Thats down from 3. 9 in the three months to november. It marked the lowest level seen since the November 2022 to january 2023 period. Wage growth slowed again in the britishjobs market. But and this is key it is still outpacing price rises, according to the office for national statistics. Lets hear now from michael stull, director at manpowergroup uk. Michael, what are you expecting to see a little later on . Im always very excited for when the numbers come out. Im expecting a couple of things, one is i do think unemployment will take up a little bit, as you mentioned wage growth is going to slow. We will see vacancies down and underlying all of that in the Labour Market we have two bosses, a cold and hot going on. On the cold and hot going on. On the cold side we have sent a dropping, weve seen hiring slowing down and we are not out of the woods. We are blue business and consumer confidence. Manufacturing pmi is a very low, big into caters. 0n the hot side we see a lot of hiring going
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and the us is pausing the approval of exports from new liquefied natural gas projects. we find out why. hello, everybody, welcome to the road business report. give me about 30 minutes and i will try to give you a fascinating snapshot of the world of business and money. welcome to the world business report. the uk has suspended free trade talks with canada, after nearly two years of negotiations. the british government had been trying to extend temporary arrangements put in place after brexit, but disputes about agricultural exports couldn t be overcome. it marks the first time the uk has formally suspended talks with a trade partner since formally leaving the eu trading regime in 2021. lets get more on this with the directorate general of the international trade. just for those who haven t been keeping up with this, why has the uk walked away? 50 with this, why has the uk walked awa ? ., . ., away? so once the uk had left the eu, there away? so once the uk had left the eu.
the eu has moved closer to passing one of the world s first loss to control artificial intelligence. eu lawmakers agreed on wednesday to changes in draught artificial intelligence rules proposed by the european commission in a bid to set a global standard for a technology used everything from automated factories to self driving cars to chatbots. let s get more in this and speak to the independent tech analyst stephanie here, he will speak to me now. what is this legislation trying to lay down for al developers? it is massive. i ai developers? it is massive. i don t think we can underestimate the importance of this legislation, which was just the first step, they have a few more to go. we would expect this to pass by the end of the year, so there ai developers you have mentioned by plenty of time to get up to speed. what do they need to get up to speed with? that is the devil any detail as always. the really big one will be about the police use of things like real time biometr
the former president. the first big attempt to control ai artificial intelligence. the european parliament has approved a draught plan to regulate the use of ai. and does too much bad news stop you from following current affairs? the latest figures suggest the tougher stories are turning people away from reading and watching the news. but first to that exlusive report on north korea. no one has been able to enter or leave the country for over three years because of the their covid restrictions. now three people living in north korea have risked their lives to tell the bbc what s happening. they ve told us food is so scarse, neighbours are starving to death. here s our seoul correspondent, jean mackenzie, and a warning you may find the report distressing. supplies are so low. people are started dying. this chilling testimony comes from inside north korea. once i didn t eat for two days, i only drank water. recently, people have been knocking on the door asking for food b