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It has only been a few weeks since the first photos of the all-new BMW X2 went around the world: Now, it is rolling off the assembly line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg. From now on, different types of drive train will be flexibly manufactured in Regensburg on a single production line – from models with internal combustion engines, to plug-in hybrids, to fully-electric vehicles. Up to 1,000 BMW 1 Series, BMW X1 and BMW X2 models are currently coming off the production line at BMW Group Plant Regensburg every workday – destined for customers worldwide.Lean, green, digital: With BMW iFACTORY, the BMW Group is also setting standards and redefining the future of automotive production at the Regensburg location. For example, BMW Group Plant Regensburg is the automotive industry's first plant worldwide to use an end-to-end digitalised and automated process for inspection, processing and marking of painted vehicle surfaces in standard production that relies on robots controlled by AI (artificial intelligence). For the plant, this represents another step towards the digital, intelligently connected factory.
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin vows that Washington increasing military support for Israel following the Hamas attack will not drain aid away from Ukraine as it continues battling Russia. "The United States will remain able to project power and to direct resources to tackle crises in multiple theatres. So we will stand firmly with Israel as we continue to support Ukraine," states Lloyd Austin after a meeting of Ukraine's backers at NATO headquarters in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
In images released by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters are seen putting out a fire at a fuel storage facility in the southern city of Belgorod, after "an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters", according to the local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. Belgorod lies some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow launched its war on February 24. IMAGES
A huge plume of black smoke rises from a fuel storage facility in the village of Kalynivka outside Kyiv, as Russia says it has destroyed the military site with Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the sea. IMAGES
Clouds of thick black smoke billow as firefighter work on dousing a huge flame raging in a petrol tank at the Zahrani facilities near the southern coastal city of Sidon. The Zahrani facilities also include the power plant of the same name, and provide 15 percent of the country's fuel oil. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI9PG99U_EN