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News. Hello welcome to business matters I'm Jamie Roberts and on the program today Boeing suspends the production of its 737 Max as the day when it will be certified to fly seems to stretch of a further into the future and how long before we're going to live in a world where men and women work live and are governed equally a touch under 100 years according to the World Economic Forum will work out whether we couldn't move things on just a little bit faster about taking agenda lends to what he knew all delivering what you're designing wealth is why it's so imperative for private sector to be giveth a team and inclusion as a central business strategy. Joint throughout the program by 2 guests on opposite sides of the world as ever peace and receive an economist at the University of Maryland joins us from Washington Peter thanks for being with us nice to be with you yet and in Singapore Stephanie you went to his joint managing partner. Or Stephanie welcome lovely to be back thank you Jamie. Now bowing to temporarily suspend production of its 737 Max program beginning next month now the 737 let me give you a bit of history the max was grounded worldwide in March after 2 fatal crashes. In the Java Sea last year and an Ethiopian Airlines plane that is Avatar in March killing $346.00 people deliveries were stopped production there continued albeit at a slightly lower rate since then some $400.00 you are craft are being built but they've just been shoved off into storage now production is to be suspended as for the workforce the company said it is all planned that affected employees will continue $77.00 related work or be temporarily assigned to other teams on the market shares in Boeing or fallen by more than a 5th since March but still above the level at which they started the year today though investors turned against the stocks and even down about 4 percent about 4 and a half percent in fact I also Michael. Boyd who is president of aviation consulting firm Boyd Group International to describe the pressure of a Boeing was on the moment they're putting out $42.00 airplanes a month 42730 seven's per month that have no place to go we figured that about 400 already produced that can't be delivered because they need to be modified and we're not sure what that modification is yet why is so process of getting them back in the air getting them certified again why is it taking so long you know no one really knows we the sought this for the software issue that was in March we're coming on to almost a year now and we're still not sure I think one reason that we have too many regulatory agencies between the u.s. And the e.u. And China and wherever else involved and 2nd of all I am not so sure that the problem might not have been more serious than we thought so what about the supply is what's happening to them all the stuff which goes into these times well you know there's hundreds of suppliers and sub sub contractors to those suppliers and you know if Boeing isn't getting paid at some point Boeing probably isn't going to be paying their suppliers right away so what happens there I mean keep in mind the fuselages of these airplanes are made in Wichita Kansas where are they getting paid I assume they are but at some point in time that company is going to have to say either get some money here we just can't pay our own people and it's not what the supply is on us about and all they putting pressure on itself do you think you know yes a good point I would suspect every supplier is saying Boeing you know we're going to work with you work with you work with you bore not going to go down with you so fix this problem and I think right now it's out of the control of Boeing pretty much in that we've got regulatory agencies all going in different directions very likely the result as regards competition with us what happens well you know it right now today Air Bus is producing airplane Sue Purba airplanes I might add in there's no guarantee we might see some real earthquakes out. They were a company like Southwest says we can't just have Boeing airplanes anymore so it's all upside for Airbus spare buses behaved I think in a very very professional manner throughout this whole process in what sense well in a sense they're not jumping on their competitor when the competitor is down there going out there and selling quality airplanes to to people around the world with their I'd they're not really using themselves as a stalking horse for Boeing customers per se do you think Boeing has lost customers already too. We know they have there's a couple airlines of backed up but there's some other airlines that have ordered maxes including a i.a.g. The parent of British Airways So they've lost sales no question the real issue is when this airplane comes back will it be viewed as a new airplane or just a fixed airplane I think Boeing has to address whether they want to call this the max or not you know call whatever call the Wright Flyer but don't call it Max just what's the effect on Boeing overall do you think in terms of profits that reputation it's going to take a long time to recover from this is I think in terms of profits going to take a long time because 2020 is going to be a whole year trying to get Max's back on the air reputation keep in mind they build more than 730 seven's you know they've got the 787 they've got the triple 7 they have other airplanes on the drawing board which I think of been kind of put on hold for now but I think in the long term they'll get through this but I think we're going to be a stronger airline because I think they will learn how to handle these things a little bit more adroitly. 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One of the persons like that of us is that he can't we knew so little about the nature of the problem and when it's all going to end well I think we know a great deal of the problem nobody really wants to talk about it they have designed to pretend no one is going to end I mean we don't know sort of like going to some antibiotic let me get to that Ok they have designed an airplane that a human being can fly alone essentially the engines are very large in front to accomplish the fuel economy standards that they'd like to accomplish in this passenger space and so forth they are pushing the very edge of the envelope The trouble is it's very hard to handle without the benefit of what is essentially a computer program that is really artificial intelligence and they have gotten to the point where they're trying to build the equivalent in the air of a driverless vehicle I'm questioning in my mind whether they can come up with software within the parameters of that structure of plane that can be effectively flawed that's what's taking so long there are surely a lot of regulators but they're not saying to the f.a.a. The Federal Aviation Administration come on out we've got this fixed we'll take you up with the chairman of the board and fly this thing the other thing is they have been behaving extraordinarily irresponsibly financially they continue to make planes or they have continued to make planes because if they stop then they have to recognize the r. And d. Costs of the plane on the basis of those they've already sold which means they have a huge loss to report on their balance sheet so to avoid a paper catastrophe on the balance sheet and in the stock market they continue to bleed cash that's an absurd situation now all of that said please do not you know read the obituary of Boeing in the triumph of Airbus This is one airplane Boeing has a full house of competitive planes except this one and so even if the company ultimately has to be. Reorganize suppose they never get that thing into the sky again are they going to go chapter 11 that that's you know bankruptcy reorganization I don't know how bad the numbers are because they've been playing so many games but even if they did a new Boeing would emerge it's very competitive without the 737 Max one of the problems here is pushing the envelope of engineering so hard and so far they may have actually or can get my point yeah I get your point and I want to talk something about this or repercussions of this about suspending production on what it was a come back to you Peter about it as well about the economic financial impacts I mean it's really like cause we have these amazing supply lines which sort of spite us with round the world. Do you think it is it something that affects will affect Singapore I mean you know there was no big manufacturing Boeing manufacturing on that but I bet the something. Hi Jamie I'm I'm very very concerned about what p.c. Just said I don't know how much of the manufacturing happens in Singapore but I'm sure part of it is going to come through here Singapore is probably a net bio of all of equipment from the aviation industry my issue about Boeing is is in addition to pieces is this I've been reading a lot about how Boeing outsource is a great deal of its manufacturing process. 60 to 70 percent of the parts on a plane made by what they call the offload policy where they outsource a lot of that manufacturing to somebody else so I don't know whether there's a bigger endemic issue here and if this is how they do it doesn't Boeing believe a cover from this will do they really need to restructure how they're actually doing that manufacturing process I don't know that they can get away from what they're doing a lot of the airlines that buy their planes are foreign airlines and the governments are brought insist that we buy stuff there in incorporated in the planes if not the plane you're buying then another plane but you've got to borrow that slightly outsourced to India didn't pay it well that's why they outsourced to a lot of people I mean you'd be surprised what they have to buy in from where However in the manufacturing of their products internally it's important to remember that what's really the problem is in the cockpit and that is the management of the plane itself both airline manufacturers all airline manufacturers begin small the thing they keep close just like order companies keep the drive train at home they keep the cockpit at home that's where the problem is it's not the fuselage from Kansas it's the cockpit it's the management of the plane Boeing has fallen down on that Ok but that's that's the course what I'm looking at now is really that the repercussions of the suspension I mean from what I know my big yes but I mean I thought it was an economist what would you what can you quantify it's a toll I mean yes if in terms of the us economy stopping production of just this plane is 3 tenths of a percent off of g.d.p. In the 1st quarter that doesn't sound big 3 tenths of a percent in my world. That's bloody big That's big you know that I don't hard to imagine a big architect this is worse than the g.m. Strike because we knew the workers have come back some day and also I presume and sucking air is commitment more than noise if you that supplier in Kansas the aircraft industry is somewhat concentrated remember Spirit of St Louis and you know the Limburg and all that the Air America aircraft industry got to stablished are in that general part of the country St Louis Kansas around there Missouri and Kansas and so it takes a heavy hit there believe it or not one of the best places to get a degree in aeronautical engineering is the University of Kansas you wouldn't think it but yes it is so it's going to hurt those areas a lot but remember the company will reorganize That's terrible news for that's terrible news for Boeing but if the global aeronautics industry is still growing and consume a flying commercial flying is it still going up isn't somebody just going to buy the plane from somebody else I Well the question is capacity the question is capacity suppose we said the plane is permanently gone could they replace them all with air bus system our air bus can't do that you know the capacity to build planes next next summer look for a lot of air airline delays if this plane is not back up in the air you know Ok We're going to move on to Washington to get a break because we're going to have a news headlines but fuel system to business massive search. Not much change because the headline news in an unprecedented move the American plane make a Boeing's to suspend production of it 737 Maxixe off all the headlines Britain has to legislate to prevent any further extension of the brakes process and the Netherlands most wanted fugitive has been arrested in Dubai so thanks so much Mr into Indiana the unrest this continues across the country. Just 7 to make it clear that he is getting people to get hung 7 up the difficulty of investing in the I'm a we are not good do we have put this in here I know you put this in against the benefits the government is biased which is discriminatory for one particular community it's against the Muslims be easy. But it has to be. Understood and that is a good done because demonstrators dense this new law which has fast track says and shipped to non Muslims from Pakistan Afghanistan and Bangladesh that same up lowers on fire 6 people have now died in 5 days of unrest following the party passing of this controversial citizenship loyal opposition parties a condemned what they say was a polices violent suppression of student protests the Congress party accused the government 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 and the un Human Rights Council has also said the new low undermines India's commitment to equality before the law as enshrined in its constitution however the j.p. Perspex person. It remained defiant What does the United Nations Human Rights know about who in the in politics this is an interim going back to India the largest population of Muslims is in India and the safest total So what is this un cry when not against Muslims we're just seeing for minority refugees who have had no way to get this web willing to give it to them so well the B.B.C.'s I'm not us and I thought I was on as an Indian capital New Delhi and joins us not just can you give us a bit of a timeline just go back if a week or so and explain what has happened. There have been protests in the northeastern part of India especially in states like Assam and West Bengal and they border bang that they say these people are protesting against is the new citizenship law which was passed by parliament last week it does mean a discussion and a debate to for the past few years and people there in those regions are strongly opposed to it because they think this would allow people migrants from particularly from Bangladesh to settle down in that state and take over that land and jobs which will have an impact on culture and identity this has been going on for decades this issue of alleged inflexibly immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh now the Indian government argues that the minority communities that I live just minorities like Hindus Christians but this Sikhs and the parties have nowhere else to go because when partition happened in 1947 when British India was divided in the Hindu majority India and Muslim majority Pakistan there was a lot of minority people stayed in respective countries and these people because of the live just persecution as the government says they come to India and they have to be given citizenship but they excluded Muslims and that is what is the whole controversy is about in Rest of India there are 2 issues here in the northeast people believe that those will come from Bangladesh can take over the land and jobs let us rest of India says it goes against the very fundamental values of India a secular democracy that is what India's forefathers led imagining in India that all communities can live side by side but the government denies any diligence by Ok who are 2 different reactions to different arguments against Islam how bout of the violence gone. For the past few weeks the the protests have spread to other parts of India this is what the government did not expect they thought the one in the northeastern part of India will be affected by this but then the university students have now joined these protests and what happened on Sunday was particularly in the capital of Delhi which actually triggered the moment them when thousands of students took out a peaceful protest March in the capital and then suddenly while and spoke out and it was blamed on a separate group of people from outside the police accused