from small modular reactor developer, kairos power, to meet electricity demand for artificial intelligence. this comes as tech companies increasingly turn to nuclear power to fulfil the growing energy demands from data centres. our north america business correspondent, ritika gupta, has all the details from new york. in the first of its kind deal google has committed to buying power generated by nuclear energy start—up kairos power. google will back the construction of seven small modular reactors in the us. the agreements target adding 500 megawatts to the grid starting at the end of the decade. advocates of smaller actors point to lower costs, faster completion times and location flexibility. data centres need 24/7 reliable power and right now nuclear is the only source of emissions free baseload power. the announcement is yet another example of the growing partnership between tech companies and nuclear power. last month consolation energy

and microsoft struck a deal to restart the reactor at pennsylvania's three mile island, the site of the country's worst nuclear power accident and earlier this year amazon purchased a data centre at another pennsylvania nuclear plant. in other news, we're getting reports that the us is considering capping sales of advanced artificial intelligence chips from nvidia and other american companies. according to bloomberg, the new approach would set a ceiling on export licenses for certain countries in the interest of national security. nvidia shares hit a record high on monday, with its stock rising over 2% before the news came out. nike has a new chief executive — elliot hill — who started his first day in the role on monday. he's joined at a time when the sportswear giant is battling a lot of uncertainty. earlier this month, nike reported a10% drop in sales from june to august. that dragged down profits by nearly 30%, when compared to the same period one year ago.

retail analyst sam poser laid out the road ahead for nike with the new boss at the helm. 2020 where i wrote he was retired, leading the us wholesale business which a lot of resources were dropped from but he was very well liked from what we understand and recently he was asked to back which at nikkei and from what we understand people at nike and those who used to work at nike are very positive about his return, which i think will help facilitate success. what will be his first priority is? getting everybody motivated and making sure he has the right people in the right places and given he was with the company for so long i believe he knows what... how to do that. that can happen fairly quickly. the question is with product innovation, that takes time. i believe there is product

likely in the sample rooms that never got picked from under the old administration that may be able to speed up the process but i think we are looking at 12 months on the short side and 15 to 18 months more normal. that is how long it will take to see sales and margins get going, but there will be indications of that six to nine months ahead of that. europe's biggest carmakers are on full display at the paris motor show but they're facing some stiff competition from chinese rivals especially when it comes to electric vehicles. our correspondent theo leggett caught up with the chief executive of the renault group, luca de meo, and asked him if he's concerned at all about china's expansion in europe. what makes me optimistic is that renault had to kind of ask itself the right question 3—4 years ago when we were in trouble and right now this thing is giving us an advantage also because some of the cars

we decided on three or four years ago are coming to the market, many electric cars, hybrid cars, a lot of technologies so we try to be anti—cycle and meet those kind of trends. if you are wandering around the show you will see there are a large number of chinese brands. they are expanding out of the european market aggressively. onto your turf. how much of a threat is that? i am old enough to have seen japanese coming into europe. of course america before in 56 and the japanese in the 80s and 90s and then the koreans. you sum up, americans, japanese and koreans here for decades, their market share is probably at 25%, not 95, so we are still there, alive and kicking, have been expanding in other markets in the world, so it will be the same with the chinese. of course right now one of the challenges we have is the chinese started on ev

side earlier than us so we have to catch up two generations in one but do not underestimate the ability of european traditional oem to find the right measures of the challenge. do you need help? the european union clearly thinks you do. they have introduced tariffs on imports of chinese ev supported by your government. is that a necessary move? this is almost a legal issue and is not a business issue or trade issue. there are rules of the game that have been signed by everyone in the wto and there were watchdogs from the european community who have certified with some companies, did not play the rules and that is why we did not do like the americans where you have 100% on anything that is chinese, but it is just like focused on some companies. i have nothing to say on that. it is like you do not discuss a judgement

of the supreme court, so the real question is, can we catch up on those value chains that are today controlled by chinese operators from upstream to downstream? can we be competitive in five years? that is the real question. let me ask that question — can you make electric cars as cheaply and efficiently as the chinese because that is what we're talking about. is possible. we just have to react and we are doing it at renault and we need to be creative and competitive and this is the focus of our action. oil prices fell by over 2% on monday after opec downgraded its demand forecast for 2024 and 2025. this is the third straight time the oil body has slashed its outlook as tensions in the middle east and china economic slowdown weigh on the market. industry expert vandana hari explained what's behind the downgrade, as demand from china, the world's largest crude

importer, continues to lag. pessimism over chinese economic growth and oil demand growth has been the story pretty much since the middle of this year, but of late, the market has been more convinced chinese, after seeing the stimulus measures which were underwhelming, unveiled by beijing, the market has been more convinced that the problem with chinese economic growth is quite structural and what that means for the oil market is that oil demand growth in china will continue remaining sluggish. we have the first nine months of import data, crude import data, from china in hand, which shows a 4% year—on—year drop, quite remarkable for china and actual contraction on an annual basis in terms of its crude imports. that is a major factor. you mentioned 0pec downgrading demand growth but the other factor overnight which,

to my mind, is a bigger one on putting downward pressure on crude prices is the market has begun to discount the possibility of a wider conflagration in the middle east as a result of the israel—iran tensions. elaborate on that if you could about what we have been seeing in the middle east and how that plays on the markets. we have seen a flareup in tensions between israel and iran especially with israel threatening a direct strike on iran which has not happened too many times in history. the last time was in april. that has let the market on tenterhooks, even though all logical deductions say they will exercise restraint. neither of those powers, israel or iran, wants an all—out war in the middle east, but the market has to price in a variety

of worst—case scenarios, which are pretty bad given this is a major oil producing and exporting region. for the world. what we have seen over night, a report in the washington post apparently that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has informed the us israel will not strike iran's nuclear or oil facilities and these two were the worst case scenarios that oil market participants were pricing in over the past fortnight. that report has alleviated a lot of that fear and what we see is that risk premium disappearing from crude. the nobel prize in economics has been awarded to three scientists. daron acemoglu, simonjohnson and james robinson won for their work on wealth inequality between nations. their research shows how institutions shape which countries become wealthy and prosperous and how those structures came to exist

in the first place. here is a look at how markets in asia are trading. japan's nikkei is back from its holiday, trading over a percent higher. stocks in hong kong are lower. investors are awaiting the release of china's third gdp quarter print, due on friday. that's all from me now.

this is the catch—up. fraud complaints, a box office flop, and an unfortunate fall. could there be alien life in our solar system? that's the question a new nasa mission is hoping to answer. they'll

search for any signs of life on thejupiter�*s moon europa. it won't arrive until 2030 what it finds could change about what we know in the solar system. a police officer accused of murdering chris has been giving evidence. he was shot after being stopped by police in south london in september 2022. the officer, martin blake, told the court he pulled the trigger because he thought some of his colleagues could have died. he denies murder. do you use an app denies murder. do you use an app to send money to your mates? 0ne app to send money to your mates? one of the biggest ones, revolut, it was named injust under 10,000 fraud complaints. it says it takes fraud incredibly seriously and it's got policies to tackle it. it's been a bad week at the box office forjoker 2. it only managed $7 million in the us this weekend, an 81% drop in ticket sales from last weekend, the steepest decline in history

for a comic book movie. time now for ten seconds of olivia rodrigo taking a tumble. 0livia rodrigo taking a tumble. she fell into a hatch left open accidently. luckily he got straight up and said, "that was fun, i'm 0k." straight up and said, "that was fun, i'm ok." good for you, 0livia. you're all caught up. have a great night. hello and welcome to sportsday with me, sarah mulkerrins. 0ur headlines: two wins from two for france in this international break, as kolo muani scores twice to help his side beat belgium in the nations league. new zealand secure their spot in the semifinals of

the women's t20 world cup after beating pakistan. and we'll hear from the england cricket captain ben stokes in pakistan on his return to the men's test team. hello and welcome along to the programme. let's start with the nation's league football around europe, where there were 10 matches on monday. france ran out 2—1 winners in a tightly fought match with belgium in the top group. france striker randal kolo muani scored with a penalty in the first half before heading home the winner in the second. france saw out the win

despite having captain aurelien tchouameni sent off with 1a minutes left. they were also missing kylian mbappe, who missed this round of games through injury. elsewhere, in the same group italy were 4—1winners over israel, so they stay top of the standings, one point ahead of france. germany are closing in on a quarterfinal spot, after a 1—0 win over the netherlands in munich. the unbeaten run for wales under craig bellamy continued, they beat montenegro 1—0 in cardiff after harry wilson scored from the spot in the first half. there's lots more detail on the bbc sport app. nigeria have refused to play libya on tuesday after complaining about "inhumane treatment" on their arrival in the country. the team were due to play their africa cup of nations qualifier in benghazi but their flight was diverted

to al—abraq airport 150 miles away, where the players were stranded for over 16 hours, they say with no food or place to sleep. the captain, william troost—ekong, posted these pictures of his team—mates on social media. the libyan football federation say, "we have the utmost "respect for our nigerian counterparts and want "to reassure them that the diversion of their flight "was not intentional. "we firmly reject any claims that suggest foul play "or sabotage in this situation." here is bbc sport africa's emmanuel akindubuwa. the country's minister of sport instructed the nff to write a petition stating a petition against the libyan fa for acts of sabotage after the team arrived on sunday evening and was left stranded for 16 hours before they were forced to come back home. the reasons for the return is clear — they have not had enough time to rest

and they are not in the right physical condition for that game. secondly, they have been compelled to take a three— to four—hour roadtrip, which is a tedious journey for someone who has been stranded for 16 hours. we will wait and see what the confederation of african football will do about it. they issued a statement a few hours ago stating that the committee would look into the situation and a position would be taken in the coming days. the top european leagues and players�* union fifpro have filed a legal complaint against fifa over what they claim is an "abuse of dominance" regarding the international match calendar, with many of the top clubs concerned about player welfare. from brussels, here's our senior sports news correspondent laura scott. today was billed as one of the most important days in football and an unprecedented coming together of employers and employees. it brought together european

leagues and the players�* union who have jointly lodged a complaint at the european commission in brussels over what they call fifa's abusive and anti—competitive behaviour as both the governing body and competition organiser. at the heart of it, a so—called tipping point, is the introduction of next summer's 32—team club world cup which will run every four years. it was described today as the straw that broke the camel's back because a lot of players recently, many of them top players, household names, have complained about the busy fixture congestion that the calendar, means they are playing sometimes over 70 matches in a season, the likes of phil foden doing that, jude bellingham due to play more than 1200 matches in his career and today the representative of the premier league, the director of their international relations, said enough is enough, that the football calendar has reached a saturation point. others on the panel described

the club world cup as something similar to the european super league. they said having fought off that challenge via the front door, this is fifa coming in the back door with something just under a different name. fifa would argue the current match calendar has been agreed by the fifa council unanimously so and that it followed consultation with all stakeholders. they also go as far as to accuse some of the leagues of hypocrisy over the organisation of preseason friendlies and summer tours. at the heart of this is a debate about quality over quantity. what will come of this complaint to the commission remains to be seen, but there very much is a debate at the moment about whether there is too much football. new zealand secured a semi—final place at the women's t20 world cup with a 54—run win over pakistan in theirfinal group match in dubai. the white ferns won the toss and batted first, reaching

110/6 thanks to 28 from opening batter suzie bates. amelia kerr swept up the pakistan tail as new zealand replaced india in second place in the final standings and advanced to a semifinal against either england or south africa. england's women play theirfinal group match at the t20 world cup on tuesday. beat the west indies in dubai and they will qualify for the semifinals as group winners and avoid australia, lose then it will all boil down to net—run—rate whether or not they make it into the last four. we are expecting it to be a good game, looks like it has been easier conditions wise in dubai so hopefully that comes to fruition for us. i think we are ready to get going, we will seal our place in the semi—final hopefully and see what happens.

the second test between england's men and pakistan is also on tuesday. england are looking to clinch the series after breaking numerous batting records in the first match that they won by an innings. they are still in multan and captain ben stokes is back in the side after missing the last four tests with hamstring tear that he suffered while playing in the hundred over the summer. he's been speaking to test match specials' jonathan agnew. it is frustrating that you cannot play but it helps to know i like watching cricket, and as well when you are injured, yourfocus gets put onto other things, your rehab, trying to get back as quick as you can, so do have those

natural destructions in the gym working, getting everything going, building yourself up so you can get to a certain level where you can start pushing yourself, so although injury is frustrating, there are obviously other things that can distract you from the disappointment and put a positive swing on it. you have been watching, don't think you could do any more, running flat out, bowling is possibly ——as much as you possibly can. to declare yourself what you want to put yourself through the ringer as they say. i spent the last two days putting myself through quite a lot of high—intensity stuff, doing my sprints, batting for long periods of time and then bowling over that first test match and then these two days, so need to make sure i tick every box and make sure that i am confident in myself and my body. i have done everything i needed and ready to go. it must have been quite a clinical decision, keeping the emotion of wanting to play out of it. yes, look, although i always try and push our medical team let me loose a bit earlier than they probably have in the programme, i think that is just me as a person but i'm always very honest with them and myself and listen to my body a lot, so we have

worked really well and how together on this and i am happy i am able to get out on the field and looking forward to it. the match isn'tjust taking place in multan again but they will be playing on the same wicket, where england's batters had a field day. former england fast bowler steve finn explains what we can expect over the course of the second test. we are about to see something i've never seen before in test match cricket — the second test between england and pakistan played on the same patch at the first one. why would pakistan want to do that? they are desperate for this ball to move naturally and those cracks in the footholds you can see behind me are a lot drier and better road than they were at the end of that first hits much. the ball will be erecting off the corners of those cracks, the dryness of the surface and it gives the pakistan bowlers the opportunity to take 20

english wickets, but england are well equipped to deal with that, they have the batsmen. we saw that in the first test and they have the bowlers, leach and bashir to take 20 wickets themselves. i do not think they will be scared. you can follow that taste when it gets under way on the you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. it was the southern half of the uk that had the cloudy skies. there will be heavy rain. because the winds are coming in from the south, it will be very mild. it felt pleasant in the sunshine across northern areas on monday, especially in scotland, but here there may be frost before the cloud arrives by the morning. that cloud will hang around on tuesday, could produce drizzle in england and wales in the morning before it lifts and thins but the best

of the sunshine will be in northern scotland. signs of rain in southwestern england and northern ireland. temperature wise, higher than on monday, generally 1a, 15 degrees, 17 or 18 in the south. it will be quite windy. it is a southerly wind bringing mild airfrom spain, france and towards uk but there is rain with that mild weather, a big low in the west and that will push rain our way on tuesday and wednesday. this could be quite heavy, the risk of thunderstorms in the south, maybe showers following into the west later. ahead of the rain, there may be sunshine across east anglia and lincolnshire, which could lift temperatures to 20 or 21. in the rain, it will be mild. that will push eastwards later in the day and heading out into the north sea eventually

on wednesday night and thursday morning to be followed by plenty of sunshine, i think, on thursday, maybe showers, though, for a while in scotland and more showers coming into western areas, but for many in the east, it will be dry with sunshine. the wind is not from the south but the southwest and it is still mild air, so temperatures generally 16 to 19 on thursday afternoon. as we head towards the end of the week, there is a strong jet stream propagating across the atlantic that will steer this low towards us and these weather fronts and those will bring some rain and stronger winds. it will not be too bad for the eastern side of the uk, but the weather going downhill out towards the west, the winds picking up, perhaps gails in the northwest and that rain moving on. again, we have the temperatures above average, around 15 to 17 celsius.

welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm steve lai. the headlines: violence in lebanon spreads to the country's north, as what's believed to be an israeli strike kills 21 people. we have a special report from gaza, where intensifying israeli military operations are killing dozens of civilians. israel says it's targeting hamas fighters and operates "only against terror targets".

india and canada expel one another�*s top diplomats, as a dispute over last year's assassination of a sikh separatist in canada, escalates. and with just three weeks to go until the us presidential election, kamala harris and donald trump hold duelling rallies in the battleground state of pennsylvania welcome to the programme. we start in the middle east, where we're following several developments. we'll have the latest on those strikes in northern lebanon shortly, but first, let's take a look at what's happening in gaza. there's been increasing condemnation from the united nations of israel's operation in northern gaza. the un says ten of thousands of people are trapped with little access to food or supplies. the hamas—run health ministry says at least 62 people have

been killed in two attacks in the last 2a hours —