Of qontigo who gave us his expectations for chinas latest factory activity. Its likely to continue for a wild because it is still driven by manufacturing and dependent on global trade and, you know, geopolitical environment, and we are not having any of these right now. Even germanys Industrial Complex is sluggish a bit so its notjust china but everywhere. Global demand in mostly services is given by technical Communication Services and big tech so shows and manufacturing are a bit sluggish, yes. I shows and manufacturing are a bit sluggish, yes. Bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan because l bit sluggish, yes. I want to talk about japan because it talk aboutjapan because it took markets by surprise in terms of what its central bank has done which makes its Bond Yield Control policy more flexible. What are your expectations about that . Inflation has been above the target for a few months so
Change. Clearly it is a popular policy by the public and heading up to the next election it would be a strange decision for the government to row back on anything with public support. Can the government have it both ways, say yes to granting licences for oil and gasp projects but at the same time it commitments to net zero . New licences for the north sea is not a change in Government Policy, we were expecting to see more. The oil and industrys estimates show production will continue to decline in the north sea no matter what the Government Policy is it simply because there is not as much gas and oil as 50 years ago when we started extracting. What is left in the north sea is mostly oil. This is mostly exported, so there is little benefit to our bills from more extraction and in a cost of living crisis bills are a strong priority for the public. It is a strange decision to approve more when it wont help with our bills because they cant move the dial on internationally set prices and it
This week, we are going atomic at the European Organization for nuclear research, cern. We will look at the cutting edge Cancer Treatments that are foxing the physicists. I find it fascinating because it does not talk to my physics brain. So, i am curious to see whether it will bring something or not. How does science become fiction . We will meet an author looking for disaster. We want conflict. We want to see things falling apart. That is where the interesting thing is for a fiction writer. And then there is a scientist with an experiment that could change our understanding of everything. That is a completely unanticipated result new physics and probably a nobel prize for somebody who happens to be involved. Cern is one of the most Famous Centres for science in the world. On the border of switzerland and france, this place has been expanding our horizons for decades. Its High Energy Physics research has helped reveal the secrets of our existence. And i have been allowed in it to meet
Famous centres for science in the world. On the border of switzerland and france, this place has been expanding our horizons for decades. Its High Energy Physics research has helped reveal the secrets of our existence. And i have been allowed in it to meet some of those at the cutting edge. 2500 people work here. 12,000 more pour over the results of the experiments. Here at cern it is a really unique community. It is an International Group of people, so we are from all over the world. Cern is an exciting melting pot of projects and ideas. You see people in restaurantl having tea with their friends and they work on a myriad of different projects. You can knock on the door of a Nobel Prize Winning scientist, ask them a question, and they will say, come in. Lets talk about it and have a coffee. Any young boy or girls dream to work in science, right, is to go to a place which is like a town of science, and that is what cern really is. Its buzzing with the ideas. Its also buzzing with energ
one of the research we have also recently done, a survey which found nine in ten apec organisations support some level of government regulation around ai. still staying on the topic of tech, one of the most famous centres for science in the world, cern, on the border of switzerland and france, its high energy physics research has helped unveil some of the secrets of our existence. the bbc visited the facility and met some of the robots used there. i am eloise matheson, a mechatronics engineer at cern. welcome to our robotics workshop. this is one of our modular robots that we use regularly for inspection, maintenance or repair tasks in the excelerator complex. it has mecanum wheels that can move side to