katie silver there., the starship rocket developer, the billy butler must accompany spacex has come close to completing a test flight into space on its third attempt. but it was lasted during its re—entry into earth's atmosphere. spacex hopes are starship will eventually carry astronauts to the moon and beyond. the ungrouped craft performance fast to the previous two flights which both and minutes after launch. starship completed many of its flight objectives in a low orbit round the earth, although it skipped the earth, although it skipped the key schedule attempt to reignite an engine flight. in the cryptocurrency space, bitcoin has had an extraordinary week. it's currently trading at more than $71,000. this came after it hit an all—time high on thursday, and on monday and last week — overtaken highs last seen in november 2021. overtaken highs last seen in november2021. so, is the appetite for risk well and truly back? chief executive and co—founder of hex trust, provider of digital asset services, exp

katie silver from our newsroom in singapore. let's turn our focus to china now. government is currently holding its annual parliamentary meeting known as the "two sessions". the world's second largest economy has set a growth target of around 5%, which it achieved last year. but there are several headwinds, including the high unemployment rate among the youth population, many of them graduates. the bbc�*s nick marsh has more. if you are graduating from university in china right now, you are entering a tough economic environment. employers are feeling cautious as they are feeling cautious as they are holding off from hiring. also, don't forget the government in beijing has been cracking down in recent years on certain industries such as private education and the tech sector, not to mention the property sector which is in crisis right now. all of which have been popular destinations for fresh graduates in the past. there is also the question of what kind ofjobs are available. young graduates want to become young professionals, they don'tjust want to work in a facto

katie silver there.m education right through to the workforce. research has long shown girls are less likely to produce studies in stem subjects than boys — that's science, technology, engineering, and maths. in response to this inequality, tech firms in denmark have come together to develop and roll out a new computer game intended to spark curiosity and engage seven to 12—year—olds in science and technology outside of the classroom. from copenhagen, here's adrienne murray. there's a problem. after going through their teens, girls are less likely than boys to study subjects like science, technology and maths. to tackle this issue, tech bosses here in denmark are now turning to gaming. we've been talking about the lack of women in stem for so many years, and the numbers are just not moving. instead of trying to reach the girls when they are in high school or university, which is too late, we want to try to find them on the platforms they choose to be on in this age before they lose the confidence in math

our business reporter katie silver takes this story for a spin.g into the electric vehicle space, now is not the time you'd choose. apple's reportedly just pulled out of it after spending billions. tesla has dropped prices to try and recoup market share, and there's chinese giant byd, which has accelerated into the fast lane with sales last quarter overtaking tesla, showing how competitive the market has become. that is the traffic that xiaomi has entered into, but china is a place with a big market. the country's electric vehicle sales jumped 18% january to february. that's not far off the entire growth it had for all of last year. the tech giant has big ambitions. it's pledged to invest $10 billion in autos over a decade, trying to diversify away from its smartphone business, a market or a sector that's been stagnating. it was to become one of the world's top five auto—makers. now, in xiaomi's favour, it's one of the few lucky ones that has beijing's backing. the cars are going to be produced by the state—owned auto—maker baic and users might be

thank you very much, katie silver. _ eric zheng, the president of american chamber of congress from shanghaiainly, it is a brief report, a little bit shorter than prior years but a very pragmatic approach to reviving the economy with very much a focus on how to stimulate growth and certainly 5% is not a small number, and when you look at the overall gdp, last year, 126 trillion rmb, if you target 5% of that 6.3 trillion rmb, that is equivalent of a mid—sized country and that ——126 trillion rmb, if you target 5% that 6.3 trillion rmb, that is equivalent of a mid—sized country and that will contribute again probably 30% of the global growth this year so it is a reasonable number and based on provincial budgets from 3a provinces and municipalities, it is a reasonable target. we are certainly very happy to see that number confirmed today. a reasonable number and target but it is down from the 5.2% from the year before. does that point to the challenges china is facing? certainly the work report talked quite a bit about challenges both international, external as well as domestic challenges and ch

here's our business reporter katie silver. comes to the economy, china's officials are in a difficult position. the country's post—pandemic economic recovery has been disappointing. youth unemployment is high. local governments are saddled with debt. oh, and people aren't having babies, raising questions about the future workforce. and let's not forget, that's all before that downturn in the real estate sector, which accounts for about a quarter of the economy. that's been going on for almost three years and falling property prices hurting consumer confidence, people are less willing to spend. and also, unlike in much of the rest of the world, prices in china are falling. and while that may feel welcome in the short term, it also signals that things are not well with the economy. that's just what's happening inside china. from the outside, restrictions on chip exports are hurting the country's tech ambitions. all in all, it's a very tricky situation to make policies for. but beijing has been trying. the country's central bank

katie silver takes a look. the price of cocoa has reached all—time highs.hit more than $10,000 a tonne for the first time ever. this is how it skyrocketed in the past year, almost tripling. the industry is facing the worst supply crunch in decades. the reason, in part, is climate change. most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in west africa, but there's been a humid heatwave blasting the crops and massively cutting yields. ivory coast and ghana are particularly impacted, which make up together about 60% of the world's cocoa production. that is coupled with disease. el nino rains, for example, sawa surge in a fungal infection known as black pod disease, which rots cocoa beans on the trees. and many of these trees are also failing to bear much fruit. they're particularly vulnerable to changes in the climate. the problem is these are systemic issues and the international cocoa 0rganisation forecasts it's only going to get worse. it's already pushing up the price of easter eggs in some markets. in the uk, for example, the consumer advocate group, which, found

our asia business correspondent katie silver has been tracking the developments and joins us live fromur newsroom with the latest. he was arrested at home in california charged counts of stealing on behalf of two chinese companies stealing ai. we understand he worked as a software engineer from 2019. in 2022, he started being courted by a chinese start—up to be their chief technology officer. from then until may 2023, he uploaded or stole about 500 different confidential documents, particularly pertaining to systems and chips that are needed by google to build their data centres to meet advanced aim machine learning. google uses to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, like amazon and microsoft in order to reduce its reliance on nvidia's chips. we understand that he then decided to create his own technology company and he sent a message any tatts outgroup to of the colleagues he planned to have, saying we have experience with their 10,000 card power platform, wejust with their 10,000 card power platform, we just need to replicate and upgrade it. this comes about a one year

thank you very much indeed, katie silver. thank you. dramatic collapse of that bridge in baltimore, the francis scott key, thatisit baltimore, the francis scott key, that is it happening on the right of the screen, the moment the containership hit one of the pillars of the bridge and the bridge started to collapse, it all sort of concertinaed into the water. it was described initially as a partial collapse but it does seem to entirely collapse after being hit by the containership. the baltimore city fire department is currently at the scene and they are saying that as many as 20 individuals may be in the water along with a number of vehicles including a tractor—trailer and the rescue operation to find those people in the water is under way with helicopters and boats as well. just to remind you you can always watch and continue to follow the story live on the bbc news website and app, with the latest information constantly updated by a team ofjournalists around the world. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's bring

our business reporter katie silver has more.ournalists in australia there is little more exciting then to 30 in the afternoon the first tuesday of every month. since 1981 that was when the reserve bank would release its interest—rate decision. 0therthan release its interest—rate decision. other than injanuary decision. other than in january when decision. other than injanuary when it can get a little sleepy. now the bank is changing things out. they are meeting every six weeks, that's eight times a year. the meetings are going to be time to related key data rather than a month. the meeting today is to coincide with the release of national accounts. the idea is by having more data collected over that slightly longer period the bank will be able to make more informed decisions about what they should do art rates. these rate decisions had huge impacts on homeowners, consumers and the economy as a whole. most of us are feeling that now more than ever. the more information that central bankers have the better. they are also meeting f

katie silver with some bad news there. 0k. hey, i'm zoph with the catch up.ff returns and a sworn rescue in an ikea bag. a 19—year—old has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing in broad daylight on wednesday. this happened on a train in bromley, which was travelling to london. there's been a video circulating online as passengers filmed the alleged attack. the victim is now in hospital in a critical but stable condition. officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward. next sun bankman—fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in the us for stealing billions of dollars from customers. from his cryptocurrency exchange ftx. the former billionaire ceo was previously found guilty of fraud and conspiracy. prosecutors say he took almost £8 billion from customers. and some other stories now — a man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of gogglebox star george gilbey after the a0 year old died in a fall at work. george, who was a self—employed electrician, sadly died at the scene. and it's

our business reporter katie silver takes this story for a spin.getting into the electric vehicle space, now is not the time you would choose. apple reportedly pulled out of it after spending billions. tesla has dropped prices to try and recoup market ship, and there's chinese giant uid which is accelerating into the fast lane with sales overtaken tesla, showing how competitive how the market is become. that is the market that xiaomi has entered into, but china is a place for the big market. the electric vehicle sales jumped 18%. not far off the entire growth for all of last year. the tech giant has begun investing $10 billion over a decade, trying to diversify away from the smartphone business, a market or sector that's been stagnating. it was becoming one of the world's top five auto—makers. it's one of the few lucky ones that has beijing's backing, because it's produced by the state automaker. users might be able to appear the cars with their phones and other devices. another sales point. for its first model, the chief executive says the speed u

our business reporter katie silver investigates.steepest drop in namaste here and represented —— represents how unconfident people in china are about buying up property. four years investing in real estate was a fundamental part of the chinese dream. individuals borrowed to buy new condos and developers that build these properties also borrowed bake. the government liked it, he created jobs, companies formed to support the developers on the property sector became a pillar of the country's economic growth. the problem was that you had skyscrapers across the country, literally built on debt. it's an unstable foundation and the government is, spying a problem, introduced a number of rules aimed at putting a pin into slowly burst the bubble. known as the three red lines, the general principle articulated by xijinping was general principle articulated by xi jinping was a property is to be lived in, not to be speculated on. the problem was that the pen was perhaps too sharp, the bubble burst in the sector has come crashing down, having co

katie silver speaking to us from our newsroom here in singapore.rs are also paying close attention to what chinese officials have to say as geopolitical tensions have eroded confidence for many american companies that rely on doing business there. here's what the president of the american chamber of commerce had to say about investment ties between washington and beijing. in ties between washington and bei'inu. , beijing. in the past, the chinese _ beijing. in the past, the chinese government - beijing. in the past, the - chinese government tended to focus more on the supply side by investing in infrastructure. and i think at this point, there is a lack of confidence, consumer confidence, so how do we get the consumers to start spending, let's say, is a challenge for now. we see bank deposits going up while spending is going down in the past few years, particularly during covid. so i think the government does have a tool box to apply to stimulate the growth by, you know, focusing on the consumer side. and i think there are talks about a programme t

to help break this down for us, i'm joined now by our business reporter katie silver.etter. there's a new study from the world economic forum that analysed the data from 146 countries. what they were looking at is how the cap had changed across several key areas— you mentioned some of them there, political attainment, economic advancement, health care and education. so let's look at what they found. the global gender gap score stood at roughly 68%, so in other words 60% of the gap between men and women had been closed. that's not much different from the 68.1% the previous year. no country has achieved full gender parity, but the ones at the top of the list include norway, germany, nicaragua and namibia. they all have at least closed 80% of their gaps. the top spot for 14 years now in a row is iceland at 91%. while the countries that came in at the countries that came in at the bottom are pakistan, iran, algeria, chad and afghanistan. the organisation says overall women have made progress particularly when it comes to health care and education, but when we talk about ac

here's our asia business reporter katie silver. china's new home prices have been falling.arters of a percent from the same time a year earlier. it was the steepest drop in almost a year and represents just how unconfident people in china are about buying up property. now, for years, investing in real estate is a fundamental part of the chinese dream. individuals borrowed to buy new condos, and the developers that built these properties also borrowed up big. the government liked it. it created jobs. companies formed to supply these developers, and the property sector became a pillar of the country's economic growth. the problem was you had skyscrapers across the country literally built on debt. it's an unstable foundation and the government spying a problem introduced a number of rules aimed at putting a pin in to slowly burst the bubble. now known as the three red lines, the general principle articulated by xi jinping was that property is to be lived in, not to be speculated on. the problem was the pin was perhaps too sharp. the bubble burst and the sector has come crashin

let's cross live now to katie silver in our asia business hub. hi katie. hello.e? well, whether or not it's significant or symbolic is the big question here and it is certainly symbolic. the comments were made in the presidential palace outside after she had met with the president and in this she described it as being ironclad. who's going to this trip? if the delegation that includes the delegation that includes the likes of alphabet, the parent company of google, microsoft as well as united airlines which last week said they were going to be providing direct flights between tokyo and seafood. this investment will be across everything from solar energy, electric vehicles and digitisation but as you say, is more a question really of politics rather than business in some ways and big non— spoken or not mentioned part of the equation is china. we have seen the philippines having increased tension over the south china sea particular after a chinese vessel pointed after a chinese vessel pointed a laser and a philippines vessel about a year or so ago. since then the p

here's our business reporter katie silver. officials are in a difficult position. the country's post—pandemic economic recovery has been disappointing. youth unemployment is high. local governments are saddled with debt. oh, and people aren't having babies, raising questions about the future workforce. and let's not forget, that's all before that downturn in the real estate sector, which accounts for about a quarter of the economy. that's been going on for almost three years and falling property prices hurting consumer confidence, people are less willing to spend. and also, unlike in much of the rest of the world, prices in china are falling. and while that may feel welcome in the short term, it also signals that things are not well with the economy. that's just what's happening inside china. from the outside, restrictions on chip exports are hurting the country's tech ambitions. all in all, it's a very tricky situation to make policies for. but beijing has been trying. the country's central bank has been cutting key interest

here's our business reporter katie silver.he economy, china's officials or any difficult position. the country's difficult position. the country�*s post— difficult position. the country's post— pandemic economic recovery has been disappointing. youth on a planet is high, local governments are saddled with debt and people are not having babies. raising questions about the future workforce. was not forget that is all before the downturn in the real estate sector which accounts for about a quarter of the economy. that's been going on for almost three years and falling property prices are hurting consumer confidence. people are less willing to spend and also unlike in much of the rest of the world, prices in china are falling and all that may feel come in the short—term it also signals things are not well with the economy. that's what is happening inside china. from the outside restrictions on ship exports are hurting the country's tech ambitions. all in all it's a very tricky situation to make policies for. beijing has been tryin

it was just sort of like served up on a, on a silver platter in a kitchen, i guess you could say >> yes. katie britt deserved an oscar for most misleading performance ever. i've watched almost all the responses to the state of the union address since they started in 1966. this is absolutely the worst, not just in terms of that awful anecdote, but also her presentation. i don't know who trained turn to speak that way or to vary her emotions and in such extremes, most people cite poor old senator marco rubio is having the worst state of the union response a few years back because he reached for a water bottle off off camera because he was parched. that's nothing compared to what she did. >> these people, >> katie, britt, and all her colleagues have dozens of aids and staffers, plus the party researchers and you meet i put her out there knowing that this is not right >> yeah. no and larry, i mean, kudos to there was a guy on tiktok. i think john cats, jonathan katz, who discovered this and sort of blew the whistle on it. and then the media pounds so good for him. i mean, it just goes to show you

katie porter and i approve this message. outside a house party last night in king city. that's in monterey county for people were killed. seven others were injured. witnesses telling police a silverup right in front of the home where people had gathered for a party. three masked men got out of the cart& and opened fire in theúfront yard, and then drove away. so far, there have been no arrests and we will have on this story tonight at 7:00 on west coast rap with alex savage. that is always followed by the ktvu fox two news at 730 with heather holmes. a woman has been extradited from hawaii and charged in connection to office says 22 year old danielle dyer stole more than $20,000 worth ofc sunglasses from a stoe at stonestown was arrested after she got off the plane in honolulu last monthúand pleadedc not guilty at her arraignment on friday. dyer was booked into jail with bail set at $100,000. >> the effort to recall alameda county district attorney pamela price is coming to a head. that effort started back in august, spand now, after months of collecting signatures, safe, the organization behind the recall has turned in ten boxes worth of signatures. ktvu crystal bailey recall org