Qatar Isolated by Neighbours

Qatar is isolated as its neighbours impose an air and sea blockade but what are the wider business implications? We hear from Dr Theodore Karasik, an analyst of regional geopolitics based in Washington DC.

In France, Emmanuel Macron is hoping to follow his success in winning the presidency last month with another victory in upcoming parliamentary elections. The BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

The UK general election is just two days off and over the past few weeks we've been hearing from senior representative of the major parties. Today it's the turn of the Scottish National Party's Stuart Hosie to be grilled by Susannah Streeter.

We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and cross to Jakarta to hear from the BBC's Rebecca Henschke who tells us about a drive to count the country's islands definitively and register their names with the UN.

Disposable incomes for many Indians are up which in turn has resulted in an 11% jump on eating out in restaurants. That's helped tempt both global and regional Indian brands, as Rahul Tandon reports from Kolkata.

And with us throughout the programme are Dave Shaw of Scripps News who's in Washington DC and in Hong Kong, Catherine Yeung, Investment Director at Fidelity International.

Picture description: A Saudi woman and a boy walking past the Qatar Airways branch in the Saudi capital Riyadh, after it had suspended all flights to Saudi Arabia following a severing of relations between major gulf states and gas-rich Qatar.
Photo credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images