US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Elon Musk for a role in government cost-cutting, as part of his drive to "dismantle" bureaucracy. We speak to Trevor Traina, former United States Ambassador to Austria during Donald Trump's first presidency. Also, China is showing off its latest generation of stealth fighter jets and other military hardware at its Zhuhai Airshow. Why Germany is in the midst of a lot of political and economic trouble? Devina Gupta explains us how businesses copying in Indian capital city Delhi while facing high levels of air pollution. And the New York City council passed a bill that will prevent tenants from having to pay fees to brokers hired by landlords. You can contact us on WhatsApp or send us a voicenote: +44 330 678 3033. We would love to hear from you!
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Hello and welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service with me, Rahul Tandem.
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Coming up in the program, we're going to look at Donald Trump's latest appointments, talk a little bit more about Elon Musk, what's he going to do in his new role, have a look at China's defense spending, talk a bit about cop pollution in India, and could rents be about to come down in New York?
To guide us through the program, we have two guests, as always.
We have Katya Dimitriva, Asia economics correspondent, Bloomberg News, based in Hong Kong, and Emily Peck, markets correspondent for Axios, based in the U.S.
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Emily, have you met before?
No, I don't think.
I don't think we have.
Hello.
It's good to meet you on here.
Hi.
Yeah, good to see you.
Long distance, quite far.
Can I just across time and space.
Yeah.