hello and welcome to the programme. we start today with russia it says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast at a cafe in st petersburg, which is the second largest city after the capital, moscow. police say several others have been injured in the incident. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line he was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. earlier, sergei goryashko, from bbc russian gave me this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a smal
several hours to get a closer look at the destruction. also the middle of the damage, charles watson for we in mississippi what is the latest? surveying for a couple hours now and it s hard to believe all the destruction we are seeing. a lot when tornado hit but it doesn t look like a bomb hit, take a look at the level of destruction. tons of tree branches down, large trees. look at this house, you can see folks beginning what is expected to be a lengthy cleanup. we spoke to one of the folks who live over there who told us there carport was lifted up and detached from the home so that s what those folks are dealing with over there. the street you can see a lot of debris hanging around for folks to clean up. we ve seen folks in the streets in this particular community working as fast as they can to try to clean some of this stuff up so they can get roadways clear so folks can get to their properties to assess the damage but a simple look and you know it s going to take folks
simulating attacks on the self ruled island of taiwan, this comes after a meeting between the tae hwi s just taiwanese president tsai ing wen and kevin mccarthy last week. the tensions, the international monetary fund warns of severe weakness in the global economy over the next half a decade. the fund says its outlook for global economic growth for the next five years is the weakest it s seen in a while. earlier on spoke to peter mwai, chief executive of xm australia and he told me situations like these are when investors may look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. look to rebalance their portfolios. peter mwai. they look at market portfolios. peter mwai. tie: look at market interpretation, rhetoric, they said there and they say ride, are there other opportunities, the certain sectors of the markets removed from or other markets to look stronger out, gold or retail versus institution or mining, so we have a degree of concern and we need to wear this one thro
and are earning more than ever before. let s start with oil prices, because they ve risen some 20% over the past three weeks. this time last week, prices surged after the oil cartel, opec +, decided it would reduce its combined output by 1.1 million barrels per day. crude prices climbed after the cartel s announcement, but later in the week they steadied, following the latest us and chinese economic data which suggested weaker post pandemic growth. so where are we headed? russ mould, investment research director at aj bell joins me now. i m very excited about this. you are down by the seaside in brighton but actually here today. on the bank holiday we dragged you in. what are your thoughts about oil right now? opec + is seen as this organisation by the white house is not especially helpful when it comes to our outlook for the global economy, cutting production and causing another spike in the price of oil which is very inflationary? it spike in the price of oil which is very
china is the world s largest car market, and whilst tesla generates most of its money from its electric car business, boss elon musk has committed to grow its solar energy and battery business to roughly the same size. here s mariko with the details from singapore. it is quite a big deal because of course, tesla already has that huge plant in shanghai to make electric cars, so it is basically increasing its investment in china. the fact that this announcement came when tensions between washington and beijing are quite high, that is quite interesting. as you said, this is a mega factory, to produce mega packs. they are basically very large batteries that can store energy, so that they can help stabilise the power grid and also prevent outages. now, of course, many of our viewers associate tesla with those electric cars and that is where the company generates most of its money from. but the company s boss, elon musk, is very keen to also grow its solar energy and battery busine