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You know, an iphone sold in the us or europe might be designed in california and built in india using Semiconductors Made in taiwan from Raw Materials provided by china. So if any link in that supply chain breaks, it sets up big problems for the rest of the chain. And thats true for smartphones, as it is for pcs, and especially in Battery Production for those Electric Vehicles were buying more and more of. So what if one country decides to make it harderfor others to get hold of some of those cr...

China is experiencing a rare episode of sliding prices. Japans economy experienced this back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, this comes hot the heels of disappointing china trade data on tuesday, which showed that exports sank at their fastest rate since the pandemic, dropping by more 14 in the year tojuly, with imports also falling by more than 12 in the same period. Joining me now is duncan wrigley, Chief China Economist at pantheon macroeconomics. Thank you very much for being with us toda...

All right t. Okay. Yes. Yes s. Happy. Happy monday. L of y good to see all of you. Ou good to see all of you. Except foro seof. So at a Campaign Stop in pittsburgh, joe biden toldo d supporters to send me to congress. I know. Aides clarified that he actually meant to say block shadow. Also in pittsburgh, the police is reducingty the number of cops on duty from three m to 7 a. M. And calls it not considered progress. Emergencies will nowes w be assigned to a telephoneil unit. Pr police stations w...

For a while yet if in the future at all, pointing to an unstable global Food Supply Pressurised by the war in ukraine. Now the price of food in the uk rose by nearly 17. 5 in the year tojune, which was actually a fall from a high of just over 19 in the year to march, following an overall drop in the wholesale price of food which you can see here peaking when russia invaded ukraine last year. It has been trending downwards. But prices are still much higher than before the war and have started cre...

On the west coast of maui. Firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires with officials saying they are 80 contained. This report from our North America correspondent sean daly. A community in smouldering ruins. Many homes here burned to charge rex. The church and the harbour among the Historic Site wiped out by the flames that tore indiscriminately through the former picturesque tourist town. The us marines and National Guard among the Emergency Workers on the ground. The us President Joe Bid...

Know that there are several factors that have played a role. When we talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about wildfires, we tended to talk about three ingredients. We do know when it comes to whether, in hawaii, strong womens have fans the flames. Strong winds. Its red area represents severe drought in the structure and the orange areas moderate drought. They represent 14 of the state. These larger yellow areas are abnormally dry conditions. This sucks the...

Showers ahead of it. But notice how much sunshine there is across the country. Those white speckles are the fog which we had this morning, it was a cold and frosty stock for money but at least we have plenty of sunshine across much of the uk. But the rain and the breeze continues to push into the south west and wales. Temperature rise, up to 11 or 12, pretty much where we should be for this time of year. Although it will be a bit cooler further north. Through this evening and overnight for cloud...

Capital, port 0 prince. Night cu rfews are in force capital, port 0 prince. Night curfews are in force until wednesday. Gangs have attacked two prisons in the country, first in the centre of the capital, the largest prison in the country. And the second prism is nearby. This was also hit by gangs. This all happened over the weekend. Gang leaders say they want the Prime Minister out of power. James landale has the latest. Gunfire haiti has long been lawless and violent, but now the disorder has g...

Earlier, i spoke to dr matt patterson, whos a Postdoctoral Research assistant in Atmospheric Physics at the University Of Oxford and has been following the winter heatwave. He said this is not a common occurance. Its really quite unusual to see a heatwave of this magnitude in the winter. As you said, weve seen temperatures of 38 degrees in some andes towns when we would expect to see temperatures of 10 15 degrees at this time of year. So really quite unprecedented. In terms of the magnitude, 20 ...

Immediate humanitarian ceasefire that is reflective of where the International Community is on that now. Labourwants International Community is on that now. Labour wants to be part of the government, wants to be allied with countries around the world the likes of the united states, australia, new zealand. But, yeah, this no doubt was probably in some sense the result that keir starmer would have hoped for, in this by election the worst possible outcome. He byelection the worst possible outcome. ...