Its down again this morning. And in a global world, how important are National Standards . Well be talking with the British Standards Institution about keeping up with artificial intelligence, robots and deep machine learning. And a superstitious passenger has delayed a flight in shanghai after throwing coins at the engine for good luck today we want to know have your good luck charms ever backfired 7 let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Now, another huge cyber attack is affecting businesses across the world. Those affected include banks, retailers, energy firms and transport networks. It means Many Companies cant access their Computer Systems and for some that means its impossible to get any work done. The virus was first detected in ukraine on tuesday but has quickly spread across the planet. According to russia based Kaspersky Labs more than 2,000 users have been attacked so far, but that number seems to be growing every hour. When users
On that later. And well be getting the inside track on on a business thats been milking big profits around the globe, were going to be speaking to the boss of arla, one of the worlds Biggest Dairy Companies. Also, as volvo calls time on the internal Combustion Engine, are you ready to give up your gas guzzler . Get in touch, just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. Today, the Eu Commission will decide whether or not to give the green light to General Motors for the 2. 5bn sale of its European Operations. Gm is hoping to off load vauxhall and opel to the psa group, thats the french company, which owns peugeot and citroen. Its easy to see why General Motors wants to sell their European Operation, which is dominated by opel, has lost about 9. 1 billion since 2009. If successful, the deal would make psa the continents second biggest car maker, after volkswagen, and ahead of french rival, renault. Opel employs 38,000 people across europe, and its feared the sale
A Million Dollar write down after us nuclear investments. Good morning asia, hello world. It is tuesday. That you could join us for Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. The last hour, the us and is has confirmed Stephen Mnuchin as the new treasury secretary. He is one of the Fourformer Goldman treasury secretary. He is one of the four former Goldman Sachs employees in Donald Trumps inner circle. Some say this goes against Donald Trumps Election Promise to drain the song. He rana Election Promise to drain the song. He ran a Foreclosure Machine when he managed a bank. This is how he responded. Since i was first nominated to service treasury secretary, i have been maligned as taking advantage of others. Hardship in order to earn a buck. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the summer of 2008, i saw the devastation that was caused by the Housing Crisis when i watched people line up to get their life savings out of indie mac bank. It was the middle of the financial crisis, but despit
A warm welcome to the programme. We begin in poland, where president andrzej duda, appears to be edging towards a narrow victory in the second round of the polish president ial election. Exit polls have predicted that hell take 51 of the vote to beat his rival, the centre right mayor of warsaw, rafau chaskovski. From warsaw, adam easton reports. It was the closest president ial election since the fall of communism more than 30 years ago. According to the exit poll, president duda won by the slimmest of margins. Chanting andrzej duda speaking to their supporters, both candidates claimed victory. Mr duda said he was happy with what he called his exit poll win. Translation i want to make it clear, im happy about this victory. For now, yeah, its only an exit poll but looking at the past results, as you all saw, its grown in my favour. Cheering and applause. He ran an energetic but also divisive campaign. A socially conservative roman catholic, he presented himself as a defender of traditio