BBC Business Daily (Business)

Business Daily today talks to the man bashing the bankers, Ken Feinberg, who sets the pay for executives at the very top of the largest American companies which got hundreds of billions of dollars of tax-payer life-support. Plus Steve Evans talks to Roger Agnelli, the man running Vale Brazil's giant mining company, on the world's economic prospects. And Professor Charles Dumas on carbon trading. Can it work?

Business Daily talks to Biz Stone - the boss of Twitter - about why he still hasn't made any money why he doesn't want to sell out to Google. And - why Twitter users may be the target of controversial advertising.

Exactly three hundred years ago, a British entrepreneur had the bright idea of burning coal to make iron. We all got richer and the air all got dirtier. Business Daily reports from Ironbridge where the revolution started - can it be undone without undoing the benefits?

Business Daily today asks business what it wants from Copenhagen. The world's biggest chemical company and one of the big electricity companies in Europe and North America will tell you. Plus Steve Evans talks to Edward Guinness, a financier who runs a fund that puts its money into green projects like solar and wind power. And Lucy Kellaway on how men are now allowed to say nice things to women in the office. Is it the green light for flirting?

In Business Daily we look at American ambitions for nuclear power. The nuclear industry says it has lower carbon emissions than coal - but is the money there to finance a new generation of nuclear plants? And they call him Helicopter Ben - but has the Fed's chief made mistakes during the credit crisis? Lesley Curwen speaks to Professor Susan Phillips, who was a governor of the Fed.

Business Daily reports from America on clean coal technology. Coal is cheap but it's also dirty - so what's to be done? Why, bury the CO2 from power stations, of course. But can it work? Plus Steve Evans talks to Richard Scarth who set up a property business in Kabul. And the wisdom of taxi drivers, our regular commentator Wycliffe Muga cites his experiences in the United States and back home in Kenya.

Business Daily talks to the head of research at the world's biggest drug company about the long, hard process of developing a new drug. What happens when bad results pop up - do they ever get suppressed? And - Israel's wealthiest businesswoman on why she can see the future.

Business Daily looks at the vast ambitions of tiny Dubai - we talk to a real estate boss about the former feeding frenzy of property speculation that helped to cause the current debt crisis. Can Dubai really change its spots?

Business Daily today takes an unsentimental look at Africa and offers some hard-headed solutions. It's not about aid. Nor about fancy schemes. It's about simple ideas that might make a difference. Is the African problem too many African borders?

In Business Daily should world leaders concentrate on fighting the fires of a global recession, or on re-building the worlds financial architecture and stopping beggar my neighbour trade rows? - And we ask, is the fast flow of information of the internet making the whole economic mess worse, does fear spread faster online?

Business Daily has bracing thoughts about the global downturn - one, some companies do emerge stronger from recession - two, parts of the world are still desperate to hire skilled workers - and three, its not the end of the world if you are downsized, retrenched or just plain sacked - it might just be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Here's a thing - is a recession the ideal time to start a business? Business Daily grapples with this counterintuitive idea - and hears from a former boss at Google who reckons you can get ahead - when all around you are panicking!

Business Daily cuts through the controversy over genetically modified crops and reports on how the technology has worked out on the ground. Does it live up to its promise? What about farmers who want to farm in the traditional way? Are fears well-founded?

The credit crisis - on the face of it - has nothing to do with Africa. But will Africa suffer because of it? We hear from the World Bank about fears that some of the worlds poorest will get even poorer.