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07/12/2010

Toxic sludge

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Who has been held to account for Hungary's toxic sludge spill which killed ten people?

Who has been held to account for Hungary's toxic sludge spill which killed ten people? 
The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports. Plus, a fall in global poverty, and why the cycling industry is riding high.

Enquiries are continuing into the toxic red sludge that engulfed several Hungarian towns at the start of October. It flooded out of a reservoir after an accident at an aluminium oxide plant southwest of Budapest.  Ten people died and more than 100 were injured by the sludge, which contained heavy metals such as arsenic, and was toxic if ingested. 

The BBC's Nick Thorpe reports, on attempts to hold those responsible to account. 

Plus, a report from IFAD, a United Nations agency, has revealed 350 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty in the last decade. Lesley Curwen talks to IFAD's president, Kanayo Nwanze about how small farmers might improve production to meet ambitious targets for feeding the world.

Fiona Dent of Ashridge Business School gives advice on how to get another job after you've been sacked, and the BBC's Jamie Robertson voices his opinions about the changing face of the cycling industry and the rise of MAMIL, Middle-Aged Men in Lycra.

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