General Electric to split in three

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The US conglomerate General Electric is to split into three publicly listed companies. We find out what's behind the move from the BBC's Michelle Fleury in New York. Also in the programme, the aircraft engine maker Rolls Royce has secured funding to develop small modular nuclear reactors, aimed at producing green electricity. Tom Samson is chief executive of Rolls Royce SMR and explains the background, while South African energy analyst Chris Yelland is sceptical. Plus, German media giant Axel Springer is understood to have plans to force workers to disclose intimate relationships they have with colleagues. Erika Solomon, Berlin correspondent of the Financial Times and Ben Smith, media correspondent of the New York Times, bring us the details. Also in the programme, Mexico's president has outlined a global anti-poverty plan to the United Nations that he says would help 750 million people living on less than two dollars a day. Plus, the BBC's Russell Padmore reports on the growing problem of restaurant-goers booking a table and then not turning up. All this and more discussed with our two guests throughout the show: Sarah Birke of the Economist, in Mexico City and in James Maygar, Bloomberg's correspondent in Beijing. (Picture: General Electric logo. Credit: Getty Images.)