google pledges to spend $75 billion this year on al, as it hopes to meet surging demand but investors are not impressed with its results and alphabet shares sink. president trump says he's and china heats up. in "no rush" to talk expects sales growth to slow. novo nordisk but investors we find out why. are spooked by warnings it expects sales growth to slow. we find out why. rare earth minerals in the uk. to lithium extraction? 00:00:48,332 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 i'm sally bundock. to lithium extraction? we visit the huge ces tech show to get a glimpse of the future.

a figure that surprised analysts and highlighted jacob bourne is technology analyst at emarketer i mean, looking at the cloud and the search results i think we're looking at broader cloud market trends versus google�*s ai strategy in the cloud. among cloud customers away from the public cloud in general to on—premises infrastructure, and that's security in this ai era, as well as to just cut costs.

and so... aside to invest in al just this year. that's quite an eye—watering sum. for this type of spending. generative ai is a success story, and that success story which is inevitably going to require advanced compute power, which means that money is going to get spent. on the part of alphabet and other tech giants, and i think it's going to reap the rewards down the road. we must mention that google, of course, is in the crosshairs we've talked about china looking into google,

it faces being broken up. yeah, i mean, ithink alphabet...is feeling regulations, and i think a lot of it is just in response you know, antitrust probe into google�*s business. you know, i think given that, you know, google is not in china — you know, i think the... you know, i think we can expect that these are largely symbolic measures and i don't expect to see, you know, dire financial harm coming from them.

row between the us and china. president trump says he is in "no hurry" to speak as you may remember, on saturday, president trump and wind turbines. and yesterday, china's president xi retaliated goods headed to its shores like coal, crude oil many different types of items. but now, as the holiday in china draws to a close and party officials return to beijing will china go further? told me the latest. the absolute latest is that

we've had this announcement are going to be blocked for the time being, or until further notice is given. now, there's been no explanation for why us tariffs on china. but also, you know, the government there has whereby china's e—commerce companies have to pay tax on those sales.

you know, a company which has supported donald trump and be harmful to the e—commerce companies in china. of those companies into china. and xijinping. we thought that talk was going to happen even from donald trump, it seems that he...

between the world's two superpowers to take place. i'm sure you have heard of the magic injections that enable users to lose weight. effects, like help with heart disease and prevent strokes. the drugs has ballooned. the producer novo nordisk has danish kroner — that's about $18 billion. the profits were helped by developments in the north american market, with sales up 30%. wegovyjumped last week, following the positive results from a trial of their new weight—loss drug.

to 22% of their body weight after 36 weeks. that pretty phenomenal. let's hear now from henrik hallengreen laustsen, senior equities analyst, atjyske bank. now at jyske bank. have now atjyske bank. have the numbers, what now we have the numbers, what .. think? it now we have the numbers, what 7 do you think? it looks quite stronu. do you think? it looks quite strong. strong _ do you think? it looks quite strong. strong figures - do you think? it looks quitej strong. strong figures i 24 strong. strong figures of 2a and impressive and even more impressive that guidance for next year is also strong. i quite strong. i read the guidance _ quite strong. i read the guidance for _ quite strong. i read the guidance for next - quite strong. i read the guidance for next year| i; ii"? 2 ihey 77 they said worry because they said sales slow why would says given the 7 7 given the huge 7 given the huge demand their 77 77 their drugs? 77 7 points 77 points will slow of percentage points will slow down. of course it is a forthis for this year. when 7 for this year. when we next year, the look into next year, the its the fourth possibility is its the fourth yearin possibility is its the fourth year in a row with about 20%

growth. in my opinion that is quite impressive things where the those things where the projections and what are projections and what people are hoping are perhaps u nrealistic? i unrealistic? i mean, course, we becausefi mean, at cpurse. we look becauseft mean, at cburse. we look into beceuse',"t mean, at ceurse. we look into the future and all look into the future and thatis all look into the future and that is quite impressive we have to remember it is but we have to remember it is easier to grow 20% when their sales are 20. yes, yes.- sales are 20. yes, yes. lets about sales are 20. yes, yes. lets - about. american - sales are 20. yes, yes. lets - - about. american market. talk about the american market. really important market to a really important market to novo nordisk in a demand for these injections that loss. what that enable weight loss. what are your concerns if you have are your concerns if ydu have about possible from "ifrioimthefiw " ' " 777777fr7o7mthe77l7js77 " 7 7 777fr7o7mthe77l7js7on77 7 7 7 7 777fr7o7m 7the7 17157705 goods? 7 coming trend the 1,151,111 geeds? is one coming trend the jjspngeeds? is one of the risks in the

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shares in the carmaker nissan fell sharply this with honda has been abandoned.

let's go to our asia business hub. mariko oi is there. to be honest, ever since the two companies signed an to merger 7 to merger talks agreement to hold merger talks many people were in december, many people were how would wondering howtheywpuld come an agreement on to an agreement on the valuation of the holding company. honda's market cap is company. honda'smarket cap is than five company. honda's market cap is than five times that of nissan sou-htan nissan sou-ht an —— a nissan. nissan'sought an -- a equal role in the merger. near equal role in the merger. the long—term partner meanwhile the long—term partner renault has to renault has urged nissan to negotiate a higher premium from because 777777b7ecausethey 7 77 7 7 77 77 becaus7e7 they want to honda because they want to benefit from it well, which a... 737tjd7eg77 ,, .... addedtotheir 7 as we have challenge, as we have been before the merger lepoijing before the merger have created the third w949?“ created the third car maker by

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result itmasnetuneemme" to nissan result itmasnetuneemme" to nissan profits result itmasnetur�*eemme" to nissan profits falling by see nissan profits falling by 90% last year. see nissan profits falling by 9096 last year.— see nissan profits falling by 9096 last year. here in the uk, we'll find out later this morning application to build an extraction plant 10,000 tonnes of lithium annually, which would create stewart dickson is the ceo of weardale lithium and i asked we've seen a very positive, pre—approval from durham county council — we've seen a recommendation to approve. and we'll make our case

for what is a very interesting of rare earth minerals. the uk wants to be a part of that, obviously, help investment in these areas. we very hope so at the right time. sector, so we believe that policy and funding can align. certainly be expecting a positive dialogue i mean, how green is this project?

possible on the planet, because of the other very high environmental impacts, and so we've conducted life—cycle analysis on using direct lithium extraction technologies on the naturally occurring geothermal waters, and they come out with very low so it's a genuinely low—carbon source of lithium, we will you on that later.

understated, it is not. spaces and showrooms, you'll find all the new tech red ronin, everybody. this guy made this costume. whoever has enough money. ces is an assault on the senses, it really is.

let's play. there's plenty of new gaming gear here, and i have to say, in a vr simulator. yourself into one of these? through vibrations here, and also in these tact sleeves and on the visor — which means apparently if i get he laughs. as usual, the biggest and brightest displays here were made of displays — with a big emphasis this

and the world's biggest manufacturer of them — samsung — was showing where it thought that bendability may we try to answer all questions on this their latest the website. do take a also on the website. do take a look.

breaking news. boy been charged ais—year—old boy been charged with of harvey wilgoose. with murder of harvey wilgoose. tributes were left school ates, outside the school gates, describing victim describing the victim as who the life of the someone who was the life of the party and who brought and sum, sustg,” a... as, a to everyone who knew laughter to everyone who knew him. trump for peace talks. on the eastern front. and civilians in ukraine — as orla guerin now reports one more casualty

of a war donald trump claims he can wrap up. just hours before, this soldier stood on a landmine. the doctors get to work. well, the medical team have rushed to treat this patient. and he was crying in pain. it's a first for ukraine, we can't say where. there are six steel bunkers, giving greater protection against russian attacks.

the orthopaedic surgeon viatcheslav can do it in five minutes. he's had so much practice. doctor, do you think it's still possible to win this war? translation: iwould like us to win. - but we need more people and more patriotism so that and in the front line city of pokrovsk in the east, one last look for lyuba, who is 75 and has lived here for 50 years.

translation: people are just getting killed under the sky. . there is no gas, no water. there is nothing anywhere. no electricity. he's been getting civilians to safety with his aid group base ua since the war began. he's not expecting any change on this long, hard road. i personally don't think that even if some kind a ceasefire any time soon. a massive intensification on the battlefield, i'm really not expecting it

to be over any time soon. dobry den. some are still hard to persuade, but he tries. "there will be street hello, there. the rest of the week. a lot of dry weather with some blue sky and some sunshine for many of us, too.

with clear skies — and particularly as the winds but how did this happen? of the week, but the milder air has been swept away — now, still some scattered showers across north—west elsewhere, a lot of sunshine around — at highs between seven and ten degrees celsius. so underneath clear skies, temperatures will drop away like a stone. still rather blustery, out

towards north—west scotland — those temperatures will drop below freezing and there also, some patches of mist and fog that will develop — particularly across england and wales — they'll slowly lift and clear through the morning, but a lot of sunshine around, the winds picking up towards the channel coast by the end of the day, we'll start to draw in more of an easterly wind, and temperatures slipping just a little. the south and the east — and we could even see that showers at times, too. the course of the weekend. so here's the outlook for our capital cities, then. don't be too surprised to see one or two wintry showers in the forecast as we head through sunday, and perhaps

bye for now.

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