Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in austin, texas, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. For the third time in the past six months, Chinas Central Bank has slashed interest rates, this in an effort to boost growth in the worlds second largest economy. Officially, china is still growing at more than 7 a year. But last years growth rate was the slowest in a quarter century. The central bank said today chinas economy is still facing relatively big downward pressure. The death toll from the earthquake in nepal has now surpassed 8,000. And avalanches and poor weather conditions have forced rescuers to call off their sear
Minutes before deadline officials from the Chilean/Brazilian carrier Latam and the Pilots Union reached over the weekend an agreement which deactivated what seemed an unavoidable strike. The reason for the strike dates back to 2020, when Latam fired 240 pilots and cut the remaining professionals salaries by 30%.
By Alexander Villegas and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The largest pilots union of Latam Airlines in Chile voted to strike on Wednesd.