Largest hospital began. Combat has raged for days in and around the complex, which is crowded with patients and displaced people. President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the leaders of European Union Member States that its crucial to send more ammunition to ukraine. Speaking by video link to the summit in brussels, he said the amount of Artillery Shells available to ukrainian soldiers was humiliating for the whole of europe. Welcome to the programme. Apple. The us is accusing it of monopolising the Smartphone Market and crushing competition. Apple denies the claims. It says it will vigorously fight the lawsuit. Apple accused of using its power to limit competitors, as well as the options available to consumers. Heres the us Attorney General Merrick Garland making the announcement. But as our complaint alleges, apple has maintained Monopoly Power in the Smartphone Market not simply by staying ahead of the competition on merits. But by violating federal antitrust law. Consumers should not
to shut down the blast furnaces at port talbot. frustration, disappointment is probably the biggest word. disbelief. it sjust been. handled absolutely appallingly in my opinion. also coming up: are pre election handouts ahead? taxes in his march budget. when i look around the world to america and asia, when i look around the world to america iwith sia, when i look around the world to america iwith lower when i look around the world to america i with lower taxes countries with lower taxes have more dynamic, faster growing economies. that s and a sweet business that ran out ofjuice. we look at the rise and fall of the original indian steel giant tata is expected to confirm up to 3,000 jobs will be cut from its british operations. the bbc understands tata is to go ahead with plans to shut down both blast furnaces at its port talbot site in south wales which is the uk s biggest steel plant. the company is intending to replace the furnaces with an electric version which is more
covid 19 restrictions late last year. the chief economist told me that she is expecting to see an economic rebound but warned that the optimism could fade in subsequent quarters. in that the optimism could fade in subsequent quarters. subsequent quarters. in terms of gdp growth. subsequent quarters. in terms of gdp growth, and subsequent quarters. in terms of gdp growth, and it s - subsequent quarters. in terms of gdp growth, and it s very i of gdp growth, and it s very likely of gdp growth, and it s very likely to of gdp growth, and it s very likely to exceed expectations because the trade details were exceptional. now, we anticipated growth rate of around anticipated growth rate of around 4.5% and in terms of infrastructure, housing, consumption, all those figures will improve significantly in the first will improve significantly in the first quarter as well. might the first quarter as well. might be some downside and risks might be some downside and risks but
offer of a truce, now ended, was deceitful. he said peace in ukraine would only be restored when russian forces were expelled. kevin mccarthy has been sworn in as speaker of the us house of representatives, after 15 rounds of voting. a small group of republican rebels had derailed each previous attempt. the new speaker says it was the influence of former president trump that helped him secure the position. iran has been widely condemned after executing two more anti government protesters. mohammad mahdi karami and seyed mohammad hosseini had appealed against their sentences for killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year. they said they d been tortured into making false confessions. now on bbc news, talking business. 100 years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. today, it s these chips that run the world. they provide the processing power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to microwave
in computing, it will try to apply those to intelligence capability then to military systems, since that s what all great powers have tended to do in the past. linghao, if i can bring you in, how are the us efforts to try and prevent china from advancing and chip technology affecting chinese companies? i think the most famous example is huawei, right? the company was cut off from getting advanced chips for a smartphone. and to give you a bit of context, like how impactful that was, at that time, huawei was the second largest smartphone maker in the world, after samsung. but now, huawei s smartphone business is essentially dead. so that sjust, you know, how easy it was for washington to cripple a chinese tech company. if you look at the latest us export controls, that is the most aggressive actions that from the us the world has seen. previously the us was targeting individual chinese companies, but this time the scope has expanded to the entire country. beijing has gone to th