Aug 2023

Understanding Pakistan's energy crisis

Electricity prices in the country have soared since the government cut energy subsidies to obtain a $3bn bailout from the International Monetary Fund leading to protests. We hear how this is impacting individuals and businesses. Also in the programme, we get the latest from Gabon ... Show More

27m 14s

Aug 2023

Is China uninvestible for US companies?

US commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, is calling on Beijing to reduce the risk of doing business in China for American companies.

26m 59s

Aug 2023

The US Commerce Secretary says her country doesn't want to 'decouple' from China

Gina Raimondo is the latest of four US top officials to visit China in the last two months. We look into what might come out from her four-day visit to the Asian superpower. London has expanded its Ultra Low Emission Zone to make it the world's biggest anti pollution charging zon ... Show More

26m 27s

May 2023

Elon Musk names new Twitter CEO

Elon Musk has announced his replacement as the chief executive of Twitter. He’s confirmed that NBC Universal executive Linda Yaccarino will succeed him in the role. To take up the post Yaccarino resigned her role at NBC Universal - where she had worked as Chairman of Global Adver ... Show More

50m 50s

May 2022

Musk would let Trump back on Twitter

<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and all but one of the global investment banks in China finally managed to eke out a profit last year. Plus, a look at the new president of the Philippines, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.   ... Show More

9m 37s

Aug 2022

Coming soon: Elon Musk vs. Twitter

How it Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter is a first-of-its-kind newsroom collaboration featuring exclusive reporting on the rise of Elon Musk to become world's richest man, the parallel rise of Twitter as the global public square, and the collision of these two titans this year. Th ... Show More

1m 35s

Apr 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Three major stories could change the way we get our news. The multi-million-dollar streaming service CNN+, once billed as the broadcaster’s future, has shut down after less than a month. Over in Silicon Valley, Elon Musk has signed a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. And the UK ha ... Show More

27m 50s

Apr 2022

Twitter CEO Elon Musk?

<p>EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil as a way to hit Kremlin revenues, Twitter’s board has accepted a roughly $44bn offer to sell the company to Elon Musk that would result in the world’s richest man seizing control ... Show More

8m 57s

Mar 2023

Elon Musk And The Twitter Trolls

<p>Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is now much less able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation. Marianna takes the rest of the Americast team though her BBC Panorama investigation into how one of the wo ... Show More

41m 43s

Oct 2023

X, Rated: Elon Musk’s First Year

It’s a year since Elon Musk formally completed his acquisition of X, formerly known as Twitter. Since then the business has faced a number of challenges, including ongoing issues surrounding content moderation and a battle to make the platform profitable. To help us understand th ... Show More

35m 30s