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Business Matters: Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport is Attacked

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29/06/2016 GMT

Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport is Attacked

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport is Attacked

Dozens of people are dead and injured after the attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport.

Dozens of people are dead and injured after an attack on Tuesday evening at Istanbul's Ataturk airport.

Dozens of people are dead and injured after the attack on Tuesday evening at Istanbul's Ataturk airport. Events unfolded quickly - but passengers with cellphones inside the terminal caught not just one of the explosions but the shooting by police of one of the attackers, who then exploded a device attached to his own body. We hear from our Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen,who  was on board a plane which had just landed at the airport at the time of the attack. Several hours later, he was still on the flight.

There are still many questions to be answered about Brexit. The BBC's Rob Young has been assessing prospects for the UK economy with Jonathan Portres of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and the pro-Leave Roger Bootle from Capital Economics.

We extend our coverage of the international debate over Britain's place in Europe by crossing over to India. First we hear from reporter Yogita Limaye then Commerce and Industry Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman. She's concerned about further delays to already prolonged negotiations between India and the EU for a Foreign Trade Agreement and has been speaking to the BBC's Shilpa Kannan.

Volkswagen car drivers in the US affected by its emissions scandal are due to get up to ten thousand dollars apiece after the firm agreed a settlement with regulators. VW will repair or buy back affected diesel cars - and will also pay compensation. The bill? 14.7 billion dollars. We hear from Professor Carl Tobias from the Richmond School of Law in Virginia.

Justice for Port Drivers - that's a campaign underway in California - and at the heart of the story is the question of how drivers trucking products from West Coast ports to some of America's biggest companies are classified. Andy Uhler reports.

Less than two months to go the Rio 2016 Games and the Olympic torch is travelling across Brazil. More than 12,000 people will carry the flame in more than 300 cities until the games kick off in Rio in August. But the route also exposes Brazil's deep contrasts and inequality. Our correspondent Julia Carneiro went to one of Brazil's poorest states and met a 16-year-old torchbearer who is part of a sports project supported by Unicef.

For the duration of the programme we're joined in Singpore by David Kuo of the Motley Fool and in LA, Andy Uhler, a reporter with our US counterparts Marketplace.

Photo description: Turkish police block the road as relatives of the passengers wait outside the Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, after the suicide bomb attack on June 28
Photo credit: Mehmet Ali Poyraz/Getty Images)

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