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this is bbc news — the headlines. in a dramatic shift in middle east policy, with all palestinians resettled elsewhere. egypt, jordan and saudi arabia have all condemned the plan. a hamas official called the proposal "ridiculous" and "absurd". clear failings are found in the mental health treatment after at ten people were killed at a college in orebro. i bet most i bet most of i bet most of you i bet most of you use i bet most of you use this i bet most of you use this company, it is google.
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profits news and investors are not impressed. so let's talk you through the numbers. in the fourth quarter. in its closely watched cloud business slowed. google did see though a 10% rise in revenues from digital advertising, its biggest earner, boosted by us but the company's share price sank more than 7%
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a figure that surprised analysts and highlighted it painted a bit more of a nuanced picture than that drop suggests. are the two main ones to watch. given that microsoft also reported some weakness there, i think we're looking at broader cloud market trends in general to on—premises infrastructure, and that's and so... aside to invest in al
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just this year. if you're smarter, you don't have to spend that much? yeah, i mean, certainly there's a lot of scrutiny on alphabet on the part of alphabet and other tech giants, and i think it's going to reap the rewards down the road. row between the us and china. president trump says he is in "no hurry" to speak to chinese president xi jinping
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to try to defuse a new trade and wind turbines. retaliated with similar tariffs starting next monday told me the latest. from the us postal service that all packages coming in from mainland china and hong kong into the us
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now, there's been no explanation for why putting systems in place to start charging tariffs but also, you know, the government there has whereby china's e—commerce companies packages and getting under the threshold whereby you'd have to pay tax on those sales. something about that, i guess one way is to, for the moment, just stop all packages coming in. you know, a company which has supported donald trump
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but another step which the chinese government — which the us government — might be taking, which would that enable users to lose weight — also no surprise then the global demand for the producer novo nordisk has just posted its full—year to 128 billion danish kroner — that's about $18 billion. american market,
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with sales up 30%. and wegovyjumped last week following the positive henrik hallengreen laustsen is senior equities analyst, at jyske bank. he gave me his reaction to these results. but i read the guidance for next year was a worry because they're saying that sales are going to slow down. why would sales slow down, given what we've just sales in terms of percentage
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points will slow down. so in my opinion that's quite impressive. shares in nissan fell today. what is going on? to be honest, ever since _ what is going on? to be honest, ever since the _ what is going on? to be honest, ever since the two _ what is going on? to be honest, ever since the two companies i what is going on? to be honest, ever si an the two companies i what is going on? to be honest, ever si an agreement npanies i what is going on? to be honest, ever si an agreement to anies i what is going on? to be honest, ever si an agreement to hold i 2"2�* ::=-: :-';;—;—" �*;- 1.4.4 ,, ~ ~ . in december many merger talks in december many people were wondering how they would come to an on —§ of each side. the valuation of each side. honda's market cap more than times that 7 times that of 7 times that of nissan. five times that of nissan. nissan sought a near equal role
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in the merger and reportedly rejected becoming a “n” ' long-term of hyundai. nissan's long—term partner has urged 2—255 to negotiate j 77 to negotiate a: 77 to negotiate azhigher nissan to negotiate a higher premium from honda because they to benefit j to benefit as j 7 ’ ”tobeniefitas" m5257 want to benefit as well which may x": to their z— 5 as have been " ’ lie" lav; been j the merger been the merger would reporting, the merger would have created the wealth has met third biggest car nissan has reportedly sales. nissan has reportedly suspended talks with its suspended merger talks with its �* rival. as a bigger rival. as a result, shares in nissan the day = -:- �*while those 77 j �*while those in j 5% lower while those in honda rose by 8%. in short honda did not think this investors did not think this �*will be positive for the nissan has been company because nissan has been really struggling financially. those are some of the top more business stories. plenty more detail on the website. some breaking news now.
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gates describing the victim as someone who was "the life who knew him". the 15—year—old boy who was arrested on monday has now been he's also been charged with possession of a bladed article, and harvey later died. now, the crown prosecution service have put out a request, really. they say they're reminding everyone that this is now start going through the courts.
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way, and getjustice for everyone involved. russian troops continue to push hard for more on the eastern front. the conflict is taking a massive toll on soldiers and civilians in ukraine — as orla guerin now reports from the straetgically important city of pokrovsk, in eastern ukraine. a warning — you may find some of the scenes upsetting, from the start. patient cries out. just hours before, this soldier stood on a landmine.
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they are all volunteers. he was brought in from the front line nearby and he was crying in pain. he's being treated now in an operating room inside a reinforced steel container. against russian attacks. doctors have to amputate the soldier's lower leg. the orthopaedic surgeon viatcheslav can do it in five minutes.
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everyone realises if we don't stop them, they will be here. the russians are almost here. here for 50 years. few days and few weeks? translation: people are just getting killed under the sky. . there is no gas, no water. there is nothing anywhere.
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to fall to the russians. anton yaremchuk has seen it all before. base ua since the war began. a ceasefire any time soon. i'm sure that even if they do i'm sure that even if they do start, there will be start, there will be a massive intensification a massive intensification on the battlefield, on the battlefield, obviously trying to gain leverage for both parties. i'm really not expecting it i'm really not expecting it to be over any time soon. to be over any time soon. so he carries on, lives packed up into a few bags. dobry den.
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some are still hard to persuade, but he tries. "there will be street battles", anton warns. "i promise you, i'm doing this from the very first day and this is the final stage". "god keep you safe", she says, before going on her way. for those who don't leave now, it may soon be too late. orla guerin, bbc news, pokrovsk. a growing number of uk schools have banned them dozens of human rights organisations have called into investigations fighting in the east of the democratic republic of the congo. the agencies say rwandan forces, m23 rebels and the congolese military have committed serious violations of humanitarian law. officials in the united states say that all 67 victims of last week's air crash in washington
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have been recovered — all but one have been identified. the crash took place last wednesday between an american airlines plane and an army helicopter. operations are continuing to recover wreckage from the potomac river. the trump administration has begun flying undocumented migrants to the us military base at guantanamo bay in cuba. the white house said the us would no longer be a dumping ground for criminals from other countries. mexico says it will not allow its citizens to be sent there.
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grades — or wellbeing — among students. yet despite the findings, researchers found there were worse outcomes overall for those who spent longer on their devices. lock them back in. it's going back in! now, scientists have compared schools allowing smartphones at break times, and those with the for teenagers attending a school with a restrictive phone policy, there was no difference in their levels of problematic use compared to adolescents attending how surprising were these findings? we didn't find that. and the reason that we didn't find that is because the school
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time that adolescents spent on their phones. and grades in english and maths. this school in conwy is among the first in wales to be this strict. they're really confident in talking to people even though they may not know them, and i think it's had a significant impact on the positivity. during the day is not going to be published all over social media.
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pupils messaging or simply checking. in wales, there's a big push on digital skills. are becoming more common. at school, they say restrictions have and their mum, sarah, told me it's reduced her worries about online cruelty.
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it's almost like a pack of wolves. it's never allowed smartphones for under 16s. if we believed that mobile phones with internet access we would outlaw them. which we knew was dangerous. do you think they are the equivalent of for bim, soba and kanika, the rules fit in with theirfamily life.
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i think i've come to school a couple days i'm fine with that. definitely go back for it. school smartphone rules are here to stay. teachers see the benefits. this research says to really change habits means thinking about what happens at home. a 2,000—year—old scroll from the roman empire could be deciphered for the first time thanks to ai technology. the ancient text was burned during the eruption the jumbled writing. discovery. they might look like lumps of charcoal, but these
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the eruption of mount vesuvius. ever so carefully, one is packed up, placed in a specially—made cradle. hi, nicole. hi, stephen. here it is. it's being collected, ready to leave for the library inside, into here. revealing the secrets the scroll holds inside. i'm very excited to see the inside of the scroll. of unrolling the scroll. 2000 years ago. it needs the most cutting edge technology.
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this is diamond light source in oxfordshire, a huge particle accelerator, called a synchrotron. we've come inside to take a closer look at the in this metal pipe, electrons — charged particles — are whizzed around and around. in minute detail. digital reconstruction. once the data has been collected and the there's two big steps. the first one is unrolling digitally that scroll in a computer. once that's cemented, then the reading is a whole so there is multiple steps.
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like all of science, you need lots of things to go right in a row. after 2,000 years, the first look at the unfurled scroll, but it's not the finished product. there's more work to be done. this might be the be the most exciting herculaneum by all appearances today, this will be the first earlier efforts to read them. creating a direct link with the past. means for whatever field of study it's in. and i just love that sort of connection with whoever
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collected them, whoever wrote them, whoever rolled packed inside this small scroll are ten metres letter and decipher every word, opening a new window onto the classical age. rebecca morelle, bbc news. there is lot on all our stories on the bbc website and the news app. goodbye. hello, there. a few changes weather—wise now as we head through
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but how did this happen? well, here goes tuesday's rain clearing away to allow of the week, but the milder air has been swept away — marked in yellow — to be replaced by colder conditions, marked in blue here. now, still some scattered showers across north—west elsewhere, a lot of sunshine around — best through the morning, with more cloud developing a lot lighter further south.
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away like a stone. those temperatures will drop below freezing and there will be a widespread frost for thursday morning. particularly across england and wales — they'll slowly lift just a little. the south and the east — and we could even see that easterly wind pick up and blow us in some snow showers at times, too. so here's the outlook for our capital cities, then. don't be too surprised to see one or two wintry showers
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to change, and you can keep an eye on things on your bbc bye for now.
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live from london. this is bbc news.
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dramatic shift in middle east policy in decades. the us will take over the gaza strip, and we will do we'll own it. egypt, jordan and saudi arabia have condemned plan and it been called absurd. the motive behind the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. we'll be live in orebro. parcels from mainland china and hong kong
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