States have sued the Social Media platform, accusing it of helping to drive a mental Health Crisis among teenagers. A bipartisan group of 1a Attorney generals from across the country allege the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app. They also claim its intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use. Tiktok has called the lawsuit disappointing. The platform is already battling a law passed by congress in april that would ban it from the us unless a chinese Parent Company agrees to sell it. Details now from New York. To sell it. Details now from New York to sell it. Details now from New York. , ,. , New York. The lawsuits from more than New York. The lawsuits from more than a New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen states New York. The lawsuits from i more than a dozen states argue tiktok was deliberately designed to keep young people hooked on the service. The massively popular Video App is used
5,500 additional gigawatts of renewable capacity to come online between now and 2030. Thats more than the current Power Capacity of china, the european union, india and the United States combined. China is leading the pack, responsible for 60 of the additional output. And solar is winning the renewable race, making up 80 of the forecasted growth. But Electricity Infrastructure is not keeping up. Up to 10 of renewable energy is going to waste because its not able to be stored at times when more is being generated than needed. For more, joining me now the ieas Executive Director, dr fatih birol. This is a rare piece of good news and shows what can be achieved when a real effort is made. It is extremely good news for everybody, i would say, almost everybody, i would say, almost everybody around the world, because renewables are growing very strongly and there is huge potential for them to grow, and the main driver of this is very strong, massive growth is not necessarily climate policies.
The us government says it is considering breaking up google because of its dominance in online search. And charging up for the future, the international Energy Agency says renewables will make up nearly half of the Worlds Energy Use by the end of the decade. Hello, could the company behind the Internet Search giant google be forcibly broken up . That is the very real prospect facing alphabet over at their dominance of online search, in a Court Filing the Us Department Of Justice says that is one of the remedies that it could seek after google was found to have illegally crushed its competition in online search in the Landmark Ruling but in august. This Case Centres on google, the fact that Google Accounts for 90 of the Search Inquiries in the united states, which is similar to other countries. One of the crucial ways it does so well is more than 26 Billion of annual payments it is thought to make two Smartphone Makers to be the Default Search Engine on their phones. The advertising aro
Being taken care of. And it really is its unamerican, it really is. People are scared to death. People know their lives are at stake, all that theyve worked for, all that they own, all that they value. President Joe Biden Yesterday addressing misinformation on Helene Recovery efforts spread by Donald Trump and his allies. And that comes as Hurricane Milton is gaining strengthen in the gulf and expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours. Well have the latest Storm Track and a live report from florida straight ahead. Plus, a new book by longtime journalist, Bob Woodward, is putting Donald Trumps relationship with russian president vladimir putin back in the spotlight. And meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris continues her media blitz, making more high profile appearances with now less than four weeks until election day. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, october 9th. We are now 27 days until the president ial election. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for start
Live from london, this is business today. We start with uber, the us Tech Firm that has become a global transport giant. Around The World some 6 Million people work as drivers and couriers through the uber app, and their services are used by 150 Million people at least once a month. Well, the boss of uber, dara khosrowshahi, has been talking to our business editor simonjack, about their plans to make the firm greener and get more of their drivers using Electric Cars. But hes worried that trade tensions with china are getting in the way. The us and europe are hitting chinese Electric Cars with hefty Import Taxes or tariffs to protect their own auto makers, making them more expensive. I think cheap chinese vehicles are a good thing for the environment. And i would tell you that china is transitioning from notjust being cheap but also being high quality and for us, we want to electrify our fleet and make sure it is affordable for our drivers to switch over to evs. The political considerat