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to cement its position in the top spot. the company's 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. that's a first. the american company is facing headwinds. higher borrowing costs in the us led to slowing demand. but its lesser known chinese rival is enjoying tailwinds, including a massive do...

hello. i'm 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 troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. th...

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 country's 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 correspondent will grant is covering this story for us. what have you learned? if we think about el sal...

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 north macedonia and it needs all the western balkans to be part of the european union. if you have ...

There's 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, let's take a look at the trading day in asia. the hang seng is down 1.2% following on from what happened in the global market...