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juggernauts contending for the top prize. hello, welcome to verified live. tata steel will push ahead with plans to close both blast furnaces in its south torbert plant in wales, and it is expected to lead to the loss of over 3000 jobs talbot. the gmb union says it has alternative proposals aimed at saving jobs. a reminder of what we are saying, the bbc understands that tata steel is going to press ahead with plans to close blast furnaces at its plants at port talbot in south wales and that threatens the loss of more than 3000 jobs. the decision follows a meeting between tata steel executives and the wider community and unions in the meeting happened at a hotel in london today. and the meeting. the company will replace blast furnaces which produced new steel from iron or with a modern electric arc furnace which will produce usable steel from scrap metal, and it will be more environmentally friendly to operate but crucially it will require a smaller workforce. but ....
commons. time for a look at the business news now. we start with the unfolding crisis in the red sea and concerns that the continued attacks on cargo ships by yemen s houthi rebels will affect developing countries the hardest. that s the warning from the world trade organization. today the us has launched a fourth round of airstrikes against the rebels the us military said it targeted missiles that could be intended for attacks on ships. as vessels divert to longer and more costly routes that avoid the red sea, supply chains have been disrupted and economists have warned it could add to inflation. the wto s director general, dr ngozi 0konjo iweala, has been speaking to our economic editor faisal islam at the world economic forum in switzerland. iamjoined i am joined here by the director general of the world trade organization. thank you forjoining 0rganization. thank you forjoining the bbc. 0bviously people are concerned about the fluidity of trade given this big geop ....
it is pushing in and in between the one front and the cold front of the system that is when we will see the strong, gusty winds. pushing to sunday, rain working in from the west. dry weather for the south east of england, but the wind is the real feature, gales developing a top temperature is around 12 or 13 degrees. we do have amber warnings in force across many parts of the uk and we could seat those win 70, even 80 miles an hour and enough to cause some to cause some the in grangemouth, the huge oil refinery is preparing to close with the loss of hundreds ofjobs. how do towns and communities cope with the closure of oil and gas plants as we pivot to a zero carbon future? tata is closing its blast furnace in port talbot too. everyone wants to be green, but is the pain getting shared equally? this is about making sure that we do a just transition. 400 people losing theirjobs is not a just transition. it means that they are being thrown out at the whim of the owners of the si ....
closes blast furnaces at britain s biggest steelworks in south wales. and japan becomes the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon we find out whether the mission has been a success or failure in the next few minutes. the inquiry into the post office scandal where hundreds of post masters and mistresses were wrongly convicted of fraud or stealing charges continues in central london today. facing a second grilling of the week today is paul patterson, european director of fujitsu, the technology giant behind the horizon software. he admitted that fujitsu was aware of the errors for nearly two decades and said details about the vast majority of them had been shared with the post office at the time. this is what we hee hee had to say at the conference earlier today. to at the conference earlier today. tfr the sub postmasters and their families. fujitsu apologises and is sorry for our part in this appalling miscarriage ofjustice. this inquiry is examining those events frant ....
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