tony fernandes! apprentice asia!ald trump you are actually quite polite, to be honest. it is funny you say that. a couple of things, looking at that makes me cringe, to be honest. my marketing team... i turned it down for two years. i kept saying i am not a donald trump or alan sugar. in the end they said do it how you want to. my marketing team in airasia were very keen for me to do this. did you get bored with running airasia? is that why you began to look for these other things? and i'm going to talk in a minute, injusta moment, about your activities in sports and leisure and the whole diversification of your brand. is it because you got bored? well, i think initially... airasia, we are a small little airline in malaysia. 0urfirst global event was sponsoring manchester united. very painfulfor me because i hate that football club. we all have to be a prostitute once in a while. that became, umm, building a brand. based in the uk, richard gets a phenomenal amount of media and a phenomenal amount of attention, while

tony fernandes, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. have been in business for three decades now. is the tony fernandes that does business today different from the young man who set out?” business today different from the young man who set out? i had to think a little bit smarter, a little bit older and wiser, but in principle the same tony fernandes from 30 years ago. what about the attitude to risk? umm, maybe a little bit more cautious, thinking ita little bit more cautious, thinking it a bit more. but overall i don't see much difference. i think decisions have to be made critically. i think changing management is critical, especially in this day and age, and sometimes procrastination, analysis, paralysis by analysis, is a detriment to business. that is what i call it. i talk to my management team all the time about changing and adapting quickly. one of the fascinating things about you is cultural as much as business. you, and i said it in the introduction, you made your fortune and your name by introducing a new form of cheaper budg

loftus road is less than a miles from grenfell — and qpr's owner tony fernandes along with marcus mumfordng sir mo farah, who scored the opening goal of the game afterjust 90 seconds. rita 0ra, emile sande and others entertained the crowds at half—time. it finished 2—all and the manchester united managerjose mourinho making a surprise appearance in goal for thew shoot—out! he finished on the losing side though, conceding the winning penalty to 0lly murs. that was a satisfying to watch. and the dab. i wonder whetherjose mourinho was being a bit generous. he said he didn't have the legs. lots of money raised. an incredible cause. lots of money raised. an incredible cause. you are watching that my brea kfast cause. you are watching that my breakfast from bbc news. —— expressed. —— breakfast. the average student debt now stands at 50,000 pounds. but a new report claims two—year degrees could be the answer to tackling what they call "the mounting time bomb of student debt." a report by a centre—right think tank is calling for stronger legislation to break what it calls a "university cartel" in

loftus road is less than a miles from grenfell — and qpr's owner tony fernandes along with marcus mumford of the game afterjust 90 seconds. rita 0ra, emile sande and others entertained the crowds at half—time. it finished 2—all and the manchester united managerjose mourinho making a surprise appearance in goal for thew shoot—out! he finished on the losing side though, conceding the winning penalty to 0lly murs. stick to the dayjob. there were some volunteers there who were helping to rebuild the community. a great charity event and hopefully six figures were raised, apparently. angela merkel‘s been called the most powerful woman in europe by several newspapers — and now she's hoping to secure a fourth term as german chancellor in the general election later this month. tonight she faces her main electoral rival, martin schulz, in a live debate on german tv. so is mrs merkel likely to prevail? 0ur correspondent jenny hill has more. it is 12 years since she debated her way into the chancellery. and it looks as though angela merkel is about to do it again. her political longevity, no surprise