Turning over a new leaf despite its limited range, nissans all electric car became a global best seller. Now the Japanese Company has unveiled a major revamp, but will it be able to compete with tesla . The battle against organised crime. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme, well take a look at the recovery in the australian economy. It has not seen a recession since 1991. The wonderfrom down under in the last few hours, nissan has released details of its revamped all electric car. The previous version was a global best seller, but now the company is facing tough competition from tesla which has already started making deliveries of its highly anticipated model 3. Lets cross over to Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Nice to see you. Tell us about the new leaf. It made a debut in tokyo. It is facing a lot of competition, not just from tesla it is facing a lot of competition, notjust from tesla at it is facing a lot of competition, not just from tesla at f
Last couple of hours we have received confirmation that two people have been killed in Hurricane Irma, that was given by the French Overseas minister saying we are talking about two deadened in two seriously injured for now, obviously the situation can change very quickly. The category five hurricane has destroyed buildings and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding as trucks and caused major flooding is attracts another group of islands in the caribbean, packing winds of up to 300 kph. The eye of the storm is sitting close to puerto rico at the moment, with the Dominican Republic and haiti next in line. It is passed over the Leeward Islands, which includes Antigua And Barbuda and st maarten. It is not known how much destruction has been there already. This is from the island of st maarten, the French Interior minister said the island has sustained whites read widespread flooding and many buildings have been destroyed. Another scen
Chinas president typings is already firm grip on power xi jinping you can now rule the country indefinitely on the palm and to prove the constitutional amendment scrapping president ial term that ends. In a little. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a thanks for joining us in france the leader of the far right for nasr not potty mouth in japan has proposed changing the partys name to. Which roughly translates as National Rally thats one of a number of changes delegates are considering at the partys conference in the Northern City of little the gathering aimed at rebranding the party. In the pan was reelected as party leader delegates caught their flossed formal ties to her father found a pen abolishing the post of honor a presidency and effectively. Ping him of that job. And were going to go to paris now to talk to our correspondent there lisa louis lisa pen she wants to give her party a new name instead of. Its to be a house home lemoult nasr now which translates roughly
A year behind bars to turkish journalists return to the independent newspaper june hoody it after being released on bail but their battle is far from over. And we have goals kill all for you after saturdays games in the bundesliga by munich hosting their favorite whipping boys hamburg and the reigning champions are no mood to compromise as they head for a record sixth league title in a row. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring eight good to have you with us she jim ping is already the most powerful chinese president in a generation and now he has the right to remain in office indefinitely thats after chinas polman passed a constitutional amendment scrapping the president ial term limit the presidency had previously been limited to two five year terms. If chinese politics is dominated by one party that is no even more firmly in the grip of one man president xi jinping. The new rules will allow him to govern until he dies even enshrining his philosophy and the constitution des
Testimony this week. For the latest we begin with mark meredith. Is going to be another busy week on capitol hill as eight people are scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee but there is one witness who many in washington believe can shed the most light so far on what led to the decision of foreign aid money to ukraine. Gordon sondland who serves as ambassador of European Union is expected to testify on wednesday and he is already met with lawmakers behind closed doors and he later amended his testimony after other witnesses gave their account to what was happening behind the scenes. Lawmakers say they are eager to hear what Gordon Sondland has to say. Watch. My guess Gordon Sondland will do his best to tell the truth because otherwise he may have a very unpleasant legal future in front of him. This is the first time that you have direct testimony of someone speaking to the president and relating what the president has said what he says contradicts these statements