karishma: over two weeks, we'll take you to the frontlines.

karishma: over two weeks, we'll take you to the frontlines.

karishma vaswani tells us how it is going about it.aurant in bangkok during the first wave of covid—19. business is brisk so he needed a loan to buy more equipment and ingredients but going to the bank was never an option. translation: i knew that if i translation: i knew that if! got translation: i knew that if i got loans from the bank the restaurant would definitely have a cash flow problem and could eventually force me to shut it down. if i were to pay for the high monthly interest rates, i did not think i could survive. rates, i did not think! could survive. ., ., ., survive. he took out a loan on the grab _ survive. he took out a loan on the grab app. _ survive. he took out a loan on the grab app. a _ survive. he took out a loan on the grab app, a small- survive. he took out a loan on the grab app, a small amountj survive. he took out a loan on l the grab app, a small amount is deducted from his daily earnings as repayment. being banker to the masses is where grab sees its future. in less than a decade, grab has transformed itsel

let's go to our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani, who's following the story.a, the news 'ust kee -s on? victoria, the news 'ust keeps going i on? victoria, the news 'ust keeps going from i on? victoria, the news 'ust keeps going from bad h on? victoria, the newsjust keeps going from bad to i on? victoria, the newsjust- keeps going from bad to worse for the tokyo olympics. what we have had from the us is this fresh warning telling its citizens that they should avoid travel altogether to japan. in the meantime, we have heard from limbic officials in the us that they say they are confident that their athletes will still be able to take part safely in the games. we have to qualify a few things for our audience here. japan already bans most travellers from entering the country. so in effect, this new ruling just reaffirms what we already knew. but it is the signal that it sends at a time when we are less than two months away from the olympics, for something like this to happen again against that backdrop of increasing resistance domestically towards the olympics, i

karishma vaswani has been speaking to former australian prime minister kevin rudd as part of this week'sational market reality, but if china could diversify its imports of iron ore tomorrow, it would, but it can't. it can't get sufficient supply out of brazil so the damage to the australian iron ore industry will not be now, i believe it will be medium—term. the take—home message, i believe, for the chinese political leadership will be, they will see australia as an unreliable supplier of iron ore long—term because of the geopolitical conclusions that beijing will make in relation to camberra, which the ——canberra, the conservative government in canberra that long—term supply may be put at risk because of geopolitical factors. when you were prime minister, arguably australia—china relations were at a relative high. given what we have seen today, though, with the way that china is acting, were you too naive and optimistic about china's trajectory? not at all. if you look at the history of our government, we had rolling disagreements with beijing about every conceivable thing. however, the