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Business Matters

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Business Matters: Shell Freezes Plans to Drill in the Arctic

29/09/2015 GMT

Shell Freezes Plans to Drill in the Arctic

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Shell Freezes Plans to Drill in the Arctic

Oil giant Shell says it is halting its controversial exploratory programme in Alaska

Oil giant Shell says it is halting its controversial exploratory programme in Alaska.

Shell has frozen plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic circle. It is a big and costly change of heart. The company has spent more than $7bn on investigating the potential of the region, but now says it simply has not found enough oil and gas there to warrant further exploration. Environmental activists are delighted. We speak to Anna Jones, head of the Arctic Campaign Group in the UK and Per Magnus Nysveen, an analyst at Rystad Energy in Oslo. 

Volkswagen's former chief executive Martin Winkerkorn is being investigated on fraud allegations. German prosecutors are looking into his exact role in the rigging of emissions tests affecting millions of diesel vehicles. Now VW's subsidiaries Audi and Skoda have said they have 3.3 million cars fitted with the rogue software enabling them to mislead testers. Roger Bootle, managing director of Capital Economics tells us how damaging the scandal is for German manufacturing's reputation.

The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was welcomed by thousands of expats at a stadium reception in San Jose on Sunday and had a public meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Some 26% of tech companies in Silicon Valley are founded or run by Indians and Indian Americans. But there is also a growing number of tech entrepreneurs who are deciding to develop their businesses in India. We speak to Josh Israel who has founded a new dating app.

Our two guests througout the programme are Nitin Sethi, a journalist with Business Standard in Delhi and activist and freelance business journalist Alexis Goldstein in Washington.

(Photo: A boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig in the Pacific which Royal Dutch Shell planned to use for exploratory drilling. Credit: Associated Press)

BBC News: 29/09/2015 01:00 GMT

29/09/2015 01:00 GMT

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Outlook

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

Outlook: Happy Ending for Aurora Shooting Victim

28/09/2015 GMT

Happy Ending for Aurora Shooting Victim

BBC World Service - Outlook, Happy Ending for Aurora Shooting Victim

Rekindling of a romance after a tragic shooting.

How a romance was rekindled from the tragedy of the Aurora cinema shooting.

One July evening three years ago, the latest Batman film was showing at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado. 18 year old Bonnie Kate Pourciau was in the audience with a friend. About fifteen minutes in, a man wearing body armour and a gas mask opened fire, killing 12 people, and wounding seventy - including Bonnie Kate. The gunman was sentenced last month to life without the possibility of parole. Bonnie Kate spent months in hospital, and is still in pain. But there has been a happy ending - the incident rekindled a romance with a boyfriend she'd dumped some months before, film maker Max Zoghbi. I've been speaking to both of them from Nashville. Bonnie Kate told me how she came to be in the cinema that night, more than a thousand miles from home. 

In the last few months, tens of thousands of migrants and refugees have attempted to cross the Mediterranean sea to Italy, one of the main gateways to Europe. It's a dangerous trip and many are stranded at sea. But there is someone they can call - Nawal Soufi, a human rights activist from Sicily - who's become a main point of contact, and whose phone is always on. She helps direct coastguards their way. Our reporter Daniel Adamson has been to meet Nawal in Catania. 

A slightly different perspective on the conflict that's been tearing up eastern Ukraine over the past year comes from two young science enthusiasts, who have a cult following online for the slightly madcap experiments that they carry out on TVs and microwaves and household junk. They're called Pavel Pavlov and Aleksandr Kryukov, or Pasha and Sasha, and they come from Luhansk, on the border with Russia, which has broken free from Ukraine and been declared a so-called People's Republic. Over the past few months, they've become an unexpected source of information for their millions of viewers about what's been happening in Luhansk. 

If you live in East Africa, you may well be familiar with Kingo - a cartoon character who's featured in newspapers for more than three decades. He's a witty, balding, older man with a bushy beard who comments on everything from the state of his football team - to the state of the nation. He's the creation of Tanzania's leading cartoonist, James Gayo. Our reporter Andrea Kidd went to meet James at his studio in Dar es Salaam.

(Picture: Max Zoghbi and Bonnie Kate Pourciau. Credit: Zoghbi)

BBC News: 29/09/2015 02:00 GMT

29/09/2015 02:00 GMT

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Newsday

Live news, business and sport from around the world.

Newsday: 29/09/2015 GMT

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BBC News: 29/09/2015 03:00 GMT

29/09/2015 03:00 GMT

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Newsday: Delhi's First Female Bus Driver

Delhi's First Female Bus Driver

BBC World Service - Newsday, Delhi's First Female Bus Driver

Woman bus driver; Syrian talks fail; International sanctions on British ISIS recruits

Delhi is one of the most dangerous cities in the world for women travelling on public transport. Three years ago a young woman was raped and murdered on a Delhi bus. But a positive move has been taken with the city's first female bus driver, Vankadarath Saritha.

Face-to-face talks between President Obama and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin have failed to resolve deep differences on how to tackle the conflict in Syria.

Four British citizens who have joined the Islamic State group have been hit with international sanctions at the request of their own government.

(Photo: Delhi's first female bus driver Vankadarath Saritha)

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