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Creating Jobs in India's Countryside
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Tandon presents a special edition of Business Matters from Delhi. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi came into power promising to make it to ...
Delhi's Pollution Crisis
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What's been done about Delhi's air pollution?Rahul Tandon presents a special edition of Business Matters from Delhi looking at the city's pollution pr...
Canada Retaliates Against US Tariffs
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Canada is putting tariffs on more than $12bn worth of American goods. They will come into effect on Sunday and will target not just US steel and alumi...
Turkey Goes To The Polls
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of Sunday's election in Turkey, we ask what role economic decline may play. We gauge the mood in Istanbul with voices from business, academia an...
European Union Leaders Divided Over Immigration
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The UN says more than two-hundred people people have drowned off Libya in recent days. The recent stand-off between Malta and Italy over a boatload of...
Trump Casts Doubt on June Summit with North Korea
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has said there is a "very substantial chance" the summit may not happen. Meanwhile, the South Korean president, Moon-Jae in, is in Was...
Ship Seized Amid Row Over North Korean Oil
30 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
South Korea said the ship had transferred 600 tonnes of oil to a North Korean vessel. There are suggestions, denied by the Chinese, that China was res...
US Congress Closes in on Tax Reform
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Senate closes in on passing tax reform legislation. Bipartisan Policy Center senior advisor, Steve Bell, weighs in on what a legislative vict...
Behind Japan’s Corporate ‘Culture of Concealment’
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A look into why Japan’s once sterling corporate reputation has taken such a hit amid a number of high-profile scandals in recent years. Also in the ...
Six Years Later: Reflecting on Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Host Roger Hearing visits areas surrounding the city on the east side of Japan’s main island where almost half a million people had to leave their h...
North Korea Fires Highest-Ever Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
29 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
An already tense situation on the Korean peninsula escalated with North Korea’s launch of its highest-ever ICBM that landed in Japanese waters. Anna...
Zimbabwe Ruling Party Urges Mugabe To Quit
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Regional branches of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party have joined growing calls for President Robert Mugabe to resign. We hear the latest from the BBC'...
Trump warns N Korea that US military is 'locked and loaded'
12 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has renewed his verbal pressure on North Korea, warning Pyongyang not to take military action against the US or its allies. Mr Trump s...
North Korea in Long-Range Missile Test
29 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch was in the direction of Japan. The Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, says the world needs to increa...
New US Sanctions on Russia Move Closer
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The US House of Representatives has voted to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, despite President Donald Trump objecting to the legislation. Daniel Fri...
Violence Escalates in Hamburg as the G20 Protest Continues
08 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just as the protestors on Hamburg's streets have varied demands, so too do the leaders of the G20. The US, for example, wants more trade tariffs (espe...
Police Clash With G20 Protestors
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As leaders of the world’s twenty largest economies arrive in the northern German city of Hamburg, thousands of protestors took to the streets. Sever...
US Jobs Growth Accelerates
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Figures from the US Department of Labor showed that the unemployment rate dropped in April. But the rebound in the jobs market could pave the way for ...
US Drops 'Mother of All Bombs' on IS
14 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The GDU-43 bomb weighs almost 10,000kg, is as long as a small bus and packs the equivalent of eleven tons of TNT. But is deploying it an essential par...
Trump and Xi Complete Talks in Florida
08 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the shadow of US military action in Syria, American President Donald Trump insists his talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have been...
Will Trumpcare Pass Muster in Congress?
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats hated it before it even happened and now many Republicans have distanced themselves from the US President's proposals for an Obamacare r...
Trump Signs New Travel Ban Directive
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has issued an executive order putting in place a new travel ban. Is it legally watertight this time? We hear from Ambassador Norman Ei...
President Trump prepares to address Congress for the first time
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With President Donald Trump less than an hour away from addressing Congress for the first time, we preview what he's likely to say and how he's been p...
Trump plans to hike military spending by 10%
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump plans to radically change government spending, increasing the defence budget by 10% paid for by slashing domestic programmes and foreign ...
Greek Debt Drama Returns
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Greece's debt crisis burst back on to the economic and political agenda today following an extraordinary row at the top of the International Monetary ...
Tech Giants Turn on Trump
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
More than 100 US tech firms, including some of the industry's biggest players, have filed a legal document stating that President Trump's immigration ...
Business Backlash to Trump Travel Ban
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the most powerful business leaders in America have been among those to criticize President Donald Trump's plans to ban travel from seven mainl...
As Obama Waves Goodbye, Confirmation of Team Trump Begins
11 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In ten days, President Obama will leave the White House. But as the current President gives his farewell speech in his home town of Chicago, key play...
VW chiefs 'hushed up emission cheating'
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The ongoing fall-out from the Volkswagen emissions scandal took another twist in the US today as court papers revealed VW executives knew about emissi...
Russia Hacking Claims:Trump Says No Effect on Election
07 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A US intelligence report says that the Russian president Vladimir Putin "ordered" a hacking campaign to help Donald Trump win the presidential electio...
Chicago Facebook 'Torture' Video: Should there be more safeguards?
06 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Several disturbing incidents have been streamed on Facebook Live, including one of a mentally disabled man being severely assaulted. Business Matters ...
What Will the World Make of New US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson?
14 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As President-elect Donald Trump confirms the Chief Executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for US secretary of state and the former Tex...
Palm Oil Producers Battle Environmentalists
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The big Palm Oil company Olam has been accused of using suppliers that may use unsustainable practices in parts of Southeast Asia and West Africa. The...
Obama Orders Review of Attempts to Hack US Election
10 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Obama White House hasn't always had the easiest of relationships with the Kremlin during his eight-year tenure, and it doesn't look like it's abou...
Corruption in Kenya: A Special Report
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With the presidential election looming in the key East African economy of Kenya, the issue of corruption looks to be high on the political agenda. It ...
Italy prepares to go to the polls
03 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of Italians go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether their constitution should be reformed. Lorenzo Codogno, former chief economist and d...
Donald Trump Begins Victory Tour Around the US
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
President- elect Donald Trump has begun a victory tour of US starting in the state of Indiana where he's taken credit for stopping a thousand jobs at ...
Crunch Time for Opec
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday morning in Vienna OPEC is holding a meeting, aimed at halting the biggest decline in oil prices for a generation. Back in September, the ...
No Charges for Hilary Clinton - FBI
06 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Reckless, careless, even irresponsible, but not criminal. That is the judgment from the FBI on former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - the pres...
Italian Brexit Banking Woes
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Britain's vote to leave the European Union has caused damage to banks and to the wider economy in Italy. Growth forecasts there have been more pessimi...
The UK votes to leave the European Union.
25 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We get global reaction as the UK votes to leave the European Union.In Finland, the Foreign Minister, Timo Soini - who heads the eurosceptic Finns Part...
Farc Peace Deal in Colombia
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Colombian government and Farc rebels say they have reached a definitive bilateral ceasefire in Latin America's longest running armed conflict. The...
Euro 16 Underway in France
11 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
France wins the opening game of the Euros tournament, but will businesses lose out as striking workers disrupt the country's transport system?The US n...
Who Would be Better for US Business, Trump or Clinton?
09 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So we now know, barring major incidents, that Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are the choices for US President in November. But what are they offering...
Euro-quotas for Amazon Prime and Netflix proposed
26 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Officials in Brussels are proposing rules that would force online video services in the European Union to ensure at least twenty percent of their cont...
Argentina Corruption Charges
14 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has been indicted over accusations that she oversaw irregularities in the central bank's sale of dollar...
Brazil's New Leader
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Brazil, the new president is putting together a very different-looking cabinet to his predecessor - a much more market friendly one. His new financ...
India Special: Bollywood's Challenges
25 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Tandon looks at India's changing entertainment industry - the competition that Hindi films face from regional cinema and Hollywood. He also spea...
Poachers Threaten Reef in South China Sea
16 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The BBC has exclusive evidence of the large-scale destruction of a reef in the South China Sea by Chinese poachers and the theft of valuable and endan...