We begin this hour with a shake up in russias military hierarchy. Russias Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias security council. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be andrei belousov, an economist and the deputy Prime Minister. Earlier our russia editor Steve Rosenberg explained that at the kremlin, reshuffles are unusual. Whoever the russian government ministers are, whoever s sitting around that cabinet table, there is one man and one man alone in russia who calls the shots, and that is Vladimir Putin. Hes the man with all the power. Having said that, a Government Reshuffle in russia is interesting, particularly when key ministers like the Defence Minister is being changed. They dont happen too often. For 20 years. Mr shoigu has been Defence Ministerfor 12 years. He was appointed by Vladimi
The Socialist Party in the lead. And the best Television Programmes of 2023 are honoured at the Bafta Tv Awards in london. Sarah lancashire from the bbc s police drama happy valley taking home best actress. Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Russias Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias security council. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be Andrei Belousov an economist and a deputy Prime Minister. What is the significance in this move i think the most significant thing is the fact that on the year of the full scale invasion, the third year, putin decided to change his minister of defence. The fact that the more senior position is losing a lot of influence when she used to have is now taking a new role. It says a lot about putins mind and his opinion of the state of the minister of russia. ~. ,.
however slower demand and trade restrictions on chip making technology have put businesses under pressure. those restrictions only apply of course to high end chips currently. for more on the industry i spoke to stacy raskin, a senior semiconductor analyst. these export controls were fairly targeted. the only things that were actually impacted were high end artificial intelligence chips, chips for supercomputers and equipment that was capable of manufacturing high end logic and memory. in terms of actual revenue impact the only ones that really saw was the equipment vendors. the reason is from the high end chips it was nvidia they were able to backfill with other products that came in below the control thresholds that were legal to sell in china. the customers bought lot of those in backfill and did not see any revenue hit. the equipment vendors did see a hit. again limited in their abilities to sell tools for advanced logic and advance memory and it was several billion dolla
by domestic heavyweight tsmc. however, slower demand and trade restrictions on chip making technology have put businesses under pressure. those restrictions only apply to high end chips currently. for more on the industry i spoke to stacy rasgon, a senior semiconductor analyst. these export controls were fairly targeted. the only things that were actually impacted were high end artificial intelligence chips, chips for supercomputers and equipment that was capable of manufacturing high end logic and memory. in terms of actual revenue impact, the only ones that really saw, was the equipment vendors. the reason is from the high end chips, it was nvidia exposed, they were able to backfill with other products that came in below the control thresholds that were legal to sell in china. the chinese customers bought lot of those in backfill and did not see any revenue hit. the equipment vendors did see a hit. again limited in their abilities to sell tools for advanced logic and advanc
peter, talk us through this decision, 22 years behind bars. yes, this is the longest sentence of all of the proud boys sent to prison over the last four days, there were four people at the end of last week and now we have this sentence for what the judge described as the ultimate leader of the conspiracy, the leader of the proud boys, the person who was really at the centre of the conspiracy, the organisational centre of that assault on the us capitol. he and others from the proud boys shortly after the proud boys shortly after the 2020 election, during that period before january the 6th when there was uncertainty over what was going to happen, but he and others were sending it social media messages threatening that there would be violence if donald trump left office. and then on the day, as you say, he was not actually in washington because he had been stopped by the police two days earlier in possession of high capacity ammunition, which is against the law in washington, dc