Giant us steel have fallen sharply, after President Biden weighed in to oppose a near 15 billion takeover of the firm by a japanese company. Us steel is based in pittsburgh, pennsylvania a key battleground in this years election. The takeover deal, agreed in december, has caused major controversy there. But any move to block it could raise tensions with japan a vital ally for the us as it tries to counter the growing power of china. From new york, erin delmore reports. President biden is taking a stand against a deal in the making. Us steel, an american company, is set to be bought by nippon steel, a japanese company. But President Biden says that us steel should stay in the us. L115 says that us steel should stay in the us in the us. Us steel the stronger in the us. Us steel the stronger america in the us. Us steel the stronger america is in the us. Us steel the| stronger america is made in the us. Us steel the stronger america is made here. The president praised the iconic 123 year o
welcome to bbc news. our top story today: the us defense secretary says he had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian fighterjet and a us drone. the race is now on to recover the wreckage of the drone which is thought to be twelve hundred metres deep in the black sea. russia has also said it will try to find the wreckage. meanwhile, america s top general said the whole incident was a result of russia s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the area. us defense secretary lloyd austin gave this update earlier. as i ve said repeatedly, it s important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. and the united states will continue to fly into operate where ever international law allows. and it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional manner. ukraine s foreign told the bbc that incidents such as this are inevitable until russia leaves crimea. our diplomatic corr
but you may have missed it. you may never even heardf this because there weren t a lot of follow up pieces abouti these manmade food shortages that joe biden was predicting. a and that s weird if you think about it because food shortages are inherently a big deal . you could argue they re even more significant and say slap fight between actors at an . ards ceremony food shortages are a historic event. they overturn society sd they bring down empires they often have if you ve gotav food shortages, you ve got a potentially destabilizing problem on your handsr and we do have food shortages. they re real as joe biden predicted as of tonight , at least twenty six states are reporting that half their retail stores are completelytely baby formula. that would include the states of texas, tennessee, missouri and iowa, many others. so these are major population centers without enoughd fo foodr newborns in memphis and nashville. 52% of stores have no baby formula. houston and des moines