for the firm. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the latest. what began as the firing of openai as ceo and co founder sam altman on friday is now a stand off between hundreds of openai employees and the company s board. nearly all of openai s workers are threatening to quit if the ball doesn t resign and reinstate the former leadership. board members fired altman on friday, saying in a statement that he was not consistently candid in his communications with them. the company also announced that greg brockman the president and co founder of openai would be stepping down as chairman of the board, but he quit. the company has named emmett cher, the co founder of the live streaming platform twitch as openai s interim ceo. two broken prominent openai heads have signed onto the letter. on monday morning, the chief scientist tweeted he deeply regrets his participation in the board because my actions. openai has been the dominant force in al development with
any moment president biden will meet with the mexico president on the final day of the apec summit in san francisco. while tensions rise between countries over the record amounts of migrants crossing the southern border, border officials warn mexico has handed over their side of the border to the drug cartels. sandra: one issue he is likely to press on, cracking down on deadly fentanyl trafficking, killed more than 70,000 americans last year alone. we are monitoring that meeting for you. we ll bring you the news from it as it comes in. john: that may be just the beginning. anti-israel activists calling for a day of action today as anger grows among the democratic base over president biden s support for israel and rejection of a ceasefire in gaza. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you this afternoon. sandra: sandra smith in new york. far left protestors from coast to coast are set to take to the streets in what they are calling a shut down fo
clear and direct contact was necessary to avoid accidents or misunderstandings. earlier, mr xi described china s relationship with the us as the most important in the world. president biden made his comments at a news conference that mr xi didn t attend. i welcome the positive . steps we ve taken today, and it s important for the world to see - that we re implementing the approach in the best traditions i of american diplomacy. we re talking - to our competitors and the key. and just talking, just - being blunt with one another, so there s no misunderstanding, |as a key element to maintainingj global stability and delivering for the american people. - and in the months ahead, we re going to continue to preserve i and pursue high level diplomacy | with the prc in both directionsl to keep the lines of communication open, including between president xi and me. he and i agreed that each one of us could pick up i the phone, call directly- and be heard immediately. i think i kno
exports are now curently worth $7 million annually. but things are improving. last month china said it will review its tariffs on australian exports and australia has suspended action it had taken against china at the world trade organization. let s discuss this with professorjames laurenceson director of the australia china relations institute at the university of technology sydney. good to have it on the programme. i vejust mentioned programme. i ve just mentioned wine programme. i vejust mentioned wine is one example of where things had been very difficult when it comes to trade. where else have been problems? when the albanese else have been problems? when the albanese inaudible. - the albanese inaudible. sadly you are frozen. we don t seem to have a good line with you. perhaps we will return to you. perhaps we will return to you a little later on in the programme to talk about this story because of course we want to look at that very important relationship between au
Later in the programme well get the inside track on a tech company which aims to tackle the worldwide problem of poor eyesight. A new survey has found that online spending in the uk has fallen for the First Time Since 2013. Today we want to know whether your expectations of the future are affecting your Spending Decisions . Do get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. So Emmanuel Macron has won the french presidency, and now the hard work begins. His first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. The outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. France has had a high Unemployment Rate for decades currently around 10 of the workforce or 3 million people. That compares with less than half 4. 3 across the border in germany. The problem is worse for young people 24 of those between the ages of 15 and 2a dont have a job. The other big iss