the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
In the Eastern Mediterranean might have spilled over into an altercation. Welcome. President donald trump has unveiled an historic peace deal between israel and the United Arab Emirates, which the us helped broker. Here he is announcing it. After 49 years israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalise their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation across the board and on a broad range of areas including tourism, education, health care, trade and security. Only two arab nations egypt and jordan have previously signed peace deals with israel. Lets hear from israels Prime Minister. This is the greatest advancements toward peace in israel and the arab world in the last 26 years. And it marks the third formal peace between israel and an arab nation. Formal peace between israel and an arab nation. Lets look at reaction from around the world. The palestinian authorities have rejected the deal and called for a meeting of the arab league
Has now been detained or deported. And one of the most high profile covidi9 vaccine trials has been paused. Though were assured thats a standard part of the process. 13,000 people are homeless on the island of lesbos. They had lived in the largest migrant camp in greece but this was last night. Explosion. A fire destoyed the moria camp the only welcome news being that no one died. Already around 400 unaccompanied children are now being flown to the greek mainland. And germany is urging eu members to take in migrants well see if they choose to. Weve also had this tweet from the president of the European Commission. Lets hear more about those who need that help. Amanda munoz de toro leads an organisation which provides legal aid to refugees in lesbos. At the moment, there are thousands of people that are just on the streets with out any type of access to medical aid, water, food, blankets. They spent the whole night, they just lost all of their belongings, the last things they had. There
Social distancing dominic raab travels to washington to reassure us take your snake on the bus politicians governments plan to override parts of the brexit divorce deal. While four congressmen write to borisjohnson saying with you the full story coming up. The legislation could block a potential uk us trade. Well be speaking to a signatory. Also in the programme. Living through a pandemic mean the months are ticking by and uncertainty looms well examine solutions for dealing hello, im katty kay in washington, when everythings up in the air. James reynolds is in london. The uks foreign secretary dominic raab is in washington today but heres something to cheer you up pressing for closer ties melania trumps statue has been with the United States. Rebuilt in slovenia this time his trip has become something of a rescue mission. In bronze to prevent arson. Thats because four members of the us congress have written to Prime Minister borisjohnson threatening to veto any trade deal between the
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