We start with alexa. Love it or hate it, you could soon be hearing a lot more from amazons talking Virtual Assistant. The tech giants unveiled a huge push to get more of us using it, building alexa into a range of gadgets from glasses to earphones and even a ring. Youll even be able to give it a celebrity voice. More on that in a moment. But first, artificial intelligence, whether its alexa, or apples siri or google assistant, is entering our homes and lives at a rapid pace, all the while gathering such valuable data on our habits. Now, by 2024, the global Smart Home Market could be worth as much as 151 billion. One in six americans now have a Smart Speaker in their home, that is a 28 rise since the beginning of 2017. And so far that industry is dominated by amazon. It has around 75 of the Smart Speaker market, with its biggest rival google lagging way behind. Its hoping to grow that market share even further by giving the devices a voice that we know and trust. Just like we practised,
A very forceful press conference designed right out of the gate to lay the blame at irans feet now much of the evidence displayed in there was a large volume of it might be arguably circumstantial thats certainly what iranian leaders are likely to say but the fact is that the sheer volume of information presented will be hard for anyone to ignore be irans enemies or their allies anyone trying to get to the bottom of what happened will find it difficult to ignore the sheer volume of information even though as you said when given the opportunity a saudi spokesman refused to point the finger squarely at iran now what irans government has been saying since the 1st bits of allegations came from the United States that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isnt the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both irans foreign minister zarif and irans president Hassan Rouhani have said that the reason t
Stock market would be 10000 points higher than it is right now. But somebody had to do this, this is much more important than the economy. Somebody had to do this. We had to do it with china, it had to be done. Im not even talking about purely economically, im talking about another way also. It was out of control and they were out of control. Also tonight, more zaniness, more craziness in california. Just weeks after the radical left in San Francisco attempted to soft in language concerning convicted felons, they issued a new designation for the National Rifle association we will tell you what they now call the nra. And in hong kong, the bill has sparked months of demonstration of protest as been withdrawn by hong kong chief executive. But the people of hong kong say much more must be done to restore trust that has been destroyed. Jonathan with the latest from hong kong. Hong kong chief executive has been under intense pressure and on wednesday she finally buckled, agreeing with the ba
Gauge mount at electing a government that was calling for engagement with the world now it is turning the other way around. Us come to the northern part of the city to hear what people have to say its mostly young well educated and well to do iranians who live here they voted for president rouhani and celebrated his commitment to the nuclear deal nobody here wants to see war. They should make friends and be done with it. Or want to help us we should be friends with the whole world and Work Together so we can all move forward. So i have given up hope 1st our regime has to change. War or even change the political viewpoints into iran have to come more extreme in both directions. Those bridges now some of the other stories making the news this hour in sudan the death toll from flooding triggered by heavy rains respond to at least 62 more than 35000 homes have been damaged or destroyed thousands cattle killed officials are warning the floods could lead to the spread of water borne diseases
Tonight i want to correct two elements of last night broadcast in which we focused on two republican senators. Steve daines and david perdue. The meeting with chinese premi premier, i just want to say about all of it, i express my concern last night, that their presence might undercut u. S. And chinese negotiations but we learned today that that meeting had been approved by the president , treasury secretary mnuchin, and robert lighthizer, and i also want to correct a report that senator dane shared history of outsourcing u. S. Jobs. He says he was in no way responsible for the loss of p g jobs while he worked to expand the companys production in china 20 years ago. My apologies tonight to both senators. And today this is what the president had to say. [inaudible] did you approve that meeting . I predict my people approved. China asked for the meeting, they have a lot of respect for senator dane and covenanter perdue, they are doing it for testing job, i approved of it and all they did