Driving the german capital to consider and on point that all solution to. This is the w. Business im joined now on in berlin welcome thousands of delegates from around the world are in the german city of bonn racing to resolve outstanding issues in implementing the Paris Climate Accord nearly 200 countries signed the agreement back in 2015 committing to limit the centurys global average temperature increase so no road to no more than 2 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels will have more on the issues in just a moment but 1st heres a look at how countries compare in terms of c o 2 emissions what 28 percent of global emissions china is the biggest offender the United States at 16 per cent comes in at number 2 germany with just over 2 percent comes in 6th place. But its a very different story when you look at per capita emissions and that measure its qatar that comes out way on top the average person there emits over 30 tons of c o 2 each year thats twice as much as the average pers
Lyrics, hi, im Elizabeth Macdonald and the state of the union is not happy and majority of voters say President Biden took the u. S. In the wrong direction and even adam schiff is now saying that. The president , what hes going to do is a reset. Edward lawrence is live at the white house with more. Edward. Reporter yeah, there might be a political tint to it tonight. We know that prices are up 18 since President Joe Biden came into office. The president is back to blaming companies for inflation now, and the president also tonight, we will not hear him use the word inflation. Its like lord voldemort and he created 14 million hell say and the truth is the economy added back all the jobs from the pandemic and created 5. 4 million and the former clinton adviser here says the president needs to go beyond jobs tonight. In the past, americans were typically focused mostly on the jobs report and the unemployment rate, but with good employment numbers, the real thing that has people ticked off
Questions being asked at this weeks Global Ai Safety Summit in south korea. The second of its kind, it is co hosted with britain after the inaugural event in november last year at Bletchley Park near london. Francine bennett is interim director at the Ada Lovelace Institute an independent Research Institute specialising in al and is in south korea for this summit. A very warm welcome to the programme. So first of all, what will be achieved in seoul, do you think . Do you think . Well, thats a aood do you think . Well, thats a good question. Do you think . Well, thats a good question. I do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what| do you think . Well, thats a good question. I hope what will be achieved in seoul is moving on from the conversation from the Bletchley Summit Last year. So we had some really good initial conversations there, and i think what wasnt to see is shaping the development of this, potentially very new te
To develop ai systems responsibly. They include google, amazon, meta, microsoft and openai. Joining us now is Bbc Technology journalist chris vallance, whos in our edinburgh studio. Tell us a bit more about this agreement . The summit is a follow up to the summit in november at Bletchley Park, and its aim essentially is to continue that work. It is a two day summit, the start of it virtually attended by Prime Minister rishi sunak and his south korean counterpart. The second day brings together digital ministers, and they will look at a range of issues including things like the Environmental Impact of ai, issues of bias, the impact onjobs, which is interesting because the focus on the Bletchley Park summit was the catastrophic scenarios. Those particular items on the agenda much more here and now concerns. Broadly, thatis more here and now concerns. Broadly, that is what the summit is hoping to achieve. There was talk about it possibly being lacklustre and so much surprise when this mor
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I am from texas were on Us Senate Finance committee. Which as you know, is the principal tax writer in the United States senate. That was enormously productive the president made clear his preference for a bipartisan bill with a lot of ideas tossed around but if we do this on a bipartisan basis to get the economy growing again increase takehome pay to bringing jobs back mrs. A win for the American People lung bipartisan basis it will be something that is sustainable like the tax reform of 1986. We are hopeful we can do this there is the saying in politics trust but verify we will do the best we can on behalf of the American People. Just to add to this i thought the president today articulated his view with a lot of democrats in the room today about the tax cuts for middle income families. To take care of themselves and their families that is a view we all share in the priority we all share. So i am hopeful we can find the path forward to attrac