ex’itra have the city is safe. what extra have you done to ensure the city is safe? asi you done to ensure the city is safe? as i have said hill stated, we are only doing priority critical calls. the nonemergency calls we are pushing off. we have expanded our footprint with respect to keeping oui’ footprint with respect to keeping our day shifts working longer, and the evening shifts we have brought in earlier. nonuniform people who have use of force options are put on standby so that they can be called out if need be right now. we are rid reevaluating a threat assessments to make sure they are in the paddock with keeping the community safe at all times, ensuring that things are going to be kept safe. it is the paramount issue right now, and also making sure the community is kept informed what is going on and what steps we are taking, and making sure people are calling in, that is the most important thing right now. i will have another hotline later the people to call if they have any concerns that their loved ones may bea concerns that their loved ones may be a victim to this. we will be putting that our very shortly, i believe, so that we have three particular hotlines which are going

out. i ask the members of the media to please help us out by providing those numbers so that everyone gets those numbers so that everyone gets those numbers so that everyone gets those numbers and has an opportunity to make those phone calls. some of the people have not been identified at this point in time. all i can value is that people are walking the side walk at 1326 and it is alleged that the accused drove on the sidewalk and it looks intentional. i cannot give anything right now. i don't know. the investigators will come out and how much better to explain. you are giving a lot of questions about preventing it, but can you prevent something like this, no matter how much you think about it, someone taking a vehicle and writhing on the

sidewalk, can you address that? —— driving. there's nothing you can really do. there is an obligation on all of us in today's environment to create peace, law enforcement is a factor but also other agencies that have an understanding of community safety a nd have an understanding of community safety and what they can bring to the table, the education, making sure public members have an understanding of looking at the environment and if they see something to report it. today, people did that, that is a good thing, but it is a different world we live in a part of that is if we all inherit a piece of ownership in keeping our environments safe it will increase the chances of community safety overall. have you provided your officers training, what was different in this case to normal? i can't speak about that, i

can speak to what happened today, and what happened today... is the toronto police doing this or is it being done with federal counterparts? the lead is with toronto police with respect to the homicide investigations and the ongoing investigations connected to that, however, we are working in concert with our federal cou nterpa rts concert with our federal counterparts and with our provincial cou nterpa rts counterparts and with our provincial counterparts and with our provincial counterparts and other municipal agencies have called in to offer assistance if we needed. as i stated at the start, we opened all the lanes, i haven't closed anything, so the evidence closes it for us. everything is open and until we have more definitive is and then we will have more for conclusion with respect to the investigation. with the residents, as the situation unfolded, there is this an incredible shock this could happen in toronto, at the same time police

and security have been preparing for these kinds of attacks, talk about these kinds of attacks, talk about the contrast between the shock for civilians and what actually happened. anywhere this kind of event happens, it is shocking. we recognise toronto is the fourth largest urban city in the north american continent with 2.8 million people, and things do happen. i think what we can do from a go forward is to reassure the public that one of the things that we rodrigo duterte is this is something we are always proactively investigating, we have resources looking into what issues are taking place, and we are always being as proactive as possible in the environment to make sure these things don't happen and now we have to deconstruct this and have a look at this and analyse again and look at this and analyse again and look at things that could be done differently and immediately providing the proper resources to

reassure the public things are okays. two more questions. have you ruled out any connections to isis or other international terrorism, some media are porting you have, can you say on the record? i'm not going to a nswer whatever say on the record? i'm not going to answer whatever the media may be putting forward but i have stated a few times that we have opened all lanes and we look and we explore and when we don't have the evidence that supports that, we move onto the next until we have a more definitive conclusion. you haven't closed it? one more question. what effect is it having on your officers? we do a lot of multiagency training, we have one eventin of multiagency training, we have one event in the near future, this of multiagency training, we have one event in the nearfuture, this is testa m e nt, event in the nearfuture, this is testament, working with fire, paramedics and private, public sector and working from a national and provincial and local level and as we work with these agencies collectively, we have really good conclusions and so today is testa m e nt to conclusions and so today is testament to that, the fact we work

in concert and we harmonise and we have much more successful outcomes at the end of the day. i won't say this is a success story and i don't wa nt to this is a success story and i don't want to diminish the fact we have lost ten people, i'm not sure what the final is going to be, i'm concerned about this. i hope that you do your part by providing those phone numbers, we will push them out there so you have an understanding. thank you very much. studio: you've been watching a live press conference, toronto police service chief mark saunders. let's go back because the premiere of ontario, catherine wyn, is speaking. —— premier. she is speaking in french so we don't have a live translation but to bring you are to date with some of the points that were being made at this press conference on the streets of toronto. the number of people killed, ten people have lost their

lives in that attack. 15 people have been injured. not all of those killed have been identified, according to mark saunders, the toronto police service chief, and one of the things he has confirmed is the identity of the suspect, who is the identity of the suspect, who is in custody, it is 25—year—old alek minassian. 25—year—old alek minassian, who is in police custody. he was detained without any shots being fired. mark saunders there saying that was down to the high calibre of the training that his officers received. no shots were fired in the process of detaining 25—year—old alek minassian. the driver, who is now in police custody. a number of other points of interest, canada's minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, ralph goodall, saying there is no national security

connection, no national security committee on, but an ongoing appeal for any information for anyone with information to come forward and the mayor saying the first responders did their absolute best on answering that 9/11 call on what was a beautiful spring afternoon, this attack started around 1:30 p.m., a beautiful spring afternoon according to the mayor, john tory. but those important points, the city is described as being safe, the officer who detained the suspect did a fantasticjob. no who detained the suspect did a fantastic job. no lines who detained the suspect did a fantasticjob. no lines of enquiry are being dismissed at the moment, all directions of enquiry are open, they are ongoing, one of the points mark saunders said was based on witness accounts, it was very clear that these were deliberate actions. the moment we get any more details and analysis and reaction we will

give that to you. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. google‘s parent company, alphabet, spells big earnings for investors on wall street as the company sees profitability saw. as the world goes high—tech, more of the silver generation are picking up a new language called coding. —— soar. good morning, asia, hello, world, glad you could join us for this tuesday edition of asia business report, i'm rico hizon and we start with the google parent company, alphabet, and earnings soaring to $10 billion and the results have eased concerns investments in new adventures would undermine the

google owned compa ny‘s adventures would undermine the google owned company's outlook. our business reporter kim gittleson said there's three reasons for these excess. there's three reasons for these excess. one of which is their core business, they sold more... —— the success. business, they sold more... —— the success. a second thing has to do with an accounting regulation which men for the first time alphabet, google‘s parent company, had to list all its investments and other securities and the key thing was their investment in uber. that led toa$3 their investment in uber. that led to a $3 billion increase in their revenue for this quarter and we're not sure if that's entirely attributable to uber, it doesn't say in the report, but it's a significant chunk. thirdly, what we've seen overall in the earnings season in the us, the tax reforms from donald trump, the republican congress passed tax measures, the effective tax rate was 20% this time last year for google, this time it was 11%, meaning they had to pay

significantly less in taxes, which obviously helps the bottom line. kim gittleson in new york. the european commission says an initial probe found apple may have encouraged shazam users to switch to its own music streaming service following a takeover. apple music has about half as many paying subscribers as spotify, the world's biggest rimming platform. it would be their biggest acquisition since they bought beats, the head phone maker and streaming service, for $3 billion in 2013. the gender pay gap hit the headlines this year in a big weight and a new report reveals asian nations may lose economic growth if women are held back in the workplace —— big way. mckenzies says if countries in the region give more to advance women's equality, this would add 11.5 trillion us dollars to their annual collective gdp by 2025, including

80% to the gdp of india and 13% to that of china —— 80% to the gdp of india and 13% to that of china “18%. sharanjit leyl spoke to one of the key authors of the report and she found out how this globally compares with asia. we look at about 15 different indicators of gender equality in work and society and the asia—pacific region on a scale of zero—1, where one represents perfect parity, is 0.156. if you compare that to the more advanced western regions, north america is .73, western europe is very similar, so we have a distance to traverse. as you say, asia—pacific lacks behind these western economies, but nonetheless we western economies, but nonetheless we know this is a huge global problem, it exists everywhere essentially, so what are some of the solutions you're suggesting to try to fix it? the most wonderful and interesting part about asia—pacific is there are shining examples in every country that we looked at all

how progress can be made very rapidly and we can actually be world beaters in some dimensions. take china, for example, out of 137 self—made billionaire women entrepreneurs in the world, china has 114. they lead and this is because women have really grasped the tech and e—commerce based opportunities in a very big way. it's really a combination of different stakeholders doing their part, governments coming in with very interventionist and activist policies to boost women in the workforce. companies doing their pa rt workforce. companies doing their part because they realise that they need women to bridge skill gaps, and then, of course, civilsociety stepping in because changing attitudes is an important part to this and that's where they play a good role. gender equality there in asia. there's an old saying about old dogs and new tricks. well, in singapore senior citizens are putting that

myth to rest by learning how to code computer programmes. training coui’ses are computer programmes. training courses are designed to modernise skills and keep older brains sharp, all with a bit of fun thrown in. i never learned this sort of thing when i was younger, so i find it so interesting. i want to learn and experience new challenges. somehow i make new friends and learn soitie somehow i make new friends and learn some knowledge on it. teaching seniors is not very different from teaching any other

age group, when you're able to get them interested and engaged, they will find it interesting. i think it's just wonderful seeing how the eyes sparkle when they are able to understand what is going on, and they see that they are making progress and they are accomplishing something. if they find something that they can be good enough at and be able to train other people, or even create apps as a new career, sure, why not? they are fearful of technology. they are not aware of how technology can help in their daily lives. and when you have one skill set, you have a tool in a toolbox where you can use it for other purposes.