And they that number is eight years working on it saying they get a script and even gave it a name, which i still have to this day. So they spent lots of time and they felt it was really there show along with a decile back, but now they say they were really excited when Manchester International festival said they wanted to obviously for every kind of younger writer, its a dream come true. But they say at this point, they were essentially pushed off the project, completely erased and they say and every receive no credit. He said it staged at the moment and if you look at promotional material is very much advertised a play by two men, these women stayed thats simply not true and that they had been pushed out essentially they were underdogs to which we did have powerful men wa nted which we did have powerful men wanted to treat them and i spoke to both of them earlier and this is the message they had. I was thinking you are better than this, message they had. I was thinking you are better
more than 80% up on the year before. ofjune, hitting 460,000 cars it s now well on its way to its goal of 1.8 million for 2023. the rise came after tesla cut prices in the us, uk and china, in a bid to boost sales and compete with rival manufacturers. jim holder is an automotives expert and joins me now. good to see you. it seems that cutting the price of something it means demand goes up. it is not rocket science, but it is the kind of elusive sales figures that tesla has been after for a while. absolutely. this is great news for tesla, after a very hard into last year, particularly in its new chinese market, where it has been trying to push sales. but of course, pushing prices down bush s margin is done, and i think what we are all looking for is whether they can maintain profitability now. for the car industry, that has traditionally been a huge problem. pushes margin down. it s caught everyone by surprise, but everyone is watching very closely now, but sales figures
of millions of accounts. ray wang is a principal analyst of constellation research, explains why threads could be a serious challenge to twitter. this is a massive threat. if you think about twitter, it only has about 150 million active users. if you see what is going on with facebook and instagram, we are talking the 2.96 billion users. let s put this in simple terms. 50 million is the number we use to say mass adoption of technology has occurred. facebook live dated 2a hours. mark zuckerberg can get to 50 million users and probably less than 2a hours. i can pick it to 150 million euros in less than two months. it s a direct threat to delay or stop light at the same time, some of the users are not happy with the recent restrictions like the number of tweets that you can look at. why is elon musk doing this is yet? you don t normally musk doing this is yet? you don t normally have - musk doing this is yet? 7m. don t normally have that musk doing this is yet? 7m, don t nor
beijing. china has slapped export controls on two rare metals used in the manufacture of semiconductors. the move by the chinese ministry of commerce targets the metals gallium and germanium. china is a major producer of both. from august, exports of these metals will require a licence. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to berlin, and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship, but she has got her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said he was imposing export controls on two rare medals essential for making semiconductors. the measures are seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions for tub gallium and a germanium the two mentals in question, wi
and months of negotiation. and in fact, the deal was meant to expire today. they ve now got an entirely new deal which will carry them through for another nine months. and as you say, it s going to be about three billion usd, which is more than they were expecting if they d managed to negotiate the end of the last deal. so that is a relief. but at the same time, lots of analysts that i ve been speaking to have also emphasised the fact that this is reallyjust patching up just for now, it s a sticking plaster to be able to get pakistan through to the end of the year and the beginning of the next year. really crucially, at the moment, pakistan is expecting to have a general election here. now, this deal will mean that the current government can finish its term. a caretaker government can can take over. then there s an election. and then the new government, which in that election is expected to happen in october, can then start the whole process of negotiating the next deal. and