There are more than two million robots working in China’s factories – which is more than anywhere else in the world – and they are continuing to scale up at extraordinary speed.

It is a commitment that will surely change the world, much like the last time the Chinese economy underwent a massive transformation.

It is already shipping its robots across the globe: more than half of the world’s industrial robots are now made in China.

What is less clear is the impact of such sweeping automation in a country that sits at the heart of global manufacturing, trade and innovation.

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US President Donald Trump said there are no talks taking place or planned between the US and Iran, after the Memorandum of Understanding came to an end.

Trump also posted a map labelling the Strait of Hormuz as a “new US territory”, which Iranian officials have called a “delusion”.

One person has been killed in a strike on a vessel in the Strait, which as at the centre of efforts to end the war.

And we consider the environmental impacts of oil spills in the Gulf, which Iran has blamed on US military operations.

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At least 15 people have been killed in two Russian drone strikes on a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, according to local officials have said.

Another 130 people – including 23 children – were injured in the city’s biggest mall.

The shopping mall is in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town. He called it “absolutely cynical and despicable”. Ukrainian authorities said a second drone struck the building, targeting emergency workers at the scene.

Dramatic footage verified by the BBC appears to show the second drone hitting the burning shopping centre in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ukraine has in recent months carried out attacks on warehouses of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries.

Its latest strikes targeted an oil refinery and a military airfield deep inside Russia. Ukraine has been systematically targeting Russia’s energy supplies, leading to severe petrol shortages. Russia’s President Putin has admitted the attacks are damaging the country’s economy.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Dan Johnson in Kyiv and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.

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Russia is warning of increasing tension with the UK, following its decision to give Ukraine blueprints to build more effective long-range missiles.

The British Prime Minister Andy Burnham visited Kyiv, on the anniversary of its independence from the former Soviet Union, to had over the previously classified details of components used to construct cruise missiles. The information will help Ukraine manufacture its own versions of the Storm Shadow missile.

Mr Burnham compared Ukraine’s fight against Russia to the battle to defeat Nazi Germany, and pledged continuing British support.

President Putin’s spokesman Dmity Peskov said the UK was involved in the war on the side of Ukraine. He said British actions were adding “fuel to the fire” and accused the UK of deliberately sabotaging any progress towards a peace settlement.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Dan Johnson in Kyiv and Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.

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A fresh wave of US tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods came into effect on Saturday after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.

Announcing the suspension of negotiations shortly before the Friday night deadline, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would impose reciprocal tariffs on US goods “dollar for dollar” and that “last-minute changes in the US proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal”.

US President Donald Trump had temporarily paused those tariffs earlier in the week, saying the two sides were close to signing a trade deal that was “very good” for both countries.

But minutes before the deadline for a deal, Carney said that while “important progress” had been made in the talks it was “not enough to meet our objectives for Canadians”.

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