Markets in the world? wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. Wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. Now, during the global lockdown, the flame of love burnt brightly online. With billions of us stuck at home, the only way singles could mingle was to fire up those dating apps. Dating sites like hinge, bumble and tinder became billion dollar businesses as sofa surfing for mr or ms right took off. But, lately, it seems that we might be falling out of love with the apps. Match group is the largest dating company in the world. It owns the big digital brands like hinge, tinder, 0kcupid, and match. Com, but it recently said it was cutting 6% of its workforce after the amount of people paying for services on its biggest site, tinder, dropped for the seventh quarter in a row. So that s almost two years of fewer people paying for the service. But it s not all bad news
To Talking Business with me, lukwesa burak. Lets have a look at whats coming up on the show. This is the first time im here, and its great to meet people in Real Life. Are we breaking up with digital dating . Looking for Love Online during lockdown was a multibillion dollar business, so why are so many of us swiping out of the apps . Is it that the price of love is just becoming too steep . Ill be asking one woman whos been in touch with 6,000 americans and noticed a big change in the way we use the sites. And ill be heading out to an in person dating event to talk to the brave souls searching for a partner in Real Life. Plus, later in the programme, its a country of 1. 5 billion people, and he has millions on his site looking for love. Ill be chatting to the boss of matrimony. Com, indias biggest digital dating group. So how is love blossoming across what is becoming one of the most important Dating Markets in the world . Wherever yourejoining me from around the world, once again a bi
A ramadan ceasefire unless a ramadan ceasefire unless the rival rsf Paramilitary Group leaves civilian and public sites. Us officials are pushing to open more land routes for aid from chad. The army had closed access points, saying the rsf was using it to transport weapons, and has only re opened one. The fighting must end for the sake of the sudanese people, who face hunger, horrors and untold hardships. In gaza, in sudan and beyond, its time for peace. I call on political, religious and Community Leaders everywhere to do everything in their power to make this holy period a time for empathy, action and peace. The world food programmes regional director for eastern africa. Explained more about the severity of the situation in sudan. We have in extraordinary problem on our hands in sudan at the moment. Notably inside the country but across the region. 8. 4 Million People displaced inside, another 1. 9 million refugees escaping into places like chad in south sudan, countries that dont re
A general election. The backdrop a flat lining Economy Millions struggling with the cost of living and polling indicating the Conservative Party is lagging far behind the opposition. Not to mention Financial Markets on edge for anything that might worsen the uks finances. The memory of Prime Minister liz truss s disastrous Tax Cutting Budget no doubt not far from mr hunts mind. So lets remind ourselves what he came up with. The rate of National Insurance paid by employees and the self employed, will be cut again by 2 pence in the pound. That comes on top of an earlier 2p cut mr hunt announced in the autumn. In april, full Child Benefits will be paid to households, where the highest earning parent is getting up to £60,000. The current limit is £50,000. And the non dom tax break for wealthy uk residents whose permanent home is overseas, is to be scrapped raising £2. 7 billion a year for the government. That announcement is highly controversial as it was a key pillar of labour policy.
We start in the uk where the first Asylum Seekers to be housed on Board A Barge in dorset are expected to arrive later today. The use of the Bibby Stockholm to house up to 500 people had been delayed by safety concerns. Ministers insist the vessel will help reduce the cost of placing migrants in hotels. Dan johnson reports. Three weeks after reaching portland, the Bibby Stockholm looks like its about to take up its role, as a home for Asylum Seekers and a display of a tougher approach to immigration. This is part of the governments insistence on reducing hotel bills, currently around £6 million a day, and deterring migrants from crossing the channel. Its controversial. Concerns about fire safety saw it labelled a death trap, but it seems everything may now be in place. We have seen a letter sent to Asylum Seekers, saying theyll be moved here later today. Now, that did happen twice last week and then there were delays, but this is the first time a specific date s been mentioned. And th