from small modular reactor developer, kairos power, to meet electricity demand for artificial intelligence. it is part of a new industry trend to fulfil growing demands from data centres. our reporter 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. he started in 1988, was there through most of

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 and recently he was asked to back which at nike to back which at nike and from what we understand and from what we understand people at nike and those people at nike and those who used to work at nike who used to work at nike are very positive about his are very positive about his return, which i think return, which i think will help facilitate success. will help facilitate success. what will be his what will be his first priority is? first priority is? getting everybody motivated getting everybody motivated and making sure he has and making sure he has the right people in the right the right people in the right places and given he was with places and given he was with the company for so long the company for so long but i think we are looking i believe he knows what... i believe he knows what... how to do that. how to do that. that can happen fairly quickly. that can happen fairly quickly. the question is with product the question is with product innovation, that takes time. innovation, that takes time. i believe there is product i believe there is product likely in the sample rooms that likely in the sample rooms that never got picked from under never got picked from under the old administration that may the old administration that may be able to speed up the process 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.

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 50s, 60s, 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 you 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. it's 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. but the market... that has left 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. most in asia are trading. indices are in the green following most indices are in the green following a strong lead from wall street. stocks in hong

kong had declined today down over i%. investors are awaiting the release of china's third—quarter gdp which is due on friday. if you would like more on today's top story about google harnessing nuclear power, we have plenty of information on our website. and that's it for this edition of business today. thanks for watching.

this is the catch up. tonight fraud complaints, box office flop and an unfortunate fall. but first, could there be alien life in our solar system, the question a new nasa mission is hoping to answer. lift off. the mission will search for any

signs of life on the oceans where the ice covered surface of jupiter's moon europa, will not arrive until 2030 but what advice could change would we know about in our solar system. some other stories. a police officer accused of murdering chris cubba has been given evidence. the unarmed 24—year—old 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. next, do you use applications to send money to mates? one of the biggest ones, was named injust under 10,000 fraud complaints larger, than any major high street bank. the company says it takes fraud seriously and its policies to tackle it. it has been a bad week and the box office for joker 2. it only managed $7 million. 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. she was running across the stage at a gig in australia when she fell into a hatch left open accidentally. luckily, she got straight up and said, that was fun. iam 0k. good for you. you are 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 14 minutes left. they were also missing kylian mbappe, who missed this round of games through injury. elsewhere, in the same group italy were 4—1 winners 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 fit what you want to put yourself through the wringer 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 to 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 second test between pakistan and england starts on tuesday with the tourists looking to clinch the series after breaking numerous batting records in the first match 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 laterally and those cracks and the footholds you can see behind me are a lot drier and barer than they were at the end of that first hits much. the ball will be reacting 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 test when it gets under way on the bbc sport website. 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. but because the wind is coming in from the south it will be very mild. it felt pleasant in the sunshine across northern areas on monday, particularly in scotland but here there may well be forced before the cloud arrives. cloud will hang around

on tuesday producing a few spots of drizzle in england and wales in the morning before the cloud lifts and defence but the best of the sunshine will be northern scotland. signs of rain in the far south—west of england perhaps by the end of the day. temperature wise a little higher than we had on monday, generally 14, 15 degrees. 16—18 in the south, perhaps. a windy day. southerly wind bringing mild air up from spain, wind bringing mild air upfrom spain, france and wind bringing mild air up from spain, france and towards the uk but there is some rain with that mild weather. a big area of low pressure out in the west and that will push rain away on tuesday night and into wednesday. this rain could be quite heavy as well. the risk of thunderstorms in the south, may be some showers following the west later on. ahead of the rain there well be sunshine across east anglia, lincolnshire and perhaps a south—east of england. temperatures are 20, 20 one celsius. even in the rain it will be mild. that rain will push its way eastwards later on in the day. heavy out into the north and eventually on

wednesday night on thursday morning. to be followed by plenty of sunshine on thursday. possibly a few showers for a while in scotland and more showers coming into western areas for many. the east will be dry was sunshine. the wind is not from the south but from the south—west and it is still mild so temperatures will generally be 16— i9 mild so temperatures will generally be 16— 19 degrees on thursday afternoon. as we head towards the end of the week there is a strong jet stream propagating across the atlantic steering this towards us and the weather fronts as well. that will bring with it some rain and strong wind as well. it will not be too bad from the eastern side of the uk but the weather is going downhill out towards the west. the wind is picking up, perhaps scales in the north—west of the uk and that rain living in. again we have the temperatures above average around 15, i7 celsius.

live from london, this is bbc news. with just three weeks to go until the us election, kamala harris and donald trump hold duelling rallies in the battleground state of pennsylvania. the united nations has again rejected israel's calls to withdraw its peacekeepers from southern lebanon. calls for a ban on smartphones in schools have reached the uk parliament, as mps campaign for

better protection for children. new civil lawsuits have been filed against the rapper, sean diddy combs, accusing him of sex assaults dating back decades. and a nicer spacecraft is on its way to a moon orbiting jupiter, on a mission to search for signs of life. —— nasa. hello and welcome to the programme. i'm sally bundock. donald trump spoke at a town hall event in 0aks, donald trump l event in 0aks, where he promised to increase oil drilling to drive down energy costs. mr trump's remarks were twice interrupted by medical emergencies in the crowd. he blamed a lack of air conditioning and called for music to be played. with three weeks to go until the us presidential election, kamala harris and donald trump have held rival campaign events in the battleground state of pennsylvania. ms harris announced a plan

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