The citys chief minister says the air has become unbearable. Lewis hamilton will start the us formula one grand prix in fifth position on the grid, but is still poised to win the world drivers championship. And click checks out what made in taiwan means now in the 21st century. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good afternoon. The leader of the brexit party, nigel farage, has announced he wont be a candidate at next months general election. Mr farage, who has tried to become an mp seven times, says hell focus instead on touring the country to support his pa rtys candidates. The announcement comes after he offered an Electoral Alliance with the conservative party, an offer which was quickly rejected by the Prime Minister borisjohnson. Heres our political correspondentjessica parker. Walking into this election, nigel farage says that borisjohnsons deal is a gigantic con and that the brexit party is ready to field hundreds of candidates but he wont be one of them. Do you think is a
An island shaped like a leaf at the Meeting Point of four seas. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, taiwan underwent massive industrialisation in what has become known as the taiwan miracle. Huge tech firms grew, becoming household names asus, htc, acer. At the centre of this was the semiconductor industry, led by a company you have probably never heard of tsmc. It is one of the Largest Semiconductor manufacturers in the world, producing the chips inside some of the best phones, including the iphone 11. It is most likely if you have a smartphone, you have something made by tsmc. And these chips were only made possible thanks to the discovery of semiconductors. Why are Semiconductors Important or interesting . Because it changes your life. With factories, or fabs as they are known across the globe, the largest is here in taiwan. And we have been granted exclusive access to see just how those chips that form the heart of our Electronic Devices are created. But before we could go into the fa
And, antitrust allegations. An online merchant accuses amazon of using expensive the just six to move good, a tactic that could be driving up consumer prices, but first to our top story. One of teslas detractors just got twitter burned by elon musk. After he lashed out, the tesla chief offered him to take a tour on the companys facilities. Discuss, dana hull joins us. A little of the backstory. This has been a longrunning battle. Out anuarter he puts investor letter and e line loves this, looks for this and sent a tweet expressing sympathies. Tear,las stock is on a 40 over the last month. They have to explain to investors how they got the thirdquarter wrong. Tesla stunned everybody with a profit. Remembering something that happened earlier, signofft Elon Musk Twitter . It is important to know that einhorn claps back. He responded and said i will take your offer of a tour of facilities. Lets start in buffalo. Buffalo is where tesla builds its solar panels. The state of new york wrote do
Of tracy boudin through ranks ranks. Last night, these top two candidates sounded off. I think thats something that matters to a lot of voters. We all deserve safety, and we all deserve justice. And thats what we are going to deliver for San Francisco. This is the first time in more than 100 years that the race for d. A. Had no incumbent after george gascone resigned last month. The other candidates said the appointment gave loftus an unfair advantage. Mayor london breed easily won election to her first full term. The next closest challenger had less than 15 . The mayor got a warm welcome from seniors at the lady shaw center around noon today. She said she was appreciative that voters passed proposition a, the bond measure to create more affordable housing. Where we are being responsible, where we retire old debt, and we bring forth something responsible that does not increase property taxes. Weve seen in most cases, a voter provides us with support, and it usually is close. The mayor
Two former twitter employees are charged with spying for saudi arabia. By providing the kingdom with personal information about saudi corrects. Federal prescriptions say they were convinced who accessed the private data as users perceived as being enemies of the crown. Both left in 2013. A third man in saudi arabia is also charged. Twitter said it has tools in place to protect privacy. Last night the election, tonight the drama. The race for San Francisco District Attorney is still too close to call. About 2,000 votes now separate the top two candidates. They are interim District Attorney susie lostus and chessa boudin. And there is a 51 to 49 edge. And now a viral video showing a supervisor leading a chant at boudins Election Night party. Ali wolf joins us from city hall with the details. Reporter well, raj, this was a tight and contentious race for San Francisco District Attorney and as the votes are still being counted here at city hall, there are tension now between the head of the