The stories on our website. Just go to bbc. Com news. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. British airways grounded. The first strike by the carriers pilots cripples of flights, causing travel disruption for tens of thousands of passengers. Brazils sweet rides, why the country is now at a crossroads after going all in on ethanol fuelled vehicles. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Its a monday, the start of a brand new trading week. Glad you could join us for another exciting addition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets kick off the programme with aviation, because pilots of one of the Worlds Largest carriers, British Airways, havejust of the Worlds Largest carriers, British Airways, have just started their first ever strike. The two day walkout follows failed talks including a pay offer of 11. 5 . Over three years. British airways rejected the last ditch proposal to restart negotiations aimed at averting the industrial action. Unions representing cabin
One of the most powerful people in the white house is now out of a Job National Security adviser john bolton insists he resigned but u. S. President donald trump says he was fired because of disagreements of a Foreign Policy bolton was known as a hawk who wanted the u. S. To take a hardline stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea trump says a new advisor his 4th in 2 and a half years will be appointed next week ellen fisher has more now from washington d. C. If youre going to do a fantastic job and i appreciate that there had been growing divisions between john bolton that his boss but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweeting i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration there. I asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to s
Perdue joining us along with Arkansas Attorney general leslie on the bigtech antitrust lawsuit plus newly chief Financial Officer whitney on new data connecting restaurants with suppliers. We are looking at declines, dow industrials off of the lows, 40 points on the dow this morning, s p down 4 and a quarter and nasdaq lower by 17. President trump hit campaign trail in North Carolina rallying for republican candidate dan bishop for congress in state special election today, the president sounded off on u. S. China trade and the economy. Watch. More americans are working today than ever before in the history of our country, almost 160 million americans, weve now had 13 straight months of wage gains of at least 3 , wages are going up, the economy is doing great and jobs have never been better. More than 7 million americans will be lifted off of food stamps. Nearly 600,000 americans entered the labor force last month alone. China wants to talk, they want to talk. China lost 3 million jobs,
With the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment of well this is the Weekly International hello and welcome. 2 russian pilots made aviation history on thursday morning after pulling off what has been described as a miraculous Emergency Landing there crimea if youre a flight suffered twin engine failure after striking a flock of birds while taking off from moscow as you call the report but against the odds they were able to bring it down safely in a nearby field saving the lies of everyone on board this was the scene as people left the plane. I dont remember. The pilots all flying to use 6 walmart 78 just moments to react to the bird strike on divert and doing this aster they decided to let the plane on its belly in the cornfield with thought deploying landing gear or dumping fuel this video was taken from inside the aircraft as it accelerated along the runway with 226 passengers and 7 crew on board the seagulls not were sucked into the engines can be and you may have
A Carbon Neutral transport people are worried about what happens to the batteries at the end of its life people are worried about mineral extraction what do you say about those concerns we think that electoral believe the earth at the moment the right technology because we are committed to perris 2050 years we wants to be on to 2050 climate new true and today electrification is the best choice to realise at short notice c o 2 reductions on to 2025 we want to produce more than 1000000. 00 electric cars with this we can reduce the c o 2 emissions fall off by 30 percent the id 3 represents one of the 1st tangible results of that effort but whether its paid off is something consumers get to decide following its Market Release next summer. Democracy activists joshua wang is taking his message to the road. His 1st stop berlin the 22 year old spoke at the German Parliament after being detained for 24 hours by authorities that hong kong airport wang met with germanys foreign minister hype of m