not, on the money, albeit less of it? last year you may remember that the governor of the bank of england andrew bailey told you not to ask for big pay rises to stop prices rising out of control. they are perhaps not so much happened as of doom and bust but of truth. they worried about and in inflationary spiral where prices push inflation out of control and uk inflation of course running around 10%, food inflation much higher than that, thatis inflation much higher than that, that is around 17%, 18%. of course workers across the public sector right now are involved in industrial action over pay rises. so is mr pill right? do wejust action over pay rises. so is mr pill right? do we just need to get used to being poorer? do you accept being poorer? let s talk. get in touch. and here is the news. the government says that over 200 british nationals have been airlifted out of sudan so far. three raf planes have already touched down in cyprus and more are expected to follow. evacu
were shot dead in their car. and one of the most hyped bouts in the history of boxing tommy fury wins his bout against jake paul. by bya by a split decision. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. welcome to the programme. the european commission president, ursula von der leyen, is to meet the british prime minister later today, with expectations rising that they ll finalise a new post brexit trading deal for northern ireland. if agreement is reached, rishi sunak will make a statement to the uk parliament. our political editor chris mason has more. here stands the ultimate prize in all of these negotiations. this is stormont, in belfast, the home of the northern ireland assembly. getting it and an executive here up and running again would be quite a moment. doing a deal with brussels does not guarantee that, but there are other potential prizes, improving internal uk trade and resetting relations with the european union. if we can get it over the line, we re o
let s get down to business. an australian firm recharge industries has come to the rescue and bought the battery maker britishvolt out of administration. the deal is expected to be announced shortly. britishvolt had plans to build a £4 billion gigafactory near the port of blyth in northumberland, but it ran out of money and collapsed last month. its downfall was blamed on a lack of battery experience, unproven technology, and therefore no customers oi’ revenue. the new owner is another start up. recharge industries is owned and run by a new york based investment fund called scale facilitation. its australian chief executive, david collard, told our business editor simonjack why his company was different. what we re bringing, which is different to the prior britishvolt, is we re bringing validated technology. so that process has already started. us defence has also validated the technology, it s actually already supplied to the uk navy through a subcontractor over here.
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