they are, mariko, accused _ facing. they are, mariko, accused of _ facing.they are, mariko, accused of serious healthj facing. they are, mariko, - accused of serious health and safety breaches. these charges have been brought by new zealand's workplace safety regulator. six defendants have gone on trial at the auckland district court in new zealand's biggest city. they have denied the charges. this all relates to the awful events in december 2019. an eruption of new zealand's most active volcano on white island, also known by its mooring name of whakaari so 22 people were killed. 47 people were on the island at the time and almost all of the survivors suffered very, very serious burns —— maori name. this week, we have been hearing some very graphic evidence as to exactly what happened as the court tries to establish exactly why these charges have been brought and whether or not the defendants are guilty or not. . , ., the defendants are guilty or not. ., , ., , the defendants are guilty or not. ., i. , ., buttle family who have owned white island since 1993

reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi.ky at the nato summit, but leaders refuse to set a timetable for ukraine to join. reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines:

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. sweden's membership of the nato alliance after resisting for many months. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines:

welcome to asia business report with me mariko oi. let's begin with me mariko oi. let's begin with the cost of living in the world �*s largest economy. inflation in the us has risen by 3% in the year tojune. that is the lowest level in more than two years. the news has been shut by financial markets which closed at the highest levels in over a year. let's show you how wall street ended, especially the nasdaq doing quite well. investors are now feeling more confident you economy may be able to avoid a recession. the headline is that the cost of living in the united states is headed in the right direction. inflation rose 3% in the month ofjune. down a full percentage point from a month earlier. it has fallen pretty sharply from its peak of more than 9% injune of last year. it is a sign of the federal reserve �*s moves to raise interest rates to slow down inflation seems to be working. but analysts still think america central bank will raise interest rates one more time at their next meeting. it is good news for consumers but also good news for us president joe biden

�*welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko 0i. the headlines.old, for explicit pictures. �*welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko 0i. the headlines. an unnamed bbc presenter has been suspended, following allegations over payments to a 17—year—old, for explicit pictures.

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reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko 0i. the headlines.as sparked five nights of rioting, says the family never called for violence. translation: we don't tolerate at all what happened. _ we never called for hate or riots. a warning from nhs england: patients are paying the price for strike action and the disruption could get worse. china's new law — asserting beijing's interests on the world stage — comes into effect. we'll get live analysis of its impact. and a slice of history — war planes from world war two are found buried in a forest in ukraine. live in our studio in singapore — welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko 0i. the headlines. a relative of the french teenager, whose fatal shooting by police has sparked five nights of rioting, says the family never called for violence. translation: we don't tolerate at all what happened. _ we never called for hate or riots. a warning from nhs england: patients are paying the price for strike action and the disruption could get worse.

singapore, i'm mariko 0i.explicit photos stand by their allegations — despite a lawyer for the now 20 year old saying the claims are "rubbish". singapore, i'm mariko 0i.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines.m singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines. thousands of people on the greek island of rhodes have been moved to safety, as wildfires burn out of control. with most votes counted in spain's general election — the make up of the new government still isn't clear.

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welcome to asia business report with me mariko 0i. 0ur welcome to asia business report with me marikost of borrowing once again. the central bank raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing it to the highest level in 22 years. and as my colleague michelle fleury explains, they have left the door open for more. . , have left the door open for more. ., , ., , more. the federal reserve has moved with _ more. the federal reserve has moved with unprecedented - more. the federal reserve has i moved with unprecedented speed to get inflation under control. since march of last year, it has raised its benchmark rate by five at a quarter percentage points. its latest move is likely to pick up the cost of borrowing for american businesses and consumers even further, with inflation showing prices rising more

hi there, welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi. it's a big week for global interest rates, with key central bank rate decisions in the us, europe and japan. the first, and most consequential, is the fed's decision on wednesday. us central bank officials have hinted of more rate hikes, but a sharper than expected drop in consumer inflation in the world's largest economy last month have dampened expectations. that decision comes a day before second quarter gdp figures are released. many expect the us economy likely remained in expansion during the april tojune period. and rounding out the week will be the bank ofjapan. last month saw core consumer prices, excluding food, rise higher than the boj's inflation target. and this could put pressure on the central bank to tweak its ultra easy monetary policy. i spoke to naeem aslam, chief investment officer at london—based zaye capital markets, for more. i think the federal reserve is not under immense pressure, as they were, let's say, before they were, let's say, before the inflationary a

welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi. we begin with threads because meta's latest social media app has managed to hit 100 million signups within five days since it was launched. celebrities, politicians and journalists have joined mark zuckerberg's new app which is now the fastest growing online platform to hit the milestone. threads aims to rival twitter which had about 240 million daily active users injuly last year, and of course that was before it was taken over by billionaire elon musk. the platform launched by instagram owner meta has beat that record set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn't believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. meta isn't creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and tha

hi there, welcome to asia business report, with me, mariko oi.s treasury secretary janet yellen is expect to arrive shortly in the chinese capital and she is the second high—level us cabinet member to do so after secretary of state antony blinken�*s visit a couple of weeks ago. her trip also comes after beijing moved to limit the exports of certain rare earths just days ago. i think she really wants as she said to get communications open. we are trading a lot with china, china depends on the us, us depends on china but at the same time, security and geopolitical interests are coming into conflict. i would say it is a little bit like good cop bad cop, blinken being the bad cop and now yellen going in as the good cop trying to say, "look, we have a lot in common, let's see what we can do together," but boy, back home in the united states, both the democrats and the republicans are bashing on china, trump put in tariffs on hundreds of billions of chinese goods and president biden, who has reversed every trump policy he can, has kept that one. but de

i'm mariko oi. the big week for us economic news continues, as the us federal reserve�*s preferred measure of inflation will be released later today. this and more evidence of slowing inflation would boost hopes that the world's biggest economy could be headed for a soft landing. this is as the latest data showed the american economy growing 2.4% in q2, topping expecations. michelle fleury with more. personal consumer expenditures measures how people spend their money. the inflation update is one of the pieces of data watched closely by america's central bank. when federal reserve officials raised rates by a quarter of a percentage point this week by more than two—decade high, they said they would be watching and monitoring incoming economic reports to decide whether another rate hike was warranted or if they were done. hot on that meeting's heels, data released on thursday showed the us economy grew at a 2.4% annual rate between april and june. the strong data boosted hopes that central bank policy

i'm mariko oi. it's official. elon musk has killed off twitter�*s recognisable bird logo with an x.s part of a bid to rebrand the platform as advertising revenue continues to flounder, and under its new identity, a post will also be called an x rather than a tweet. the rebranding could be part of a push to make twitter into a super app. the service formerly known as twitter is reborn as x, it's the latest big change since elon musk bought the social media platform for $41; billion last year, and at the weekend, he said he was ditching the famous blue bird and changing the logo of twitter to an x. ceo linda yaccarino addressed the rebranding in a memo to staff that was obtained by cnbc, she claimed usage was an all—time high but did not share any specific metrics. and as to what x might look like, in terms of changes in audio, video, payments and banking, it's no secret that elon musk wants to transform twitter into a super app, similar to china's wechat and indonesian social media platforms. these apps let people send and receive payments and content, and access things like food del

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines.r for the funerals of 12 palestinians killed during israel's two day military operation in the occupied west bank. , , . , operation in the occupied west bank. , , ., , ., bank. this is about sending a very powerful— bank. this is about sending a very powerful message - bank. this is about sending a very powerful message that, | very powerful message that, despite everything that has happened, they are not beaten, they are still here. in fact,

reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. they had lines. the show must not go on.join riders on the picket line. a fierce heatwave is gripping parts of europe. temperatures reach more than a0 celsius as exporters to another el nino. the

i'm mariko oi. our top story this morning — us treasury secretary janet yellen has kicked off her visit to the chinese capital. she will be meeting the former trades are and premier later today. her trip comes at a time when beijing is ramping up the heat on relations. earlier i spoke to the wilson centre and got to take on the messaging from beijing. it clearly signals that china is prepared to push back against any action that would be taken by the united states. it is hardly the rolling out the red carpet but i do want to point out that the value in this dialogue is that the two countries are actually meeting and that we will see more continued dialogue from the two sides. �* ., , , ~' continued dialogue from the two sides. ., i, ~ continued dialogue from the two sides. �* ., , , ~ , sides. anthony blinker was 'ust there last month i sides. anthony blinker was 'ust there last month and it i sides. anthony blinker was just there last month and it cannot| there last month and it cannot be a bad thi

hey there, welcome to the asia business report with me, mariko oi. we begin in the us regulators are taking aim at one of the most renowned names in the artificial intelligence space — chatg pt. the federal trade commission has opened an investigation, saying it is looking into whether the popular chat bot harmde consumers by publishing false information. the ceo of openai, the company that created chatgpt, reacted to news of this investigation and said his company protects user privacy. the artificial intelligence company openai is facing a probe by us regulators for the federal trade commission sent a letter to the microsoft backed company, asking for more information about its privacy and data security practices. the agency also wants to know if the ai tool harmed people by generating false information about them. since its launch, there has been a lot of noise about openai. this is the service that generates convincing humanlike responses to user queries and is expected to dramatically change the way we get information online. it is already the s

the bbc�*s mariko 0i reminded us why this company is so signioficant.ince late 2021, we kept talking about evergrande, didn't we? which basically came into the spotlight as the world's most indebted property developer at the heart of a housing crisis in china. now, at one point, we know that the company had more than $300 billion in liabilities and it defaulted on its debts in late 2021. now, other developers, smaller one, also defaulted and there were real fears of contagion in china's property sector which, of course, was once a major driver for economic growth. evergrande then announced its restructuring plans back in march and we've been waiting for the company to announce its earnings for the last two years. it was delayed, delayed, delayed, but finally we got to see those numbers. as you mentioned, the loss of more than $80 billion over that two years. an eye—watering figure, but i guess not too surprising either. ishould mention, though, that this is the first time that the company reports a loss since it went public back in 2009. its shares, of

welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi. now, after a marathon of meetings with those chinese officials in beijing, the us treasury secretary janet yellen expressed confidence that her visit will help stabilise us—china relations. ms yellen�*s trip to china is just the latest step as the world's two biggest economies work on improving ties over a tense two years. the two sides continue to be locked in a tit—for—tat trade war which has now spilled over into the technology space. the us has imposed export controls designed to restrict china's ability to buy high—tech microchips, and it is now considering an executive order to curb us investment in sensitive areas. but ms yellen told her chinese counterparts that any such measures will be highly targeted. i emphasise that it would be highly targeted and clearly directed narrowly at a few sectors where we have specific national security concerns. i want to allay their fears that we would do something that would have broad—based impacts on the chinese economy. that's not the case

i'm mariko oi. it's being described as twitter�*s biggest threat.eta's new app called "threads" will launch on thursday. it's already available for pre—order on apple's app store. screengrabs show a dashboard that looks very similar to twitter�*s. meta, which owns facebook, say threads will be part of its instagram platform, so it will be connected to hundreds of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why "threads" could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let's put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it's a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users

i am mariko oi.armistice ended the fighting in the korean war, we speak to a south korean veteran who was held captive in the north. # nothing compares, nothing compares to you. the # nothing compares, nothing compares to you.— compares to you. the irish sinner compares to you. the irish singer and _ compares to you. the irish singer and activist - compares to you. the irish singer and activist sinead l singer and activist sinead o'connor dies at the age of 56. president biden's son hunter unexpectedly please dann pleads not guilty to two charges of tax offences. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. eight�*s newsday. hello, there. thank you for being with us. we begin with korea, and today marks the 70th anniversary of an agreement that throws one of

i'm mariko oi. we begin in the us where regulators are taking aim at one of the most renowned names in the artificial intelligence space — chatgpt. the federal trade commission has opened an investigation, saying it's looking into whether the popular chatbot harmed consumers by publishing false information. the ceo of openai, the company that created chatgpt, has since reacted to news of this investigation. sam altman said his company protects user privacy. michelle fleury has more. the artificial intelligence company openai is facing a probe by us regulators. the trade commission sent it after asking for more information about its privacy and data security practices. the agency also wants to know if the ai tour harm people by having false information about them. since it launched there's been a lot of noise about openai. it gives humanlike responses to basic queries and will dramatically change the way we get information online. it's already the subject of fierce debate, including the accuracy of s

welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi.t's a big week the global interest rate rises with key decisions in the us, europe and thenjapan stop the first and of course most consequential is the fed's decision on wednesday. us central bank officials have entered more rate hikes but of a sharper than it selected falling consumer inflation the world's biggest economy last month dampened expectations. that decision comes a day before second—quarter gdp figures are released and many economists are expecting the us economy likely remaining in expansion during the april to june period. rounding of the week, will be the bank of japan. last month they saw core consumer prices excluding food rising higher than the bank's inflation target so that put extra pressure on the central bank to tweet its altar easy monetary policy. i earlier, i spoke to naim aslam and he told me how he expected the fed to go. i me how he expected the fed to no. ~' me how he expected the fed to .o_ ~ ., me how he expected the fed to io, ~ ., , go. i think the fe

i'm mariko oi. meanwhile, it looks like more interest rate hikes are on the horizon.inutes from the us federal reserve�*sjune meeting showed almost all officials expect more tightening ahead, but at a slower pace from before. the central bank held the cost of borrowing steady last month after ten straight increases. michelle fleury explains. more rate hikes but at a slower pace, that is the message from the federal reserve. america's central bank. the policymakers says they intend to raise interest rates practice in its july after taking a break last month to assess the impact of ten brevis increases. it comes as americans are having to pay more for basic goods, but while officials seem to be an agreement are for what to do next, after the meeting on wednesday, there was disagreement over the decision to hold off untiljune. some say they could've supported a rate rise last month because inflation remains well above its 2% target. the minutes show how policymakers are grappling with how to tame inflation after it hit a high last year, even as they left the benchmark ra

welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi. we began with one of the gaming sector's most valuable and also most contentious deals. microsoft has been wanting to buy activision, which is the publisher of major titles like call of duty and candy crush. it is worth almost $70 billion and it was approved by regulators in the eu but opposed by those in the uk. it has now got a huge boost. aus a usjudge rejected a request to block it. activision's shares jumping more than 10%. analyst dan ives says this could be a major breakthrough. i think this is a done deal and ultimately the trophy case in redmond, from microsoft. this was a big hurdle they had to clear. i think next week this is on the glide path to get done, probably a carveout for the uk and ultimately i think they pop the champagne after this battle that this deal gets done. what is going to happen in the uk? are they going to come up with some kind of a compromise to meet the regulator's demand? yeah, we think they carveout, there is a piece on the subscription side they c

i'm mariko 0i.controversial law restricting the power ofjudges. wildfires continue on the greek island of rhodes. the country's prime minister says it shows the climate crisis is already here. and tributes are paid to george alagiah — one of the bbc�*s most respected journalists, who's died at the age of 67. welcome to the programme. we begin in israel, where the parliament has approved restrictions on the powers of the supreme court, which have led to some of the largest protests in israel's history. the move preventsjudges from blocking government decisions they consider unreasonable. critics say it will destroy israel's democracy,

i'm mariko oi.ntry's prime minister says tough days lie ahead with the wildfires. we have the latest from greece. when we first arrived here most of the smoke was coming from over there but in the last few minutes there has been a flare out down here in the strong wind not only makes things tougher for the people fighting the fires but much more dangerous. china's foreign minister, a fierce critic of the west, has been replaced with his predecessor. we'll look into the opaque world of beijing's leadership. plus as a string of rare political scandals rocks singapore we speak to the man who is poised to be the next prime minister. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme.

i'm mariko oi. top story this morning — us treasury secretary janet yellen has kicked off her visit to the chinese capital. she is the second top american diplomat to land in beijing in a month after us secretary of state antony blinken visited in june. her trip is expected to focus on easing ties between the world's two largest economy. monica miller with more. companies affected by these controls are now assessing the potential impact of china's announcement, for example, the auto sector. volkswagen says that it auto sector. volkswagen says thatitis auto sector. volkswagen says that it is monitoring the situation and is ready to take measures together with its partners if necessary. these key metals are important research for automotive parts and pay a role in future autonomous cars. these two metals are also crucial to make semiconductors. taiwan's worlds largest contract chip maker says it doesn't expect any direct impact on its production. despite the statement, the shares plunged almost 3% in

welcome to asia business report, with me, mariko oi. our top story for you this morning, the us federal reserve has moved to hike the cost of borrowing once again. the central bank raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, bringing it to the highest level in 22 years, and as my colleague michelle fleury explains, they have left the door open for more. the federal reserve has moved with unprecedented speed to get inflation under control. since march of last year, it has raised its benchmark rate by five and a quarter percentage points. its latest move is likely to pick up the cost of borrowing for american businesses and consumers even further, with inflation showing prices rising more slowly than a year ago, the key question at the press conference was whether this rate increase was the last or would it hike again later this year. fed chair, jerome powell, would not be drawn. i would say it is certainly possible we would raise funds again at the september meeting, if the data warranted it, and i would also say it is poss

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i'm mariko oi. the big week for us economic news continues, the federal reserve�*s preferred measure of inflation will be released later today. and more evidence of slowing inflation would boost hopes that the world's biggest economy could be headed for a soft landing. this is as the latest data showed the american economy growing 2.4% in 02 —— topping expecations. michelle fleury with more. personal consumer expenditures measures how people spend their money, the inflation update is one of the pieces of data watch closely by america's central bank. raised rates by a quarter of a percentage point this week by more than a decade high. they would be watching and monitoring economic reports to decide whether another rate hark was —— rate hike was warranted. data released on thursday she owed the us economy grew at the 2.4% central bank policymakers would pull off what economists would pull off what economists would pull off what economists would pull off an immaculate tightening. while the fed may have

hi there, welcome to asia business report, with me, mariko oi. yellen is expect to arrive shortly in the chinese capital and she is the second high—level us cabinet member to do so after secretary of state antony blinken�*s visit just a couple of weeks ago. her trip also comes after beijing moved to limit the exports of certain rare earths just days ago. monica miller has more. this is the first time a us treasury secretary has visited china since the covid pandemic and this is the environment they find themselves in. for example, trade restrictions. one point of contention is over rare earth metals, essential components to make semiconductor those which are used in everything from smart phones to military equipment. earlier this week beijing said it will require a special license to obtain two metals predominantly mined in china stopping this move has seen a retaliation against export bands put in place by the united states of critical technology needed for artificial intelligence and quantum computing. both sides argue that these bands are need

hi there, welcome to asia business report with me, mariko oi. after a marathon of meetings with chinese officials in beijing the us treasury secretary janet yellen expressed confidence that her visit will help stabilise us china relations. ms. yellin was a trip to china is just the latest step as the world to biggest economies are working on improving ties after a tense few years. the two sides continue to be locked in a tit—for—tat trade war which is now spilt over into the technologies base for the us has imposed export controls get designed to restrict china's ability to buy high—tech microchips and it's now considering an executive order to curb us investment in sensitive areas. jerry eligible to chinese counterpart to any such measures would be hardly targeted. i such measures would be hardly tarueted. , .,, , such measures would be hardly tarueted. , . , , ., targeted. i emphasised that it would be highly— targeted. i emphasised that it would be highly targeted - targeted. i emphasised that it would be highly targeted and| would be highly

mariko 0i has more... doesn�*t it feel like we are all living in a barbie world?was singing the barbie girl song all morning so it is kind of stuck in my head and i will not bore you with that. a record—breaking sales in cinemas this weekend in ticket sales are the highest this year and in fact the fourth best ever after two avengers and one star wars movie. mattel haven�*t actually said if the company can make money directly from the movie but it is still counting on the movie�*s popularity to help drive dull sales for the rest of the year and when the company managed to post and when the company managed to post a surprise profit thanks to strong sales of movie related toys they had decided to expand its range for this of mattel as well. mattel is also releasing other movies for brands like hot wheels and polly pocket over the next few years creating what the company�*s boss called a mattel universe just like marble�*s universe and they are hoping to use the barbie movie success as a template but also interestingly in this elegance report, the man who helped to r

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines.two pilots, as the country's prime minister says tough days lie ahead with the wildfires. when we first arrived here most of the smoke was coming from over there but in the last few minutes there has been a flare up just down here and of course the strong wind is not only making things tougher for the people fighting the fires, but much more dangerous. china's foreign minister, a fierce critic of the west, has been replaced with his predecessor. we'll look into the opaque world of beijing's leadership. i katie silver live in sydney bringing you the latest of all of the action in the women's world cup.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines. israeli troops begin to leave thejenin refugee camp after an assault on the occupied west bank in which 12 palestinians were killed. israel says one of its soldiers has died. meanwhile — 7 people are injured after a car ramming attack in the israeli city of tel aviv. the un says japan can release water from the fukushima plant into the pacific — but south korea and china maintain their objections. in britain, police re—open an investigation into whether covid rules were broken during a party at conservative party headquarters. and as monday was the world's hottest day on record — the un warns countries need to start preparing for the effects of an el nino weather event. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the middle east where israeli forces have begun to withdraw from the city ofjenin, in the west bank, after carrying out one of the biggest military operations there in years. israel says the action was an attempt to root out terro