we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale
Time for a look at the Business News now with tadhg enright. Luxmy gopal, thank you very much. We are going to talk about tax. A new report, funded by the european union, has found that the worlds super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite decades of efforts to reduce evasion. The study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than 0. 5 of their wealth. The eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3,000 people in the world paid 2 , then it would raise 250 billion a year. Earlier, i spoke to Richard Murphy a Tax Reform Campaigner and professor of accounting practice, Sheffield University Management School and asked how feasible that would be. The good news in this report today is that a lot of measures that are being put in place which i campaigned for over the last 15 years are working. For example, tax havens are now causing one third of the ha
The raids were also aimed at gaining information on the whereabouts of the more than two hundred hostages held in gaza. We are hearing talks in doha to release more hostages are reaching a serious stage. But israel has dismissed any talk of a ceasefire in return for theirfreedom. Weve just heard from the un that 20 trucks have crossed the border bringing much needed aid into the strip. The head of the Main Un Agency Helping Palestinians in gaza says hundreds of truckloads of aid are needed every day, rather the few dozen that have been allowed in so far. The agency has called forfuel to be allowed in, with only a minimal supply left for hospitals, Water Desalination Plants and bakeries. Israel says its not permitting Fuel Deliveries because they could be commandeered by hamas. Lucy williamson has this report which you may find distressing a single day in gaza is measured in hundreds. Israels army counts targets. More than 300 hit in 2a hours. Targeting sites liable to endanger troops i
Its monday 23rd october. Our main story. More aid has reached gaza, as Rishi Sunakjoins other western leaders in calling on israel to respect International Humanitarian law. Fourteen trucks crossed from egypt through the Rafah Crossing Yesterday but the un and charities are warning it is still not enough, as israel continues to launch air strikes on gaza. More than two weeks after the attack by hamas, which is regarded as a Terrorist Organisation by the uk, the Israeli Defence minister has warned the conflict could go on for months. Our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell reports. A sleepless night in gaza. From afar, the flashes of successive israeli air strikes in gaza city as israel stepped up its bombing campaign. And amid more and more destruction, and a mounting death toll, the un is warning of a catastrophic humanitarian situation. Over the weekend, more than 30 lorry loads of aid were allowed into gaza from egypt, carrying food, water and medicines. Its just a fraction of w
Just as his mps began taking their seats behind him, one of them the conservative Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor to sit directly behind the Labour Leader. Timed for maximum political effect, and less than two weeks after the defection of dan poulter, how the Labour Leader enjoyed it. If one week, a tory mp whos also a doctor says the Prime Minister cant be trusted with the nhs and joins labour and the next week, the tory mp for dover, on the front line of the small boats crisis, says the Prime Minister cannot be trusted with our borders and joins labour what is the point of this failed government staggering on . In her statement, the dover mp said the conservatives under rishi sunak had become a by word for incompetence and division. In 2019, the conservatives took on a manifesto that was very much Centre Ground. But under rishi sunak, theyave abandoned the Centre Ground and broken many election promises. Meanwhile, under keir starmer, labour have changed, and i think that change i