Click here to listen to the podcast. Rob Young speaks to the recently appointed chief executive of Malaysia Airlines, Peter Bellew, about how the company is slowly getting its confidence back in the wake of the twin disasters of MH370 and MH17. Plus senior minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan defends the conduct of Prime Minister Najib Razak over allegations of corruption involving the Malaysian state development fund 1MDB. And, why some fast food chains have stopped selling hot dogs

Samsung halts production of its problematic Samsung Note 7 - now it faces Apple in court in an ongoing design battle. Google tries to bring the internet to offline communities in India. The BBC's Shilpa Kannan speaks to women in the villages of India who are being helped by Google's 'internet buddy' programme. Amazon plans to open some physical shops. We ask why they are taking this move amidst the decline of the high street. Finally, Dubai has just started construction on wh

It's all change at the top of the world's fifth-biggest economy. David Cameron. is out of the job - after losing the referendum on Brexit - and Teresa May has the top post in British politics - after an audience with the Queen Google is banning adverts for so-called payday lenders. These are companies which offer short-term loans, normally of quite small amounts of money, at eye-wateringly high interest rates. These are often above a thousand percent APR - which means if you

The Chinese government wants provincial authorities to take better care of 61 million children left behind by parents who've travelled to find work in China's cities. The new plan encourages parents to take their children with them when possible - but aims to provide some kind of social safety net to those left behind. We hear from William Lee - China researcher with Amnesty International in Hong Kong and Tang Kung from the Department of Global Health at Peking University in

It's been nine years, five months and 17 days since the US Federal Reserve last raised interest rates, but on Wednesday they decided to raise the range of rates banks offer to lend to each other overnight by 0.25%. Bruce Rolph, head of research at Citi Australia in Sydney, explains the decision's repercussions. Many Asian economies have benefited from the influx of cheap money that flooded their markets with US interest rates at record lows. The BBC's Asia Business Correspond

Andre Esteves, one of Brazil's richest businessmen and a top senator has been arrested as part of the sweeping corruption probe into state oil giant Petrobras. Mr Esteves is Brazil's 13th richest man, worth an estimated $2.5bn . More than 100 people have now been arrested in the two-year investigation, including politicians, former top executives at Petrobras, and some of the country's biggest construction firms. We find out the implications this will have on Brazil, as the

Both the British and US governments are now saying there's a strong possibility a bomb brought down the Russian airliner over the Sinai desert on Saturday. The UK has suspended all flights from Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian Red Sea resort where the flight originated, until it has checked out airport security. We ask Angus Blair of Cairo-based business research group Signet how bad this is going to be for Egypt's economy. In just a few weeks' time, world leaders gather in Pari

Hillary Clinton faces the heat on Capitol Hill over the 2012 attack on the compound US mission in Benghazi. Four Americans died - including the US ambassador to Libya and ever since questions have been asked about the role of then Secretary of State and now Democratic frontrunner for President. Also with historic elections in Myanmar just two weeks away we hear about a sharply critical report on the country's lucrative and secretive trade in gemstones. The report from transpa

Picasso's Women of Algiers painting sells for a record $179m in an auction at Christie's in New York. We ask the chief executive at one of the world's biggest fine art investment funds why so many masterpieces are selling for such jaw-dropping amounts. In Australia, the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey prepares to announce the government's annual budget, including a much-trailed crackdown on multinationals who avoid tax. In India, former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayaram Jayalali

The migration crisis escalates as European ministers fail to unanimously agree on a plan to distribute refugees arriving in the EU. Germany, which welcomed refugees with open arms last week, has imposed temporary restrictions while other countries including Austria and the Netherlands have tightened their borders to deal with the influx - actions that go against the principle of free movement between the countries in the Schengen Zone. Is the impact on Germany's economy too m