蜜芽传媒

Drivers working for digital taxi app Uber have gone on strike in cities around the world. Driver Muhumed Ali tells us why he's joining the protest, and we hear more from James Farrar, general secretary of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, which is organising it. And with Uber's New York stock market flotation due on Friday, Shira Ovide of Bloomberg discusses whether the company is ever likely to make a profit. Also in the programme, South Africa's election is under way, and our reporter Matthew Davies in Johannesburg tells us the health of the country's economy is a key issue for many voters. Plus we travel to the Indian state of Odisha to hear how businesses are coping with the aftermath of Cyclone Fani.

(Picture: An Uber app on a smartphone. Picture credit: Getty Images.)