Can Theresa May salvage Brexit?
Britain's embattled prime minister invites the opposition leader in for talks in a last-ditch attempt to find some way ahead on Brexit.
Britain's embattled prime minister invites the opposition leader in for talks in a last-ditch attempt to find some way ahead on Brexit. Air pollution in Thailand has caused embarrassment for the government. With face masks being handed out to visiting ASEAN country finance ministers and central bankers, the prime minister has ordered the problem dealt with in seven days. How creative can you be with limited space to build new homes? In Hong Kong, they're planning to build an artificial island, while in the UK, one company has developed a mini pizza oven to fit in with shrinking average home sizes. Also, we hear stories of student debt in the United States and how it causes real financial pain for millions of borrowers. Plus our reporter explains why the music industry is celebrating an increase of more than a third in the amount earned from music streaming in the past year.
Roger Hearing is joined on the programme by Nisid Hajari from Bloomberg in Bangkok and Maya K. van Rossum, Director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network in Philadelphia.
(Picture: British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking after an extended cabinet meeting. Credit: Reuters)
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