The fight between americas Biggest Car Companies and the uaw over pay and Better Benefits is playing out in a key Battleground State in the 2024 president ial election, that is michigan. So this visit by President Biden is no accident. Hes trying to turbo charge the market for Electric Vehicles, that is part of his policy to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. His signature legislation, well, its known as the inflation reduction act, and it includes billions of dollars in incentives to get more clean cars on the road. President ial opponent, donald trump, who is also visiting michigan on wednesday, well, theyve argued the shift to Electric Vehicles will killjobs because, after all, it takes fewer people to make a battery than a combustion engine. And many of the new Battery Plants are being built in states that are hostile to organising. Add to that biden s push for clean energy, well, it hit another roadblock on monday. That is after ford said it was pausing work on a 3. 5 billion Batter
The Business News now with samantha simmonds. We begin in the us and the Strike Action affecting the auto industry. Because us President Joe Biden is today expected to join workers on the picket line in michigan. The industrial unrest has highlighted a clash between the president s support for unions and his push for clean energy. 0ur north America Business reporter, erin delmore, joins me. Good to see you. Joe biden s visit comes a day before donald trump is due to visit the picket line. Is it more about politics or the issue at hand for the president question both candidates are vying for a crucial block of voters in the 2024 election, and even though it is more than a year away they are focused firmly on it. Michigan is a critical swing state, a must win for biden and donald trump, as you saw when he won in 2016. President biden took the state in 2020. They are peeling to the workers and try to show solidarity. President biden is standing with Union President s and shoulder to shoul
the right direction. but many had wanted a strongerform of words calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from dubai. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause. and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here, and that was the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the presidency is calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these talks was in no doubt how important it was. together we have confronted realities, and we have set the world in the right direction. there was support from many countries, especially richer nat
the flow of aid. this comes as new images appear to show dozens of palestinian men, stripped to their underwear, with their hands tied behind their back, being held by israel defence forces. it s not clear if they have surrendered or if they have been taken by the military. israel has not said who the men are, but it has confirmed that israeli forces are making arrests in gaza. from jerusalem, here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. a warning you may find some of the images upsetting. video emerged this afternoon of palestinian men taken for interrogation. bbc staff recognised the town in northern gaza as beit lahia and we have geolocated the video there, too. palestinian diplomats said these were savage images evoking humanity s darkest times. the israeli army said only that suspects were being interrogated. posts on social media said the men had been sheltering with their families at a un school and that others were killed during the israeli raid. in this photo, the
An estimated 620,000 people in the uk have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of sudden death, the British Heart Foundation has warned. Mps will vote tonight on legislation that would allow the Prime Minster to formally start the process of leaving the European Union. The government is expected to win the vote quite comfortably, despite opposition from some labour rebels. Well be looking to see exactly how many. Plus the Liberal Democrats and the snp. Yesterday saw impassioned speeches for and against the bill in the House Of Commons. The debate went on right up till midnight and will continue today with a vote around 7pm tonight. If the bill is passed, it will continue its passage through parliament and ultimately allow theresa may to trigger article 50 of the lisbon treaty. 0ur Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Heading home into the winters night after nearly 12 hours of debate. Midnight in westminster with another afternoon of discussion to follow today. This is a debat