And crime have dominated talking points, along along with two people not there us President Joe Biden and leading 2024 republican candidate former president donald trump. The debate, televised by the Fox Business Network and univison, features seven candidates. They were required to reach polling and donor threshholds set by the Republican National committee. In order to take part. But, for the second time in his 2024 campaign, donald trump isnt taking part in the debate. The 77 year old has suggested sharing a stage with what he deems low polling rivals could only hurt his commanding lead. It comes as he faces mounting legal challenges, and indictments, and just four months before the Iowa Caucuses begin that formally launch the gops nomination process. Mr trump instead is in detorit where he talked to car workers and blue collar employees. It comes Afterjoe Biden became the first sitting us president tojoin a picket line on tuesday at the invitation of the united auto workers, the Un
applications. companies and sales say they re being able to employ the right skill peel people but it s one of the biggest problems. in particular, they need more people with technical communication skills. in america, the unemployment rate is at under 4% and 74% of companies say they have trouble recruiting all the staff they need. that s i4% more than two years ago. in europe, they are calling the year 2023 the so called year of skills because more than three quarters of companies report difficulties finding workers with the right skill set and a quarter of medium size companies say that the biggest problem. here in the uk it s a similar picture. unemployment is hovering just under 4% and a new report shows that more than seven out of ten companies are reporting a so called skills gap. that report is fresh out from the british chambers of commerce and one of its recommendations is that companies work harder to fill the skills gap by recruiting from underrepresented groups.
continue with the west east divide. a touch of mist and fog. showery rain in east anglia and south east england. still a breeze. three friday, that breeze will still continue. that will make it feel cooler on the exposed east coast with temperatures struggling at 15, 16. with the high pressure influencing the story in the west with the sunshine we may see temperatures peaking at 20. in the week and the high starts to push on across the country. do not get too excited. we will be chasing cloud amounts for time to time. the potential of showery rain in the far north west of scotland. on the whole, for most of us, drier and brighter and it will get that the warmer. and that s it from the bbc news at six. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. novak djokovic s quest for another grand slam title is on track. another win takes him a step closer to defending his french open title. les blues play the lionesses in front of a crowd, but it ll be an empty hampden for scotl
part of their big help out. thanks forwatching. umbrellas part of their big help out. thanks for watching. umbrellas at the ready for watching. umbrellas at the ready for the next few days. we will all see some spells of sunshine and now we into may that sunshine can feel pleasantly warm but what we will also see is showers developing and they will be heavy and some will be accompanied by hail and thunder at times. we have one area of rainfall pulling eastwards at the moment. this solid band of cloud and another area of rainfall sweeping up from the south west and across southern and eventually eastern counties this evening and overnight. and following behind that, showers clusters of them, big, heavy showers pushing out of northern ireland into northern england by the end of the night and burning across scotland. a mild night, ten bridges in double figures. plenty of cloud around and
of the stories. the us energy giant exxon mobile says it made a profit of $11.1; billion in the first three months of this year, that s a record for the start of the air but less thanit for the start of the air but less than it made in the last part of last year. ireland gas prices have fallen in recent months. the company says it increased production to help meet global demand and did well with its ongoing efforts to cut costs. meanwhile chevron says profits rose to dotted despite paying $130 million windfall in the uk. the german carmaker mercedes says it has fully left russia after completing the sale of its industrial and financial services operation there to local car dealer avtodom. it has already stopped exports and manufacturing last year as a result of the war in ukraine. meanwhile the company says its seeing signs of improved demand in china and the us despite the ongoing pressures caused by higher costs to make its vehicles. that is all we have time for. thanks for watching.