targeted by beijing censors. and a year after hosting the winter olympics in china is practically a ghost town what happens to all the empty venues when the games move on. i m melissa chan thank you for joining the program it s good to have you with us saudi arabia has pledged to invest twenty billion dollars in cash hungry pakistan it s a boost for islam a body which faces a mounting debt crisis and tensions with neighboring india and it s a p.r. boon for saudi arabia as well after international criticism over the killing of u.s. a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi last year. pakistan needs
and at the berlin international film festival a film tells a story of a same sex marriage in spain one hundred years before it was legalized but it s caused controversy because it s produced by netflix. i m suing so misconducts good to have you with us air bus is a pulling the plug on its largest plane the a three eighty it was supposed to revolutionize air travel but it never really took off it is a plane that was beloved by pilots and passengers but in the end it just didn t have enough orders from airline customers now the a three eighty represents a more than twenty billion dollars in development costs it s the world s largest passenger aircraft a double decker with a wingspan of almost eighty meters room for eight hundred fifty passengers and a range of. almost sixteen thousand kilometers enough to cover virtually any
thousand and nineteen but you know people are valuing the company at the moment at a round hundred and twenty billion dollars that s more than g.m. ford and feed chrysler the big three in the united states are worth together so there is a lot of money at stake a lot of money possibly being. turmoil in the markets could cause for a prolonged asian of the i.p.o. putting it into the future perhaps we don t know interesting for everyone here so a lot of money at stake there a lot of money being talked about and as ever with a lot of uncertainty. there for us in frankfurt thank you very much really. now have you ever fixture washing machine can you fix your washing machine about your dishwasher at home appliances like these become more complex and digitally networked consumer advocates fear that normal users are losing the ability to make basic repairs and they push for a so-called right to repair and the regulatory committee is taking up the issue this month. the household appliance indust
a broader global economic slowdown. corporate news now unlike german carmaker. chrysler has fallen foul of u.s. authorities in the diesel emissions scandal it s now due to pay more than five hundred fifty million dollars in settlement the u.s. the tally and company is accused of using illegal software in more than one hundred thousand of the jeep cherokee assume these and ram pick ups it however denies any wrongdoing the settlement is a far cry from the german automaker has already paid more than twenty billion dollars in the u.s. alone meanwhile fiasco chrysler says it will issue an emissions recall for the affected vehicles but will not offer to buy them back. you know we corresponded my actuator has been following this story for us in washington my it s good to see you now let s start with the basics this all sounds very much like the old gate scandal where the company as we know used illegal software to alter emission levels so why
a weak euro exchange rate which should actually see the opposite happening and of course that weighs on sentiment on the sentiment of. companies as well and while we re still focused. on the trade troubles with the u.s. and china we re not even at negotiations with the e.u. those of been terribly terribly slow and there isn t any significant progress being shown here just the other day the. chamber of commerce said that we had and we hadn t come anywhere close to a reasonable agreement ok i ll push those u.s. tariffs on costs in particular german cars of course those threats are still on the table what s at stake briefly. the threats itself already cause trouble because they. cause trouble with investments companies don t know where to invest twenty billion dollars worth of german cars were exported in two thousand and