The Chinese battery maker powering ahead of its competition

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report on the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Will Bain, great to have your company.

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  Coming up today,

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  the Chinese battery maker powering ahead of its competition as shares of CATL surge.

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  We're going to try and tell you more about one of the world's fastest growing firms and how it's come to lead the way in the race for electric battery power.

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  Also today,

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  the tiny West African islands just a few kilometres long at the centre of a 50-year dispute.

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  According to S&P Global, they host about 740 million barrels of oil.

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  And so that's the justification for the contention.

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  Yeah,

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  more on the dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea over those potentially oil-rich islands to come.

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  And this guy is off to Netflix.

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  And he's not going alone.

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  Cookie Monster's taking Bert, Ernie,

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  Elmo and Oscar the Grouch and more of the much-loved cast of the children's hit show Sesame Street.

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  We'll ask why they're heading to one of the world's biggest streaming platforms and what it means for those young viewers before we leave you today here on World Business Report.

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  Let's start, though, if not with a bang, then a bong.

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  Yeah, that was Robin Zeng,

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  now one of Asia's richest men and richer still today after shares of the electric car battery firm he founded,

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  CATL,

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