her mantra to go easy on me, until she finally says hello to her lucrative 12 week run once this delay hopefully becomes water under the bridge. mark lobel, bbc news. a firm planning the mass production of electric car batteries in the uk has secured government funding for its proposed factory in northumberland. the project is the brainchild of startup company britishvolt , which has previously said it will create 3000 jobs. the amount of taxpayer funding has not been revealed, but the bbc understands it is roughly 100 million pounds. theo leggett reports. a windswept building site in northumberland. in a few years, this will be home to the uk s first gigafactory. if all goes to plan, britishvolt s giant facility will be capable of making 300,000 batteries for electric vehicles every year. now, the project has the government s seal of approval in the form of funding worth £100 million.
long term what the white house wants to see are people moving away from fossil fuels. that s why you also had the announcement you mentioned, using the defense production act to get more of these materials that are used in electric car batteries and reducing longer-term the u.s. dependence on china and other countries for those minerals. shannon, thanks. ari, let me go to you because at the end of that discussion, at the end of remarks by president biden he also took a question from vladimir putin and said specifically he doesn t see any clear sefd he s pulling his troops from kyiv. we re hearing again from a very skeptical president of this country about the moves putin is or is not making. all as we re getting this new assessment from the pentagon right as we were coming on the air here. defense officials say russia is really stepping up the air attack over the last 24 hours. attacks that have been focused on kyiv, the ukrainian capital. chernihiv, which we ve talked about a lot. i
anne thompson with details now. reporter: the u.n. says there is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change previewed by last year s wildfires and hurricanes but we have to move fast the jury has reached a verdict. and it is damning. reporter: the u.n. road map to avoid disaster says we must stop increasing greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. then swiftly cut them, 43% by the end of the decade. fossil fuels are the number one driver of climate change. we have to get off them as quickly as we can. reporter: to get there, people must switch to a low-carbon lifestyle including a plant-based diet, creating less food waste and choosing renewable energy, now cheaper than ever. win costs fell 55% in the past decade, solar, 85% the cost of electric car batteries down 85% too. that, the report says, is a huge opportunity to slash emissions if the power for electric