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to cement its position in the top spot. the companys deliveries are the closest estimation to its sales figures. 0ur north american business correspondent erin delmore reports. byd calls itself the biggest car brand you have never heard of. but that may be about to change. the chinese automaker sold more battery—powered electric vehicles in the last three months of the year than tesla did. thats a first. the american company is facing headwinds. higher borrowing costs in the us led t...

hello. im helena lee. great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15—month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his tro...

we start tonight with a special bbc report. for more than a year, el salvador has been living under an emergency measure called a �*state of exception�*, in which several constitutional rights were suspended in a national crackdown on the countrys powerful street gangs. the police have arrested a staggering 66,000 people and el salvador�*s murder rate has fallen. but human rights organisations say thousands of people with no link to the gangs have been unjustly detained. 0ur corr...

prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedonia definitely want to be in the european union. it is still not clear whether the european union truly wants you. do you find that very frustrating? well, i can answer this question very straightforward that the european union needs...

Theres a lot of advancement around the research and we see regulation change at different levels, local, state and national, over time. there are risks. the unsupervised use of recreational drugs could be psychologically damaging to those with certain mental conditions. but with renewed interest in psychedelics, advocates hope it will help gain mainstream acceptance. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. that is it for this edition of asia business report. before we go, lets take a look at the tr...

President zelensky. communique has been issued earlier, and there a veiled warning in regards to chatter, would you say? regards to chatter, would you sa ? , , , regards to chatter, would you sa? , say? yes, yes, absolutely. veiled only _ say? yes, yes, absolutely. veiled only in _ say? yes, yes, absolutely. veiled only in the - say? yes, yes, absolutely. veiled only in the sense i say? yes, yes, absolutely. i veiled only in the sense that china was not specifically named in thisjoint china was ...

Where did week five go?, nobody was heard asking. Its been a strange couple of weeks since our last recap. The international break saw things quieten down in t...

Batten Down Your Hatches

That would be absolutely great. but ive got a job here at derby county which is an important job to me and it means me getting the team ready for sunday. huddersfield could have moved up to fifth in the championship this evening, but were held to a 1—1 draw at home to stoke. the big talking point came in the first half when huddersfield wingerjosh koroma somehow avoided even a booking for this horror tackle on taylor harwood—bellis. to add insult, koroma then scored a deflected openerfor the...

Theyll be without seven players who are in quarantine. lebronjames has been suspended for one game, and isaiah stewart for two following their altercation on sunday night in detroit. the los angeles lakers came from 17 points down to beat the detroit pistons but the big talking point came in the 3rd quarter when lebronjames and isaiah stewart were both ejected from the game. james appeared to strike stewart in the face, and the pistons centre retaliated. and look whos back — its the one the on...