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Business Matters: Rousseff Impeachment Vote: Brazil Senate set to Decide

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Rousseff Impeachment Vote: Brazil Senate set to Decide

12/05/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Rousseff Impeachment Vote: Brazil Senate set to Decide

If a simple majority votes in favour, Ms Rousseff will be suspended from office

Brazil's Senate is debating whether President Dilma Rousseff should face a full impeachment trial.

In the next few hours, Brazil may have a new president. Or at least a temporary president, while Dilma Rousseff goes through an impeachment process. Right now the senators in the capital Brasilia are making their speeches and casting their votes, but there already seems to be a substantial majority in favour and she has run out of other options. If she is impeached, she will be suspended and her vice president will take over.

It has been 14 years since China's one and only appearance at a Men's football world cup finals - they lost every game, they did not even score a goal. Now the country's President Xi Jinping wants to see Chinese football rise to the top of the world game staging tournaments and winning trophies. The plans begin with the introduction of football to schools all over China.

Now for months, with the latest gloomy figures from Twitter, there have been suggestions that the tech bubble may be about to pop - that some of the companies in Silicon Valley may not be worth what they think they are. How to tell?  What about the ping pong test? Tech companies love table tennis apparently and order large amounts of the equipment. And Billiard Wholesale in San Jose, California, has been providing the likes of Twitter with what they crave. Simon Ng is the owner - he says they have not been ordering so much lately.

A London receptionist was sent home from work after refusing to wear high heels. Temp worker Nicola Thorp, 27, from Hackney, arrived at finance company PwC to be told she had to wear shoes with a "2 inch to 4 inch heel". When she refused and complained male colleagues were not asked to do the same, she was sent home without pay.

We are joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Sushma Ramachandran, columnist for the Tribune in Delhi and Peter Morici, professor of International Business at the University of Maryland in Washington.

(Photo: Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Credit:Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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