outbreak on a coronavirus variant. cnn has previously reported that the lab was studying coronaviruses in bats but it is unclear how closely related the variants were to the strain which started the pandemic. as for the energy department s new assessment, it is described as low confidence and a minority view apparently within the intelligence community. that said, it sparked new calls today from transparency from china. we would wish to see from the prc a greater degree of responsibility, a greater acknowledgment that it is in the interests of the chinese people, yes, we better understand the origins of covid-19, but it is in the or to understand the origins of covid-19. today s development also prompted to leading house republicans to send letters demanding the state department of energy and the fbi to provide testimony and documents related to the ongoing probe of the ten pandemics origin. china s foreign minister also weighed in, calling on relevant parties to quote,
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.
hello and welcome. the french president emmanuel macron and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, are in beijing, where they re holding talks with the chinese leadership. the trip is the latest push by europe to engage with china, and they re expected to urge china to use its influence on russia to halt the war in ukraine. after meeting with china s premier li qiang preident macron has met president xi xingping in the last half hour. in his first comments, mr macron said the visit would focus on economic ties as well as international stability. joining me from the newsroom is our asia pacific editor, michael bristow. thank you for being with us. tell us how significant this meeting is. it is very significant, you have seen the pomp and ceremony of the welcome xijinping has given emmanuel macron and it starts on a note of something like optimism. president macron said his meetings with the chinese premier, president macron said this was a chance f
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. e 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, the first order of business. the republican-led house. not inflation, not immigration, it s investigating the investigators. not exactly a kitchen table issue. and trump s top money man sentenced to rikers island in a tax fraud scheme. but what is it he s really facing? plus, the punishing and powerful storm battling the west coast with heavy rain, flooding, and the new threat of dangerous mudslides. live report from the ground as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once, again i m stephanie ruhle. president biden is now talking about those classified documents found in a former private office he used after leaving the obama white house. two sources tell nbc news left a dozen document with classified markings were found. here s what the president said earlier today about that subject during a summit in mexico city. people know i take classifie
it s investigating the investigators. not exactly a kitchen table issue. and trump s top money man sentenced to rikers island in a tax fraud scheme. but what is it he s really facing? plus, the punishing and powerful storm battling the west coast with heavy rain, flooding, and the new threat of dangerous mudslides. live report from the ground as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once, again i m stephanie ruhle. president biden is now talking about those classified documents found in a former private office he used after leaving the obama white house. two sources tell nbc news left a dozen document with classified markings were found. here s what the president said earlier today about that subject during a summit in mexico city. people know i take classified documents seriously. when my lawyers were clearing out my office at the university of pennsylvania, they set up an officer me, a secure office in the capital, four years after being of vi