the world's largest plane maker, airbus, reports net on the previous year. for the year ahead. microsoft invents a new form of matter for the next i'm ritika gupta. plane—maker that builds and sells more commercialjets than anyone in the world. or $4.3 billion. there's nearly always turbulence in aviation but the past year has been and airbus has forecast a 7% rise in new commercial aircraft

deliveries in the year ahead, it's confirmed that its planned new a350 freighter will be delayed. and earlier this week it announced a delay of up to ten aircraft by 2035. well, earlier, my colleague, tahdg enright spoke to airbus chief financial officer thomas toepfer. that we had in 202a. we did 766. the target that we had. and you see that we're planning in 2025 to increase further to around 820. is the supply chain.

and aero structures. so therefore it doesn't have to do so much with the competition in the industry. it's really more about recovering still from the hit haul and nearly all long haul routes, are you worried that that will give them clearance for ta ke—off? that they canjoin the ranks similar to them very serious. and i think it is true that the duopoly in the industry and that is ok for us.

it's a growing industry. i think there is space enough for more than two. what is most important for us that we keep our you mentioned hydrogen, but it's also important to work on a potential successor plane so therefore, keeping the competitive edge is the most let's stick with air travel, because it's been especially in the us. the recent crash in washington..- .. w- ,,,,-.,, about overstretched air traffic controllers, and the us national transportation safety board has already logged 80 so, how can safety be improved? in singapore and our reporter katie silver went to find out. 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, but then demand for flights continues to soar. ai is promising huge benefits when it comes to efficiencies, to safety and recent crashes. it means that there's huge scope for innovation, let's take a look at some of those innovations that are promising to change the way we fly. so imagine this. and print my boarding pass and my bag tag. this goes on my bag, which is sealed, and i won't

handlers who put baggage onto planes, they could go hands—free. how are you seeing it changing flying into the future? some of it will come around sustainability and how we and that's also quite a big focus. go through an airport, really the customer focus and also how airlines can leverage alto build india is the other big buzzword at the moment. we're seeing a lot of outbound travel from india, and so a lot in on that market.

that's coming back, but it's a lot slower to turn up at the airport and your face will take you all ahead, blaming cautious shoppers who may cut back inflation concerns. squared research.

if you look at the positive we saw grow results. we saw revenues grew 7 to results. we saw revenues grew , to $180 billion, which beat up to $180 billion, which beat expectations from analysts. we also saw sales as foot traffic. e—commerce as foot traffic. e—commerce sales, that aspect �*walmart�*s sales, that aspect of walmart�*s business, that up 33%. business, that went up 33%. sorry, subscription sorry, the subscription business went up 33%. have business went up 33%. we have seen a since last year. seen a rise since last year. we seen a rise since last year. we seen that stock grow. but have seen that stock grow. but to your point, yes, it was the information about next year and uidance issued guidance issued their which the guiuense'issueu their w'nisn sales would the euieenee'ieeuee their whieh sales would grow the guieenee'ieeuee their whieh sales would grow 3—4%. said sales would grow 3—4%. that is is impacting the that is what is impacting the right we are seeing stock right now. we are seeing that stock drop and decline at about 6%. that stock drop and decline at about 696-— eeeut se ’ silver m

some silver linings but what i thought was was thought was interesting was that in the guidance did include any impact risk for not include any impact risk for tariffs. walmart gets food from mexico, products like microwave china, how big china, howbig that from china, so how big is that risk factorfor walmart? they risk factor for walmart? they noted exactly, they noted geopolitical concerns, so you can only that is are about, they are talking about, tariffs, and those tariffs are imposed, will impact imposed, that will impact price. walmart created a pggeiugetnnert hes greeted e on �* prices business on lower prices that is why they everyday. that is why they resonated with shoppers on groceries, 60% of walmart�*s business is when business is grocery. when the goes up even a little bit, cost goes up even a little bit, thatis cost goes up even a little bit, that is at risk of customer going over to competitor. going over to a competitor. walmart is one of those w—eee ee tends to walmart is one of those ”71, ee tends to do

companies that tends to do well evenin companies that tends to do well even in an economic downturn. even in en erfinnmrdew�*tn has even in en erfinnmrdr�*w�*t," has also taken a lot of it has also taken a lot of market as we have seen. market share, as we have seen. how much of this will be a bellwether for other retailers get bellwether fer ether reteilers get set bellwether fer ether reteiters get set to report? bellwether for other ' - get set to report? that get set to report? walmart is that _ everyone i to walmart not onl to looks to walmart not only to how are doing but how the american consumer is doing and the consumer is doing and also the consumer globally. walmart is consumer is doing and also the consui company. y. walmart is consumer is doing and also the consui company. when mart is consumer is doing and also the consui company. when yout is consumer is doing and also the consui company. when you see global company. when you see results like happen, a cause for paws there. walmart se for paws there. walmart has )r paws there. walmart has issued there. but walmart has issued in the past concerned guidance in the past and has always been and walmart has always been good at making sure they very good at making sure they don't on the cost to the very good at making sure they don't but 1e cost to the very good at making sure they don't but 1e ct did ) the very good at making sure they don't but 1e ct did note consumer. but they did note these geopolitical issues may be a concern and that is why we are seeing react like be a concern and that is why we are - - react like i be a concern and that is why we are _ react like i be a concern and that is why we are _act like i

microsoft has invented a new state of matter as part of a powerful new quantum chip. a solid or a gas. it will be used for majorana 1, a chip that will drive much more powerful quantum computers that will solve industrial—scale problems in the decades to come. race to build a quantum computer capable of solving important real—world problems. quantum computing is based on the principles of particle it's hoped they'll be able to solve problems better batteries, and perhaps more efficient ways for example. a high—risk, high—rewards

strategy. to develop this new chip, it wanted to develop state of matter. majorana particle. but with this new chip, microsoft feels it is back in the race with its rivals, and ready to make it believes it's a question

of years — not decades — and many experts we've spoken to greeted this announcement or indeed for microsoft itself. that is all we have time for on business today but stay with us here on bbc news.

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