2025-04-28
26 分钟Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Roger Hearing and on this edition,
chaos across the Iberian Peninsula as Spain and Portugal suffer a huge power blackout.
The situation in Spain is bewildering.
There are traffic jams and trains are stopped across the country.
What's happening is absolutely extraordinary.
We'll have the latest live from Spain.
Also today, the impact of US tariffs begins to bite,
as there's a big downturn in goods arriving from China.
The steepest rise in global spending on defence since the end of the Cold War.
We'll find out who's buying what.
Kenya lifts the ban on licensing new commercial banks.
And as the people of Canada go to the polls in their federal election,
why the economy is very much in the front of their minds.
I'm looking for someone who has spent the time and put in the work to know the way economies operate.
That's all coming up.
But first, over the last few hours,
much of Spain and Portugal has ground to a halt due to massive power cuts.
Transport has been particularly badly affected.
The government in Madrid has convened a crisis meeting.