and i learned from him i think that good reporting, decentjournalism, is rooted in human decency. there was a word that he and i used to use when we were living in south africa and it is from the nguni languages of southern africa and the word is ubuntu . there is no translation into english but it contained the idea that all human beings are bound together in a shared responsibility for each other. bishop tutu used to say ubuntu can be defined like this. i can only be fully me when you are fully you. we two are connected. i can t be rich if you are poor and i can t be free if you are enslaved. george mentioned ubuntu at a gathering to celebrate his 60th birthday seven years ago when we thought his cancer had been eradicated and he talked about ubuntu, the sense of humanity, and i think it was his lodestar. i hoped watching him as a younger journalist that some of the values he lived would rub off on me. so he was a very inspiring and generous and selfless man. i don t want
sunshine and showers. some of those showers should be thundery and heavy, but they will ease from the south west. it s tuesday the 25th july. wildfires on the greek island of rhodes have now forced almost 20,000 people to abandon their homes. hundreds of holiday makers have left the island, with more repatriation flights set to take place. evacuation orders have also been issued in corfu and evia. louisa pilbeam reports. with the tourists gone, this is all that s left on some beaches in rhodes. for a holiday island, it s greek livelihoods that have gone up in flames. in the restaurants and bars that remain, greeks are left to pick up the pieces. 0ur houses maybe not to be there tomorrow, maybe now we are on fire, we don t know what to do. it s very, very bad, the situation. we need help. send us help from everywhere. but wildfires aren t uncommon in greece. this bar owner is ready to rebuild. eh, we lost the business. we have good health, and we are hopeful to fix it again.
one of the bbc s most highly respected, and much loved presenters. he died at home in london with his family this morning. he was 67 and he d been living with bowel cancer since 2014. the bbc s director general said he was one of the best and bravest journalists of his generation. george won many awards in a hugely successful career which took him all over the world. but many who worked with him here will remember him most as an unfailingly kind hearted and generous colleague. alan little looks back at his life. three, two, one. go tape. at six o clock the ground war on iraq has begun. millions knew him as the face of the six o clock news. good evening and welcome to the six o clock news. ..and for his calm, unflappable authority. good evening and welcome to the bbc s news at six. he was born in sri lanka in 1955 to christian tamil parents. as a child the family moved to ghana. this is the road. and he was swept up in the early optimism of a young nation new
alphabet and meta. and microsoft samsung and intel. the technology sector has been enjoyed rapid growth during the pandemic but now they are operating in a high interest rate environment. they have also been cost cutting measures. meta, for example, has had to announce that this month it will cut 10,000 more jobs and that is on top of the 11,000 that the company let go last november. danzig is a deputy chief investment officer at richard burnside advisors and he now says that he is not optimistic about technology stocks in the united states. i don t really see any reason to expect anything different from what we have seen both from these companies over the past couple of quarters but also from the companies we have only heard from his earnings season. i think what is clear is growth is slowing and this is hurting these companies notjust on the front of the profitability front of the profitability front which i think is front and centre for markets. we were talkin: and cent
and intel. they face now inflation fears as well as operating in a higher interest rate environment. they have also been cost cutting, putting cost cutting measures in. dancers are key is a debited dancers vicki says he is not optimistic about technology stocks in the united states. dan suzuki. i don t really see any reason to expect anything different from what we have seen both from these companies over the past couple of quarters but also from the companies we have only heard from his earnings season. i think what is clear is growth is slowing and this is hurting these companies notjust on the revenue front but the profitability front which i think is front and centre for markets. we were talking about meta layoffs and other big companies, also the collapse of the silicon valley bank. do you think that maybe this is finally, the pay might be over in the next quarter? the pain might be over. nothing i m seeing in the data is really suggesting that. again, wejust he