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Tesla's board says it will consider a proposal by Elon Musk to take the carmaker private. Ross Gerber is founder of wealth manager Gerber Kawasaki, and discusses the potential benefits of being a private company rather than a publicly traded one. Also in the programme, Ryanair has cancelled 250 flights this week after German pilots said they would strike on Friday. Marcus Wahl is vice president of the German pilots union, and tells us what his members are angry about. In the ongoing row over fake news, Facebook maintains that it is not a publisher, but a mere conduit for others' information. We ask Dr Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute whether that stance is correct. We have a report from Pakistan looking at the economic health of the country, as former cricketer Imran Khan prepares to become the country's prime minister. Plus as new research from North Carolina State University indicates that all-female film casts contribute less to box office takings than male stars, film critic and president of the UK Critics' Circle, Anna Smith, discusses the finding.

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