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Business Matters: Fiat Accused Over Emissions Software

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Fiat Accused Over Emissions Software

13/01/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Fiat Accused Over Emissions Software

Fiat accused of not telling US authorities about emissions software in diesel engines

The US Environmental Protection Agency says Fiat-Chrysler has broken the law by not telling the authorities about software in Jeeps and Dodge vehicles that regulates emissions and - they say - causes higher nitrogen oxide levels. John German, a senior fellow at the International Council on Clean Transportation in Washington, discusses whether this is the VW case all over again?

According to a Financial Times investigation, China has recently become the dominant force in commercial shipping, after sharply increasing its investment in ports around the world and boosting the traffic that its big liner companies handle. There are also suggestions that Beijing is pursuing a "dual use" strategy, constructing ports for developing countries which are ostensibly for commercial use, but then using them to promote the projection of Chinese naval power into strategically sensitive parts of the world. We hear from James Kynge, the FT's Emerging Markets Editor.  

Thousands of buyers are flocking to Asia's biggest toy fair, now underway in Hong Kong. High-tech so-called smart toys are capturing plenty of attention. The BBC's Juliana Liu has been having a play.

Our North America editor Jon Sopel, looks back at President Obama’s legacy and contrasts this with the style of incoming President Trump.

A new job is being advertised by officials in Austria. They are looking for someone to live as a hermit in a remote chapel hacked out of a cliff in the Austrian mountains near Salzburg. It will be austere - no hearing or running water - but you will only have to stay there between April and November. Peter Arp is an Austrian journalist who knows the hermitage well – so why is there a need for a new hermit?

Roger Hearing is joined for comment throughout the programme by Alison van Diggelen, presenter of Fresh Dialogues in Stanford, California, and Stephanie Studer, Bureau Chief for The Economist in Seoul, South Korea.

(Photo: The Fiat badge. Credit: MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP/Getty Images)

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