World Business Report

The global internet giant Amazon has just won a first round in what's turning out to be a battle over the ethics of selling facial recognition technology to national governments. We hear from Mary Beth Gallagher from the director of Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment - a membership coalition of Catholic institutional investors and the Sisters of St. Joseph. One of their members hold shares in Amazon and were the lead proponent of the resolution. As electric transportation begins to catch on, we look at the infrastructure required. Making it possible for electric buses to just plug in and go sometimes requires a power storage battery at the bus depot. James Basden is co-founder of Zenobe, which installs such systems, and he tells us they can also be useful for helping intermittent renewable energy to be harnessed more effectively. And Yayoi Sekine of Bloomberg's New Energy Foundation discusses how China is becoming the world leader in battery storage systems. Also in the programme, Britain's second biggest steel producer, British Steel, has been put into liquidation, leaving 5,000 jobs at risk, and endangering another 20,000 in the supply chain. Carys Roberts is chief economist at left wing think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research, and explains the pressures British Steel has been under

Britain's second biggest steel producer, British Steel, has been put into liquidation, leaving 5,000 jobs at risk, and endangering another 20,000 in the supply chain. Carys Roberts is chief economist at left wing think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research, and explains the pressures British Steel has been under. As electric transportation begins to catch on, we look at the infrastructure required. Making it possible for electric buses to just plug in and go sometimes requires a power storage battery at the bus depot. James Basden is co-founder of Zenobe, which installs such systems, and he tells us they can also be useful for helping intermittent renewable energy to be harnessed more effectively. And Yayoi Sekine of Bloomberg's New Energy Foundation discusses how China is becoming the world leader in battery storage systems. Plus ahead of this week's European Union parliamentary elections, our economics correspondent Andrew Walker discusses the varying economic picture across the member states.

Whoever wins the Indian election will face an economic slowdown and an education crisis. The BBC's Anu Anand is in New Delhi, finding out about a shortage of universities in India. We hear about the pressures that Indian students are under to get top grades to get into the best universities, and meet some of the private tutors helping them to achieve that. Those pressures have led to many students taking their own lives in recent years. Abdul Mahmood explains why he set up two helplines to try and prevent student suicides. We travel to Haryana in Northern India to meet the people behind non-profit organisation Kamalini, which focuses on vocational training to help women enter the workforce. Plus we visit the Khari Baoli spice market in New Delhi, where Anshu Kumar of Meherchand and Sons tells us about the business of sourcing and selling spices.

Ford Motor Company is axing thousands of jobs to prepare for a future where the automotive industry will focus on hybrid, electric cars and autonomous vehicles. We hear analysis from Rebecca Lindland, who's followed developments in the automotive industry for more than 20 years. Game of Thrones comes to end, but what does the future hold for the many online entrepreneurs who run websites for fans of the television series? We hear from Gil Kidron, a writer who started a channel on YouTube about the Game of Thrones books in 2014. (Picture:Ford Motor Company Logo. Getty.)

New designs of Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps. Ben Wood from the technology analysts CCS Insight explains the background. And we hear the likely impact on Huawei phone users from Augustin Reyna, director of legal and economic affairs at the European consumer organisation, BEUC. Also in the programme, Volodomyr Zelensky has been sworn in as president of Ukraine. Irena Taranyuk of the BBC Ukrainian service describes the economic challenges Mr Zelensky is likely to face, and Aivarus Abromavicius, former economy minister in Ukraine and now an adviser to the president, explains how he will go about tackling them. Plus as voters in Malawi head to the polls to elect a new president, the BBC's Africa business editor, Larry Madowo, discusses how economic issues have impacted the campaign.