the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. can we believe anything we re told about the war in ukraine? in this fog of war, where you basically can t trust anyone or anything that you see, it s so important to bring people the truth, whatever that truth is. and are the weird creatures who we re only now discovering in the depths of the oceans threatened with destruction by deep sea mining? the scientists would say until we actually know what s there and we study the ecosystem better, then we just cannot understand the risks. it took russia s invasion of ukraine for germany and other european countries to realise it might not be an altogether good idea to be quite so dependent on russian oil and gas. but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside worl
but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside world, president biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with american made ones. the bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new america first policy. i was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, taxpayer subsidy into strategic industries, particularly green industries. there s so much money going in that it s transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. we used to talk about the rust belt. they are now talking about a battery belt. it sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesn t it? yes, and there s some conscious echoes of that. indeed, where
uk prime minister rishi sunak arrived a short while ago. he was greeted by moldovan president maia sandu. and once all of the more than a0 leaders of countries and various organisations had all made it to the venue, mimi castle, they posed for what s known as the family photo. but as you d expect, with plenty to talk about, they didn t stand still for long. you may have seen ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky there standing out through his choice of military fatigues over a suit. he was among the first to arrive earlier this morning and he was also given the first opportunity to address the gathering, warning that russia is an aggressor and needs to be stopped. he said that apart from peace there are only two options for countries which are not in the eu and nato war or russian occupation. every european country that borders russia and that does not want russia to tell them apart should be a former member of the eu and nato. there are only two alternatives to these,
hello. welcome to bbc news. we start in northern italy and dramatic scenes after severe flooding has killed at least eight people with thousands being evacuated from their homes. this weekend s formula one, grand prix at imola has also now been cancelled. it comes, as a new report by the world meteorological organisation warned that global temperatures will reach record levels in the next five years. we ll have more on that in a moment. first let s get more on the situation in itlay. it s one of the european countries most affected by extreme weather in recent years the extreme flooding is in the emillia romana region. this is forli near bologna the mayor has said the city is on its knees devastated and in pain . divers have been recovering bodies hundreds of people have been trapped or stranded as rivers burst their banks. in towns nearby people are being rescued from their homes by helicopter. plucked from rooftops or the waters. in this area around hal
the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say