Week ago. Eight crowd. A crowd. Fixing a financial meltdown. Samsung electronics looks to rebuild its reputation with its first new smart phone since the exploding battery scandal. Good morning. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. We start with toshiba and shares are down less than 1 toshiba and shares are down less than1 in toshiba and shares are down less than 1 in tokyo trade news overnight that it is us unit westinghouse filed for bankruptcy protection. Investors are waiting as Shareholder Meeting due to start shortly. Toshiba are now warns that the delos mao may widen to over 1 billion us because of the problems of westinghouse. It has twice delayed reporting earnings until april 11. And toshiba shares have lost over 60 since it first acknowledged that the problems in december. The Japanese Firm may now look to sell a Majority Stake in westinghouse. Earlier i spoke to rupert in tokyo. I asked him how ha rd rupert in tokyo. I asked him how hard it will
isjust a shame that thinks there is zero risk. it is just a shame that the anticipation building is about numbers of covid cases possible rather than the games at this point. thank you very much, the very latest from rupert in tokyo. the german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against climate change. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week s deadly flash floods, she expressed her shock at what she called surreal destruction. more heavy rain has caused further flooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports we really need help here, she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why. as in so many other parts of western germany, people in the town of bad munstereifel still can t quite believe what happened. we met gertrude here. volunteers have brought food, water.