Good afternoon. Welcome to the Bbc News at One. The us president ial candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, have clashed in their first debate of the election campaign. The pair sparred over immigration, abortion and the economy and traded attacks over each other S Record in government. Vice president harris called the former president a laughing stock on the world stage, and said hed be manipulated by dictators if he returned to the white house. Donald trump criticised american Military Aid to ukraine, as well as accusing Kamala Harris of having no economic plans. Our senior North America Correspondent, gary odonoghue, has the story. The abc News President ial debate. Here now, David Muir and linsey davis. Good evening. Im David Muir and thank you forjoining us for tonights abc News President ial debate. Not just the first debate for these two as president ial candidates, but the first time these two have ever met. That was about as friendly as it got as they came to debate in p
Later this month. Lets show you the details. Figures from the us Labor Department Show prices rose at an annual rate of 2. 5 percent in august. Down from 2. 9 injuly. If we look at Core Inflation though which strips out volatile elements such as Food And Fuel prices were rising at a more aggressive 3. 2 percent. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupta is in new york. A cut by the fed has been all but promised by them already at their meeting next week. I guess the only outstanding question is by how much. Indeed, as you mentioned in your introduction overall this was a solid report on information monitoring. Annually at 2. 5 , that is the lowest in three years and that is why you will see the White House touting this as it went for the current administration and for the Election Campaign for Vice President kamala harris, and makes it must certain the federal reserve will cut Interest Rates when it meets next week, but for the markets it is a different story and you see th
A packed crowd took in the latest Iphone Launch at Apple Headquarters in a helicopter california. They were all here to see this. Ceo Tim Cook says the Iphone 16 is the first to be built from the ground up for artificial intelligence. The software is integrated into host of applications across the iphone. Take this Photo Editor allowing you to remove people from the background and this tool which helps rewrite your E Mails. There is an upgrade to The Voice assistant, which can now take written commands and is said to work better with natural spoken language. For now Apple Intelligence features will not be available in the eu as executives find themselves in the middle of a dustup with regulators over the digital markets act. The features will, however, be available in the uk. That is when they are released. The Test Version will start with the roll out in the us next month with more coming of the year. When it becomes available analysts say they are keen to use ai available analysts sa
juggernauts contending for the top prize. hello, welcome to verified live. tata steel will push ahead with plans to close both blast furnaces in its south torbert plant in wales, and it is expected to lead to the loss of over 3000 jobs talbot. the gmb union says it has alternative proposals aimed at saving jobs. a reminder of what we are saying, the bbc understands that tata steel is going to press ahead with plans to close blast furnaces at its plants at port talbot in south wales and that threatens the loss of more than 3000 jobs. the decision follows a meeting between tata steel executives and the wider community and unions in the meeting happened at a hotel in london today. and the meeting. the company will replace blast furnaces which produced new steel from iron or with a modern electric arc furnace which will produce usable steel from scrap metal, and it will be more environmentally friendly to operate but crucially it will require a smaller workforce. but crucia
is to close blast furnaces in port talbot with 3,000 jobs to go. the union plan to savejobs has failed. so what does it say more generally about the green transition? also in the programme. a walk out in northern ireland. no government, no funding, no pay rises. is the standoff over stormont now a constiutional crisis. a constiutional crisis? and is it the demand for cocaine europe that has turned ecuador into a war zone with the drug cartels? is there a future for steel making in the uk? and if there is then what sort of sector does it become. that very issue has been under discussion today between unions representing the steel workers of south wales and the bosses of the tata steel making company. no official word of what has been agreed but we understand tata steel is to close both blast furnaces at its port talbot works with the loss of up to 3,000 jobs. instead of blast furnaces, tata have a plan backed by the british government to invest in a new, greener, electric ar