a semiconductor superpower. our asia business reporter monica miller has more. it is a major setback. prime minister narendra modi has made chip making a top priority for india s economic strategy in pursuit of what they say is a new era of electronics making. it doesn t get much bigger than foxconn, which makes roughly 70% of apple s iphones. india estimates that its semiconductor market could be worth $63 billion by 2026. now, we need to go back a little bit to explain how this partnership happened. that was in september 2020 to the taiwanese firm and the indian mining giant agreed to this deal. and part of it was because foxconn was looking at the situation then, which had strict covid restrictions in china, where a lot of these phones are made. they are also concerned about the geopolitical tensions we ve mentioned many times on this programme between the us and china. so it was looking to partner up, which is with the country which is now the largest in the world. but un
by 11 of the 31 members of the alliance. uk prime minister rishi sunak is expected to urge nato allies to learn the lessons from russia s invasion of ukraine and invest more in defence. joining me now is hugo brennan, research director at the risk intelligence company verisk maplecroft. good morning to you, hugo. so, just talk us through the level of defence spending going on at the moment. because this has been a contentious issue for years within nato, hasn t it? it very much has been, yeah. i mean, the first thing to say is the question of who foots the bill to pay for the alliance? as you say, that s long been a question mark. you ll remember back to 2019, when donald trump made it very much top of the agenda. and again, it s going to be in this latest nato summit. as you said, we re expecting some sort of agreement that will make it a requirement for nato member states to spend at least 2% of their gdp on defence spending, which would build on that 2014 agreement you r
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte dance. and that s what s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on t
joey jackson, he says, do it close to being this is vindication, according talking about alec baldwin being adamant, as you just heard that he did not pull the tree. bigger and just hours from now. a prosecutor is set to drop charges against him for the deadly shooting on the rust movie set coming up the new evidence that came to light plus plus, we are now learning that the mass shooter who killed five workers at a bank in louisville apparently wanted to show how easy it was for a mentally ill person to buy an assault rifle in america. and the legal nightmare is not over from fox news. smartmatic is demanding an even bigger payout. dominions historic $787 million settlement for spreading election lies coming up smart maddox lawyer joins us live but let s begin with president biden. he was getting ready to officially announced he s running for reelection. sources tell cnn his team is planning to release a campaign style video announcement on tuesday. tuesday is the four year