Artificial intelligence and other developing Artificial Intelligence like robotic and Quantum Computing are important for long term growth. A senior strategist gave us his highlights. I think that there are two things that really catch my attention. One is the governments emphasis on improving Co Ordination between governments, local governments and local governments and the central government. Now, not many people talk about this. But i think this is quite important, because if this Co Ordination programme or plan is implemented effectively, it will go a long way to improve Policy Implementation in china. Because very often, governments dont really talk to each other much, and that really slows down government implementations. This is very important for me. And the number two important thing is, as you mentioned earlier, that theres an emphasis on the development of ai Tech Development and so on. That goes a long way to underscore the Policy Framework that beijing wants to implement t
The hindu nationalist and incumbant Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is strongly favoured to win a third term. It is the Worlds Largest democracy, in which nearly one billion people are eligible to cast ballots. Our south asia correspondent, samira hussain, is in new delhi, where the announcement has just been made. How long will it take to get a result . ,. , , how long will it take to get a result . ,. , ,. , result . This is the worlds most oulous result . This is the worlds most populous country result . This is the worlds most populous country and result . This is the worlds most populous country and there result . This is the worlds most populous country and there are| populous country and there are hundred 98 million eligible voters in this 2024 election so actually, it doesnt happen over one day, it happens over several weeks. They have decided it is going to happen in seven phases for the election and in seven phases for the election and in total it will be about six weeks bef
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
Ireland and southern scotland. Very mild for england and wales, as it was last night. A bit chilly ahead of that rain in central and northern parts of scotland, where we will see some early sunshine, but that wet weather is going to move northwards into scotland and continue to affect Northern Ireland. Whilst we will see some sunshine across england and wales, there will be bands of showers moving across from the west. Ahead of that with some sunshine, temperatures will be higher than today. 16 degrees in east anglia and the south east, possibly 17. It will be cooler in the north where we have rain. We have a southerly breeze tomorrow breaking up the cloud and bringing those higher temperatures. On friday, a northerly breeze will start to push into Northern Scotland and Northern Ireland. That wet weather will move into northern england. To the south, we will see some sunshine but heavy and thundery showers. It becomes a bit drier in scotland and Northern Ireland. It becomes colder in t
Have been so wet, already months worth of rainfall and we are not even through the first half of the month. So Rain Bearing Clouds over us might know particularly what today across parts of wales, the north west of england. For example snowdonia could see 100 millimetres of rain in the next couple of days but it is a narrow band. So here we have cloudy conditions but further north it is brighter but cooler. Across england and wales team is so quite mild. The forecast than for tonight shows a band of rain continuing across this North Western portion of england and were but then coming back to reach Northern Ireland and southern parts of scotland. To the south it is very mild might commit10 scotland. To the south it is very mild might commit 10 degrees in some spots. Calder across scotland at around three or 4 degrees. So an area of low pressure here, but the centre at somewhere around here. But Weather Front spreading north tomorrow and showery rain across this part of the country. If t