turn to a story making headlines in the uk because after months of cancelled trains and repeated complaints of poor service, the company which runs rail services across the north of england and parts of scotland has lost its contract. the network will now be run by the government. it is the fourth rail operator to be nationalised since 2018. our transport correspondent katy austin reports. this comes after months and months of complaints from passengers about daily cancellations and the impact of that on their lives. transpennine has come under criticism from the number of trains it has removed from timetables on the night before due to staff shortages and it accounts for one in six of its services for the month of march, the highest in the country, but a slight improvement from the previous month. the company had put problems down to a variety of factors including high staff sickness and a lack
just about kilometer from here clashes are taking place between riot police and kahn supporters trying to come close to the com bound where he is being kept. and we can see some tear gas and there is a sense of unease in this country, this is a state of political tension that has been brewing ever since imran khan was ousted as prime minister back in april. there is an imf that has not been completed. the current government has been attempting to make that happen. there is a lot resting on certainty of that happening. but kahn is an in-credit bring popular politician. police tried to arrest him two times in the month of march and paramilitary troops eventually got him. and they broke through the glass while he was there trying to get his bio mitt trimetric verifica.
talking about the slowing demand for semiconductor chip5 demand for semiconductor chips which power everything from our phones to spacecraft of course south korea is one of the biggest producers of them and that slowdown has been affecting the economy. experts have been declining for the six months and it is estimated that, in the first 20 days of this month, the country was make outbound shipments have fallen by 11% compared to last year and shipments of chips are down by more than a third in the month of march. a senior economist at amg says a down cycle in the global tech sector is affecting south korea s chip makers. you make there are two factors we have to think about. supply side of the effect which is now currently, too much. so probably it will take a couple of quarters to unload those inventory and then the production cycle will turn around. ,, , ., around. secondly, looking at the “w“ around. secondly, looking at the export data around. secondly, looking at the expor
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performance featuring water displays and pyrotechnics, no one was injured, in a statement disney says due to the thick smoke patrons were evacuated from several attractions nearby. china created 2.97 million urban jobs in the first quarter of this year, the human resources ministry has revealed. let s go to our asia business centre stop tell us more?- to our asia business centre stop tell us more? those almost 3 million urban stop tell us more? those almost 3 million urban jobs stop tell us more? those almost 3 million urban jobs you - 3 million urbanjobs you mentioned, an increase in the order of 4% on year, a significant improvement, also seeing the unemployment rate has improved, gone down about 5.3% in the month of march, an improvement on year as well as on the month prior, what this does show as things are slowly getting back on track for the world s second largest economy, china grappled with three years