but there were none just over a decade ago. and worldwide, global sales of electric cars rose by nearly 50% last year 7 with well over three million sales taking place during the pandemic. one estimate is that one in five new cars sold will be electric by 2025. so, car companies are making massive investments in electric car production, with plans to phase out the use of the internal combustion engine. the new nissan battery factory in sunderland, announced yesterday, is just one example. but there are big challenges. cost has been an issue, electric cars are more expensive to buy than petrol or diesel cars, even if they re cheaper to run.but making batteries is getting easier, and the industry expects a tipping point fairly soon. batterers are coming down in price. the plan is to increase production

here in the uk as we have seen with the nissan announcement this week will help with that. probably mid decade before that tipping point when electric car has the same ticket price of a petrol or diesel car. the other issue is how to recharge your battery, particularly on longerjourneys. range anxiety has been identified as a factor making people reluctant to go electric. the government says there are currently more than 23,800 public charging points around the country including more than 4,000 rapid chargers. £1.3 bn is being invested. but labour says it s not enough. it points out the independent committee on climate change says there should be 150,000 public charging points by 2025 7 so a big increase is needed. there are regional disparities too, with far more charging points in london than some other parts of the country. and it s notjust about motorways, there s also the issue of charging at home. it s fine if you have a driveway. but people who only have access

to on street parking need far more local schemes, such as chargers on lampposts. so, the shift to electric cars is happening 7 the challenge is making sure the infrastructure keeps up with the pace of change. now it is time for men's watch. flow continues watch. coming up on the programme. if a news organisation is and that classified documents found that a bus stop, shed and bending to the authorities? instead, a speak the bbc reported on what it had received. some p waves think that is irresponsible. first, political and media attention was focused for me last weekend on the photograph and video of matt hancock and his departmental aid

casing outside his office in the department of health. initially last friday morning, bbc news refrain from reporting on or even mentioning the pictures which had appeared in that mornings edition of the sun. that decision was criticised by some news watch the race. 0ne named dave rang us with this. i news watch the race. one named dave rang us with this.— rang us with this. i wanted to be a messaue rang us with this. i wanted to be a message regarding _ rang us with this. i wanted to be a message regarding his _ rang us with this. i wanted to be a message regarding his lack - rang us with this. i wanted to be a message regarding his lack of - message regarding his lack of coverage on the breaking news story today centred around hancock having an affair and breaking the ministerial code, why is this not being reported on the bbc? figs ministerial code, why is this not being reported on the bbc? as the story develoras. — being reported on the bbc? as the story develops, it _ being reported on the bbc? as the story develops, it did _ being reported on the bbc? as the story develops, it did receive - story develops, it did receive plenty of coverage on the bbc including this on saturday evening. the health secretary, matt hancock resigns. after the revelations of him kissing and embracing a colleague in breach of covid—i9 guidance. he led the government response to the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning. man

response to the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning.— from the very beginning. alan curry had some sympathy _ from the very beginning. alan curry had some sympathy for _ from the very beginning. alan curry had some sympathy for mr - from the very beginning. alan curry had some sympathy for mr hancock writing: alan curry had some sympathy for mr hancock writing: ian davidson agreed asking: ian davidson agreed asking: others clearly found the revelations about mr hancock about more interesting and significant than that. and the following day it came another story that will have caused another story that will have caused a few jaws to another story that will have caused a fewjaws to drop. when hms defendant left the ukrainian port last week, at the start of the journey, it likely to draw hostile attention from russia, secret documents about its mission where lying in a sub deep behind a bus stop and camp. the documents show that officials were keenly aware that officials were keenly aware that saving close to the coast of

crimea which russia annexed in 2014 could cause an incident. a soggy paper is past the bbc by member of the public also detailed plans for the public also detailed plans for the uk military in afghanistan. arms export campaigns and briefing notes for a defence meeting with the us. all very sensitive and confidential stuff which can add what steps should never have been broadcast. graham peck had a similar concern which he outlined in this video. i

was very concerned to see that the bbc had been handed that the classified ministry of defence documents from the bus stop immediately displayed them in detail to the public on sunday morning and on bbc tv news in the evening. surely, documents marked secret uk eyes only should have been kept out of the public domain and returned to the mod. the actions of the dramatic correspondence including those of the tv news editor work it seems, irresponsible, disloyal, and clearly not on the national interest. an disclosure of classified documents such as fees cut in the west case and endanger the lives of serving royal naval personnel. to and endanger the lives of serving royal naval personnel. to respond to those points. — royal naval personnel. to respond to those points, and _ royal naval personnel. to respond to those points, and us— royal naval personnel. to respond to those points, and us hear— royal naval personnel. to respond to those points, and us hear from - royal naval personnel. to respond to those points, and us hear from the i those points, and us hearfrom the bbc senior controller of news output and commissioning. how did they bbc come to get the papers? iulrich and commissioning. how did they bbc come to get the papers?— come to get the papers? which we re orted come to get the papers? which we

reported at — come to get the papers? which we reported at that _ come to get the papers? which we reported at that time, _ come to get the papers? which we reported at that time, they - come to get the papers? which we reported at that time, they were i reported at that time, they were handed into us by a member of the public who found them in this must stop in the rain and there was clearly a strong public interest in appointing some of the contents of what had been found. i would like to reassure people who have written in that we were extremely careful about what we did and did not reveal from this set of documents. we obtained the documents on thursday and we did not run any of the contents on till sunday and in the intervening period we spent a lot of time satisfying ourselves that the documents were genuinely being less than come from the office of a senior ministry of defence official and communicating with the ministry of defence to ensure that we were not reporting anything that could endanger national security and the ministry of defence minister and his motion statement to the commons on monday confirmed this and said that the bbc have behaved responsibly with regards to these documents. some viewers as you _

regards to these documents. some viewers as you have _ regards to these documents. some viewers as you have heard - regards to these documents. some viewers as you have heard clearly feel it was not in the public interest to report on those documents. they even used the words disloyal. you should have had over to the mod, why didn't you? itruieiiii. to the mod, why didn't you? well. gary generally _ to the mod, why didn't you? well. gary generally a — to the mod, why didn't you? well. gary generally a journalism - gary generally a journalism organisation and in our interest to report stories that are in the public interest. to break this down abates, there was a bundle of documents that were highly classified in the bond of which related to the deployment of hms defendant in the crimea area which had been in use already that week after the russians had taken an aggressive military stance towards eight and the document demonstrated very clearly that the ministry of defence had thought through quite clearly the implications of a number of different potential routes where hms defendant. we only published the map which related to the routes of hms defendant because they were confident the ship had already passed the day of the event itself was several days previously and there was no possibility of any damage to the security of our

defence personnel. of course, at the time that the bundle was left at the bus stop, it was in fact a day before the deployment. there was a very strong risk to national security posed by the mass of the documents and it was clearly in the public interest to inform the audience about that. it is interesting _ audience about that. it is interesting you _ audience about that. it is interesting you say - audience about that. it is interesting you say that, | audience about that. it is interesting you say that, because it still seems that manipulate particularly provocative for the bbc to a point about the incident off of the cost of crimea because it seems to contradict what the mod had said about that incident. it to contradict what the mod had said about that incident.— about that incident. it was newsworthy. _ about that incident. it was newsworthy, that - about that incident. it was| newsworthy, that incident. about that incident. it was i newsworthy, that incident. a responsible? jonathan biel is on responsible7 jonathan biel is on board the ship at the time of the medicare activity and there was a lot of public discussion about the nature of that deployment and the reasons that they ship had taken that course. reasons that they ship had taken that course-— that course. after the event and there was _ that course. after the event and there was no — that course. after the event and there was no further— that course. after the event and there was no further possibility | that course. after the event and i there was no further possibility of any risk to defence personnel on board the ship it was responsible to shed light on the discussion that

led to the deployment and that's what we did on our reporting. reputational damage to the mod, that's what concerns the race. weill. that's what concerns the race. well, i a . ree that's what concerns the race. well, i agree there _ that's what concerns the race. well, i agree there was _ that's what concerns the race. well, i agree there was reputational - i agree there was reputational damage to the mod. there was a very clear failure of security and that failure was on the half of the office of the individual or the individual who allowed this bunch of documents to be left at the bus stop. documents to be left at the bus sto -. . . documents to be left at the bus sto -. , , ., , stop. this is not the first time. you would _ stop. this is not the first time. you would probably _ stop. this is not the first time. you would probably be - stop. this is not the first time. you would probably be aware l stop. this is not the first time. i you would probably be aware that something like this happen. there have been incidents of military secrets being left on trains in the past decade and in 2008 someone who found them and identity bbc. is there a protocol at the bbc about what you get such papers handed in? that's right. we have strong editorial policy and legal framework to deal with these situations. you are right to point out is not the first time we have a point that this kind of story. clearly, we take reasonable steps to ensure that the

documents are genuine and secondly to ensure that nothing we would report would actually put service person at risk. this was a mixed bundle of documents. some of the documents were essentially confidential but not classified. but two of the documents were highly classified relating to the deployment of hms defendant and a friend classified document about the security arrangements in afghanistan after the us withdrew from afghanistan. and the disclosure of that document could have had very serious implications for the security of british defence and diplomatic personnel and it's important to note that in the bbc�*s reporting we revealed very, very little of the afghanistan document beyond summarising the areas that it covered for exactly that reason. we did include a screenshot of the front page of that document printed on pink paper because this was an important editorial indication to readers that these pink copies of classified papers should not be removed on the ministry of defence

physically under any circumstances whatsoever. that was an important part of the storytelling but it did not give away any sensitive classified information. thank you very much- _ classified information. thank you very much- we — classified information. thank you very much. we do _ classified information. thank you very much. we do not _ classified information. thank you very much. we do not like - classified information. thank you very much. we do not like to - classified information. thank you i very much. we do not like to repeat ourselves on the news watch but following last week's discussion about way that the euros football turning endless taking of venues but he thinks, it would be remiss of us not to mention that there were numerous complaints along similar lines this week. she is a plus beach ljy lines this week. she is a plus beach by england of germany was the advent of the week for it was notjust

it was not just extra it was notjust extra time in football matches that played havoc with the scheduling of venues but bulletins this week. on wednesday another tennis match at wimbledon featuring andy murray resulting in changes which left wendy's direct fuming. the match ran into the evening until 10:30pm and evening pinions that can experience watching and waiting again. not a experience watching and waiting again. nota problem experience watching and waiting again. not a problem for a lady who post at best. wimbledon antiheroes continue next week and we have not even reach the olympics yet. thank you for all of

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