producer of them both. from next month, exporting these metals will require a licence, as michelle fleury explains. welcome to world business report, i m ben thompson. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the world s two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to steady the relationship, but she s got her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit, beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals essential for making semiconductors. the measures are seen as a tit for tat response after the us, the netherlands and japan recently restricted chip exports to china. some say the move is aimed at giving china more leverage in future trade discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question, will be subject to export controls starting august 1st. in a statement, china s ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interests. ch
Coast in the early hours leading to the deaths of five of those attempting the crossing, including a child. It happened just hours after mps passed the governments Rwanda Bill Which is designed to deter people from attempting crossings like this. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on that beach in the early hours of this morning just north of Wimereux Filming as police ran towards the people smugglers and those who had paid them to cross. Theyd only been at sea a short time when they got into difficulty. Well, we can join andrew now. Good evening. The smugglers in this area have accessed almost 150 miles of coastline from which to launch their small boats which makes it very rare and very difficult to actually witness one of those launches as it happens but that is what happened to us in the early hours of this morning, on a Big Beautiful Beach close to a french golf resort. Shouting a skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants
Drifting 13 miles in the irish sea. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, madrid is in for a spectacle tonight as real host Neighbours Atleti in the the first leg of their all Spanish Champions League semifinal. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. Following the leaked account of a tense meeting between the Prime Minister and the head of the European Commission last week, theresa may has told the bbc she will be a Bloody Difficult Woman in Brexit Negotiations and shes already made clear Jean Claude Juncker will discover that. She told our political editor, laura kuenssberg, that the negotiations with the eu will be tough and what matters in the coming election is making the right choice of leader to represent the uks interests. Who wouldnt like a day by the cornish coast . Who could be coming to town . We believe its that nice theresa may. Is that correct or not correct . Strong and stable theresa. Im not very keen. In fact, im very unkeen. I hope she comes sooner rather