competition from chinese rivals. plus, we take a look at some of the newest tech i'm steve lai. we begin in the us, where apple has launched the iphone16e — budget—conscious customers. the release comes at a time where the tech giant is trying features ai in its phones. against the competition.

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involving its trucks in 2023. and suspended sales as a result. the boss of the electric vehicle maker also cited revenue guidance for the full year, amid stiff competition that softer outlook sent shares of the company sinking 11 percent in extended trade on wall street. quarter beat estimates, with the company's chief ever. plans to impose tariffs on automobiles, chips, pharmaceuticals

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bank's the aviation industry has had a rocky start to the year, with over 80 incidents so far, according to the us national at asia 5 biggest aviation festival in singapore — the aviation industry is going through so much change, and it's all that people here can talk about. on the one hand, you have pressure to decarbonise, post—pandemic recovery, volatile oil prices, and difficulties when it comes to safety and recent crashes. it means that there's huge scope for capitalise on that. so imagine this.

so you check out, you scan your passport, check your luggage and print my boarding pass and my bag tag. this goes on my bag, which is sealed, and for ground handlers who put baggage onto planes, they could go hands—free. well, there's a lot of applications for al and how we manage emissions for aircraft. but there's also smaller things about how people go through an airport, really the customer focus and also

bigger profits to them. there's another buzzword here. india is the other big buzzword at the moment. of airlines around the region are really focusing in on that market. previously it was china that's coming back, but it's a lot slower than it previously was. there's some confidence issues, really, and they're hoping that with technologies like artificial to the boarding gate. this face is just going to say and i will you goodbye and ! will see voo at goodbye and ! will see {goo at the goodbye and ! will see yooi at the time again at the same time tomorrow. goodbye.

hey, i'mjulia with the catch up. tonight, food prices shoot up

a road in surrey sinks., a road in surrey sinks, kanda, who was killed with a ninja sword in 2022. if it feels like stuff has gotten expensive lately, it's probably because it has. groceries are now 3.3% more expensive than a year ago, and some things are particularly pricey. butter has gone up by 18%, and instant coffee by a whopping 21%. next, the rapper a$ap rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend. a jury in los angeles acquitted him on two assault

charges that would have come up to 24 years in prison. well, a new report from the house of commons has of their kids. it aims to prevent older people from digital exclusion. so this is a huge sinkhole that's swallowing up a road in surrey, and it's been declared a major incident. the original hole has grown to nearly 20m since it first appeared on monday night, and a second one has appeared, too. that's you all caught up now.

madrid knock manchester city out of the champions league. and it's a losing start for the hosts as new zealand beat pakistan on the opening day of the itc champions trophy. it has been a night to forget for manchester city. they have been dumped out of the uefa champions league by a rampant real madrid in spain. trailing 3—2 from the home leg, any hope of a comeback was extinguished by two goals from killian mbappe