Specifically ofcom says its concerned about fees for moving data and technical barriers that can make it difficult to switch providers. And this is a big and growing business. The consultancy mckinsey estimates Cloud Computing could be worth 3tn by the end of this decade. Microsoft said it was committed to competition and would engage with the uk inquiry and amazon said it believed ofcoms findings were based On A Fundamental Misconception of the sector and that the problems had been exxagerated. Raoul lumb is a commercial Technology Lawyer with the London Law Firm Simon Muirhead burton and when i spoke to i started by asking him to explain the importance of the cloud to modern life. I mean, you and me are using it now. So here i am. Im talking to you over sort of voice over internet service. All of the data that im recording with my mic, with my mic and my camera, thats going to a data center probably owned by amazon or microsoft to be processed before it gets to you. So anybody who us
Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Temperatures across the world in september were the warmest on record, breaking the previous high by a huge margin, according to the eu climate service. The heat is being driven by ongoing emissions of gases warming the atmosphere, as well as the Weather Event known as el nino. They say 2023 is now on track to be the warmest on record. Our climate editor, justin rowlatt, is here. This sounds very sobering . It is sobering. September was 0. 93 celsius warmer than the average global temperature for the month, so almost a whole degrees celsius, huge margin when you remember it is an average across the whole globe. Normally we would expect variations of a small fraction of a degree between years and it comes after, as you said, the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record. July we saw the hottest day, then the hottest week, then the hottest month ever recorded with scientist saying they thought it was almost certainly they thought it w
By new zealand. On newsnight at10 30. The electorates verdict from a crucial scottish bar election will be in soon. What will it tell us about the prospects for labour and the snp . Stand by, your Election Night coverage starts here. Ukraine says at least 51 people, including an eight year old boy, have died in a russian attack on a village in the north east of the country. President zelensky described the attack as an act of russian terror. Ukraines Defence Ministry said there were no Military Targets in the area only civilians. Local Officials Say a cafe and a shop were hit in the village of hroza, south east of kharkiv during a wake for a local resident. There has been intense fighting in the region in recent weeks, with russia attempting to recapture territory it lost last year. Earlier, mr zelensky told a European Summit his country was defending itself against russia to ensure European Security and said if kyiv was not successful, then russia would turn its attention to nato memb
Largest ecommerce be the in what could most valuable tech company. Meanwhile violence in ukraine is spreading to other parts of the country, alleged prorussian separatists killing ukrainian troops. Aev says it is turning into real bore. All of that ahead on street smart. Lets look at these stocks were watching as we head into the close. I want to go to julie hyman. I want to start with pfizer. We have seen so much activity in the drug sector. They failed to make more than estimated. The ceo talking about what could happen if you see that big pfizerastrazeneca deal go through. They are talking about the implications for any potential rake up of pfizer. The Company Thinks it would possibility. Our lesley they would have to reject or how that would be done. Obviously they would have to the way that would be done. And foreign sales were influenced by an outbreak of bird fuel and china. International chicken sales really felt the pain from that. And finally we have the potential deal, looki
In farmington, concerned about Social Security . Thank you for that question. Retireainer deserves to with dignity in our state. That means we have to do more to protect and strengthen Social Security and medicare. One of the best ways we can strengthen Social Security is by growing our economy. Wage, ande minimum im the only candidate who supports that, we will pour billions into our system. When we achieve equal pay for equal work when women in the Second District are only receiving . 78 on the dollar we can cut the shortfall in Social Security. When it comes to medicare we need to do common sense things, like i have done in the state legislature. We saved medicaid 4 million a year by allowing generic drug use. If medicare were allowed to negotiate Prescription Drug prices like the v. A. We would save billions. Those are the common sense approaches i will bring to the table. Third question, from ron. First, Bruce Poliquin. He writes, the United States trade representative is currentl