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the electric car giant tesla has announced plans to build a new huge factory in shanghai. it will make thousands of lithium battery packs every year. china is the worlds largest car market, and whilst tesla generates most of its money from its electric car business, boss elon musk has committed to growing its solar energy and battery business to roughly the same size. heres mariko with the details from singapore. it is quite a big deal because of course, tesla already has that huge pla...

cnns "state of the union" right now with caitlin collins. ♪ ♪ fallout. a key bank fails prompting some calls for a government bailout with washington split over a plan for the overall u.s. economy. >> i dont know what theres much to negotiate on. >> where is it heading? former economic adviser under president trump gary cohn joins me and republican congresswoman nancy mace coming up and reckless, in his sharpest rebuke yet, former vice president mike pence says history will hold ...

the military takeover there. we start in the uk, which has seen the biggest day of strike action in more than a decade, according to the unions, with up to half a million people walking out in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. among those striking are train drivers from the aslef union — impacting most train companies across england. bus drivers in london about 100,000 civil servants from over a hundred government departments. thousands of university staff from 150 universities...

from the bbc sport centre. well start with golf where jon rahm dedicated his maiden masters title to seve ballesteros, a0 years after the spaniard last won the famous green jacket. rahms four shot victory at augusta came after a composed final round that saw him overtake brooks koepka. it also marked what would have been ballesteros�* 66th birthday. when i hit that first shot on the green, the crowds reaction... a wave of emotion, of so many things overtook me. i never thought i woul...

including details of training and weaponry for ukraine. and the new super mario film breaks box—office records, despite a series of terrible reviews. hello and welcome to the programme. preparations are in place in belfast to welcome the us presidentjoe biden on tuesday to mark 25 years since the signing of the northern ireland good friday agreement. the historic peace deal was signed by the then british prime minister, tony blair and irish prime minister, bertie ahern. the agreement...

bank spring meetings, which could lead that kicked off on monday in washington. our north america correspondent is there and has a preview of those meetings. high inflation continues to plague countries around the world. central bankers are raising interest rates to try and slow down those price increases. as a result however, we have some of the weakest growth projections by the international monetary fund since the 1990s. with the worlds finance ministers and central bankers all meet...

>> i pay over $1230 in rent alone. i got two kids im taking care of so anything can help me out right now. >> very high eggs, $5 and up. milk, $5 a gallon. bread, $4 just for a loaf of bread. its ridiculous. >> we paid $8.99 for a dozen eggs. >> its a struggle for any family because the price of food is outrageous. >> when e moved here, rent was relatively cheap. now its like you really got to have a second or third job just to keep up with rent. >> laura: well, despite all of this, bi...

with a new currency, switching from the kuna to the euro. its just ten years since croatia joined the eu. you are watching bbc news. ill be back at the top of the hour. now its time for review 2022. and one story thats led news bulletins in the uk throughout the last 12 months has been rising prices and their impact. victoria valentine, along with our team of economics and business correspondents, have been reflecting on the causes and consequences of the squeezed economy and the cost ...

The National Health service this winter. A number of hospitals have declared critical incidents. Three people have died after fire broke out at a hotel in perth in scotland. Emergency services, including 21 Ambulance Crews and nine fire trucks, were called to the incident. Thousands have waited in line to pay their respects to Brazilian Football legend pele, whos lying in state at the ground of his former club, santos. The three time world cup winner died at the age of 82 on 29 december. Hello a...

will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. im not giving you my private, financial information. thats what the ...