2024-11-15
52 分钟President elect Donald Trump Nominates Robert F Kennedy to lead US Health Department. Shares in vaccine companies fell on the news of the announcement Ben & Jerry’s have filed a case against their owner, Unilever. They accuse Unilever of trying to prevent the ice cream company from making public statements supporting Palestinian refugees. The President of Guyana has announced that every adult in the country will receive one- hundred- thousand ($100,000) Guyanese dollars -- or nearly five hundred US Dollars. We ask, why?
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Hello and welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service.
Plenty coming up in the program.
As always, one has to say it is a particularly busy news time.
We're going to be talking about a row involving Ben and Jerry as we'll be looking at what's going on in Peru.
President Xi is there as we speak.
President Biden arrived a short while ago as well.
We'll be looking at the Japanese economies, checking in on what's happening in cop, talking populations and finding out why in Guyana, everybody's being given a monthly wage for free by the government.
To guide us through it all, we're joined by Sushma Ramachandran, independent journalist, columnist with the Tribune newspaper, who's going to start by giving us an update on pollution in Delhi.
Sushma, how bad is it?
Hi, Rahul.
It's good to be back on the program.
Yes, pollution is bad in Delhi.
Once again, as winter comes to the northern region of India.
This is what's been happening over the last decade.
Actually, it was pretty good till about two or three days ago.
And then suddenly, day before yesterday, we found a pall of gloom, as it were, over the capital.