week for big tech. plus a pre halloween treat as the us economy returns to growth. but inflation s still a nightmare for president biden with midterm elections looming. we start with the world s richest man: billionaire boss of tesla space entrepreneur and now the new owner of twitter. elon musk has now closed his $41; billion takeover of the social media giant ahead of a 5pm deadline set by a us court. and he has moved quickly to sack the company s senior management. it brings to an end a six month long and often bad tempered takeover battle that has raised some big questions about the future of the company. from san francisco here s our technology correspondent james clayton. when elon musk had an offer to buy a twitter accepted in april, he could barely conceal his excitement. but that initial enthusiasm soon began to wane. tech stocks were plummeting and many wondered whether he d paid too much for twitter. mr musk also claimed that twitter was filled with fake
archie battersbee s parents apply to the european court of human rights to try to postpone the removal of his life support, which was due to begin today. a review has found former met police chief, dame cressida dick, may have breached professional standards during an investigation into the murder of the private detective daniel morgan. the delivery of ballots for the conservative leadership election is delayed, after the security agency gchq warned that cyber hackers could change people s votes. another hosepipe ban is on the way, after all the hot dry weather more than a million people will be affected in kent and sussex. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. foreign ministers from the g7 have said there is nojustification for what they called china s aggressive military drills in the taiwan strait. the exercises which are taking place over the next four days from tomorrow are in response to a visit to taiwan by the speaker of the us house of representatives
Room with western leaders talking about that. And today at a press Conference Ahead of those discussions between president erdogan and putin, the two of them in front of the cameras laughing and smiling before they sat down to sort of lay out the agenda for the day. So certainly president erdogan will be hoping he can come to some sort of an agreement, some sort of breakthrough, some sort of way to get russia back on board with renewing this grain deal because as we have seen, it has been crucial to the Global Community to getting food where it needs to go, for providing security for farmers across ukraine, that there are buyers out there that can get the crops they need. That their Storage Facilities have room for the new crop coming in, it is how the season now, so a lot of questions about what will happen. The two sides seem fairly optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic they can come home for a with the deal. Global Food Security is one the
And is expected to meet National Security adviserjake sullivan. Blinken told the Un Security Council on tuesday that he would work with the Chinese Foreign minister to prevent the middle east conflict from spreading. But talks with china are also expected to focus on trying to resolve disagreements on other issues, including trade. Earlier this week, beijing restricted the exports of graphite, of which it produces 90 of the worlds supply. Graphite is a Critical Metal used in many products including electric cars. The us responded by advising its top tech firms which included nvidia to stop exporting some of their latest ai products to china. Soaring demand for its chips has driven nvidias share price up by more than 200 over the past year, with china being its leading buyer. Joining me now is rory green, chief china economist, and head of asia research, at ts lombard. Thanks for being with us today. What you expect to come out of these talks . ,. ,. , you expect to come out of these ta
Engines, Nuclear Power plants for submarines, defence and civil aerospace, and the problem they have identified is that it is underperforming relative to its peers, so when he came into thejob he promised to shake things up, and what he wants to do is take the three big divisions that make up rolls royce, civil, aerospace, defence and a Company Called Power Systems in germany that makes large engines, and bring them close together, rationalise them, meaning there will be a lot of duplication in back Office Functions that can be got rid of, so that is where we expect the job cuts to happen, other parts of the business, its Nuclear Submarines business, we dont expect cuts there, and in civil aerospace, people who make engines, a lot of those job cuts will trend back during the pandemic, in fact rolls royce is now recruiting in those areas so that is unlikely to feel a big impact, those areas so that is unlikely to feela big impact, one of those areas so that is unlikely to feel a big imp