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
of them are going to appear. the same way 20 years ago you couldn t imagine a youtuber making a living. he also thinks it s highly unlikely that al systems will be more intelligent than humans any time soon. professor yann lecun s words are in sharp contrast to those of the other two men he worked with on the science that underpins modern ai. dr geoffrey hinton retired recently and he said he regretted his life s work. professor yoshua bengio said that he worries about bad actors misusing the tech. both academics and the companies building ai agree that regulation is the best way to try to maximise its benefits and minimise the risks. chatgpt, for example, was unheard of this time last year. yann lecun is confident that ai will be a useful tool rather than a master, and he heralded a new renaissance for humanity. chatgpt couldn t have put it better. zoe kleinman, bbc news. a renaissance maybe but the bbc has been hearing from one uk worker who has already lost hisjob to a
Million palestinians sheltering there, most of whom are already displaced from other parts of gaza. And following developments from washington is our Us State Department correspondent tom bateman. What we know is that there was a pause as the administration has described it on one consignment of weapons from The Americans to the israelis that was put in place last week. This is on a consignment that includes a batch of 2000 pound bombs, among the most destructive munitions, Air Dropped Musicians Western Military is hard and capable of wiping out multiple buildings at the same time. Israels argument having those as it needs to attack hamas below and above ground but they have been at the heart of complaints of criticism and controversy relate raised by human Rights Groups when they have looked at the catastrophic high numbers of civilians killed by the israelis in gaza because of the Destructive Force that these weapons. The americans specifically have said that it is the past use of th
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To give its first formal response after they arrive in cairo. The cia director William Burns is reportedly in cairo and thats very important because us support for this deal has been crucial. Now, the Sticking Point in all of this is that hamas wants a commitment by israel that the fighting stops. Israel wont give that commitment, partly for political reasons and partly for political military reasons. It believes the remaining four Group Battalions of hamas are hiding out in buffer, probably below ground entitles and yahya sinwar, the leader of us, the military leader of us, the military leader and the architect the october seven massacre, is amongst them. Hiding out there, possibly even surrounded by hostages. So the Israeli Military want to go in and finish thejob. Now, a Ceasefire Deal would certainly postpone, if not shelved that rafah Military Operation altogether. But hamas are taking their time over responding and i think they will want some reassurance that they dont give up ho