Business Weekly
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4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of Business Weekly, we ask whether Covid vaccines are the shot in the arm the pharmaceutical industry needs to rescue its reputation? Plus, as the world looks ahead to life after the pandemic will our transportation systems be there to help us get around? There’s a financial crisis in New York’s mass transit system. What does that mean for the city it supports? Airbnb finally packs it bags and heads to the stock market. The holiday accommodation company’s shares boomed on its first day of trading this week. We speak to Airbnb’s chief executive, Brian Chesky. Also, in China, over 15m tonnes of food is wasted every year. The government has a new plan to tackle this, but how will it convince its citizens not to throw food away? And we’ll be talking about that nine figure deal reached by Bob Dylan to sell off his back catalogue. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello, I'm Lucy Burton and you're with Business Weekly on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:32.5 | Welcome to the programme where today we'll be looking at what the future holds for our transit systems. |
| 0:38.0 | Some of the world's busiest transport networks like the New York subway |
| 0:41.3 | have been losing billions of dollars in revenue as commuters and tourists stay away. |
| 0:46.7 | What does this mean for the cities they support? |
| 0:49.1 | We'll also be looking at China's new war on food waste. |
| 0:53.0 | Just how does Xi Jinping plan to change his country's |
| 0:55.9 | habits? But first, the big and frankly best news this week was the administration of their first |
| 1:02.5 | fully tested and approved COVID-19 vaccines. In a hospital in the UK, a beaming 90-year-old |
| 1:08.8 | Margaret Keenan got the first dose of the Pfizer jab. |
| 1:12.0 | With the end of the pandemic within sight, many have praised the ingenuity of the scientific and |
| 1:17.6 | medical community and the pharmaceutical companies working with them. |
| 1:21.6 | This is quite a turnaround for big farmer, who are sometimes seen as bogeymen who push up drug |
| 1:26.9 | prices and sell life-destroying opioids. |
| 1:30.1 | So what will they do with all this newfound goodwill? Ed Butler reports. |
| 1:37.4 | I wish I got that kind of reception after a routine injection. |
| 1:41.1 | That was hospital staff applauding the 90-year-old Margaret Keenan as she left a UK hospital. |
| 1:47.2 | The very first patient in the world to receive a Western medically approved vaccination. |
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