Our guest today from the Dubai Air show is Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chief Executive Officer, Emirates.
Louis Gallois was attending the Dubai Air Show on Monday. FRANCE 24 Raphaël Kahane asked him about the impact of the economic crisis on the world aircraft industry.
With the financial crisis pinching airline pockets, the spotlight at the Dubai Airshow 2009 was on defence deals, with the USA’s surprise showcasing of the Lockleed Martin F-22 Raptor and France looking to sell the UAE its Rafale combat jets.
German auto parts maker Continental and Dubai-based MAG group have failed to reach an agreement on a possible takeover by MAG of a tyre-making plant in northern France, where distraught workers staged sit-ins in the spring.
We take you to the hometown of Salah Ezzedine, the man some describe as Lebanon's answer to Bernard Madoff. Also in today's show: as Jewish settlers keep on building in the West Bank, Palestinians are still forced to cross the border to find work.
Our special edition of the Week in the Middle East takes you to the United Arab Emirates, where the global economic crisis has crashed down on Dubai’s extravagant building projects and its thousands of fortune-seeking expats.
Dubai police have accused a deputy prime minister of Chechnya of masterminding the assassination of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in the underground car park of a luxury seaside apartment block.
Sulim Yamadayev, a former rebel chief who had challenged Moscow-backed President Ramzan Kadyrov for control of Chechen security forces until last year, was found dead in an underground garage in Dubai at the weekend.
