company and basically to please shareholders going ahead, but of course with toyota they will be on the defensive, particularly because of the so called scandal involving not just toyota but toyota, honda, mazda, suzuki, yamaha motor, whole number of companies there. so imagine this will be there. so imagine this will be the main topic of the meeting. there may be some questions about keeping costs under control, the effect of the weekend, perhaps the decline in demand for electric vehicles, but really they are going to be tackling this problem head on. ijust tackling this problem head on. i just wanted to say on that point how do you feel that controversy is likely to impact the company, short and long term. i the company, short and long term. ~ , ., term. i think the short term, we can t term. i think the short term, we can t deny term. i think the short term, we can t deny the term. i think the short term, we can t deny the news - term. i think the short term, we ca
On private jets from the man fled madagascars civil war as a child, but soared on to sell planes to the worlds top Business Leaders. And, as always, wed love to hear from you about any of the stories were covering. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Now mexico seems to be the most important foreign country when it comes to Donald Trumps in tray, now that he is us president. And in a few hours time, mexicos economy and Foreign Ministers are set to meet some of his top trade officials in washington as they try to keep border open for trade. And the mexicans appear to have conceeded that to do that. There will have to be changes to the Nafta Trade Deal which also covers canada. N0w President Trump is pushing to bring more Manufacturing Jobs back to the us. Hes already met with the heads of ford, General Motors and fiat chrysler, telling them they must make more of their cars in america. Now the us is a key market for mexico. Taking a look at this graph, you can see
You guys are crazy and brandys trying out ice canoeing in quebec city. Woohoo hello and welcome to The Travel Show, coming to you this week from japan, where its just after six oclock here in tokyo and were about to hit the road. Were heading off before sunrise. Lets do it. To make the four hour journey to fukushima. Most people associate fukushima with the impact of the major earthquake and tsunami that Hit Japan On March 11th Six years ago. The tsunami wave disabled the generators at the fukushima power plant, triggering a nuclear meltdown. But before 2011, the region had been famous for its ski resorts, and was popular with tourists. In the months following the Nuclear Disaster fears about Radiation Levels hit the Tourism Industry hard. And the number of foreign visitors staying here fell by 90 . Now in many parts of the region Background Radiation has fallen to levels similar to those that are found in major cities around the world, and tourists are returning. We made it. Look at a
fu kushima or south korea. earlier today fukushima or south korea. earlier today the south korean government said it plans to release the water were safe and ok so they gave their own endorsement, but speaking to the fishing community for example in fukushima you hear the fishermen who say we ve been dealt a great blow in 2011 when the nuclear disaster happened because of reputational damage and since then they really haven t been able to fully recover. that stigmata still attached to fukushima fish and just as they are about to get on their feet to make these sales, to be on the market again, they say the release of this water is going to yet again because reputational damage. one fishermen body told me that other prefectures are preventing them from taking the sea close to the provincial waters which means they are restricted to fukushima so they are already feeling the effect of that reaction and as you mentioned in south korea people are panic buying salt, therapy
is that right? so light bridge has reimagined nuclearfuel. we re designing it. we re testing it. we have a strategic relationship with the us government to do this in us government facilities at national laboratories. and this fuel will bring a tremendous increase in power to the existing reactors or new ones. and the fuel also really breaks the chain between anything between nuclear fuel and something that could be used in a nuclear weapon. so this is a fuel that also has tremendous safety advancements, and within what s called a design basis, loss of coolant accident, should we use the technical term, this fuel won t produce hydrogen, which is what exploded at fu kushima. so what we ve reimagined and are now testing is really a unique, tremendous leap forward for the nuclear power industry, for the existing big reactors and the coming small ones. and seth, let me end on this, what some people call the holy