Business Weekly
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BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, two Americans went on trial in Japan, accused of smuggling former Nissan chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, out of the country in a music equipment box. On Business Weekly, we ask why they did it and if Mr Ghosn will ever face Japanese justice. We hear from the broadcaster, author and activist, Gretchen Carlson, about the role she played in the #metoo movement. She sued her former boss at Fox News for sexual harassment and says more has to be done to protect women in the workplace. And how do you deliver bad news? We have a special report on the art of making employees redundant. Do you deliver bad news over Zoom or in person? Or just cancel their work passes? The answer of course is neither - we learn how to do it properly. Plus, as hundreds of prospectors descend on the small village of KwaHlathi in the South African province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, we hear how the discovery of what might be diamonds could potentially transform lives in one of the country's poorest rural areas. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:08.1 | On the show today, we'll be reliving the audacious escape of the former chief executive of Nissan. |
| 0:14.4 | That's because the two men who helped smuggle Carlos Gown out of Japan in a music box have been on trial this week. |
| 0:22.1 | Just why did they agree to help him? |
| 0:24.5 | And as the man himself ever likely to face justice? |
| 0:28.3 | And just as one man's fortune is falling, others hope they may be in luck. |
| 0:33.1 | Hundreds of South African miners, armed with pickaxes and spades, |
| 0:37.4 | have descended on the rolling hills |
| 0:38.9 | and rocky outcrops of Quasuli Natal, in the hope that they may just find some diamonds. |
| 0:44.6 | And it's all in the delivery. Doctors and nurses are taught that patients won't always remember |
| 0:50.4 | the details of any bad news. But what will stay with them is the way in which it's |
| 0:55.7 | delivered. So too do workers who've just been told they face redundancy. So how should bosses |
| 1:01.1 | tell their team that they may lose their jobs without quickly losing all the best talent or creating |
| 1:06.7 | too much upset? We'll find out what works and what doesn't later in the show. First, |
| 1:12.5 | though, cast your mind back to 2018 and one of the most dramatic events to hit the automotive |
| 1:18.3 | industry. He saved Nissan Motor Company, a flagship industrial blue chip of Japan from almost near bankruptcy. |
| 1:31.5 | He built the company into what was then, what was the largest auto conglomerate in the world, |
| 1:37.1 | along with his partners, Renault and Mitsubishi. |
| 1:39.6 | Out of nowhere in 2018, he is arrested in Japan. |
| 1:48.9 | Breaking news. |
| 1:50.4 | In the past few minutes, Nissan has revealed that its chairman has been arrested |
| 1:55.4 | after allegations of serious misconduct. |
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