as the us and ukrainian presidents trade blows, could a deal he done to use ukrainian minerals to with safety in the spotlight, we look at the newest technology in aviation. is it a liquid, a solid or a gas? generation of computing. live from london, this is business today. thank you �*joining me. that's america's central bank — have suggested that donald trump's new policies

could slow the pace of interest rate cuts. policymakers believe that that shifts in trade and immigration policy could derail progress in controlling inflation progress. ritika gupta. fed officials injanuary signalled a readiness to hold interest rate unchanged in a range of 4.25% to 4.5% at that meeting. the minutes show policymakers expressed concern about of trump's policy proposals — particularly tariffs and immigration — on their efforts to bring price to futures markets. for another debt—ceiling showdown in washington. and lawmakers will need to act by the summer to raise their self—imposed debt ceiling, or risk a default.

sheet in light of this, and this means reducing fed officials also used the january meeting to kick off a review of the central bank's policy framework. for the us federal reserve and is now at yale school of management, and i asked him what stood out for him among the policymakers�* discussions. of monetary policy and there it was striking where they are with rates

where they are. they see inflation is still too high, still above their target. and policy is somewhat tight. to target over time? pretty happy with just waiting and seeing. there is a lot of uncertainty, of course, partly because of that gives another impetus to wait and see exactly how things do you think it is speculative at this stage, or are we yet seeing any evidence of the inflationary reflects those policies.

but these things take a little while to play out, and i think few months, we may begin to see something on that. sure. but what about that crackdown on immigration — undocumented immigration? do you think sufficient attention is being paid over the last couple of years, the labour market

went from being very tight to being more or less in equilibrium, and a big piece of that was immigration, which increased the size of the labour force. you may remember, a couple of years ago, businesses had they couldn't hire, and that was putting upward pressure on wages. those things have normalised partly because the labour force has grown. immigration has already going forward. 0k. had that immigration. staying on the theme of trump administration,

he has been to look where ukraine could use its that ukraine could use its mineral wealth to resist pressure. president trump and zelensky continue to trade insults on counterpart had been influenced by russian disinformation, president trump hit back and called zelensky a "dictator". to compensate the us for its military support. i spoke earlier tojohn herbst — a senior director of the atlantic council's eurasia center and former us ambassador to ukraine. he told me what ukraine has to offer in this negotiation. that they have rare earth and other critical minerals worth

it's not clear what percentage of that so this is stuff, material, minerals that is but it would be wrong to say ukraine deal, so do you see there being any wriggle room, any space for a deal here? he has said he wants

to achieve a durable the reasons, a very concrete reason for that. started. what are your thoughts about the recent war of words between presidents trump durable peace. the trump administration, president trump third day in office, the

impediment to peace is putin. and the way to get putin to change his mind and move towards peace is to put pressure on russia. all putin sees right now is trump trading insults with zelensky. speaking of materials that drive microsoft has invented a new state of matter as part the substance is neither a liquid, a solid or a gas. race to build a quantum computer capable of solving important real—world problems. quantum computing is based

on the principles of particle physics and works in a fundamentally different way to the computers in your phones or laptops. simply can't — and lead to developments in medicine, for example. risk, high rewards strategy. to develop this new chip, it wanted to develop new materials that were capable of entering a topological state of matter. majorana particle. its existence has been only

in theory until recently, and it remains controversial. in the race with its rivals, and ready to make it believes it's a question of years — not decades — before it's able to produce quantum computers capable but it still has a way to go before it will catch up with its rivals, and there is a big difference with a degree of caution — they say they will need to see more data before they're ready

apple has launched a new, cheaper iphone — the 16e. the budget model will have the latest ai features but a much simpler camera than apple's premium phones. the american electric truck—maker nikola is filing for bankruptcy. in its trucks in 2023. and suspended sales as a result. nikola's boss also cited unfavourable economic and market conditions behind the decision to close the business. when we come back... on national leadership day, we talk to the man who says that businesses has a lot to learn from bees.

around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

donald trump has doubled down on his latest plans to impose and even lumber. i'm going to be announcing tariffs on cars and semiconductors and chips and pharmaceuticals — drugs and pharmaceuticals — and lumber, probably, and some other things over the next month — or sooner. and it's going to have a big impact on america. we're bringing our businesses back. if they don't make their product in america, then they very simply, they have to pay a tariff, they don't have to pay any tariff, which will bring... it's all going to bring trillions of dollars

we want to have a fair base. if they don't pay, if they don't charge us, we now have detail from the us federal reserve. they are those 5 those and thinking those tariffs and immigration plans will be inflationary and keep “flét'f�*fiffif iii! 33'“ fees w rates “flfihf�*fiff�*? iii? fi'“ fees w rates higherfor interest rates higher for longer. safety is in the spotlight at asia's biggest aviation festival in singapore. katie silver reports. and it's all that people here can talk about. on the one hand, you have pressure to decarbonise, but then demand for flights continues to soar. ai is promising huge benefits

when it comes to efficiencies, you have all of this coupled with the post—pandemic to safety and recent crashes. let's take a look at some of those innovations that are promising to change the way we fly. so imagine this. have a flight till the end of the day. and print my boarding pass and my bag tag. see it again until i reach my final destination. could go hands—free.

well, there's a lot of applications for al manage emissions for aircraft. and that's also quite a big focus. and also how airlines can leverage al to build deliver bigger profits to them. but it's notjust ai, as you say. there's another buzzword here. it's a market that's really on the ascendancy. that's coming back, but it's a lot slower than it previously was. from small starts, people here are dreaming big

and they're hoping that with technologies like artificial intelligence, one day you might be able to turn up at the airport and your face will take you all katie silver, there. finally on business today, what does it take to bee a leader? or queen bees. leadership from bees. philip atkinson is a leadership expert and also a beekeeper and hejoined me earlier. bees have survived for millions of years but they are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the different and my call to action is for all leaders to keep evolving with new ways

of working in society at the 0k. business leaders could actually lead from bees and their behaviour. thank you, thank you. i think there are three things. notice of what is happening inside a complex system. stakeholders — as we have heard on the news today already. and we cannot use old frameworks to understand a simple hierarchy of command and control. we encourage readers to stop, pause, think and understand grow with the system rather than fighting against it. sure you talk to business leaders about it. are there any other kind of direct comparisons you can could adopt in their workplace? we are not pretending everyone should work like bees but one key thing is about communication.

we do know in this world we need to communicate understood about where to find flowers. and what about managing conflict? that is obviously something many people in the lives, as well. thank you. notice what is happening, call it out, be more self aware before getting into conflict situations. female bees rather than males.

90% of the hard—working worker bees percentage are male. themales. actually . . terrifying! scotland's health secretary has admitted more in recent years, scotland has repeatedly recorded the highest

it was alljust like a bad dream. i'm learning to cope a bit better now, i think. yeah, it doesn't get any easier. in death as they were in life. when i take a flower out i always leave a wee flower for james. james was just 29 when he died of an overdose. as a little boy he was blonde haired, blue—eyed, full of mischief. but she did have, like, a valium addiction because she

she ended up buying it off the streets because she two members of oban�*s lost generation, including james�* there's over there, our three, over there, there and there. one, two, three more there. mm—hm. so that's ten just in this little area. yeah. it is home to 8,000 people. scotland has seen that many overdose deaths injust seven years. so what is to be done? there's no linkup, people are left. james died just hours

after he was released that he had been freed. he was released, we didn't know. it's hard not to be angry. something's got to change. yes, admits the health secretary. well, i think the two cases that you've highlighted tell me do you accept, as a government, some responsibility for that — well, of course we do. that not everything is available in all parts services, such as residential

rehab, is so important. what i have found here in oban, by the scale of the losses this is what the worst drug—deaths crisis james cook, bbc news, oban. bring you the latest coming let's bring you the latest pictures coming in from gaza. the gathering of people there for of the bodies for the handover of the bodies of four dead israeli hostages. it is first time bodies it is the first time the bodies of deceased hostages are being returned to israel since the

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what's happening. mild air for this time of year. once the cold front sweeps its way steadily eastwards, something a little less mild, perhaps, as we head into the weekend. but look at these temperatures. as we go through the day. slowly brightening up with sunny spells and scattered of winds as the isobars

squeeze together. coming through here, temperatures are likely to respond. will continue to stay mild, 11—15 degrees. if we get some sunshine, not out of the question the winds perhaps even stronger still, so keep watching the bbc weather app for more.

president zelensky a dictator, as the us president has intensified his criticism of the ukrainian leader. he's low in the real ukrainian polls. is being demolished? a dictator without elections. to have a country left. of four hostages, including a mother and her the parents of a nine—year—old girl former school. people from 30 properties in a surrey village have been evacuated as a sinkhole nearby continues to grow. coming up on business today — the us federal reserve warns could fuel inflation and keep interest rates

higherfor longer.