Its a move that could exacerbate Trade Tensions between western countries and china. From october, canada will impose 100 tariffs on Electric Vehicles from china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped on to chinese produced evs that are imported to canada. The government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, said these measures were about protecting its domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional, state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector, talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been, and we simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs back in may, whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It
Lets start in the us where the facebook founder and Chief Executive of meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has criticised the Biden Administration for what he described as censorship during the covid 19 pandemic. In a letter written to a congressional committee, zuckerberg said that meta, which also owns instagram and whatsapp, was pressured into censoring content about covid, including humour and satire. He said he regretted not speaking about the pressure earlier and that he would not make the same decisions to comply if it happened again. Ritika gupta is in ny for us. Whys Mark Zuckerberg speaking out about this . There speaking out about this . Is a growing debate abou far there is a growing debate about how far a social Media Companies should go in being able to police comments, images and content by their users. Some platforms believe they should be more hats are hands off, were some governments say having an overly laissez faire attitude could lead to crime. Mark zuckerberg has come out and
Suggesting she supported hamas, but the cost of that payment is covered by taxpayers. The science secretary, michelle donelan, has now retracted her comments about professor kate sang after a government investigation found the allegations were baseless. And allegations were baseless. And finally thousands of staff at greggs are to get, shall we say, a slice of the profits. More than £17 million in bonuses. Evidently, its after the high street bakery saw profits rise by 27 in the last year, so staff can expect to see their extra dough in their pay packets at the end of this month to recognise their hard work, and its all the icing on the cake for the workers, who already get a share of the profits each year for the very latest news stories, do sign up for gp news alerts. Scan the qr code on your screen to gb news. Common screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Welcome along a message alerts. Welcome along a message to the Prime Ministerjust boots out the jihadis. Its not hard. France a
Are you an extremist . Next. Are you an extremist . Next. Im Polly Middlehurst and the top story in the gb newsroom tonight i at 9 01, Birmingham City council has approved a wave of budget cuts that have been described as a devastating double whammy of tax cuts and fewer public services. The fewer public services. The labour Led Authority is planning a 21 increase in council tax over two years, and £300 million worth of cuts to public services. Council leader john cotton, unrwa , vividly apologised to the unrwa, vividly apologised to the citys residents , blaming tory citys residents, blaming tory austero , 80, birminghams austero, 80, birminghams conservative leader, said though the cuts will mean streets arent clean and broken, street lights arent repaired and jeremy hunt is expected to ask councils to cut wasteful spending on equality and diversity programmes as he announces britains budget tomorrow. Its being suggested tomorrow. Its being suggested he could announce a £0. 02 in t
In eastern india after three trains crashed, making it the countrys deadliest rail accident in more than two decades. A passenger train went off the tracks and hit an oncoming train before colliding with a parked freight train. The with a parked freight train. The army has been deployed to help evacuate the injured with an extensive search and rescue operation ongoing. Prime operation ongoing. Prime minister Narendra Modi is also set to visit the site in odisha state Phillip Schofield says he fears being spat on in the street after it was revealed that he had an affair with a younger colleague whilst presenting this morning. In a new interview with the sun, he admitted hes afraid to leave his house after resigning from itv last week and being dropped by his talent agency. Schofield by his talent agency. Schofield says hes getting by hour by hour with support from his daughters and friends. Hour with support from his daughters and friends. Animal daughters and friends. Animal rights act