chinese ride hailing app didi chuxing — tells the bbc it'll be on the streets of mexico very soon. di is best known for driving uber out of china, it'll now get another chance to go head to head with us company, this time, in america's own backyard. in his first television interview with foreign media, didi founder cheng wei told karishma vaswani how he plans to take the company global. a charm offensive to take on the world. didi chuxing is getting ready to ta ke world. didi chuxing is getting ready to take its brand overseas but it is doing this the chinese way. translation: for the last 20 years it was china who learned more from the us. in the next ten years we will ride on each other‘s successes. there is no point thinking of who will surpass whom. this is the face of new china. a new breed of entrepreneur, young, confident with deep financial pockets to try something new. translation: deep financial pockets to try something new. translationzlj deep financial pockets to try something new. translation: i am not 35 years old. my entire management tea m 35 years old. my entire man

chinese ride hailing app didi chuxing tells the bbc it'll be on the streets of mexico very soon. and while didi is best known for driving uber out of china, it'll now get another chance to go head to head with its us rival. this time, in america's own backyard. in his first television interview with foreign media, didi founder cheng wei told karishma vaswani how he plans to take the company global. a charm offensive to take on the world. didi chuxing is getting ready to take its brand overseas but it is doing this the chinese way. translation: for the past 20 years it was china who learned more from the us. but in the next ten years we will ride on each other‘s successes. there is no point thinking who will surpass whom. this is the face of new china. a new breed of chinese entrepreneur, young, confident with deep financial pockets

a charm offensive to take on the world, didi chuxing is getting ready to take its brand overseas butnese way. translation: it... for the past 20 years it was china who le pt the past 20 years it was china who lept from the us, but over the next 20 years we will ride on each other‘s successes. 20 years we will ride on each other's successes. he is the face of new china, a new breed of chinese entrepreneurial. young, confident, with deep financial pockets to try something new. translation: with deep financial pockets to try something new. translationzli with deep financial pockets to try something new. translation: i am now 35 years old. my entire management tea m 35 years old. my entire management team has a lot of people in their 30s. we are idealistic and can be rash sometimes. is but we also bring a lot of surprises. he has a future for what the future is going to look like. —— a division. no parking problems, no bottlenecks and congestion it will do all this with one thing, data. there is lot of sensitivity amongst officials in the us government and consumers that chinese company

didi chuxing may go public as early as this year.hina's ride—hailing giant is in talks with investors about a share sale. it is hoping to raise around $80 billion, which would make it one of the biggest technology listings in history. it's big us rival, uber, is also considering an ipo, but that is unlikely to take place before 2019. the it fiasco at the british bank tsb is heading for a fifth day, with angry customers still locked out of their accounts and unable to make payments. the bank said it would take down its mobile app and online banking "for a few hours" on tuesday and hoped to restore services by the afternoon. but it now looks unlikely the issues will be resolved until later wednesday. the month of april is one of the busiest months of the year for tourism in japan. more than 2.5 million people arrived injapan in april last year, many hoping to participate in what's known as "hanami", the practice of viewing cherry blossoms — a long—standing japanese tradition of welcoming spring. so what is all the fuss about? take a lo

we‘ll be taking a look at china‘s ride hailing app didi chuxing which could be on the streets of mexicosnow sliding down from a mountain onto the road below and they were captured by a somewhat alarmed passer—by who stayed put to film it. thankfully there were no injuries. that‘s all for now — stay with bbc world news. there is a change on the way, something brighter and significantly warmer in ourforecasts. but that change will be slow, will be gradual. so on thursday, for many, it‘s going to be another cloudy day. mostly dry, though. you can see from the satellite picture what‘s going on. we‘ve got an area of low pressure down here to the south, areas of cloud being flung around it, and this little area of slightly thicker cloud here has been producing some outbreaks of patchy rain and drizzle, which will continue to drift northwards and westwards during thursday morning. generally we start the day with a lot of cloud, some mist, and murk, and drizzle, some hill fog, and most places will stay disappointingly grey as the day goes on. but there will be exceptions. here‘s a closer look a

lyft is investigating the plan. ,ivals uber and didi chuxing have already tried, but they say is dominated by traditional taxi companies. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am paul allen. this is bloomberg. ♪ thank you so much for that. work, mark this at zuckerberg faced a grilling on capitol hill. deliver what lawmakers were looking for? also, we speak with of the asian development bank. chief economist joins us to talk the latestions, forecasts on the region, china, india and the rest of the world. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ welcome back, let's get you a check of the latest business flash headlines, singapore exchange says it plans to list indian derivatives after a deal with the stock exchange of india. it could happen. they said they are exploring cityto bring it into the -- meetsthat means regulatory requirements of clients while growing the overall market. finance, let's look at financials, in talks to raise $10 billion in a funding round that could value the company at around $150 billion. we are also told they w

. ♪ ♪ emily: didi chuxing has replaced the ceo with one of its own executives according to a report in take it on the startup. he was the general manager and ran the luxury business. didi also bought the taxes in -- 99 taxis in january getting a foothold in latin america and broadened its global war with uber. uber has increased the number of women working in tech roles i -- by 2.5 percentage points in the last year. but they still lack in silicon valley. the reported diversity get after an account of sexual harassment written by former software engineer susan fowler rocked the industry and the company, in its second annual report, stood at 18% of the employees are women. we are joined with more. >> i think 2.5% is not a lot, but -- started in september. he has been ceo for seven months. it will probably take some time to really turn things around. interestingly, a lot of progress was made outside the u.s. and canada. actuallyand canada backslid a bit. about 8%mericans are whereloyees in the u.s. they really track it. clearly there is more work to be done and i think the growth was sim

. ♪ ♪ emily: didi chuxing has replaced the ceo of the brazilian ride-hailing app with one of its executivesreport in recode. tony qiu will take it on the startup. he was previously a general manager at didi and also ran the luxury business. didi also bought 99 taxis in january, gaining a foothold in latin america and broadened its global war with uber. meantime uber has increased the , number of women working in tech roles by 2.5 percentage points in the last year. but the company still lags behind its peers in silicon valley. bloomberg look at the reported diversity last year after an account of sexual harassment written by former software engineer susan fowler rocked the industry and the company, in its second annual report, bloomberg said 18% of the employees are women globally. eric newcomer joined with more. reporter: i mean, i think 2.5% is not a lot, but this guy started in september. he has basically been ceo for seven months. it will probably take some time to really turn things around. interestingly, you know a lot of , progress was made outside the u.s. and canada. the u.s. and c