sharanjit leyl shara njit leyl is sharanjit leyl is following the story for us in singapore.tty shocking? it is shocking. it has caused yet more trouble for corporate japan. this sudden —— nissan further embroiled in the scandal. we have heard at a news conference that it is unclear how long these inappropriate vehicle inspections have been going on for. the ministry of transport previously said it was giving nissan about one month to report measures to prevent any sort of occurrence of this issue, and nissan themselves have announced they plan to suspend the domestic production of cars for the whole market for at least two weeks, and this was after it was forced to hold a major recall after admitting that uncertified technicians performed final checks on some car models. production would essentially stop at all six of its japanese assembly plans to try to consolidate their inspection lines and to comply with transport ministry requirements. its domestic market, mind you, is only about 6% of its global production. this will still potentially hit nissan card. —— hard. markets

seoul's loss is singapore's gain, as sharanjit leyl reports.re created in 1972 bya a mythical creature created in 1972 by a tourism board keen to boost visitor numbers. the line is part line, pipefish. —— merlion. today, it fulfils its purpose, attracting many from far and wide. tourists come here for the perfect snap. among them, 6 million chinese tourists on the move this week on the eighth day golden week holiday which began on october one. the chinese tourism academy predicts they will spend about $90 billion this golden week alone, making them a powerful force. the this golden week alone, making them a powerfulforce. the top this golden week alone, making them a powerful force. the top three destinations, thailand, japan, and right here, the merlion in singapore. why did they come? we like singapore very much. many chinese come here, choose to come here, to enjoy a holiday. and keeping them happy is this man's task, along with his company, the singapore tourism board, the people who created the merlion, who are trying to find ways to keep

i am sharanjit leyl.ia business report. i am shara njit leyl. as to asia business report. i am sharanjit leyl. as we have been reporting, it is another day and another twit from donald trump, stirring up tension between north korea and the united states. as the international community tries to cut off funding to north korea's nuclear programme through economic and financial sanctions, little is known about what like in the world's most secretive country. earlier, i spoke to in hastings, who wrote about this, and asked how he got his information. it is difficult to get into north korea. but to get into north korea, you need to leave eventually. —— justin north korea, you need to leave eventually. ——justin hastings. north korea, you need to leave eventually. -- justin hastings. you have caught your book a most enterprising country. that is not a lot of people about north korea. they are enterprising in the sense that they need means to make money. the government does not provide for them, and is harmfulfor

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: after a day of violent clashes, catalonia's regional government claims sunday's vote opens the door to independence, with backing of 90%. the spanish prime minister disagrees. translation: right now, i can tell you all emphatically, what we found today, and what we already know, is that there was no independence referendum in catalonia today. president trump tells his secretary of state to stop wasting time trying to negotiate with north korea, describing president kim jong—un as "little rocket man." i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: two women charged with killing the estranged half—brother of the north korean leader go on trial in malaysia. emergency centres are overwhelmed in bali, where an exclusion zone has been created around mount agung — the volcano is expected to erupt at any time. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 2am in the morning in catalonia in spain, where regional leaders say 90% of those who voted in a referendum we

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm babita sharma in london.ays as many as twelve thousand children are crossing into bangladesh every week, as they flee the violence in myanmar. many desperately need medical help. the white house chief of staffjohn kelly says he is stunned that donald trump has been criticised for the call he made to a military widow. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. many asian newspapers are continuing with their extensive coverage of the second day of the chinese communist party congress. the south china morning post looks at some of president xi jinping's close allies who could be about to get a top job. the china daily also unsurprisingly is almost completely absorbed by the congress in beijing. this story is dedicated to the fight against corruption among the party ranks. "corrupt up—and—comers can't hide" reads the title. the japan times instead quotes the remarks of us secretary of state rex tillerson on india and china. the article says this. the us vowed to work with india in preference to

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines... kim jong—un promotes his younger sister to north korea's centre of power, increasing his family's control. a rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying rohingyas refugees including many children capsizes near the bangladesh coast. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme... the us vice—president mike pence walks out of an american football game after some players refuse to stand for the us national anthem. and we're on the frontline between north and south korea — the world's most militarised border, and a bunkerfor 2000 people. this place was built five years ago, underneath a mountain and it is absolutely vast. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8.30am in pyongyang, where north korea's supreme leader kimjong—un has given his sister more power by promoting her to the nation's top decision—making body. 28—year—old kim yo—jong will replace her aunt in the politbur

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines kim jong—un promotes his younger sister to north korea'ssing his family's control. the us vice—president mike pence walks out of an nfl game after some players refuse to stand for the us national anthem. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. yes — or no? confusion on whether catalonia will declare independence as hundreds of thousands demonstrate against separation from spain. and we're on the frontline between north and south korea — the world's most militarised border and a bunkerfor 2,000 people. this place was five years

for the latest, we are joined by sharanjit leyl. this is bad news for yahoo and its investor, verizon. from the1 bad news for yahoo and its investor, verizon. from the 1 billion disclosed late last year, it is now 3 billion user accounts potentially compromise in the 2013 august data leak. this came about because forensic investigators took a closer look at it. they found user accounts, they did not include pass words, not encrypted text, and bank account information. the latest line is the us senate commerce committee plans to call yahoo and equifax, which he will talk about later, the other data breach we have been reporting on, they will be calling them in to testify. do you think verizon is regretting its acquisition of yahoopaid $4.5 billion for it injuly. they were assessing the data breaches. there was another in 2014. they managed to negotiate down the price, getting $350 million for the price as a result. but now, verizon is open for class—action disputes and legal disputes by shareholders and account users. and there was m

sharanjit leyl is in our asia business hub in singapore. sharanjit, is this a real story? tesla essentially confirmed that they wa nted essentially confirmed that they wanted to build cars in china, but has declined to comment on a wall streetjournal report that a deal had been agreed on. for one, there area number of had been agreed on. for one, there are a number of major hopes that they will have two jump through to make such a deal happen. for instance, china levies a pretty 5% duty on sales of imported vehicles, and it is not allowed foreign automakers to establish wholly owned factories in the country. tesla also wa nts to factories in the country. tesla also wants to expand its presence in china's growing electric vehicle market, without promoting its intellectual property or independence. there is a real worry that if it links up with local manufacturers, as other foreign firms have done, it will potentially had to share some of its technology around electric vehicles. the chinese government has considered allowing foreign automakers to set up allowing foreign auto

sharanjit leyl explains. the streets of singapore are busy but orderly. of the traffic jams here but orderly. there's a few of the trafficjams here that you see elsewhere in the region and there's a reason for that. that's because the singapore government strictly monitors the number of cars allowed on the roads. at the moment there are about1 million vehicles on the roads here in singapore. it is an island of just roads here in singapore. it is an island ofjust over 700 square kilometres. that's roughly under half the size of london. that works out to about 1300 vehicles per square kilometre. about 600,000 of them are private cars and rentals, but starting next year the singapore government says it will stop allowing the increase of the number of cars. according to the land transport authority, no more extra vehicles will be allowed on the roads, cutting the current .025% annual increase to zero until 2020, when the policy will be reviewed again. but it has divided opinion here. recently with the new policy, what it means is the price of fuel will go up.

for more we are joined by sharanjit leyl. she is the tokyo governor.e will 100% not run for this snap election that's been called for october the 22nd against crime minister abe and his liberal democratic party. lots of speculation that she would have run —— prime minister. she has told reporters she is not running and there's a lot of speculation her popularity is flagging, it is certainly flagging in the polls and she wants to stay on as tokyo governor and speculation is she would get more of a boost during the tokyo 0lympics would get more of a boost during the tokyo olympics in 2020. she is dubbed the most powerful woman in politics in japan. she dubbed the most powerful woman in politics injapan. she started as a tv news anchor. she is also sometimes described as a lipstick ninja, rico, and she launched her new party of hope just under two weeks ago really to take on the conservative ldp. but it's also got a very similar ethos as the ldp. it's also a very conservative party. she's riding on a populist wave really because she's launched something t

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines...f power, increasing his family's control. a rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying rohingyas refugees including many children capsizes near the bangladesh coast. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme... the us vice—president mike pence walks out of an american football game after some players refuse to stand for the us national anthem. and we're on the frontline between north and south korea — the world's most militarised border, and a bunkerfor 2000 people. this place was built five years ago, underneath a mountain and it is absolutely vast.

the bbc‘s sharanjit leyl caught up with the former deputy secretary of state in singapore, where he accusedribe donald trump as a republican is not fair. it's not correct. he's nothing. he's not republican, not democrats. he's nothing. what does he stand for then? that's the question. he does not seem to have any strong views on foreign policy our defence. hejust i think stands for himself. do you think you should be impeached?” don't think i would like to see my country go through that kind of rip, revolution, but if it comes out that high crimes and misdemeanours were somehow committed then it should happen. how do you view the situation in north korea, is it solvable? i don't think it can be resolved by diplomacy alone, i think it will take a certain amount of continued pressure and resolve, our south korean allies, ourselves and the japanese and the assistance of china and russia. i don't think there is any affection for kim jong—un but there is also certain conservative circles and bought those countries who do not want to see a quote ally and quote be cut adrift. i think we have our w

sharanjit leyl went to meet kishin rk to find out why this project was different.ot about building a building, an office or retail mall. what was interesting and made it a little bit more challenging is that it could not take on a commercial project approach because we needed to fit ourselves into the neighbourhood and not the neighbourhood into our project. so taking that approach, i think, it was a little bit more challenge, but it had to be collaborative for it to be successful. talk us through this neighbourhood because it is full of history. yes, so in the 1800s, what was interesting is where we are standing today, there used to be boats selling and trading in tea, alcohol, in all kinds of different spices and pepper, so what was interesting is a lot of this infrastructure around us had a warehouse history so they were all former warehouses and that was part of the design philosophy was to create the approach of blending in the old historic warehouse feel, but reinventing the offering. now kishin, you're only 3a years old. but you're from one of singapore's we

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: the un says as many as 12,000 children are crossing intonmar. i am surrounded by babies, children under the age of two months and they are all fighting for their lives. they are severely and acutely malnourished. white house chief of staff john kelly says he is stunned that donald trump has been criticised for the call he made to a military widow. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. new zealand has a new prime minister, the youngest in 150 years. we will hear from the former

i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: the un says as many as 12,000 children are crossing into the age of two months and they are all fighting for their lives. they are severely and acutely malnourished. white house chief of staff john kelly says he is stunned that donald trump has been criticised for the call he made to a military widow. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. new zealand has a new prime minister, the youngest in 150 years. helen clark, the former pm of the country, joins us live to talk advice and success at the top.