as well as future business conditions, the country is facing an economic slump as we have been reporting and unemployment has a consumer spending as well. to understand more let s speak to a chinese economist at oxford economics. thank you forjoining us on asia business report. what is your reaction to the readings we are seeing? your reaction to the readings we are seeing? generally we are disappointed. we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we had we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we had expected i we are seeing? generally we are| disappointed, we had expected a contraction in this activity but not to the extent but we have to recognise these are diffusion industries more helpful in telling us the direction in which things are going stop i would say that on the manufacturing side what jumps out at us as this is effectively driven by if you look at the subcomponents this is driven by to a large extent
documents, manage cloud severances and power business apps. but that was not the only new release from amazon as michelle fleury reports from new york. amazon announced 0, new chat for people to use at work there seems to be a dispute over where the name comes from. dispute over where the name comes from- comes from. some say it is after the comes from. some say it is after the john comes from. some say it is after the john bond - comes from. some say it is after the john bond movies i comes from. some say it is - after the john bond movies and after thejohn bond movies and some seders from star trek. either way this is a big deal. amazon may have not built chat gpt but it now has its own generative ai helper which is designed to assist employees with daily tasks whether it is answering questions about company policy, to coding to some mooring summarising strategy documents. crucially it will compete with other corporate chat lots including copilot by microsoft and duit
a senior israeli government spokesman has told the bbc that a senior israeli government spokesman has told the bbc that the temporary truce will be extended by two days. the present deal was due to expire in the early hours of thursday but! if told me that ten hostages will be relieved each day in return for the release of palestinian prisoners. would be released. in the past couple of hours two further hostages taken from israel by hamas on the 7th of october have been released. they are two russian israeli women, aged 71 and 50. they were handed to the red cross. the israeli military say they are with idf special forces and our inside israeli territory. it s believed a second group of hostages has also been given to the red cross. this is the scene outside ofer prison. israel said it had released 30 prisoners from the resin. hamas, which the uk and us governments say is a terrorist organisation claimed that youngest israeli hostage, a ten month old baby, was killed in an
economy wide response. screws and is good, discussion is good, the more people involved in taking action and engaging in taking action and engaging in climate change is better. the more private sector engagement in this issue, i think, is better than what we saw ten or 20 or 30 years ago when it was very government driven. iii when it was very government driven. ., . ~ ., driven. if we go back, at kop 27, is driven. if we go back, at kop 27. is loss driven. if we go back, at kop 27, is loss and driven. if we go back, at kop 27, is loss and damage - driven. if we go back, at kop 27, is loss and damage fund| 27, is loss and damage fund was a for richer countries to pay poorer countries suffering the impact of climate change, how do you see that working out, that has been one of the numerous sticking points? i think private sector needs to get more engage in loss and damage as well. it is just one section, it would help society, insurance needs to be more engaged, issues reg
a investment. warm welcome to the programme. a warm welcome to the programme. good morning. sounds like a bit of a mess in germany in terms of trying to sort out the money matters so they can go ahead with much needed spending, your take? go ahead with much needed spending, yourtake? it is go ahead with much needed spending, your take?- spending, your take? it is a mess something spending, your take? it is a mess something that - spending, your take? it is a mess something that the i mess something that the introduction said is self imposed, this constitutional break supposed to be stopping undue spending and returning to balanced budget, it was introduced into 2009 at a time when germany thought it could beat off the rest of the world in terms of its own economic competitiveness, it ought then the euro crisis would not be something that would be hugely problematic for it. so it had built into the constitution its commitment, to have a balanced budget every year. and there