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Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been charged by US prosecutors in Detroit. The indictment against Mr Winterkorn was issued secretly in March and only unsealed on Thursday. We ask Larry Vellequette of Automotive News in Detroit, why it has only been made public now. We get a markets update from Cary Leahey of Decision Economics in New York. Michael Hirson from Eurasia Group tells us about senior White House economic advisers travelling to China to avert a trade war. Plus, South African miners who contracted lung diseases have reached a legal settlement. Richard Spoor, one of the lawyers who represented the mine workers, explains the class action lawsuit. Also in the programme, we find out about the media mogul Rupert Murdoch's approach to management and business, from Dr Irwin Stelzer who has written a book called 'The Murdoch Method'. Plus as the world's biggest live entertainment company Live Nation takes a controlling stake in South America's most famous festival, Rock in Rio, Sam Howard-Spink, associate professor of music business at New York University, tells us what the deal means for the global live music industry.

(Picture: Former VW chief Martin Winterkorn. Credit: Getty Images).