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
hello and welcome. let s begin with the tensions around taiwan where chinese military forces are conducting drills for a third day. taiwan s defence ministry says it has detected 11 chinese warships and 59 aircraft around the island, 39 entered taiwan s air defence zones on monday morning. these are some of the latest images of the drills released by china s military and shown on the country s state television. the chinese display of force has added to tension between china and the united states. and the us navy says it has sailed a guided missile destroyer through contested waters claimed by china near the spratly islands to assert navigational passage rights. with the latest on the drills, here s our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo. this is the third day of military drills. drills which china calls operationjoint sword. it is surrounding taiwan, a self governing island. china s military exercises happened hours within the return of the taiwanese president from her
that focus is paying off. it wasn t my initial career choice. i wanted to be into information technology kind of thing. i ended up moving into catering and i m glad i did because it s changed my sort of health and aspects and life, and now i ve got a career i can look forward to. what works for the biggest businesses, though, is not an option for everyone. we were able to take on an intern, but she came from sweden, from a chef school in sweden, and she came and lived in our house. that was the only way we could get somebody. we were approached by the same people again to do it this year and we just can t find anything and we can t have somebody living in our home, we realised. for now, kat cooks on, but without more cost effective short term solutions, staffing for small businesses like hers remains as difficult to predict as the great british weather. peter ruddick, bbc news, keswick.
facing serious challenges. one of those is travel, an industry still struggling to recruit the staff it needs, more than a year after the end of pandemic restrictions. 0ur reporter peter ruddick has been to the lake district to look at what the recruitment problems mean, and whether there s any immediate solution. these hands started at the deck this morning at 6.30 in here, but there was already an hour ahead of that doing menus for today, so. easter holidays! fun, fun, fun. at plant by kat s kitchen, in keswick, the owner has given more than just her name to the business. staff shortages mean kat s having to fill many of the restaurant roles herself. we have nobody available to work this evening. it has got worse there s no question, it has 100% got worse. we ve always paid above minimum wage. we ve offered apprenticeships, we ve offered alternate weekends off, so fewer weekends working.