he finished the formula 1 season eight for renault. 0ther formula 1 season eight for renault. other driversnted man on the grid. a future world champion. it was his desire to become even better which took him into a rally car in his time off, he tells me. he crashed. andorra, february, 2011, everything changed. did you think you would lose your arm? did they tell you that? first, big thanks to them. the easiest thing would probably be to get rid of it. in reality, i was fighting to be alive first. this is a crucial time for teams to test their cars. that is why he is here working for renault, test driving. the possibility is that he could be driving in the f1 championship next season. driving in the f1 championship next season. maybe, just maybe, even this season. season. maybe, just maybe, even this season. i need to be sure that i'm able to at least come as close as possible to the level i was before my accident. this will be the target. before doing this i need to be sure that i am able to do this. and actually, the last two days, it helped me a lot. ifeel pretty co mforta ble helped me

that is why robert kubica is here, working for renault, test driving four renault. the f1 championship next season. maybe, just maybe, even this season. i need to be sure that i am able at least to come as close as possible to the level i was before my accident. and this will be the target. so before doing this i need to be sure i am able to do this. and actually, the last two days, it helped me a lot. and ifeel pretty co mforta ble helped me a lot. and ifeel pretty comfortable that i will be able to do it. formula one would love to see robert kubica return. his comeback would grip the sport like nothing else. everybody happy? what he is a realist, not a romantic. a driver must know he can rely on himself before anything else. brent bookwalter won the second stage of the tour of utah on tuesday, and also moved into the overall lead of the race. after monday's opener offered a chance for the sprinters in the field to flex their leg muscles, tuesday's course promised to be one for the climbers. setting out from brigham city, the 151.1 km second stage covered three cat

test driving for renault. season. maybe, just maybe, even this season. championship next season. maybe, just maybe, even this seasonlj championship next season. maybe, just maybe, even this season. i need to be sure i am able at least to come as close as possible to the level i was before my accident. and this will be the target. so before doing this i need to be sure i am able to do this. actually the last two days it has helped me a lot. i feel pretty comfortable i will be able to do it. formula 1 would love to see kubica return, his comeback would grip the sport like nothing else. but he is a realist, not a romantic. a driver must know he can rely on himself before anything else. joe wilson, bbc news, budapest. brave man. time for a look at the weather. here's jay wynn. associated weather fronts heading oui’ associated weather fronts heading our way quickly, bringing wind and rain, ahead of that a day of sunny spells and heavy showers, sunshine in chiswick in london in the mid—afternoon but for many the sky

so that is the way the industry is going, these alliances between like we have with nissan and renault way a lot of car companies can spread cost in terms of platforms and new technology. 0k, we will cover that when we hear what happens with that press conference. james, thank you very much indeed. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... the royal bank of scotland has made its first half—year profit in three yea rs. its first half—year profit in three years. the bank, which is majority owned by the british taxpayer, made $1.23 billion in the period. it has said it will relocate some stuff to amsterdam after brexit as it looks to maintain european operations. the cost of damage from a cyclone which hit australia in march is one of the main reasons profits are down at swiss re. it cost the world's second largest re—insurer $360 million. the company says it made $1.2 billion in the first half of this year, that's a third less than the same time last year. it's seeking to move into new areas to grow its business. a british computer expert credited with helping to

later today he'll get behind the wheel of a current renault in a test in hungary to see if he's got whating to get the chance to try the 2017 car and i think, you know, to have the opportunity in the official test post the hungarian grand prix is special, and i really appreciate and, yeah, renault gave me such a big opportunity. this may be the most charming thing you will see today. for many single ladies out there — that beyonce song has become an anthem. and now three women from australia, in their seventies and eighties, have become an internet sensation by creating a unique version of their own. sarah corker reports. there is flash photography coming up. what does the queen of pop, beyonce, and the genteel sport of lawn balls have in common? well, nothing, until this. meet terri, janine and wyn, from melbourne. their parody of beyonce's single ladies has been watched at least1 million times online. the trio are kicking up a song and dance to try to save their beloved bowls club from demolition. they're hoping the video will persuade the council to rethink plans to build an indoor st

now gets three multimillion dollar salaries one from renault one from the sun and one from mitsubishi so obviously seriously that's the world we even heard it here so they run three brands and they call it that that's that's not what nothing too good for the working class i like to say how seriously. serious it's make set back it's more than ten years of work great community support religious leaders civil rights leader. years the plant is majority african-american it's a big setback i would say for the u.a.w. i'd say for working people in america that this is now the way we live when i grew up in north philadelphia it was exactly the opposite the one nine hundred sixty s. one out of three private sector workers had collective bargaining rights now it's one out of sixteen worst in the world. some positive news the unions in missouri have gathered enough signatures for a statewide vote right to work for less and which is supposed to go into effect on august twenty eighth of if i recall correctly this month and they're trying to block this you know tell us about this effort and what are

but two chinese rivals are already in the top five, as well as nissan—renault.e german car giants are investing heavily as they try to put "dieselgate" behind them. one other very interesting fact, how the design of these cars is transforming the industry. the tesla model three has less than 7,000 parts. a traditional car has around 30,000. that makes it simpler to build and less likely to suffer supply chain disruption. when he spoke to the bbc last year, tesla boss elon musk predicted his company would transform the world of transport. i think all transport, with the exception of rockets, will go fully electric. that's why i see the value of tesla as an accelerant, as a ca ta lyst of tesla as an accelerant, as a catalyst in that transition. i think tesla, maybe, when one looks back on it from a historical perspective, it might accelerate that transition by a decade, maybe more. i say he has cast a spell over wall street and investors. they were bigger than ford and ge at one point, but when you look at the numbers, it is incredible. these numbers, it is incred

and in the first half of this year they were both overtaken by renault—nissan after it added mitsubishice. so toyota is spending big to attract new customers. last month it committed another $100 million to develop artificial intelligence. that is on top of the $1 billion it's already spending to develop self—driving cars and other tech at a new research centre in the us. toyota's us bossjim lentz spoke to this programme at the time. he told us it's all about winning over 20 and 30somethings — there was a beliefjust a few there was a belief just a few years ago but gen y was not interested in cars, they were interested in ridesharing and car sharing. if you look at small luxury suv is, a lot of that has been driven by gen y, especially in the us, where they we re especially in the us, where they were saddled with large college debts, they came out of college and had jobs but not necessarily careers, they have now advanced beyond that and their desire to purchase cars is now coming back. that was the boss of us toyota. annamarie from bmr researchjoins me. we heard him talking about the i

more than any other driver and posted the seventh fastest time in his first taste aboard this year's renaultallying crash back in 2011 but prior to that had made 76 grands prix starts, and finished on the podium 12 times winning the 2008 canadian grand prix. you can get all the latest sports news at our website that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. the area of low pressure that brought wednesday's rain is still close enough during thursday to produce showers across the uk, making it quite windy too. it is gradually edging its way north—eastwards. not quickly enough for many of us before it gets to scandinavia and our weather improves. plenty of showers from the word go across many parts of the uk. the north and west in particular. some of these will be heavy. the risk of a rumble of thunder and perhaps some hail too. a look at the picture. eight o'clock in the morning, showers scattered in south—west england. much of central and eastern england will be dry at this stage. some sunny spells around. but you will notice through england and wales

the pole managed to complete an impressive total of 74 laps in testing the renault at the hungaroringica's potential comeback to the sport. the best female golfers in the world have gathered at kingsbarns in fife, for the british open, that gets under way tomorrow. david currie reports on why south koreans are currently dominating the sport, and whether golfers here can learn anything from them. this south korean might not be the best photographer in the world, but right now she is the world's best woman golfer. i always dream about becoming number one but once you have achieved it you feel, 0k, becoming number one but once you have achieved it you feel, ok, i feel like all my hard work has paid off and! feel like all my hard work has paid off and i feel happy about it but after that, you feel normal. not only does the world number one hail from south korea, but 24 of the golfers in the top 50 come from that country. ten of them are in the top 20 and over the past decade, about 40% of women's majors have been won by south koreans. what is the of their success? there are various theori

they will be owned 25% each by nissan and renault. amazon took over whole foods yesterday.tting costs. because on popular items like avocados and apples by a third. it has bid to shake off its reputation high prices. it didn‘t cut things like bread and milk, but avocados and apples. avocados are expensive. lots of stories on our business live page. uk companies mutts published pay ratios under new law. they will have to reveal how much more of their chief executives are paid compared with the average employee. this is pa rt with the average employee. this is part of government reform in the uk. the business secretary is saying the plans will make a difference but unions attack them as watered down. however, these ratios will have to be revealed under the new law. let‘s turn our attention to china because the country is set to create the largest power company. the deal that will create the world‘s power utility worth $280 billion, let‘s get more from christine in our bureau in asia. tell us more. the new entity is going to be called china energy investors news corp. this is

now this is back in business renault's following on the heels of french rival persia sutro and. which last year opened a plant in iran producing two hundred thousand because. let's check in on the day's trading action now european markets did not capitalize on the momentum sent in asi. was a rather muted mixed close the tax losing about a third of one percent as german industrial output unexpectedly dropped in the month of june. but paristech don't closing just above the flat line there as unfit seat one hundred up by about a third. wallstreet trending upwards the dow jones following up last week's record breaking trade by notching up yet another intraday high. boeing shares contributing a lot of the games throughout nearly one and a half percent. moving on from the days of the business headlines now. tesla's hoping to raise one a half million dollars to help with its rollout of its new lower cost model three. company is planning its first ever bond offering notes june twenty twenty five. electracard firm wants to increase its production fully fulfilled. with the goal of making

and in the first half of this year they were both overtaken by renault—nissan, after it added mitsubishiract new customers. last month it committed another $100 million to develop artificial intelligence. that is on top of the $1 billion it's already spending to develop self—driving cars and other tech at a new research centre in the us. lots more in 20 minutes time. we are also in rio dejaneiro. a year ago — as host city of the olympic games it was at the centre of the world. with olympic fever came a real estate boom. but with brazil's economic problems mounting, it's turned to bust, with 80% of those new real estate developments languishing unsold. you can see that report from daniel gallas in rio in 20 minutes time. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @benmbland. see you later. a british computer expert, credited with helping to shut down a world—wide cyber attack earlier this year, has been arrested by the fbi. marcus hutchins is said to have stopped the wannacry virus from spreading further — it affected thousands of computers in 150 coun

biggest funding rounds in french history, raising over $100 million from companies, including sharp and renaultxecutive, quentin sannie joins us. quentin, thanks for coming in. tell us quentin, thanks for coming in. tell us why you got involved with this in the first place? you talk about sound being about emotion. where does that, from? it is coming from a dream when i was very young, 40 yea rs dream when i was very young, 40 years ago. my dream was to create a company in audio. 0ne years ago. my dream was to create a company in audio. one day, ten years ago, my friend called me and he had found a guy who had invented a wonderful technology to amplify the sound. this technology can change everything. we founded it together and said up the company in 2007. from this time, what we are going to do is put out technology step—by—step in any device providing sound. this is the kind of device we are doing with the devialet brand. the plan is to put the technology in your car, your tv, your smartphone, and provide the sound of the future, more emotion. you are trying to put it in these different devic

it works with bmw, kia, mercedes—benz, mitsubishi, nissan, renault and toyota.ter. nice to see you. the first thing that strikes me is working with so many brands, i know trying to plug in my tablet, my phone, they need different wires. is there a universal plug? not quite but it works. there's two types of charging, one is a relatively slow rate, and a universal standard called type ii microcell all of the charges around the country have the type two socket. a rapid charger is slightly more complex. all of the rapid charger is we have on the network at chargemaster have all of the cables on so many car can charge. a lot of people are getting in touch this morning. 0ne charge. a lot of people are getting in touch this morning. one of the things holding people back is that they will go on a journey, run out of power halfway there or cannot go ona of power halfway there or cannot go on a journey because there's not the charging points there. how do you reassure people about that? the vast majority of cars coming on the market have 200 mile range, once you have tha

but two chinese rivals are already in the top five — as well as nissan/renault. car giants are investing heavily as they try to put the ‘dieselgate‘ emissions scandal behind them. but the model 3's design is transforming the industry. it has less than 7,000 parts, which compares to 30,000 in a traditional car. that might sound like a lot. but it isn't much compared to the traditional car. that makes it simpler to build — and less likely to suffer supply chain disruption. jeremy white, product editor of wired is with me. thank you for coming in. so, ben is talking through some of the statistics and numbers. these are pretty good earning figures for tesla, aren't they? which is good to deliver, considering how the share price has been going up and up over the recent weeks and months? they are impressive figures and they show the appetite for these vehicles, they are getting 1800 orders per day for the new model three. it is whether they will be able to deliver those, they have had difficulty delivering on the previous models, getting sales delivered. it is whether

whether it's with russia or with iran i mean france is also the automobile company renault just signed a new almost almost a billion dollar deal with iran and for a new automobile so that they're trying to basically have peaceful economies economic relations with iran and russia and they're the ones being hammered the hardest by the senate and the thing you have to remember is that is that good economics of the world runs on money good economics is what creates peace if everyone's trading with each other that's less of an inclination to go to war with each other less of an inclination for things to get out of hand really quickly makes it hard to be all right as we go to break we're going to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are too dot com coming up sean stone presents highlights of his thought provoking interview with author and lecturer edward black about how the creation of nations in the middle east by the british empire and others outside of the region influence world politics today stay to watch. oh i'm going on

. >> jimmy: i said i bet it's pinot, like renault, like the car.ot like the wine. >> no, pinault. let's see if you can spell it. two euros it you can spell pinault. >> jimmy: it is written right there. >> no, that's cheating. no! >> jimmy: but i'll try it anyway. how are you doing? everything all right? you enjoying summer and traveling around the world? >> yes, it's wonderful. we went to costa rica for the first time. i'd never been to costa rica. >> jimmy: really? that's a beautiful place. did you go to the rainforest and see that? >> we sougaw lots of everything. lots of animals. >> jimmy: >> sdolphins, lots of bogs. and lots of types of, three different types of monkeys. >> jimmy: monkeys are fun, in the wild monkeys. >> in the wild. we saw two types, but we didn't see the spider monkey, which the kids really wanted to see, so we had to move to another location to look for the spider monkeys, and after two hours in the canals, in a boat and no monkeys, the, and my kids going crazy, finally the guy said, you know, maybe they're at my house, beca

>> basically, it appeared as though icahn had secured the support of the renault fuel industry -- renewablel industry. in february, he got the head of the renewable fuel association to agree in principle to a compromise that woululd change that point of obligatition so icicahn's refining company would not have to buy those credits anymore. companies like bp and exxon were against icahn's change. they started pushing back really hard. amy: we have to >> welcome to global 3000! today we head to cambodia, where we meet some young circus performers. can acrobatics lift them out of poverty? we accompany a marine biologist protecting giant manta rays off the coast of peru. but first we head to south sudan. where women on two wheels offer help and hope to local villagers. south sudan is the world's youngest nation. it was founded in 2011, following a decades-long civil

>> basically, it appeared as though icahn had secured the support of the renault fuel industry -- renewablel industry. in february, he got the head of the renewable fuel association to agree in principle to a compromise that would change that point of obligation so icahn's refining company would not have to buy those credits anymore. companies like bp and exxon were against icahn's change. they started pushing back really hard. amy: we have to leave it there. we're going to do part two of our di all on today's show. announcer: "julie taboulie's lebanese kitchen" is made possible by... ♪ do your thing, man: do your thing ♪ ♪ syracuse, do your thing ♪ ♪ do your thing, do your thing ♪ ♪ syracuse, do your thing

the pole managed to complete an impressive total of 7a laps in testing the renault at the hungaroringor step in kubica's potential comeback to the sport. claire molloy will captain ireland on home soil at the women's rugby world cup, standing in for the niamh briggs, who is out of the tournament with an injured achilles. molloy, who will play at flanker, is one of the most experienced members of the ireland squad with 53 caps. the tournament starts this time next week. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour the technology company which provided the voting system for sunday's controversial election in venezuela says the turn—out figures were manipulated. antonio mugica, the boss of smartmatic, said his firm estimated the difference between actual participation and the one announced by the authorities was at least one million votes. it is therefore with the deepest regret that we have to report that the turn—out numbers on sunday 30th july for the constituent assembly in venezuela were tampered with. the automated election system used in venezuela is tamper—evident an

the nrb and c stagg reviewed, making it part of the process where a recommendation of a renault be detrimental he will allow for a second look at it has we are complying, the ingredients we need to make this work, and it will change this decision making landscape. in your testimony you say there is an opportunity to without making a legislative change to the statute. can you elaborate on the improvements that can be made? i think one of the problems we have seen is the level of involvement with states and contractors working for epa. often times they work directly with their contractor. states, we want to be able to look at where the making sure people who know how to control the costs are involved. when you have project manager is at epa that do that for a living, they are in tune with trying to control costs. not so much on the remedial project managers, but the needs to be a dialogue on how contractors and epa in the states can work, looking at reducing costs. >> thank you. senator harris? , ranking my question member ca harper had to leave. this is a question for each of you. what do you b

later today, it's a big day for him, he'll get behind the wheel of a current renault in a test in hungaryhungarian grand prix, is something special and i really appreciate and, yeah, renault gave me such a big opportunity. ellie downie will miss 0ctober‘s world gymnastics championships in canada to recover from ankle surgery. the 18—year—old injured her left ankle at the british championships in march, but went on to win four medals in april's european championships. downie plans to return for next year's commonwealth games in australia. her older sister becky will also miss the worlds, as she continues to recover from an elbow injury. finally, the favourite and two time winner big orange couldn't make it three in a row at the goodwood cup. no horse has managed to take the race for three consecutive years and frankie dettori's mount could only finish second behind the 6—1 shot stradivarius on the feature race on day one of glorious goodwood. the three year old is now second favourite for the final classic of the season, the st leger, next month. isn't it great to see robert back in a car?

the west wing. psychiatric problems, we are told, drove into a bus shelter, he was driving a white renaultold woman. it then, it seems he drove towards the centre of marseille. as you may know it is built around the old port and where there are many tourists. at this point he was stopped and the registration plate had been recorded and the police were on this case. the car was spotted driving down one of the main roads towards the old sport and the car was stopped by police and he was arrested. initially, of course, everything suggested because of the modus operandi, that this was a copycat terrorist act by a man who had perhaps been influenced out what happened in barcelona and other attacks with people and drove them into a crowd. —— with people of drove them into a crowd. —— have driven. we have had the man has psychological problems. we should probably not rush to draw too many conclusions and rushed to say this is terrorism. maybe we shouldn't rush in the other direction to rule out completely some sort of influence and this man's mental make—up by what has happened in barcelona and e