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
and also donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania. and thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims many are demanding the president resign. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine s, was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard as we ll hear for a very successful business career. she went on to be the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called trave
to me that s corruption straight up off the bat. i don t need them. mayra flores speaking out about being rejected from the congressional hispanic caucus. we are the real voice. we are the voice of the hispanic community. dave matthews band. john fetterman holding a rally with musician dave matthews. certainly out of touch with pennsylvania values and he has not been able to defend his dangerous policies. we just trying to catch a good time even if it takes all night as i around the camp fire sipping apple pie and moon shine here we picking on them guitars. steve: good morning, rhode island. there is your 7:01 wake-up call on this thursday morning. right now you got 59 degrees there and you are going for a daytime high in the 60 s. and, because an hour ago we were talking about pittsburgh and perogies when we started that hour. i looked up rhode island. apparently they are famous for, in addition to crab cakes and clams and stuff like that, something c
independent candidate evan mcmullin as he faces off against incumbent republican mike lee. and tesla is under criminal investigation over claims the company s electric vehicles can drive themselves. we ll get to that. willie? let s begin this hour in georgia, where this morning there is a new allegation against herschel walker. another woman has come forward accusing the candidate of pressuring her into having an abortion. the women appeared anonymously yesterday with her attorney, gloria allred. she claims she became involved with the former football player in 1987 while he was married and became pregnant with his child in 1993. she said walker encouraged her several times to have an abortion and she eventually went to a clinic in dallas to have the procedure but she did not go through with it, which she alleges made walker upset. she claims he then drove her to the clinic and waited outside in the parking lot for hours until she came outside. here s what she said about
be the most powerful flash of light ever seen from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from earth. now on bbc news, ourworld: fighting putin s propaganda. tv rain, russia s last remaining opposition tv station, was forced off air in march 2022. our world follows senior presenters trying to relaunch tv rain from exile. in march, russia s last independent tv station went off air. tv rain opposed russia s war in ukraine and challenged the kremlin s propaganda machine. this narrative about massive support of this war is false, so that is what they did to us. the journalists of tv rain, including senior presenters katya and tikhon were forced to flee the country. our world joins the power couple on their mission to relaunch the channel from exile. i am scared to death. can they fight the kremlin? they believe their weapon is the truth. it s june 2022. among them, tikhon dzyadko, from moscow. he s editor in chief of tv rain, russia s last independent tv channel. his wi