麻豆社

The German airline Lufthansa has cancelled a thousand flights on Wednesday because of a continuing strike by pilots. The airline says around 140-thousand passengers will be affected. A court in Frankfurt rejected an attempt by the company to have the strike halted - but Lufthansa insists it will go ahead with contract changes that would bring pilots' pay and conditions into line with colleagues at the company's low-cost subsidiary Eurowings. We hear from Lufthansa's Head of Corporate Communications, Barbara Schaedler and chief spokesman of the German pilots' union, Markus Wahl. On Wednesday, US presidential candidates from both the main parties will make big speeches on the recent diplomatic deal over Iran's nuclear programme. As they do so, the current Congress will be debating their response - and it's now clear that President Obama can't actually lose the vote in the Senate. To explain why, we speak to Julian Hattem of thehill.com. International headlines have focused all this summer on the refugees and migrants moving towards Europe - but in South East Asia there are also many people on the move in search of a better life. Tens of thousands arrive in Malaysia every year - in fact the number of foreign workers there has more than doubled over the last 15 years - to an estimated three million. The UN says immigrants face abuse and exploitation - and their children have no rights. Jennifer Pak reports from Lahad Datu in eastern Borneo. All this and more discussed with our guests on either side of the Pacific - David Kuo of the Motley Fool in Singapore and Mark Miller, Managing Editor at Marketplace, in LA. (Photo: A display showing cancelled flights in Frankfurt am Main airport. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)