that was mariko 0i speaking to the ceo of rakuten.— now, tuktuks and tu ktu ks can be tempered two —— now, tuktuks and tuktuks can be found all of india, but now they are being found more in africa. an indian manufacturer is building assembly plants across the continent. we spoke to managers at a factory in the south african city of port elizabeth. behind me are the vehicles on the condition in which they arrived from india. they flow into a full manual assembly line here. it creates employment and gives us the necessary controls in the assembly line. coincidentally, after doing this, this little vehicle tick sorbus important boxes. we wa nt vehicle tick sorbus important boxes. we want to tackle unemployment, we wa nt to we want to tackle unemployment, we want to empower people to start small businesses, not only locally in metropolitan areas by general areas as well. and thirdly, vic contribution —— the contribution to society. the idea is to get a different vehicles to provide specific services to these communities. what we are tryi

i'm mariko 0i in singapore. also in the programme: plastic, plastic everywhere.ed billions of tonnes and showing no signs of slowing down. and a promise from vietnam to save more than a thousand bears from the practice of bile farming.

i'm mariko 0i, in singapore. i'm babita sharma, in london.epublicans to postpone their summer holiday until they have kept their signature promise to ditch 0bamacare. donald trump ‘s son, his son—in—law and campaign managerare donald trump ‘s son, his son—in—law and campaign manager are expected to testify as part of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the election. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the international edition of the financial times reports on a first major setback for president macron of france. his premiership has been rocked by the resignation of the head of the armed services. it follows a row over a major cut in defence spending. the china daily features a story about trade between china and america. the chinese government has urged washington to loosen outdated restrictions on the export of high tech products from america into china. beijing argues that this would help alleviate a trade imbalance between the two super—powers. the south china morning post reports on a major new stu

mariko 0i is in singapore. that is a pretty impressive set of results, how did they do it? indeed.sehold name outside of south korea, but it is the second biggest chip maker in the world after some sun and its products are used in all of our smartphones and made by the likes of apple and the chip—makers and what a nalysts apple and the chip—makers and what analysts calling ash super cycle where huge demand is causing a supply shortage and the super is expected to last at least 2018. in the quarter the company just reported, it is seeing a huge increase in shipments, up 20%, and the company made nearly $3 billion in those three months. quite an impressive figure, as you say. but as shares were falling down 3.5% because investors were expecting those strong results. thank you. let us those strong results. thank you. let us take a look at the markets. asian markets, barely moved, while investors await for the next us federal reserve meeting happening later this week. i want to mention the indian stock markets. india's stock markets hit record highs on tuesday with the national stock e

mariko 0i is in singapore. give us the numbers.the company has managed to make about $115 million in the three months between april and june and as you mentioned the company's basically back in the black after losing money last year. it is still nothing compared to its heyday though. about a decade ago when its very popular wii console was turning consumers into gamers. the company has been betting on this new console, switch, which was launched in march. in the first month the company managed to sell about three million units worldwide which is about the same as its rival xbox as well as playstation 4 and the company hopes to sell ten million more switches in this financial year which analysts think is quite conservative, but the company has been having production issues to catch up with very strong demand. so, it's very good news for nintendo. thanks for that. it was a good day for markets in the states on tuesday, with strong results from caterpillar and mcdonald's boosting the s&p 500 to an all time high. the nikkei is up 0.5%.

i'm mariko 0i in singapore, the headlines. next week as part of the investigations into russia collusion claims in the us election. a new zealand patient in a japanese psychiatric hospital draws attention to possible ill—treatment. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. plastic plastic everywhere — scientists say we've manufactured