the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
it was bizarre. the whole speech was like that. it had a hallucinogenic quality, like it wasn t quite real. but then joe biden himself isn t quite real. maybe that s the reason he talks that way. biden has been living in utter seclusion for more than a year. he hasn t spoken to anyone but his own lackeys. he hasn t driven a car or sat on a grass and looked at the sky, or been anywhere or done anything except in the most controlled possible environment. what an incredibly weird life that is. joe biden must imagine that everyone in america is terrified of corona as he is, and is living in the same kind of bunker. joe biden is totally cut off. alex berenson described last night s speech as late soviet. the more we thought about it, the more perfect that seemed. here s a clip of russia s own joe biden, the late like biden, he was very also like biden, despite his frailty, he never lost the enthusiasm for pointless wars. he is the one who ordered the soviet invasion of afghani
Its 8 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 3 00am in yemen, where according to the United Nations a catastrophe is unfolding. The country is struggling with the worlds worst cholera epidemic, and the looming threat of famine. Un Officials Say yemen has been brought to its knees by more than two years of war between Houthi Rebels and a saudi led coalition. Our correspondent orla guerin has gained rare access to the Southern Port City Of Aden and sent this report. We cross the red sea to reach yemen, past the sunken wreckage of a hidden war. This was the only way to the port city of aden. The saudi led coalition, bombing the country, grounded the un plane due to fly us in. This is the kind of suffering they dont want the world to see. Rassam is 11. He is one of many children wasting away across the country. Since the war, Malnutrition Rates have soared. Hunger is menacing this nation, from the very old. To the very young. Like hussain. His mother showed us how he fights for every brea
From the council and the Tenant Management Organisation that ran the block are likely to be interviewed under caution. Now on bbc news, all the latest Business News live from singapore. It has been a bumper week of earnings fall the tech names, but is on shares fall after earnings miss their mark. Is on shares. Amazon. And as the us company on track to meet president trumps Ambitious Goals . Second quarter gdp figures are released today. Hello, and welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. It has been a big week of earnings from tech companies, household names, with services that are very much part of a everyday lives. We have seen fantastic Quarterly Results from googles parent company, alphabet, as well as facebook. But the latest, twitter, has bucked the trend. Its Quarterly Report card showed the companys Quarterly Report card showed the compa nys revenue was Quarterly Report card showed the companys revenue was down about 5 and advertising revenue fell by about 8 . Now,