jon heffernan, professor of semiconductor materials and devices at the university of sheffield and director of the national epitaxy facility, tells us more. it s part of a global battle to control the semiconductor industry, which has been undertaken by many countries. the 21st century is going to be a technological century and it is completely underpinned by semiconductors. you ve got semiconductors everywhere, from lighting to computer chips, yourfridge to your car. and the pace of innovation is accelerating and it is going to be more and more important. so each country around the world is actually considering very carefully what its strategy in this technological area is and what its economic strategy is, its security strategy is. and so this is just the latest example, particularly between china and the us, but there are other countries involved. some countries control different aspects of the semiconductor industry. some control the natural resources, the minerals and th
found since november and the fourth discovered at the president home in delaware. the d.o.j. calls it a plaplanned the white house is cooperating but not extending to lawmakers who have a ton of questions. we need to know who had access to those documents because this is an ongoing investigation for influence peddling. we re disappointed that the administration is not working with us on anything. they re stonewalling everything. the government has a tendency to overclassify. you have to see what s the scope, how serious, did anyone have access, those questions have to be answered before we decide is this how significant an issue is this. dana: team fox coverage. andy mccarthy with analysis on deck. first let s go to the white house, jacque heinrich is standing by as we come on the air for an update. hi. good morning. president biden plans to spend next weekend at camp david amid reports the justice department is considering asking to search other locations link
there on his first middle east tour. and as china s heatwave makes roads buckle and roofs melt, we ll hearfrom our correspondent in beijing. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s eight in the morning in singapore and 5:30 in the morning in sri lanka, where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew out of the country, to the maldives, about 2a hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state in his absence. that s led to anger among protesters, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile, a curfew is in force and the prime minister, and now acting president ranil wickremesinghe, has told the military to do whatever is necessary to restore order. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, cr
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