Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Every day, the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic worsens, on Public Health and on the global economy. Economic activity beyond the barest of essentials has been frozen across much of the world. What on earth will the economic landscape look like when this is over . Well, my guest is ola kallenius, the ceo of one of europes biggest vehicle manufacturers, daimler. What will it take to survive the greatest economic shock in most of our lifetimes . Ola kallenius in stuttgart, welcome to hardtalk, and let me begin with a simple question what impact is this terrible Coronavirus Crisis having on your business . Stephen, thank you for inviting me to hardtalk. This is a most unusual and very challenging situation for our industry. We at daimler are focused on two main priorities as were tackling this challenge. First and foremost is the health and safety of our employees around the world, taking measures in accordance with the authorities, startin
Efforts are continuing to bring back tens of thousands of britons stranded abroad. Ba, easyjet and Virgin Atlantic are among airlines working with the government to fly britons back to the uk. The government has also pledged £75 million to charter special flights to bring home uk nationals from countries where commercial flights are unavailable. Caroline hawley has more. Ive left three children behind, two children are asthmatic. I should have been home, thats the bottom line. I should have been home. Tabassum is one of hundreds of thousands of british people stuck around the world right now. Pakistan is in lockdown. There have been no flights out for two weeks, and there are many, many others in this country alone desperate to get back to the uk, some with pressing medical needs. My mum is a diabetic, so medication is low, its hard to get hold of. We just need some intervention, to be honest. But how to get people back when the world is closing down . This is 0rly airport in paris. T
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Every day, the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic worsens, on Public Health and on the global economy. Economic activity beyond the barest of essentials has been frozen across much of the world. What on earth will the economic landscape look like when this is over . Well, my guest is ola kallenius, the ceo of one of europes biggest vehicle manufacturers, daimler. What will it take to survive the greatest economic shock in most of our lifetimes . Ola kallenius in stuttgart, welcome to hardtalk, and let me begin with a simple question what impact is this terrible Coronavirus Crisis having on your business . Stephen, thank you for inviting me to hardtalk. This is a most unusual and very challenging situation for our industry. We at daimler are focused on two main priorities as were tackling this challenge. First and foremost is the health and safety of our employees around the world, taking measures in accordance with the authorities, startin
I think im right in saying that you have roughly 200,000 workers now on bbc news, hardtalk. Across the world. How many of those people are currently working . Stephen, its even more than that. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Every day, the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic worsens, on Public Health and on the global economy. Economic activity beyond the barest of essentials has been frozen across much of the world. Were actually 300,000, and its what on earth will the economic different from country to country. Landscape look like when this is over . In february we stopped our production operations in china for a couple more weeks, to then start gradually ramping up again. We have Just Announced this past week that were stopping production in most of our european operations, and also some of our north american operations. So tens of thousands of people well, my guest is 0la kallenius, at the moment are at home, the ceo of one of europes biggest but also a large part veh
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Every day, the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic worsens, on Public Health and on the global economy. Economic activity beyond the barest of essentials has been frozen across much of the world. What on earth will the economic landscape look like when this is over . Well, my guest is 0la kallenius, the ceo of one of europes biggest vehicle manufacturers, daimler. What will it take to survive the greatest economic shock in most of our lifetimes . 0la kallenius in stuttgart, welcome to hardtalk, and let me begin with a simple question what impact is this terrible Coronavirus Crisis having on your business . Stephen, thank you for inviting me to hardtalk. This is a most unusual and very challenging situation for our industry. We at daimler are focused on two main priorities as were tackling this challenge. First and foremost is the health and safety of our employees around the world, taking measures in accordance with the authorities, startin