麻豆约拍

The US and the EU have resolved a 17-year long dispute over Boeing and Airbus subsidies. The two parties have agreed to phase out billions of dollars in punitive tariffs, and we get reaction from Markus Beyrer, director general of lobbying group BusinessEurope. Also in the programme, the UK and Australia have announced the first post-Brexit trade deal negotiated entirely from scratch. Mary Quicke is a cheesemaker who currently exports 10% of her cheeses to Australia, and tells us she is cautiously optimistic about what the deal might lead to. Five years ago, American broadcaster Gretchen Carlson successfully sued her former boss at Fox News, Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment. She discusses her concern that major American companies continue to gag employees, and protect workplace predators through non-disclosure agreements. Plus, scientists have developed a technique to turn waste plastic bottles into the synthetic vanilla flavouring vanillin. Joanna Sadler of the University of Edinburgh, who conducted the research, explains how the process works.

(Picture: A Boeing plane comes in to land. Picture credit: Getty Images.)