now, for the business news, i m victoria valentine. we start in the us where there is more evidence that, after tens of thousands ofjob cuts, big tech is pulling out of its post pandemic slump. amazon is the latest to reveal it s making much more money than wall street was expecting. sales hit more than $127 billion in the first three months of the year, and the online retail giant says that figure will be higher in the current quarter. it comes after alphabet, the owner of google and youtube, and meta, which owns facebook and instagram, both surprised investors with better than expected results. samira hussain reports from new york. this over the last year and is on has been aggressively cutting costs to help with profitability. it has already laid off 18,000 people and is currently about to eliminate another 9000 jobs. currently about to eliminate another 9000jobs. it currently about to eliminate another 9000 jobs. it would appear that some of those measures are already pay
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support for aviation, . and he rolls off figures which bear no relation - to the reality of what aviation workers and the sector actually needs. - it s entirely possible that much of the world may follow bulgaria and place travel from the uk on a red list. if this were to happen, what comfort can the minister offer to the uk travel sector? and does he not recognise that now is the time for additional support for this beleaguered sector, as travel disruption looks set to continue for the foreseeable future? the travel agent industry needs in fact, must have new grants applied to it, because it cannot survive, minister, it cannot survive. and it employs thousands of people, it produces a huge amount of taxation revenue for this country. but it will not survive, it needs that support. the minister tried to reassure mps. we estimate that the aviation sector itself will have benefited from approximately £7 billion worth of support by september, as well as the other sectors which have b