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Having witnessed last night's 90 minute shouting match, Peter Spiegel, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times discusses the potential impact on the race for the White House and the debates to come. Due to the pandemic lockdown in India, many big budget films, production companies and cinemas have been looking at an uncertain future. But the government has announced that movie theatres will be allowed to run at 50% seating capacity. Sentil Kumar, founder of Qube Cinemas, a digital cinema technology company based in Chennai is feeling hopeful after a tough 6 months. As the first dieselgate trials get underway we have a special report on the scandal's impact on Volkswagen. Plus, the Bank of England's Chief Economist, Andy Haldane has blamed the media for emphasising the bad news about the coronavirus pandemic and has called for more optimism. We ask Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and author of The Optimism Bias, whether being optimistic can make a difference.

All this and more discussed with our two guests throughout the show: communications advisor Ralph Silva, in Toronto and Jeanette Rodrigues from Bloomberg in Mumbai.

(Photo: President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden at the first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio. Credit: Getty Images.)