the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
Western powers on Wednesday imposed new sanctions on Belarus three years after mass pro-democracy protests crushed by strongman President Alexander Lukashenko, whose government lashed out at criticism on the anniversary."Today, three years later, the situation is worse than ever for those who dare to voice any criticism of the system," he said in a statement.
On the anniversary of the falsified election in Belarus, ministers of foreign affairs from the Baltic States and Poland issued a statement calling on the Belarusian government to stop persecuting members of the opposition and supporting the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
because it has become a part of the pollution authoritarian normality, and not the first person being charged. what is special about this case is she is not only the leader of the pro democratic forces in belarus but an international leader on it unprecedented level, it is unprecedented. we ve not seen anything like that in the whole belarusian history, since the collapse of the soviet union, and she is the kind of a legitimate alternative to the regime of lukashenko abroad, and i think what they re trying to do, they re trying to deprive her of this legitimacy, political legitimacy, both inside the country and outside, which i don t think what could function, blood could function, she could be deprived of the belarusian citizenship. into a has been passed in belarus not that long ago that allows that. also, in the absence of
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