Rising violence in eastern Ukraine has prompted the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine to convene an emergency summit to try to halt the fighting; at the same time Kiev's talks with its creditors are at a critical point. Ben Hall discusses the twin crises with Neil Buckley and Elaine Moore.

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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, has been forced on the defensive over stinging allegations about the retail company's management style. Matthew Vincent talks to Hannah Kuchler, FT correspondent in San Francisco, about the allegations and the differences in work culture between Seattle and Silicon Valley.

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Iraq’s prime minister has responded to a wave of street protests by launching a sweeping overhaul of government to tackle corruption and strengthen his own powers. Fiona Symon asks the FT’s Middle East correspondent Erika Soloman whether he can succeed where previous efforts have failed.

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Henry Mance reviews Google's transformation from a profitable search engine to a tech conglomerate, China's decision to devalue its currency and the abuse of migrants by British employers, and talks to Andrew Hill, management editor about the best business books of the year.

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Is China's renminbi devaluation a move towards liberalisation or a desperate bid to halt the country's economic slowdown? Ben Hall discusses the move with James Kynge and Gabriel Wildau.

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Google has announced a broad restructuring which sees the US technology company renamed Alphabet and puts its internet search business into a subsidiary company. Matthew Vincent asks Richard Waters why Google has decided to reinvent itself.

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China's island building in the South China Sea has led to friction with countries that share maritime borders around the sea and with the US which remains the dominant power in the region. James Kynge asks Charles Clover, FT correspondent in Beijing, how China has reacted to the criticism.

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Students who fail in the first round of recruitment after leaving education in Japan are excluded from the country's lifetime employment system and condemned to a precarious life of temporary contracts and part time work. Robin Harding, FT Tokyo correspondent, talks to one of them

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Henry Mance rounds up this week's news with a look at London's Garrick Club, Obama's plan to combat climate change, and the first banker to be jailed for rigging rates.

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In an excerpt from this week's episode of FT Alphachat, host Cardiff Garcia is joined by Alphaville colleague Matt Klein and FT reporter Anna Nicolaou to discuss Prime Minister Stephen Harper's call for an election as the country is threatened by recession.

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