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northern ireland but arriving late in the day. temperatures, high teens to low 20s and it will feel warm in the may sunshine and the sunshine is stronger this time of the year so there will be high levels of uv. are out for any level of time might be worth considering suncream. similar on sunday, best of the sunshine in england and wales, scotland and northern ireland cloudy and bright, one or two bits of rain and the temperature is similar, it s going to be quite a one weekend for most of us. nice one, chris, thanks for that. chris fawkes. that s it. more analysis of the main stories on newsnight coming up on bbc two with faisal islam but now the news continues here on bbc one as we join our colleagues across the nations and regions for all of the news where you are. i have a very good night. the economic ascent of china with significant consequences for production of electric vehicles, batteries and microchips. in this new world, does the uk have a strategy? china cal ....
Bashing china. meanwhile, after a week of questions about whether the uk has an industrial strategy, and fears over the future of the car industry, the government reveals its long delayed semiconductor plans. can they compete in the great global silicon war? we speak to a representative of uk chip makers and the author of chip war. also tonight the diplomatic return of bashar al assad walk outs from some other arab leaders, but the man responsible for the bloody civil war that killed more than 350,000 syrians is readmitted to the arab league. translation: we have a historic opportunity translation: we have a historic opportunity to translation: we have a historic opportunity to rearrange - translation: we have a historic opportunity to rearrange our- translation: we have a historic. opportunity to rearrange our affairs with the opportunity to rearrange our affairs with the least intervention of the west with the least intervention of the west and with the least interventio ....
And so we ve seen some really quite prohibitive actions really in the past few weeks on this. well, indeed. the us, japan, the netherlands have been ramping up their controls on china s ability both to buy specific types of chips but also china s ability to buy the tools that are used to make chips, and these tools are some of the most precise machines ever made, with hundreds of thousands of components and ultraprecise components involved in that, and so today china can t make any of these machines domestically. it relies almost completely on imports from a very small number of countries, and the g7 wants to keep it that way. and it s one in particular, one dutch company that seems to control a very key bottleneck in this market. one of the tools needed to produce semiconductors is called a lithography tool, and today one company, asml, as you mentioned, has a 100% market share in the manufacturing of the most advanced lithography tools. ....
With significant consequences for production of electric vehicles, batteries and microchips. in this new world, does the uk have a strategy? china calls the g7 a clique as its members look to reverse their reliance on the world s second biggest economy. but are the world s big industrialised democracies just too dependent on beijing s exports? it s going to add way more to annual gdp charges for the world than anywhere in the ex british colonies, so ijust don t get anywhere in the ex british colonies, so i just don t get the scale anywhere in the ex british colonies, so ijust don t get the scale of this sort of popularity thing about ....