let s talk to giacomo rossi, who looks at transport for the consultants frost and sullivan in milan, italy. a warm welcome to you. toyota s numbers are just out and, you know, it did pose a surprise, a 22% rise in third quarter operating profits. good news, but there is concern about its
strength with a strategy based largely on getting flyers on low price all over europe. ryanair s ceo has indicated recently he does not see any sign of a recession as far as travellers concern. bookings are strong, prices are up and we expect a strong season so i expect we will hear more comments building on that in the next half hour or so. we will talk to the next half hour or so. we will talk to you the next half hour or so. we will talk to you again when we get those numbers. thank you for your time. let s stay with transport and move to the roads. toyota has just released its latest sales numbers that reveal that it will retain the crown as the world s top selling car maker for the third straight year. the group sold around 10.5 million vehicles in 2022. it was down just a smidgen from last year, 0.1% to be precise. but toyota has a battle to retain its dominance in an ever increasing ev world that it is not at the forefront of.
in a lot of battles right now, and the last battle any ceo wants to be in is a battle with their own employees. and unfortunately, since the last time iger was in the ceo seat, the world changed a lot. and it s not a one-size-fits-all world anymore. you need a bespoke policy, and while some departments at disney might need to return and be collaborative many person four days a week, many could probably use a two or three-day week or entirely remote situation. it s really important that he s listening to what the world is saying and what employees want, and 68 of people want to work 68% of people want to work remotely 100 percent of if time, so will needs to be a give and take. neil: all right. we re seeing more ceos, jonas, are going in this route. the give and take the thing might be, you know, forced on iger if we re still to realize the fact that 10.5 million jobs are going begging in country. so he might not have that luxury.