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conditions from paint him as not to brain cancer. hello and welcome. the usjustice department says it s reached agreement with huawei executive mung wanjo to end the bank fraud case against her. the deal will avoid a trial and should allow her to leave canada and return to china by the end of the year. ms mung has been attending a hearing in a new york court virtually from canada, where she s been forced to remain for nearly three years, after the us applied for her extradition. a court there is expected to give its ruling on the case in a few hour s time. she has always maintained her innocence. zhaoyin feng from the bbc s china service is in new york and gave me this update. so the hearing at the new york court just wrapped up. she pleaded not guilty to four charges in the us and she also reached an agreement to the us government which means the us government would hold off from persecuting her until december next year. and if she complies with the additions set by the cour
good morning and welcome to bbc news. sinn fein is on track to win the most seats in the northern ireland assembly for the first time ever, signalling a historic shift in the political landscape. the nationalist party has claimed nearly 40% of the seats declared so far. counting has resumed this morning. let s have a look at how things stand this morning. these are the live results coming through to us, so there you can see sinn fein at the top of that board. 29% of first preference votes, that is an increase of 1% on their last showing and the dup down 7% with 21% of the votes. the biggest winners there, the alliance up 4% and tuv up 5% so that is how it is with 18 constituencies currently declared. and this is the number of seats in the northern ireland assembly with sinn fein having 18 seats, that is unchanged currently. the dup 12 seats, also unchanged. 47 of the 90 seats, also unchanged. 47 of the 90 seats have been declared. 0ur ireland correspondent, chris page, has th
that company is the saudio oil giant saudi aramco, and it s feeling the effects of lower oil prices, lower than expected demand from china, and thinner profit margins for refining oil. between april and june, the company made a profit ofjust over $30 billion, lot of money by anyone s metric, but significantly down from more than the $48 billion it made in the same period a year ago. the main reason is, as you can see here, that oil prices during the period were at the lowest point in the last year, as the boost they got from russia s invasion of ukraine wore off. and last week, in an effort to keep them that way, saudi arabia said it would only produce nine million barrels a day. that extended production cuts by the 0pec+ group of big oil producers, who profit more from a higher price. when it comes to saudi aramco, those higher prices mean higher dividend payments for shareholders, and it s boosted those to nearly $30 billion in the current period. so i put it to our middle