Its long been thought that 10,000 is the magic number, but could walking 5,000 steps a day be enough to see a benefit . The white house is marking one year since President Biden signed the chips for america legislation. It earmarked 52. 7 million in subisdies for the Semiconductor Industry in the us. The Commerce Department started taking in applications injune for the Subsidy Programme for Us Semiconductor manufacturing and since then, more than 460 companies have expressed interest in the funding. The programme is part of the administrations bid to boost competitiveness with chinas science and technology. The Commerce Department is also tyring to ensure that china doesnt benefit from the subsidies. Adrienne elrod is director of external and Government Affairs in the chips for America Office of the Us Department of commerce. How does the Biden Administration believe this legislation serves economic and National Security . First of all i think, thank you for having me, it is great to t
and thousands of workers across the uk switch to doing fewer hours for exactly the same pay, after the world s biggest trial of a four day work week. president putin is to set out his latest thinking about the war in ukraine shortly, as the anniversary of the invasion of ukraine approaches. these are the live pictures from moscow where he ll be addressing both houses of the russian parliament and senior military figures. it comes a day after president biden s surprise visit to kyiv where, in a joint statement with president zelensky, he said that putin s war of conquest is failing. president putin s speech was meant to take place in december but was postponed after a series of setbacks on the battlefield. his last state of the nation address was nearly two years ago in april 2021. the fighting has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides and hundreds of thousands of russians have been drafted into the army. we are expecting president putin to portray this almost year
Thousands of Lebanese on Friday mourned a slain Christian political official authorities said was killed by a Syrian gang, with supporters pointing the finger at Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group."If they (Hezbollah) did not kill him, at the very least they allowed the Syrians in.