mariko oi keein: interesting as well. mariko oi keeping us — interesting as well.ross _ interesting as well. mariko oi keeping us across the - interesting as well. mariko oi keeping us across the bitcoin| keeping us across the bitcoin movements. many thanks. police in new york are searching for a gunman who shot dead a top medical insurance executive outside a hotel. the attacker lay in wait for brian thompson, who was the head of unitedhealthcare. investigators say they do not know the motive of the assailant. the attack unfolded in one of the busiest parts of manhattan, close to the tourist areas of times square and central park in an area where shootings are extremely rare. 0n the money markets, all three major indexes have closed up higher. the dowjones industrial average were led higher biotechnology stocks and expectations of lower interest rates. a quick read of our top three. pressure continues to build on south korea's president to step down of a botched attempt to propose more martial law. we will have more on that later in the morning. many thanks for wa

well, our asia business reporter mariko oi did that interview with the boss of fast retailing, tadashiing, she told us more about the background to this. the initial reaction that i personally got after the interview aired was from chinese netizens, who were basically very angry with uniqlo, calling for a boycott of its clothes. of course, cotton from the xinjiang region is a contentious issue because, even though it was once known as some of the best fabric in the world, it's fallen out of favour after allegations that it is produced using forced labour by people from the muslim uyghur minority. now, beijing has consistently denied these allegations and brands such as h&m, which removed cotton from xinjiang from their supply chain a couple of years ago, they were boycotted in china. at the time, mr yanai didn't confirm or deny if the brand was using cotton from xinjiang. but when i met him earlier this month in tokyo, he confirmed that the company is not using cotton from xinjiang. in response, china's foreign ministry spokesperson said that they hope relevant companies can eliminate

mariko oi has been following the story for us.us could do clap see industry. they said that this is work in a legal framework is as a cryptic industry has a clarity that it has been asking for and can thrive in the us. mr trump's supporters in the tech sector want to see more minimal regulation around ai and crypto currencies such as bitcoin it's because they argue that washington would spike for growing innovative sectors with excessive rules. an interesting shift from a mr trump's who did once labelled crypto is a scam and is now embracing digital assets especially since his campaign is permitted to make the us to crypto the capital of the us to crypto the capital of the parliament and accumulate a national stockpile of bitcoin as well. mr sachs is 52 years old and a co—founder of french capital firm called crafter ventures and is an early leader of paypal which is a payment processing firm that was bought by ebay back in 2002. he was also an early evangelist of crypto currencies, as early as 2017, he was saying that it feels li

the bbc�*s mariko oi takes a look back at the history of sony's playstation.go, sony exceeded its target quickly. it needed to sell1 million units to break even. it redefined gaming hardware because it was one of the first publicly available introductions to 3d gaming. it also expanded the appeal of gaming to a broader audience. then came the playstation two launched a six years later. it became the best selling game hardware of all time, 160 million consoles flew off the shelves. fast forward to today we're on to the playstation five but a lot has changed with increasing popularity of mobile gaming and there as competition from the likes of xbox and steam deck and game publishers are expanding their offerings to personal computers which means owning a console is less important than 30 years ago. the strategy from their perspective is notjust about making money, on the hard ware, on the software they sell and through their storefronts and everything, so i think there is a significant commercial opportunity for sony and playstation in the business. but he adds

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here's our asia business reporter mariko oi who did the interview with fast retailing boss tadashi yanai interview aired was from chinese netizens, who were basically very angry with uniqlo, calling for a boycott of its clothes. of course, cotton from the xinjiang region is a contentious issue because, even though it was once known as some of the best fabric in the world, it's fallen out of favour after allegations that it is produced using forced labour by people from the muslim uyghur minority. now, beijing has consistently denied these allegations and brands such as h&m, which removed cotton from xinjiang from their supply chain a couple of years ago, they were boycotted in china. at the time, mr yanai didn't confirm or deny if the brand was using cotton from xinjiang. but when i met him earlier this month in tokyo, he confirmed that the company is not using cotton from xinjiang. in response, china's foreign ministry spokesperson said that they hope relevant companies can eliminate political pressure and negative interference and make independent business decisions that align with the

mariko oi has been following the story for us. tell us more about donald trump's latest pick?tep towards overhauling us policy towards cryptocurrency industries, trump posted on media that david sacks will work on a legal framework so that the crypto industry has the clarity he has been asking for, he says, and can thrive in the us. trump supporters in the tech sector generally want to see minimum regulation around ai and cryptocurrency such as bitcoin because they argue that washington would stifle growing innovative sectors with excessive rules. an interesting shift for donald trump who was saying crypto was a scam, now and raising digital assets, especially since his campaign, promising to make the us the crypto capital of the planet and accumulating a national stockpile of coin as well. david sacks is 53 years old and a co—founder of a badger capitalfirm and he a co—founder of a badger capital firm and he was an early leader of paypal which is a payment processing firm that was bought by ebay in 2002. he was bought by ebay in 2002. he was also an early evangelist of crypto