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 s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
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 7 what are they saying . How does this get solved . When it comes to critical infrastructure which ports are, and as
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 the year as to why apple hadn t dived into it when any other company had. A lot of criticism from the market and about how if apple is behind, how the models not as advanced as the others, but this is a really huge step forward because consumers are still uncertain about what ai is and what it can do for them and the way apple ha
Software called apple intelligence is integrated into a host of applications across the iphone. This photo editor allows you to remove people from the background. And this tool helps to rewrite your e mails. There is also an upgrade to the voice assistant which can now take written commands and is said to work better with a natural spoken language. For now, apple intelligence features will not be available in the eu, as executives find themselves in the middle of a dustup with regulators over the digital markets act, but it will be available in the uk. That is, when they are released. The test version will start with a roll out in the us next month, with more coming by the end of the year. When it comes available, analysts say executives are keen to use apple intelligence integration to sell more iphones, which have hit a slump in recent years. Some analysts are not so sure that will happen. 15 years. Some analysts are not so sure that will happen. sure that will happen. Is apple int
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 father who died trying to rescue his daughter. Here he is with nine year old comfort, on a family holiday when on Christmas Eve she got into difficulty in this Hotel Swimming Pool. Despite her fathers efforts, she also died, as did her 16 year old brother, praise emmanuel, who also tried to help. Postmortem examinations confirmed tha