In the latest fighting, israel has bombed a building in central beirut. Both Israel And Hezbollah have reported a second day of intense fighting on the ground in southern lebanon. Oil prices jumped on tuesday over supply fears, with markets regAining ground as investors seemingly come to terms with the escalation in tensions. Lets have a quick look at the price of oil, once agAin today, more than a i once agAin today, more than a i increase, the price of oil just below 75 per barrel. It would look at the Share Markets in asia, its an interesting picture were seeing. Japan is seeing a bigjump, Over2 because of the yen has weakened significantly on anticipation of what might happen in the japanese Economy But Hong kong is down over 3 . Big profit taking going on in hong kong, over the last few days there we have seen rapid increases on these markets in response to chinese stimulus so chinese stocks have had a real rise in recent days. Today, profit taking going on there but elsewhere, as
Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
From china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped onto chinese produced evs that are imported into canada. Now, the government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, says these measures were about protecting domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector. Talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been. We simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs in may whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It comes after Us National Security advisorjake sullivan, whos en route to beijing, touted the need for a united front on tariffs when he met Withjustin Trudeau an
Hes going to vaccinate brazilians for asked on the other side hes he and hes changed his tune with china as well he has been attacked in china and china is working with brazil to produce the corona back like they were here and as well as supplying the material for as presented to produce vaccines in brazil and the president had been tackling china all this time this is strange because time was running out so brazil was a really lagging behind its neighbors to start inoculations the u. S. Drug company novak says its corona virus vaccine ashamed to be more than 89 percent effective during a trial in the United Kingdom only trials also suggest that that scene is effective against a new variant of covered 19 1st found in the u. K. Coronavirus deaths in one of americas worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated an investigation by new yorks attorney general has found deaths in care homes may be more than 50 percent and officially reported. Protests in lebanon have been growing as
Make up your. Double made for mines. The euro hits a 2 and a half year high against a basket of currencies investors are bullish on europes recovery from the pandemic that has a strong euro but a strong euro rather has consequences for companies who bring you up to speed. Also on the show major Oil Producing nations agreed to bowl back some of their production pandemic production cuts can they ride an oil recovery or are they acting too soon. And the german state helps Small Businesses survive the pandemic by helping them go online. Welcome to the show. Stephen beardsley in berlin good to have you with us the euro is poised to hit a 2 and a half year high against a handful of rival currencies this week its the latest high point of a month long rally for the currency and it comes as rivals have weakens the European Unions common currency broke the 1. 20 cent mark as Inflation Fears hit the u. S. Economy itself against the pound sterling on fears that brags that brags a trade deal will n