let s get down to business. an australian firm recharge industries has come to the rescue and bought the battery maker britishvolt out of administration. the deal is expected to be announced shortly. britishvolt had plans to build a £4 billion gigafactory near the port of blyth in northumberland, but it ran out of money and collapsed last month. its downfall was blamed on a lack of battery experience, unproven technology, and therefore no customers oi’ revenue. the new owner is another start up. recharge industries is owned and run by a new york based investment fund called scale facilitation. its australian chief executive, david collard, told our business editor simonjack why his company was different. what we re bringing, which is different to the prior britishvolt, is we re bringing validated technology. so that process has already started. us defence has also validated the technology, it s actually already supplied to the uk navy through a subcontractor over here.
risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden s envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it s just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we re just beginning at this point. let s talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they d widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that s really going to inflame what s happening there and could widen the conflict? absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and ac
too early with us. morning joe starts now. biden signed an executive order to control a.i. there is no one i trust more to save us from the rise of the machines than joe biden. as long as none of those machines is a bicycle. he s fine. he s fine. the late show having fun with president biden s executive action earlier this week on artificial intelligence. we ll have a lot more to get to on that this morning. including donald trump jr. taking the stand. how did that go? we ll get legal analysis on his testimony, which i think will continue now. plus, the latest out of the middle east. more wounded palestinians and foreign nationals are leaving gaza. it comes as there is a new threat from hamas. and on capitol hill, republican george santos survives an effort to expel him from congress. that s thanks to some help from democrats. meanwhile, it appears republicans are finally getting fed up with senator tommy tuberville s antics. we ll show you what his colle
crossing into egypt. 79 americans including a family we ve spoken with repeatedly on this show made it through. the opals tell us all seven of them, abood who we spoke with yesterday, along with his wife and their 1-year-old, and hanine who we spoke with a couple of weeks ago, her two small children and newborn have all made it out, and they are on their way back home to the united states right now. a blessing. but what they left behind is a horror. another strike on another refugee camp. bread and water lines, the fuel crisis, and a gaza city that is no longer recognizable. the bombing has been so destructive and deadly. the calls for a pause, if not a cease fire, are now coming from the white house. we ll explain where president biden now stands and what got him there. his secretary of state, antony blinken, is in the air, and headed for another round of shuttle diplomacy, with one of the main focuses still on the hostages. on that note, there has been no news, and no known
our first guest, please put your hands together for ourfirst guest, sir ed davey. applause hi there. good to see you. so, sir ed davey, welcome. just to say, our rules here are pretty simple. they are the same for every leader. you won t get interrupted if you keep your questions reasonably brief and actually answer the question. myjob here is to keep you to the point. so, on that, let s have our first question from alison. the liberal democrats - are planning to spend five times as much as the labour party in extra spending. aren t you going to i bankrupt the country? thank you for your question, alison. the answer is no. we put together a very detailed, costed manifesto, and it has got a big health and social care package at the centre, about £9 billion, and other things, for instance, helping with free school meals and the cost of living, and we have shown how we will pay for everything we have got in that. for example, we are thinking that some of the large corporates