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hello, this is bbc news. im luxmy gopal and these are the headlines... writers and politicians condemn an attack on acclaimed author, sir salman rushdie, whos now on a ventilator, after being stabbed on stage in the us state of new york. his agent says the 75—year—old cant speak, is likely to lose an eye, has a damaged liver, and the nerves in one arm have been severed in the attack. more extreme heat is expected in the southern half of the uk over the next two days. that, as exper...

growth for the month which was broadly in line with economist expectations. the sluggishness comes after the uk economy recorded its fastest growth in two years from january to march, exiting the recession it fell into in the final half of last year. but my opening question starting with you, geoffrey cox, is rishi sunak right to say the economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no economy has turned a corner? i think he is. no doubt _ economy has turned a corner? i think he is, no d...

Solvable problem, but very, l very expensive to do - and even worse to maintain. theres another limitation - with current approaches in terms of the sensors that get used. theyre very expensive sensors, something called lidar, - which is a way of sending out beams of light, laser light _ and measuring the time for that light to reflect back. _ and that gives you a sense of how far things are away. _ thats a wonderful sensor. i love depth information. i used it in my own previous work, but its ve...

I have a question. i have more than one. but, linda, first of all, you said about the fuel cells. ijust have a quick question, because i know with ford f—150, how much of a big vehicle it is. how are you able to get people to really adopt the use of electric in places like rural pennsylvania, upstate new york, where we are very much a hunting environment, where we put beers, we put deer and everything else into the back of the vehicle. how are you able to get that uptake? well, so i think a lo...

Are electric or solar. thank you. linda, of course, electrical vehicles in general help with emissions and help even more when theyre proud of the electricity that comes from renewable resources. all this is great, but the batteries are a problem, arent they? i mean, they contain a lot of rare earth metals that need to be mined at scale. for example, lithium is a key component. and you get that out of mine, say, for example, in chiles atacama desert. is there a plan in place to mitigate those so...

The climate catastrophe, the sheer weight of traffic on our roads and the horrific rate of accidents they cause has forced a revolution in the way that we think about cars. with me today are three engineers who are at the forefront of that revolution. we have arjo van der ham from the netherlands, whos the chief technical officer at a company called lightyear. he has developed the worlds first family—sized solar—powered car. we have jamie shotton, an expert in al and autonomous vehicles. he ...

Usually— and five inexperienced guys, we usually underestimate the challenge of getting the current production. maybe _ of getting the current production. maybe that is a good thing because if we hadnt i dont know if we would — if we hadnt i dont know if we would have started it. its really hard _ would have started it. its really hard to— would have started it. its really hard to start a car company. i think that is— hard to start a car company. i think that is the — hard to start a c...