Live from london, this is business today. We start with uber, the us Tech Firm that has become a global transport giant. Around The World some 6 Million people work as drivers and couriers through the uber app, and their services are used by 150 Million people at least once a month. Well, the boss of uber, dara khosrowshahi, has been talking to our business editor simonjack, about their plans to make the firm greener and get more of their drivers using Electric Cars. But hes worried that trade tensions with china are getting in the way. The us and europe are hitting chinese Electric Cars with hefty Import Taxes or tariffs to protect their own auto makers, making them more expensive. I think cheap chinese vehicles are a good thing for the environment. And i would tell you that china is transitioning from notjust being cheap but also being high quality and for us, we want to electrify our fleet and make sure it is affordable for our drivers to switch over to evs. The political considerat
Irans Oil Industry after comments by President Biden. Welcome to business today, live from new york, i m ritika gupta. Share prices in the us have been searching after great news regarding the us economy. The strike on the East Coast ports has also been suspended. It is not all positive news, though. Oil markets are still reeling from a comment by President Biden on thursday that the White House is discussing whether to support an attack by israel on Irans Oil facilities. This is how one of the key benchmarks Brent Crude was trading in the last 15 minutes if it stays at these levels it will be up around 10 per cent this week. One Oil Market Watcher told us he is astounded by the president s comment. In over 15 years of covering the energy markets, reporting them and dare i say, trading on the markets as well, i have never seen anything. This is quite unprecedented. Whether its off the cuff or not, for a sitting us president , just a little over four weeks from the american president i
This is america reports. Those arrests made public days after another Assassination Attempt on former President Trump. It is putting extreme rhetoric and political violence in the spotlight, weeks before election day. Lets get straight to david at the Justice Department with what we are learning. David . Sandra, more than 450 messages allegedly sent via an online portal to 6 unnamed Supreme Court justices using homophobic language, and racist language and other threatening language. This is something that the Justice Department revealed in an indictment today, and it comes as public officials are seeing their safety at an all time threat. This is allegedly coming from a 76yearold man in alaska. His name is ponos anastasio. He threatened justices and their Family Members. This was picked up after July 1st of this year when the supreme Court Majority ruled in favour of President Trump in the federal immunity case. There are 22 counts in this indictment. According to the indictment there
Out of washington state. There s always some kind of pressure to get us, to motivate us to vote in their favour. There s always something like that, you know, there s always an underlying threat. And if we re not doing the right thing, then we re hurting the company. We re not hurting them. They ve got, they make way more money than we do. Why don t they give up some of their money to get boeing out of the problem they re in? we are expecting results in the next few hours. in the next hour. We re expecting the results of that vote in the next few hours. The bbc s ritika gupta has more on what s at stake. They haven t had a new contract in 16 years and have been bargaining for months for higher pay, better benefits and job security. The latest dispute is centred around workers discontent over a tentative agreement reached over the weekend. The international associations of machinists and aerospace workers and boeing unveiled a package that includes a 25% pay rise over the next four y
Of pressure to get us, to motivate us to vote in their favor. Theres always something like that, you know, theres always an underlying threat. And if were not doing the right thing, then were hurting the company. Were not hurting them. Theyve got, they make way more money than we do. Why dont they give up some of their money to get boeing out of the problem theyre in . The bbc s Ritika Gupta has more on whats at stake. They havent had a new contract in 16 years of been bargaining for months of her higher pay, better benefits and job security, the latest dispute was centred around Workers Discontent with the tentative agreement reached over the weekend. The international associations of machinists and aerospace workers and boeing unveiled a package that includes a 25 Pay Rise over the next four years and 3000 Signing Bonus and other improvements that help gather a retirement benefit. Boeing also had the next in the State of washington. Some workers are unhappy with the outcome, given th