蜜芽传媒

A political crisis has been averted in Italy after its prime minister threatened to quit. We hear how there has been tension ahead of a looming showdown between the populist government and the European Commission over Italy's debt mountain. Former chief economist and director general of the Italian Treasury Lorenzo Codogno explains the background to Italy's economic difficulties. And Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis tells us why he thinks the European Union should relax its rules on member states' borrowing limits. Also in the programme, authorities in Delhi are to make public transport free for women in the Indian capital, in the hope that more of them will use the system and provide security in numbers. Sakshi Bhalla is a womens' rights campaigner based in Delhi, and gives us her reaction to the news. Plus, as the rise of robots sparks fears about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs, the economic historian Dr Carl Frey of Oxford University tells us what history teaches us about the impact of new technology on our prosperity.

(Picture: Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte. Picture credit: EPA.)