As Hawaii tries to deal with a catastrophic wildfire that has taken 36 lives, we hear how the tourism industry there is trying to evacuate and protest staff and visitors.

Prices in the US rose to 3.2% compared to July last year, following 13 months of falls after peaking at 9.1 percent last June.

The increase is due partly to higher housing and food costs.

Although inflation has drifted down from last summer's 40 year high, but it's still well above what the Federal Reserve thinks of as normal prices.

President Joe Biden has banned major US investors from putting money into some Chinese firms making advanced semi-conductors, or developing quantum computing or artificial intelligence technology. We find out what this restriction means for the Chinese economy?

Entertainment giant Disney has reported losses that shows declines of its television and movie businesses. We get the latest on future of the company.

And Mexican-American musician Sixto Rodriguez who is best known for his song Sugar Man has passed away. Mr Rodriguez failed to achieve commercial success in the US but years later his music developed a cult following overseas. We reflect back on his career.

It's often said that if America sneezes, the world catches a cold. That now must be true of China - the worlds second largest economy.

China's economy is struggling with falling prices - or deflation.

The main inflation measure has turned negative for the first time since the pandemic.

Brazil's President Lula is hosting a summit in Belém, northern Brazil alongside seven other nations that share the Amazon. This is in a bid to save it and bring it out of economic turmoil.

The Taiwanese chipmaker, TSMC, is to open a new semiconductor factory in Germany, strongly boosting Europe's microchip industry. The firm, which already controls more than half the world's semiconductor output, will put over three billion dollars into the facility in Dresden. We take a look at how important this is for the two economies.

And the Federal Reserve reports that U.S. credit card debt has hit $1 trillion for the first time toward the end of July. We find out what it means for US consumers and the country.

US trucking company Yellow has filed for bankruptcy and will be closing down. The company had received a $700mn Covid-19 relief loan from the Trump administration during the summer of 2020. So will the loan be repaid? And what does it mean for the 30,000 workers expected to lose their jobs?

Also Roger Hearing finds out why Matt Healy from the British band The 1975 has been threatened with legal action by the Good Vibes Festival in Malaysia.

We find out how much is expected to be at stake. And apparently Americans are eating their burgers and fries at home, in their cars and at the office. In fact anywhere but at the fast-food restaurants themselves. McDonald’s, Burger King want big investments in eating areas, prompting pushback from franchisees.

The largely Saudi Government owned oil producer saw a 38% drop to $30 billion for the second quarter.

That's compared to this time last year, when prices surged following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The company said it was because of lower crude oil prices and smaller margins in refining and chemicals.

Employment in the US held steady last month, bolstering hopes that the economy will avoid a painful downturn. Latest job figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show employers added 187,000 jobs while the jobless rate dropped to 3.5%. Chris Low, Chief Economist at FHN Financial in New York and Julia Pollak Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter, in California, discuss what this could mean for the US economy.

Plus in the latest part of our series on immigration, presenter Leanna Byrne speaks to Shannon K.O’Neil, a Latin American expert and vice-president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in the US, about how inflation and increasing political pressures are pushing more people to leave countries such as Argentina and Venezuela and head north to the US in search of a better life.

Alberta in Canada has withdrawn its bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games. It follows a decision last month by the Australian state of Victoria to pull out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games. Both say that the event is simply too expensive - and would cost as much as $2bn. We speak to the CEO of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games about the impact of this.

An amateur rapper and her husband have pleaded guilty to trying to launder $4.5bn (£3.5bn) of Bitcoin that he had stolen in a hack in 2016. Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested last year in New York. We find out how they manged that heist.

And we look at "Emancipendence" celebrations in Jamaica as it come to a climax. The day commemorates the abolition of slavery in not just Jamaica but the British Empire. We hear what this day has meant for the economic development of Jamaica.

The world’s two biggest tech companies Apple and Amazon deliver their much anticipated latest results - we discuss what the numbers mean.

In India the government has announced restrictions on electrical goods such as laptops, tablets and phones - we look at the reasons why and what impact the move could have.

And seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady becomes the latest sporting legend to buy a share of a British soccer club - taking a minority stake in Birmingham City FC.