Hello. Good to have you with us. I am sally bundock. Lets now dissect the top business stories. We start in the us where tesla has revealed the biggest slump in earnings in more than a decade as the road gets increasingly rocky for the electric car industry. Tesla made profits of 1. 1 billion in the first three months of the year. Thats a fall of 55 on this time last year. Revenues were 9 lower and both numbers were worse than investors had been expecting. But tesla shares which have taken a pounding this year jumped around 11 in after hours trade after the company promised quicker progress on new more affordable models. From new york, heres erin delmore. Its been a rocky road fit for this year. High Interest Rate that taking a bite out of consumer Purchasing Power and pushing big purchases out of reach. Competition with china especially over electric vehicle maker byd is heating up. Sales have been falling and so has its stock. It up. Sales have been falling and so has its stock. So h
but it has its problems, and among its members there are very different opinions. this weekend, citizens across the bloc will elect members of the european parliament. who will shape the eu as it faces defining challenges. so what are the issues driving this election? and what s foremost in people s minds as they head to the ballot boxes? welcome to europe votes 202a. hello and welcome from sunny lisbon, where we are coming to you from today. i m mark lowen, one of the bbc s europe correspondents. and over the course of this programme, we will bring new reports from across the continent as the election gets under way. but first, what is it all about? elections to the european parliament take place every five years. it is the only directly elected institution of the european union, shaping the bloc s policies, legislation and budgets. voting happens by proportional representation. each country gets a number of members of the european parliament, or meps, relative to its size.
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class= nosel > members of the european parliament. who will shape the eu, as it faces defining challenges. so what are the issues driving this election? and what s foremost in people s minds as they head to the ballot boxes? welcome to europe votes 202a. hello and welcome from sunny lisbon, where we are coming to you from today. i m mark lowen, one of the bbc s europe correspondents. and over the course of this programme, we will bring new reports from across the continent as the election gets under way. but first, what s it all about? elections to the european parliament take place every five years. it s the only directly elected institution of the european union. shaping the bloc s policies, legislation and budgets. voting happens by proportional representation. each country gets a number of members of the european parliament, or meps, relative to its size. the meps sit in transnational groups according to their ideology. so, for example, there s left and right, eurosceptics
paris saint germain have a deal on the table for a price not seen before. the saudi club al hilal say they d pay 300 million euros to sign him. monsieur kylian! the player has 12 months left on his psg contract, so, in a year, could leave for free. clubs from around the world want to sign him, but few could match those figures. mbappe is 2a and the french captain. now, it s up to him. i don t think it s going to put his position in the french national team in jeopardy. we re talking about a potential one year deal with al hilal here. so there s every chance, given the money involved we re talking perhaps a salary, cbs are reporting, of 700 euros million for a year. that s going to be very hard for mbappe to turn down. mbappe has options, and premier league clubs are part of the race. but this has been the year where the landscape has changed.