live from singapore, this is bbc news. president trump reportedly approved plans to attack iran that has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country. i have ideas as to what to do but i have not verified it, i like to make a final decision one second before it is due. things change, especially with what was de beers well strikes by the military targets in tehran and says it intercepted a wave of the rennae and missiles as the conflict and has a seven day. the only survivor of the air india crash carries his brother's coffin at a funeral in western india after being discharged from hospital. and

in business today, the us central bank declines to lower interest rates once again despite editors from president trump. plus i've been hearing from the ai calendars hoping to upend an already fast changing industry. when you come to these kinds of events, it is plain to see that the hype around artificial intelligence is very real especially here in asia. welcome to newsday, i'm suranjana tewari. us president has not made a final decision on whether the us will get involved in the conflict with israel. that's

according to our us medium partner cbs. trumpets are to be considering a us strike on an underground uranium enrichment site in iran as part of the plans. let's cross life to washington. good to hear from you. lots of chatter in the us media about what shape any potential involvement could take, tell us what it is looking like? that is a £30,000 question, this bunker buster bond that president trump is now considering whether he should use to strike those deep underground facilities and air runs fordow facility wet enrichment facility is what is really bonds cannot reach, this is one of the plans that has been planned and that the us is that president trump has approved the plan to attack iran but he is holding off on given that final order. it is normal for military to have plans and have it preapproved

and have it ready for president trump or the lid of but now, what we are hearing all these news, it is really sounds like president trump and the white house is now inching ever closer to actually get indirectly involved in the conflict against iran. this is of course carrying the risk of spiralling out of control, america has around 40,000 troops in the area so president trump is not given the go yet but he also is leading the idea that perhaps negotiation is still possible, he is waiting for the irradiance come to the negotiating table but iranians have been defined as ever today, they were riding that no irradiance will come to negotiations under duress and that no un officials had ever come to white house grovelling so the tone has been very lost, given the impression that

negotiation is too late which is something that president trump also had said so it's gone back and forth between saying something very belligerent and saying that negotiation is still possible and gives the idea that perhaps president trump believes that this confusion and ambiguous what is going to happen, gives them some upper hand. jake, we will live a dapper many thanks for the update. -- leave at air. i change ends en president trump chooses to do in the coming days. sara smith sent us this report. under the constant barrage of iranian missiles, israel's iron dome defences cannot stop them all. the us is helping shoot down the incoming rockets, that is america's only known involvement so far.

the world is now waiting to see if america's us military will join israel's attacks on iran. nobody knows what i am going to do. i can tell you this, iran has got a lot of trouble. at the white house, donald trump seems fixated by the direction of his new flagpole. he is clear he will not allow iran to develop a nuclear weapon and is demanding an unconditional surrender. i have ideas as to what to do but i haven't ratified them. i'd like to make a final decision before it is due because things change with war, it can go from one extreme to the other. iran's supreme leader appeared on tv with a defiant message. translation: what they will suffer is much greater than what iran may suffer. the damage america will suffer if it makes a military intervention in this field, will undoubtedly be irreparable. say good luck.

he has said his patience is wearing thin so when will it run out? it has already run out, that's why we are doing what we are doing. in tehran, the continuing israeli assault is punishing. but will not eradicate iran's nuclear programme without bigger, more destructive american bombs. they could still negotiate an end to this conflict if they get rid of all nuclear development. donald trump claims iran has reached out asking for talks in washington. that provoked a swift response. no iranian official has ever asked to grovel at the gates of the white house. iran does not negotiate under duress, she will not except peace under duress... serious concern in congress about possible american military intervention means lawmakers on both sides are trying to insist on having to vote before any possible attack. how many people live in iran? and there are deep splits among donald trump's supporters.

you are a senator... you don't know anything about the country. donald trump won real election promising to keep america out of foreign wars, to put america first. he might conclude it is in the us's best interest to stop iran having nuclear weapons. that is a decision it seems he is yet to make. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. israeli fighter jet continue to pound the seventh straight day. israel says it struck more than 20 military targets in tehran and intercept that a wave of iranian missiles. this is the western part of the city phone shortly after israel issued an evacuation order. despite the heavy environment, many residents have frozen to stay. the bbc is not allowed to broadcast inside the country but our colleagues at bbc persian are keeping across the situation there, they say electricity and water are still available and many parts of the capitol but food supplies are running low. many shops have closed and more are shutting their doors. even as iran comes under continued bombardment

from israeli forces, is ambassador to the united nations in geneva said the country's military has so far done an efficient job in conjuring the strikes. in an interview with the bbc, the envoy said iran has long been prepared for attacks from israel. it is not because they have leave with the israeli threats and military forces have been superb for the situation. therefore our military forces have responded and continued to respond very efficiently and as it is needed. and we make sure that people are secured and allowed land is secured and that this. are you trying to build a nuclear bomb, yes or no? no. by the international atomic energy

agency, you will know this, they said a few days ago, that you are in breach of your nonproliferation obligation. they have not said such a thing. if you follow the statements made by the iaea, they can explain that there is no evidence that iran is doing a nuclear military programme activity. different reports give evidence and show that there run as only having peaceful programmes, nuclear programmes and there is no evidence that iran is having a nuclear programme. let's get more from bbc persian. really got to speak to you. we heard there that iran absolutely denies building a nuclear bomb,

then, how is the regime react into these continued attacks from israel? there is also the reality that us intelligence community has set exactly that, that iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb, as late as march and that is why president trump was asked about it a few days ago when he was coming back from canada and they said the director of intelligence of your own government, your administration asset run is not given to what a nuclear bomb and said, i don't care what she says. how iranians are responding, the government we have seen the barrage of attacks that is no match for what the israelis are doing, both in the scope of the attacks that they are carrying out but also the frequency of it and the innocent iranians are dying in quite high numbers, the civilian death is now above 250 and they are

mostly women, children, entire families been wiped out. so that is the reality of the city liked iran of 10 million, it has triggered a lot of reaction from civil society in iran, even some very prominent opposition figures to the iranian reggie have come out in the last 24 hours saying to mr netanyahu, you are killing iranians are not doubling iranian government and it's unclear what the end game scsi, what impact of this has been so far, mainly is that they have targeted all these nuclear and military locations but they also have damaged severely at the lives of iranians dated and killed civilians. the situation seems to be quite dire inside tehran, which is heard there that they might be running out and cash machines are running

out of money. you mentioned how the political will of the country, given the attacks are continuing, do you see a shift in how people feel about what is going on and how the regime is responding? the divide in tehran and among the population, again, most of this country is very much against its own redeem is that whatever differences we have, the regimen there are extreme and most people want this ready to be changed, it cannot be achieved by bombardment by a foreign country. and that has to stop, the party for a lot of people is when does this stop? in the reality is if it goes on for any much longer, you will see as mentioned, shortage of food, the disruption for millions of people living in tehran and those who have left iran. and there are long-term consequences as well but in short term, there is a reality that this country over 85

million people is under extreme duress because of what is happening right now, infrastructure being attacked, gasoline disposed being attacked, long lines forgetting is to cars, families cannot leave tehran, partly because they cannot get gasoline to drive out so, it is a city under siege. ok, really good to get those updates. i'm joined now by former us nuclear security official and currently vice president for studies. really good to get you on the programme. given what we are hearing about president trump decision are not decision to intervene in this conflict, is it achievable to eradicate the rights nuclear programme? thank

you for having me. i think it's really on board and to have realistic expectations about what can be done about the nuclear programme are militarily and diplomatically. i think that eradication or elimination of the nuclear programme is actually unrealistic. what we have is a disposed programme and a lot of expertise and while israel has targeted nuclear zionist, the hunduza people within the iranians system who have knowledge of different pieces of the nuclear programme. and with a disposed amount of knowledge and dispersed infrastructure, it would be easy to militarily delay the programme for stolen but unless israel and potentially the united states are recommended to recurrence military intervention, it would not be possible to eliminate all the knowledge and all the equipment. the question then is

can the us really afford another conflict in the middle east, it has got a lot of troops in the region, hasn't it? is concerned about from iran? absolutely and you are seeing from president from statements that there says not a foregone conclusion that the united states would get directly involved. there are many risks to, those risks are to american interest, american troops and bases as well as to the broader international economics is damn, we have heard comments about the risks of iranian disruption of trade and particular oil but not exclusively to these straights so any decision by the united states intervene what have to be accompanied in my mind by an understanding that there is an endgame and what i had seen that is an endgame with the nuclear programme. very quickly before we let you go, you have

been involved in us nuclear policy regarding iran in the last decade, is any hope for diplomacy? i think there is hope diplomacy, we started to see engagement by europe, by russia, by china, when diplomatic approaches worked in the past, it was when there was a united international front and while there is certainly no guarantee of a diplomatic outcome here, i think it's incumbent on the international community to try and doing that identification of our common interest might be the on their way to succeed. we were levered there, good to get your insights. -- we will leave it

you're live with bbc news. medics in gaza say 11 palestinian seeking aid are amongst the 33 killed by israeli gunfire and strikes in the enclave on wednesday. israeli military said troops fired warning shots after a group approach them in a manner that caused a potential threat. humanitarian agencies have expressed concern that israel's ongoing conflict with iran is diverging global focus away from gaza. a british man who was the sole survivor of last week's airee india plane crash has helped me his brother to rest, a funeral and western india. he carried his brother's coffin despite spending most of the last five days in hospital. the london bound jet crashed seconds after taking off from the western indian city. -- area india. 270 people were killed, most of the passengers.

let's turn our focus to business and market news in business today. the us federal reserve has decided to leave its key interest rate unchanged, even as expectations for the world's largest economy worsened. it is the fourth time in a row that the fed decided not to change rates, keeping the bank's influential lending rate hovering around 4.3%, where it has stood since december. erin delmore reports from new york. no big surprises from the federal reserve, the committee is standing part on interest rates, largely because fetch and jerome powell set it aside to see what the us economy is going. changes to trade, immigration, physical and lisy because continue to evolve and their effects on the economy remain uncertain. the effects of tariffs will depend among other things on the ultimate level. expectations of that level and thus of the related economic effects reach the

peaks ants have since declined. even so, increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and away on economic activity. the concern is that unemployment and inflation are both taking upward and that the writers to slow growth in the us. we are weeks away from the deadline president trump is a nontariff exemptions and that acting is ardent into the picture. president trump 's been criticised the chair powell as being too late to cut interest rates. a cut would be received positively by many american consumers who would find that cheaper to take out loans on house or a car for example. the government also has $7 trillion whether a doubt the need to be refinanced this year. so as i said, dfat decision came out as no surprise that one attention is been put on the dot plot or economic projection. in it, will of the federal open market committee expects to make to rate cuts later this year. in the rate of the top of the artificial intelligence industry, one company nvidia is sprinting ahead. nvidia chips

are seen as the industry standard for running ai model but another company called rob is making ai chips that experts say could outperform nvidia chips were some tasks. i went to meet the aipac had. a peaceful chess... an ai painter aga not a great one. and countless companies offering ai solutions for everything, from recruitment to medical care. it's all here at the super ai summit in singapore. when you come to these kinds of events, it's plain to see that the hype around artificial intelligence is very real especially here in asia. but it's not about the robot in the large language models, it's about the chips that powered the systems. chips are optimised to speed up responses from ai apps. some experts say challenging t good reply up to 13 times faster if it was running on their chips

compared to nvidia. if you're talking to a support desk over the phone, you could be talking to an ai agent instead of a human in the future. and you want the conversation to be natural which means it has to happen very fast, if you are a dog and you are using a software ahbe to transcribe your notes, you wanted to happen in real time. is there enough supply and can companies like yourself scale up fast enough? what we do differently is that our chips are far more power efficient and the use supply chain that is very different shade of the gpu. which means we can produce many more of them, much faster rate and we think that is going to be a benefit to the wide world that wants to adopt ai. you make all your chips in north america, given everything that you got on in the world, the rising costs, is a challenging? we think it's a strategic advantage, it's a very deliberate choice, we wanted to build this technology in

america, we thought it was strategically important to be aligned to the us interest, we have got a resilient supply chain that we think is very diverse, that allows us a lot of flexibility and options are so we don't see that. are you concerned about china? john a charge produced our own semiconductors, they are making progress on a doubt, we think it's going to be a competitive rate. china is innovating and they will keep doing upper we think the technology that we are building in north america is outpacing an air war lead the way. when people think of that, think of elon musk. how do you think you can manage that grim -- we think that our reach is extended as we become more common in the market, people will understand that difference and when i talk to developers, they understand the difference, we built ai chips, we build the cloud, that is what we do. japan's nick on steel has completed its $14.9

billion takeover of usd. the deal will grab the us government unusual amount of one of the world's biggest steelmakers. we can get more on this with our asia business report up. good to see you. they're still was so contentious, what got it over the line? in the end, president trump says it was fears around job losses in the steel sector that made him change his mind but as you say, it's been an absolute political football in the end, other value when the company a $55 a share and nippon steel has agreed to take on the depth of usd but there was first announced in 2023, seen as a lifeline for us steel, during the election, campaign last year, both sides say they were concerned regarding foreign ownership and it was a political football, biden administration block it, the union objected saying it was going to damage jobs and then in the end, a number of

concessions in order to get this over the line so the government gets what is known as a golden shower, us government saying any key decisions regarding things like where jobs will be held production living production outside the us, the government or at the final say on all that. they will maintain the headquarters in pittsburgh and is well, us citizens going to need to be the chief executive and make up the majority of the board. we have heard companies say that this ensures that us steel be mined, melted and made in america for generations to come. it will protect 100,000 jobs according to the statement. they say they are going to as part of this invest $11 billion in the us steel by 2028 as well as opening a new facility. the steel industry has been hugely important for president trump, we have seen them apply those multi - unilateral to the present tariffs across the board for the industry and as a result of this, he has made this change mine. thank you. that is often

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