for energy because of the rise of renewable energy. hello and welcome to the programme. it s eight o clock in the morning here in singapore and 5pm in san francisco where the bbc s technology correspondence sat down in an unexpected interview with elon musk. the billionaire, tesla car boss and new owner of twitters in running the social media site has been painful and a rollercoaster. it s one of his first interviews since he ought twitter. it s not every day you get invited by one of the world s richest and most influential people to a sit down interview. earlier on tuesday, i d received a response to an e mailfrom mr musk let s do an interview tonight, it read. just a few short hours later, we were setting up in twitter s headquarters in san francisco. hello, how you doing? we re about to go live, very surprisingly, we onlyjust found this out, on twitter. but that is elon musk. we didn t know about that. but you never know with elon musk. when he sat down, he was in the
interview with bbc, elon musk, the owner of twitter, admitted he only went through with the purchase of the company because a judge was about force him to do so, that his takeover of twitter was painful and quite a rollercoaster, but that he would sell the company if the right person came along. musk purchased twitter for a whopping $41; billion, just over £35 billion pounds. just over £35 billion. he inherited a workforce of over 8,000 employee which he has defended cutting down to around 1,500, saying the company would have gone bankrupt otherwise. it s been just over a year since mr musk began his takeover of twitter. he purchased his first shares on 5 april, 2022, buying 9%. days later, musk submitted an offer to buy the whole company, above the current stock price. that was accepted on the 25th of april. in may, musk tweeted that the deal to buy twitter was temporarily on hold, he said because of the volume of fake accounts. twitter denied that and invited musk to a me
by the effects of strikes by public sector workers. the office for national statistics said that a rise in construction activity had been offset by walkouts by teachers and civil servants. it follows a surprise 0.4% jump in economic growth injanuary which brings the uk economy, finally, to a point where it is bigger than it was pre pandemic. the value of sterling rose to its highest level since june of last year, with £1 getting you i dollar and twenty five cents. despite february s flatlining the chancellor described the outlook as brighter than expected . let s get more now with victoria scholar, head of investment at interactive investor. investor. investor. the investor. the last investor. the last few investor. the last few minutes investor. the last few minutes we investor. the last few minutes we had investor. the last few minutes we had at the in the last few minutes we had at the elite has production data from the elite has production data from the euro is aime