French authorities say at least 12 people, including a pregnant woman, have died after a Boat Carrying Dozens of migrants capsized in the english channel. Around 50 people were rescued in an operation involving boats and helicopters. The french coastguard says the boat got into difficulty off Gris Nez at around 6am local time, and everyone on board ended up in the water. An emergency medical Care Centre was set up at Boulogne Sur Mer. The latest Uk Government figures show the number of people crossing the channel in small boats so far this year is 21,403. Thats more than in the same period last year, but fewer than 2022. But in the first six months of 2024, theres been an 18 rise in the number of arrivals, on 2023, and its now clear more migrants are getting onto each boat. An average of 51, with the vast majority, being young men. From Boulogne Sur Mer in northern france, heres andrew harding. French Rescue Helicopters busy once again today, bringing casualties from the sea to the sho
Of cracking the uk market. Live from London, This is business today. It This is business today. IS Packed. Im saLLy bundock. This is business today. Lets get going. We start with AL Chip maker nvidia. Its Record Rise to one of the worLds most vaLuabLe companies has wowed WaLL Street. Now, its breaking records again, but not in the way it wanted. On tuesday, nvidia Lost the most Stock Market VaLue in a day of any company in us history aS Part of a steep seLL off that Hit Tech shareS ParticuLarLy hard. Nvidia continued to faLL after hours as bLoomberg reported that it has received subpoenas from the Department Ofjustice, which is investigating whether it has been abusing its dominance of the market for AL Chips. Lets just show you the numbers because they are pretty staggering. ALmost 279 BiLLIon that was the amount wiped off the vaLue of nvidia over the course of the trading day. It adds to Losses Last week after the companys forecasts disappointed investors. Nvidia has been the corners
It looks like hes going to concentrate more on the households rather than on businesses. And therefore, there are two major taxes that he could hope for, one is income tax and the other one is National Insurance contribution. Income tax is a broader tax and it would cost him more money, whereas National Insurance contribution focuses on people at work and will cost him a little bit less. Yeah, i mean having a bit less money to play with, i suppose, do you think perhaps that might give us a clearer sense of the conservative priorities here . Obviously, we know there might be an election coming. Its actually who that money goes to, where to target votes, maybe. That is a very good question because it does look like they are going to target consumers or households rather than businesses. Whereas if you look at what the priorities are in terms of raising growth potential, you do want to improve and get Business Investment growing faster. So that is really a very big question as to where th
Of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks on the 7th of october. Another focus of the past 2a hours has been israels furious reaction to comments made by the un Secretary General at the Security Council. Antonio guterres said the hamas attacks in southern israel had not happened in a vacuum. He also said there was no justification for the hamas attacks. Israel is now withholding visas from United Nations officials in response to the remarks. Mr guterres has spoken again in the past hour. Shocked by the misrep
Nvidia or china who will be hurt most by this, or neither . I nvidia or china who will be hurt most by this, or neither . I think what america most by this, or neither . I think what america is most by this, or neither . I think what america is trying most by this, or neither . I think what america is trying to most by this, or neither . I think what america is trying to do most by this, or neither . I think what america is trying to do is l what america is trying to do is prevent china from getting this technology, or at least slow down its ability to grow its own industry, so they are trying to stop the transfer of knowledge, if you like, as well as the products. And we are seeing Companies Get caught in the middle of this battle between these two huge economic superpowers. Nvidia as you pointed out, is a leading chip maker, particularly when it comes to ai chips, and it has specifically tailored a product of the Chinese Market that complied with existing export curbs that the us had