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Gamestop has posted its 9th consecutive quarter sales loss. However its e-commerce sales jumped 175% in the last quarter. Wall Street Journal’s technology reporter Sarah Needleman talks us through the rise of Gamestop and why the company has not lived up to expectations. Sixteen black families living in a suburb of Chicago are to be given twenty-five thousand dollars each, in the first reparation for housing discrimination ever carried out in the United States. The families live in Evanston – an area that has pledged to distribute ten million dollars over a decade. Robin Rue Simmons, the Alderman of Evanston’s Fifth Ward led the campaign. She discusses how this is just the beginning of a broader reparations movement for African Americans as restitution for centuries of slavery and discrimination. Also in the programme, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Justin Rowlatt explores whether China is on the verge of taking a tougher stance against coal, both at home and abroad. Plus from Delhi, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Arunoday Mukharji reports on the rise of the electric motorbike.
Joining us to discuss these stories and more is Jyoti Malhotra, Editor of National & Strategic Affairs website, The Print in Delhi and Marketplace reporter Andy Uhler in Austin, Texas.

(Picture: Gamestop store in Jackson Heights, New York. Picture credit: Reuters.)