Hello and welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Matthew Davis.

In this edition, the world is rushing to get metals that are building the green technologies

of the future, electric cars, wind turbines and so on. But in their haste to get the likes of

lithium, cobalt and copper out of the earth,

could the mining companies risk being on the wrong side of climate change targets and human rights laws?

Plus, one of the founders of Transparency International tells us corrupt politicians,

dictators and business people around the world are squirrelling away their stolen

money in Western assets like property. But they can't do this alone. He says an army of

accountants, bankers, lawyers and others are helping them to do it. First though, lots has changed

in the world of fashion since I sharpened up in the 1980s as a trench coat wearing

neuromantic. Since the turn of the century, garments have become so cheap that they are often

worn just once and thrown away. Mass-produced clothing items are often designed in one country,

made in another or several others, and sold in yet another.

It's what's increasingly called fast fashion, not least because of the speed at which

styles can go from catwalk to High Street.

Beauty, beauty, come and goes.

And leading the well-dressed pack in all this is the world's biggest clothing retailer, Indie Text.

An advert for Zara Woman there.

Zara is one of the brands owned by Indie Text, the Spanish company founded by Ammancio Ortega and his wife Rosalia in 1975.

From humble beginnings, Indie Tex now has nearly 7,000 stores and is valued at around $100 billion.

Even though Mr. Ortega resigned as chairman in 2011, his involvement in an influence over the company remains.

And this week, his 37-year-old daughter Marta Ortega was named as the new chairperson.

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