The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
i m yasmin vossoughian on a very busy start afternoon. breaking news, the president just signed the debt ceiling bill. into law. it happened just a couple of moments ago. it comes after the president took a victory lap, a victory many thought he could not achieve. i know bipartisanship is hard. and unity is hard. we can never stop trying. because in moments like this one, the ones we just faced, where the american economy in the world economy is at risk of collapsing, there s no other way, no matter how tough our politics get, we need to see each other not as evident adversaries, as fellow americans. fellow americans. right now in iowa, a cavalcade of gop presidential candidates, all in one place. with one notable exception. that exception may have bigger things to worry about, new reporting on the special counsel investigation in the former president, and the document donald trump s lawyers cannot seem to find. all of that, plus, we are following the horrific scene in in
launched by summit president sultan al jaber, saying they clearly fall short of what is required. countries and oil companies at the un climate talks have promised to make major progress in tackling global warming in a large new energy pledge. around 100 countries promised to treble world renewable energy use by 2030. but guterres points out the agreement says nothing about eliminating emissions from fossil fuel consumption. let s fill you in more detail in the comments by the chair of cop28, the sultan al jaber, as my colleague explains. he is the cop28 president, sultan al jaber. it is also the president of the abra diary national oil company. but it has been controversial. greta thunberg the climate campaign according completely ridiculous, than the british but the british government has defended him. one of the key architects of the 2015 paris agreement has also defended his appointment saying that he and his team are uniquely placed to persuade the fossilfuel pe
you can see at least more than a dozen children sitting on the floor. there s a class teacher sitting by her seat by the table. and another man who cannot be seen in the video. this young boy, a classmate muslim is standing next to the teacher. and at the behest of the teacher. you have three children, three boys coming up one after the other slapping him first on the face. then on the forehead. then on his waist. you can hear the teacher asking them to slap him harder and then we re told that the police has also gone ahead and confirmed the authenticity of this video. they also said a case has been open against the teacher and a probe is on. now according to the police, i ll quote what they had to say from the video what they deciphered the female declares when the mothers don t pay attention to the children studies their performance is ruined. this something she s heard saying in that 39-second clip.