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Hello and welcome to World Business Report, here on the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tandem.
We're going to talk a lot about Donald Trump, about the Panama Canal, comments he's made there, about new appointments that he's made, and how his coming to power may affect countries like South Korea.
But this year we focused a lot on this program on the car industry.
It's told us a lot about the move towards electrification and also about tensions between the US And China.
And we're going to stay on the automobile theme and talk about two of Japan's biggest car companies, Honda and Nissan, because they're discussing a possible merger that would create the third biggest automaker in the world.
Last month, Nissan reported a 93% drop in its first half net profits and announced thousands of job cuts.
So it's a company not doing well.
However, Honda CEO Toshiro Amoeba emphasized that this would be a partnership with a bailout of Nissan.
I will clearly state that this is.
Not about saving Nissan.
There has to be the implementation of turnaround by Nissan.
That's an absolute condition.