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World Service,17 Dec 2019,53 mins

Boeing suspends 737 Max production

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The American aircraft builder has destabilised the businesses of suppliers that make parts for its troubled 737 Max, after halting production of the aircraft. The jet has been grounded following two crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia and will not be allowed to fly until regulators deem it is safe. Mike Boyd, an aviation analyst in Evergreen Colorado tells us Boeing will have a testing 2020. Opposition parties in India have condemned what they say was the police's violent suppression of student protests against a controversial citizenship law. The government has been accused of declaring war on its own people, after video footage of police breaking into a Delhi university and beating protesters was widely shared on social media. The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan gives us the latest from the Indian capital. Throughout the programme we get analysis of events from two guests who are many time zones apart. Professor Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland in Washington and Stefanie Yuen Thio, a Managing Partner at TSMP Law, is with us from Singapore. (Picture: Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Getty Images.)

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