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Greek talks in disarray after IMF chief's arrest.

We look at the IMF chief's arrest, the latest request by UK Music to improve the number of overseas tourists coming to the UK and the ITEM Club's take on consumer confidence.

Eurozone finance ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the bailouts of Portugal and Greece, but one man who won't be going is Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund. On Sunday he was charged by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid, which he denies. We speak to Ngaire Woods, at Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University.

 

UK Music, the body that represents Britain's commercial music industry, says that the UK should be doing more to attract greater numbers of overseas tourists to watch live music. Feargal Sharkey, former singer with the Undertones and now CEO of UK Music joins us.

 

The economic forecaster The Ernst & Young ITEM Club has released a one off report on consumer confidence. Andrew Goodwin, senior economic advisor to the club tells us more.

 

Sony has begun to restore its Playstation network in Europe and the United States after a serious security breach almost a month ago. Rob Enderle, technology analyst at the Enderle Group joins us.

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