i'm steve lai. business correspondent michelle fleury. apple made a big splash today ahead of its annual general administration's tariffs on chinese imports which could push up the cost of iphones. a new manufacturing facility in houston in 2026 that is set to produce servers for apple's ai—powered features. thousands of jobs.

donald trump last week they just stopped them. want to pay the tariffs. a top priority and apple's announcement follows commitments from other tech giants, including microsoft and openai, to ramp up us investment. in a statement, the apple ceo said... it all follows a trend of similar promises made but it didn't follow through on some of those previous pledges. now over a month old, there remains a conflicted approach towards china. on the one hand, the us president is threatening more

world's two largest economies is still on the table. he gave me his view. the us and chinese are having quiet talks at a low level but in terms of action, we have seen the us issue a variety of executive orders, put the tariffs on fentanyl a slew of officials that are quite hawkish a potential deal. has there been any direct

impact on consumers so far? it is probably too early to know for sure but prices we'll need to see. 10% on tariffs just started being tracked, canada and mexico as soon as march fourth. after both countries pledged to boost their border—policing efforts.

bangladesh resumed bangladesh has resumed trade with pakistan for the first time since it became a independent country in 1971. it comes after an in comes after an improvement in relations between countries relations between the countries after an interim government was in bangladesh last installed in bangladesh last year. more on this, let's year. more on this; let's crass to mumbai. we will try to if we 5 if we can. some connect if we can. some confusion going on, it seems how? 7 how is how 77 77 is this how 77 of 77 is this how 77 of ties? . resumption of trade ties?.ltj . siunificant resumption of trade ties? its, significant both on quite significant both on economic and geopolitics of economic andrgeepelitiesef the for economic andrgeopoliticsof the for bangladesh, economic andrgeopotiticsof the for bangladesh, getting trade resumption and race trat because jtion and race trat because it on and race trat because it is i and race imports because it is battling a rice crisis. full but inflation has seen prices going

so it is scrappin- import up so it is scrapping import diversifying its duties and diversifying its sources of rice from different countries including india and now pakistan. that helps now even pakistan. that helps them internally with a country that has been facing economic since the former instability since the former government cessation was z— z= 77 it is interesting not toppled. it is interesting not for the countries but also -77 subcontinent, because the subcontinent, because bangladesh was hostile towards pakistan and more friendly to india, but since the government india. but since the government the relationship of changed, the relationship of india has soured. at the same time, bangladesh has warmed up pakistan, there has been to pakistan, there has been bilateral exchange and the adviser has met adviser hasmet with the chiefadviser has met with the prime minister twice chiefadviser has met with the this ne minister twice chiefadviser has met with the this growing ter twice instead. this growing relationship between the two

on either sides countries on either sides of the border of india, they have had historic tensions, it is hadhistoric tensions, it is new delhi will be something new delhi will be closely for. watching closely for. thank ou. state—owned enterprises, said to be worth about $900 billion. eveline danubrata is explains how it works. key projects.

there are assets worth $900 billion, but singapore's established and has a longer track record as well. he got that figure. in short, the scale of president prabowo's to achieve them are hallmarks of his presidency, with the commercial reality? and how will he balance the books?

their plan is to combine the assets and achieve some kind of economy of scale. then they can try to attract investors to support domestic growth. but the key things for investors are really ——political intervention. for political purposes. sports betting has been legalised in 38 states as well as washington, dc and that has opened a fifth of american adults have put money down on many sports according to a survey.

potentially repeal the federal excise tax which does not make sense any more, it was put in place to stop illegal betting back in the 19605 and does not apply to a state regulated industry. to keep tax at a reasonable rate to compete with and not following any regulations or rules. to be competitive with them, we need good tax rates.

apple has announced a plan to invest $500 billion over the next four years. and that's it for this edition of business today. thanks for watching.

tonight on the catch up — three years of war in ukraine,

and we hearfrom leanne, and sarah who survived first, a warning, there is a lot of heavy news tonight. there's support at bbc actionline. it's been three years since russia fully invaded ukraine. thousands of lives have been lost and homes destroyed. today, ukrainians across the uk have been talking about how they feel. this journey was not easy for us but in all our way we met a lot of wonderful people who helped us, who supported us. survivors of the southport attack have been speaking out leanne was taking the class. she was stabbed five times. and called the police. everyone was going to die.

her sister, to safety. so i was physically pushing them down the stairs - she plans to make a positive difference. i'd love to go ahead - and do campaigns and stuff life, it's doing something. about anti—knife crime and raise awareness. i i remember being in onej of those anti—knife crime assemblies and just thinking, this is rubbish, like, this - and that's why i want to do it around my school - and potentially other schools. life, it's doing something. that's us, take care.

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