Higher savings for some. In the last half an hour, weve had this reaction to the rate rise from the chancellor, jeremy hunt. Well, of course any rise in Interest Rates is a worry for families with mortgages, for businesses with loans. But underneath that decision is a forecast that says that this time next year, inflation will be 2. 8 and we will have avoided recession. What the Bank Of England governor is saying is that we have a plan that is bringing down Inflation Lay solidly, robustly and consistently. So the plan is working but what we have to do as a government is make sure we stick to that plan and dont veer around like a shopping trolley. We stick to that plan so that families and businesses can start to feel the benefits of that plan actually working. So, jeremy hunt says the government is sticking to its plan. But this was the reaction from labours shadow chancellor, rachel reeves. The government need to take responsibility for the fact that inflation in the uk is much higher
Count. There were seven swing states in the 2020 president ial election. Arizona, georgia, nevada, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and North Carolinasix of them won byjoe biden six of them won byjoe biden all of them crucial this time around, in the race to 270 Electoral College votes. In the popular Votejoe Biden won the 2020 election by Seven Million votes. But look how narrow it was in some of these swing states in arizona, joe biden won by 10,167 votes. In georgia, which biden also won, the difference was 11,779 votes. And in nevada, biden won the state by 33,596 votes. Three states which could decide this election, the two candidates separated byjust 55,832. But for democrats the polls spell trouble. In all these states right now. Trump is winning. Across all seven states, 48 of voters said they would back trump, 43 would back biden. We saw just the we sawjust the other week we saw just the other week that the issue of israel becomes very important. If that were beat to be repea
The team working on the project were told the iphone giant was shifting its focus to ai. In fact, some of the people who worked on the car will be moved to apples Artificial Intelligence division thats according to bloomberg while those who cant find jobs elsewhere in the company, they face lay offs. Apple shares rose nearly 1 on the news. As one tech analyst put it, by abandoning its dream to transform the auto industry, it will increase pressure on apple to do something profound in the area of Generative Ai. Staying with tech, and people tend to associate Us Company Nvidia with chips and Artificial Intelligence but not necessarily with retail. Azita martin leads nvidias ai initiatives for the retail industry, including Generative Ai that can produce content like text, images or other data when prompted. Our north America Business correspondent erin delmore asked her about how ai is changing the Shopping Experience for customers, both in store and online. Ai enables you to really have
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. families of israeli hostages who are still being held in gaza have broken through security and stormed a finance meeting in the israeli parliament, the knesset. they were protesting that the finance committee was sitting, deliberating while their children were still in captivity. shouting shame on you and demanding that committee members get up and act the families called for the government to do more, to secure the release of their loved ones. the protest highlights, growing domestic dissent in israel, about the war with hamas that s now in its fourth month. it comes as palestinians in southern gaza say, the israeli bombardment is the most intense they ve experienced, since the war began. the gaza health ministry says that one hundred and ninety palestinians have been killed in the past twenty four hours. earlier i spoke to our middle east