today, the business headlines will be dominated again by the huge profits made by one of the world s top oil companies. this time it s the turn of bp its latest results are out in an hour and a half and it is expected to reveal it s made substantial sums in the last quarter. last week, shell announced it made record annual profits of nearly $40 billion in 2022, double the previous year s total and the highest in its 115 year history. energy firms have seen record earnings since oil and gas prices jumped following the invasion of ukraine. dr carole nakhle is chief executive of crystal energy, a consultancy that provides advice, research and training to the energy sector. thank you for being on the programme. if we look at the numbers to begin with will bp be record numbersjust like be record numbers just like shell? be record numbersjust like shell? i be record numbers “ust like shell? ., ~ , shell? i don t think bp will be an outlier shell? i don t think bp will be a
economic sense to them. we appreciate economic sense to them. we appreciate your time and analysis on this. bp s results will be out in an hour and 25 minutes and when we get the numbers we will make sure you do know in the reaction to them as well. more now on google. as you ve been hearing, it s unveiled a new chatbot tool called bard in a bid to compete with the viral success of chatgpt, which was released in late november by ai research company openai. and google isn t alone. china s baidu is also working on a similar project. let s cross over live to our asia business hub and speak to mariko oi. a global race is heating up! indeed, and the baidu version is called ernie but in chinese and baidu has confirmed with the bbc will complete internal
investigating whether a threat nexus exists for elijah cummings even though what happened to cummings it happened before the president tweeted about it. that tells you a lot. well, it s pretty clear that google isn t simply just a business enterprise. though, it is the most powerful business in the history of the world. it s also an ideological organization. to its core. google cares what you are able to see and what you are able to think and the exercise the kind of control over their own employees. kevin sir nikki would know that firsthand. he spent three years at google working as an engineer. he said he faced relentless bullying ended up in the neonate google for his clinical views. one manager added him to an internal blacklist until finally google fired him last year. kevin joins us tonight. kevin, thanks very much for coming on. so, you believe that google knew
america. i reported that. and they took nine months to fix that bug. they just stalled at every opportunity. they assigned it to people who no longer work there. they made every excuse in the book to avoid taking down something that made donald trump look bad and i saw other incidents just like that. tucker: do you believe that google attempts to influence the election outcome or will attempt to try to prevent trauma from being reelected? i do believe so. i think that s a major threat. they have openly stated that they think 2016 was a mistake, they thought that trump should have lost in 2016. they really want him to lose in 2020. that s their agenda. they are very vice people running at every level of the company and they have quite a bit of control in the political process so that that s somethine should really worry about. see when you, congress is sitting back and acting like itt happening. it s disgusting. it kevin, thank you for sending that along. i appreciate it good to see
you can t fire someone for initiating a labor action, can you? i wouldn t think so. i have appealed the decision and the labor board came back and basically denied it. they did not cite any case laws. they didn t have a reason for it. it s basically there will against anybody else s. tucker: right here the most powerful country, company in the country. how ideological is the management at google? it s highly ideological. you can see it at every level of the organization. one thing i ve noticed is that handling of issues is plagued with bias. they will get reports about a liberal reporter and they will jump on it and they will fix the issue very quickly. in contrast, one thing that i saw when i worked there was if you do a google search for a crippled america, which is donald cohen donald trump s book, you will get results that would show mine cost instead ofd