US Secretary of State visits Haiti to discuss democratic transition
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The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, visits Haiti. The country is under a state of emergency as gangs try to expand their control over the capital, and other regions. We get the latest. As Elon Musk's X is banned in Brazil, rival BlueSky gains ground in the South American nation. We talk to its CEO, Jay Graber. Four years after being left paralysed by the Covid-19 pandemic, has the cruise ship industry fully recovered? We find out. And we get an insight on how airplane seats are made. Roger Hearing discusses these and more business stories with two guests on opposite sides of the world: Emily Peck, markets correspondent for Axios, in New York, and James Mayger, Bloomberg's senior reporter, in Beijing.
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