Good morning. A swathe of cloud across eastern england, through the midlands, Northern England come into the south west and that is producing a bit of rain at the moment and either side of that is sunshine and a few showers today. I will have all the details throughout the programme. Its wednesday the 15th of may. A major manhunt is under way in france after two Prison Officers were killed in an ambush on a police van. The attack happened at a toll booth near rouen in normandy, and police said the man who was freed has links to a gang in marseille. Our europe correspondent, nick beake, has the latest. An unremarkable tollbooth in northern france, and the scene of a swift and brutal ambush. Cctv Footage Shows the Moment A Dark Car Veers into a white prison van, and at least two masked attackers start shooting. Terrified passengers on a passing bus throw themselves to the ground as the bullets ring out. One assailant is seen strolling calmly among the other vehicles on the motorway. Then
Is business today. It is packed. Were starting in the us where President Joe Biden has said that china is cheating, not competing on trade as introduced tariffs on 18 billion worth of imports and Electric Vehicles to steal. He has accused the country of unfairly subsidising its Clean Energy Sector and flooding International Markets with cheap exports which is says hertz American Businesses and workers. Our north American Business correspondent has more from new york. Its not often we find former president and agreement but we have seen President Biden keeping tariff enacted by his predecessor and increasing them. They focus on key Technologies Powering Green Transition and approve a 100 tariff on Electric Vehicles imported into the us, up from 25 . A doubling of the levy on solar cells to 50 and on semiconductors, to 50 . President biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by china in the industries of the future, from Electric Vehicles to solar cells