From erin delmore in new york. Tesla shares spent most of the year sliding between lagging sales, production snarls, shipping delays and increased competition from overseas ev makers. Then shares started gaining. They were up 40% since the end of may. See, investors started focusing less on tesla s slumping ev sales and more on chief executive elon musk s plans to make tesla into an artificial intelligence powerhouse with al powered robo taxis and humanoid robots. Alluring? yes. Profitable? no. Or at least, not yet. Tesla unveiled its second quarter earnings tuesday after wall street s closing bell, and reported a 45% drop in profit between april and june. That came in lower than analysts had estimated. Sales fell nearly 5% in the second quarter and production fell as well. Now, investors are left to see whether tesla can successfully rev up its lagging car sales or begin monetising its ai offerings fast enough to make up for it. I am joined from chicago by seth goldstein, an equity st
How to handle the heat? a special report on how people in pakistan s mega city karachi are struggling, as extreme temperatures become more common aorund the world. It is almost unbearable to be standing out in the street. It is only 11 o clock and the sun is only 11 o clock and the sun is beating down. Antipollution. It makes it even worse. Some here wonder how long they can go on like this. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. It s the poorest country in the western hemisphere and it is living through one of the most troubled of political sagas. Now haiti s prime minister, ariel henry, says he has sacked the chief prosecutor who s been seeking to charge him in connection with the killing of presidentjovenel moise in july. He had also called for the prime minister to be barred from leaving haiti, adding that there was evidence that the prime minister had spoken by phone with a leading suspect in the assassination. Garry pierre pierre is the founder of the ne
Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello and welcome, this is dateline london, the only programme to bring together bbc specialists with foreign correspondence who write from here. It s an outsider s perspective on what s happening around the uk and the world. Is the return of the taliban the least worst outcome for afghanistan? heat and monsoons getting longer and wetter. Is the world willing or able to stop it from getting worse? and andrew cuomo desire resigns. Lovely to see you all again. The taliban are in controljust 45 miles south of kabul, the regional warlords and militia groups to whom the president has turned in afghanistan s hour of need, evidence that his army trained by the now departed americans is inadequate in the fight. One by one provincial capitals have fallen, clive, when you look at the picture in afghanistan the director of national intelligence who worked withjoe biden when he was vice president, jake clapper, said was inevitable, once the american troops lef
Japan s government declares a state of emergency for the tokyo area ahead of the the olympic games the number of people in england waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a new record high chancellor rishi sunak defends the decision to phase out the £20 weekly increase in universal credit introduced during the coronavirus crisis. This was a temporary measure, it was always intended to be a temporary measure and much like all the other things that we have done, they were the things that we put in place to deal with the crisis. Plans for how and when fully vaccinated travellers can go abroad without having to quarantine on their return are to be set out later. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. England have reached the final of euro 2020 after beating denmark 2 1 in front of more than 60,000 fans at wembley. Captain harry kane hit the winner in extra time to secure a place against italy on sunday. If england win, it will be their first m
With organisers still confident they can go ahead safely and the torch relay is into its 61st day. But doctors in osaka are warning against holding them, with hospitals injapan s second largest city hit by a huge wave of new coronavirus infections. Max moseley, the man credited with imporving driver safety in formula one, has died at the age of 81. We conduct our chief formula 1 writer about his life, how will max mosley be remembered? he writer about his life, how will max mosley be remembered? writer about his life, how will max mosley be remembered? he was a controversial mosley be remembered? he was a controversial and mosley be remembered? he was a controversial and sometimes controversial and sometimes antagonistic figure and ultimately that led to his downfall, but as you say, he had a very deep impact on formula 1, particularly on safety, but also on the commercial side. He was involved with bernie ecclestone from the 1970s, fighting for the team swrites with the governing b