Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Iran has promised severe revenge for the assassination of its Top Nuclear Scientist blaming israel for his murder. Mohsen fakhrizadeh died in hospital after gunmen attacked his car outside tehran. Israel has previously accused him of masterminding a covert Nuclear Weapons programme, though it hasnt commented on his assassination. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera has more. The scene of an ambush. The highway where gunmen targeted a vehicle carrying one of the most important figures in Irans Nuclear programme. Mohsen fakhrizadeh was a scientist and Senior Defence official. But western Intelligence Services have long believed he was the Driving Force in irans quest for a nuclear bomb. Iran has always said its Nuclear Programme was peaceful but its been claimed fakhrizadeh was leading work on project amad to develop a weapon. In 2018, he was singled out by israels prime minister. This is how dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head
Oversight of the department of Energy Research and development enterprise. Welcome, mr. Secretary. Were delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities so i hope we see you much more frequently from now on, and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make draconian cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs, most actually fared well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a subst
Oil slides into a bear market as trade tensions add to slowing demand. Brenda cost 20 since its april high. Cost 20 since its april high. Shery stocks rebounding. Treasuries paring back some of the earlier sturges we saw this week not to mention the dollar surges we saw this week, not to mention the dollar. We had brent falling more than 20 since its april the and sliding into a bear market. This despite the fact that we are seeing eight consecutive weeks of your talk piles declining u. S. Stockpiles declining. 1. 4 . Sdaq gained lets futures at the moment under a little bit of pressure, down. 1 . Lets see how things are shaping up in the asian markets as we have a few centralBank Decisions. Sophie it could be a mixed start for the asian stocks after a fiveday loss with several major market threatening to join the kospi, writing our yeartodate gains. Wiping out yeartodate gains. Check out tv stocks, jumping 1 one hour into cash trade. 10year gilts hovering around 10 . The aussie dollar
Test. Test. Test. And part of that reason is because of the research that is going on at our National Labs. And im going to, again, ask paul to share with you, just because hes fresh out of seeing some of this and has to do with the Battery Storage. And the progress being made on Battery Storage is really fascinating. And ive always said that Battery Storage is the holy grail. If were able to get to that point where we can use our renewables, solar and wind in particular to power these batteries that have long time storage, and what were finding now is that the the elements that are being used to create some of these batteries are not Rare Earth Minerals and theyre elements that we have right here in the United States, so were going to be in control of our future substantially more on the Battery Storage if you just kind of give them a glimpse of whats going on here and i think thats pretty exciting stuff. So a couple of examples, the complex, r d business, beyond lithium ion batteries
Of the qassam battalions, the military wing of the Hamas Movement responsible for the siege and attack on shefat hospital in gaza city , killed them. About 3 months after the regime attack zionist to this hospital, pictures have been released that show one of the officers of the special patrol unit of the zionist air force known as vahad. Kaldog was killed by a qassam battalion sniper. In these pictures, it can be seen that the mujahideen of qassam , together with a number of zionist soldiers , were monitoring the movements of gatsar hoffman before he was killed in the Field Command Center of the zionist army in gaza city. Less than two months ago , the zionist media denounced the sheldag unit in the gaza war. It has lost more troops than all previous wars. Iraqi Islamic Resistance with issuing a statement announcing an aerial attack on an israeli airbase in the occupied golan. In this statement, the mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance of iraq targeted the airbase where the zionist re