and microsoft both unveiling quarterly report cards beating expectations. shares in alphabet jumping after hours as the company announced that quarterly revenue rose to $69 billion. meanwhile, microsoft a boost in extended trading with quarterly revenue mainly driven by growth in its clad competing businesses. dan ives is senior equity analyst at wentworth securities and says these are welcome news for the tech sector. some sunshine in a dark environment. this reflects the muscles moment for big tech in terms of what we saw from alphabet and microsoft, both on cloud and digital advertising. markets will be focused on these results tomorrow. the hottest thing at the moment appears to be ai, but is google s market share at risk? this was a sigh of relief in terms of what we see on the ai front in terms of bard and ultimately focused on what google is trying to do. there is definitely a game of thrones going on in al. microsoft is leading, but google has all hands on deck des
the latest trial of the singer r kelly opens at a federal court in chicago. he s facing accusations of sexually abusing underage girls in the 1990s. running dry. the boats navigating a perilousjourney down germany s biggest river, as the heatwave means water levels are now dangerously low. and after one venue cancels his latest production, over comments on trans rights and the metoo movement, monty python s terry gilliam says british theatre needs to be more courageous. i think the whole artistic community has to be brave, that s what art is about it s about pushing the limits. officials in ukraine are warning that the situation at the russian occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power station is approaching critical . emergency workers have been staging drills and practising cleaning operations in the event of radioactive contamination. russia took control of the nuclear plant, the biggest in europe, in early march. and there s recently been heavy shelling at and around the site,
the latest we re hearing is that police have begun making arrests. we re told that more than 80 arrests have been made for breach of the peace while a further ten people have been arrested for possessing offensive weapons and drugs. these pictures are of more counter protestors are being held inside a pub by police, as the main protests goes past. here s an update from the metropolitan police. from about 9am this morning we have seen several hundred counter protesters that came towards whitehall and, from what we can see, they came intent on confrontation, intent on violence and intent causing trouble. we have made a number of arrests, including, within the counterprotest, including for possession of a knife, possession of a button, possession of class a drugs and assault on emergency workers. , ., ., ,, workers. let s go live to the us embassy- let s go live to the us embassy. our news correspondent frances read is at the israeli embassy, where the protest is finishing.