2025-03-19
26 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Hearing.
And on this edition,
how important is Moscow's acceptance of a ceasefire in attacking energy plants in Ukraine?
Germany's parliament votes to loosen government debt rules to allow big spending on defense and infrastructure.
An Italian newspaper produces an edition entirely written by artificial intelligence.
What does this mean for human journalism?
And the production house behind some of Hollywood's biggest recent hits gets bankruptcy protection.
Whatever happened to village roadshow?
But first,
what's emerged from the phone call between President Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is not quite the ceasefire that Washington and Kyiv had put on the table.
There has been talk about progress towards a comprehensive peace, but in concrete terms,
Moscow has only backed a mutual pause on attacks on Russ,
Russian and Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Ukraine's power plants have been the subject of missile assaults since the beginning of the war.
So how welcome would such a pause be?
I asked Oleksandr Karchenko, managing director of the Energy Industry Research center in Kyiv.
Let me say
that it's not enough information even to understand what is the result of this discussion.
It's some very theoretical, promising, but right now we have an alarm in Kyiv,