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And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman ....
0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers and the us Maritime Alliance expired, and the fight over wages and automation continues to rage and there is little agreement between them on this issue. So right now we are one of the Picket Lines here in newjersey, where workers have gathered short while ago, they stood in a long line singing, no automation, no automation. And we ve heard from the White House in the last few hours ....
It s there to support this new suite of ai products that the company is calling apple intelligence, which will allow users to use text, to create images, even emojis. We are also set to see a big upgrade to siri, the boy upgrade to siri, the voice assistant that apple first acquired back in 2010. The thing is though, this suite of products, apple intelligence, will not be available at least not for now, in the eu. Apple experience is a bit of a dustup with regulators there over the implications of the digital markets act. The products will however be available in the uk. Nabila popal from idc explained. There was a lot of negative sentiment at the beginning of t ....
Watched Christmas Day programme of the decade. And in half an hour well look at some of the best of the travel show from 2019. Good evening. Spanish police have named a british holidaymaker and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool on the Costa Del Sol on Christmas Eve. On the Costa Del Sol gabriel diya who was 52 and from london died with his 16 year old son praise emmanuel, and his nine year old duaghter comfort, at the Club La Costa world resort, near fuengirola. An investigation into what happened is underway. The owners of the hotel have described it as a tragic accident. Helena wilkinson reports. This is gabriel diya, the 52 year old ....