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Business Matters: Impeachment Trial Begins for Brazil's President Rousseff

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26/08/2016 GMT

Impeachment Trial Begins for Brazil's President Rousseff

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Impeachment Trial Begins for Brazil's President Rousseff

Brazil's senate begins the impeachment trial of suspended president Dilma Rousseff.

Brazil's senate begins the impeachment trial of suspended president Dilma Rousseff. She's accused of illegally shifting money between government budgets to mask a yawning deficit.

The impeachment trial of Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff begins. She's accused of illegally shifting money between government budgets to mask a yawning deficit and is widely expected to be removed from office next week. We ask how the political crisis is affecting Brazil's struggling economy just weeks after the fanfare of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

WhatsApp changes its privacy policy and there are concerns users of the popular messaging service could be bombarded by advertisements and spam as a result.

There's been a strong reaction to the Indian government's plan to ban commercial surrogacy - we hear from one woman who carried a baby for a British couple, and another who runs a fertility clinic in Delhi. 

Plus, how can we feel better about our jobs without getting a pay rise, and why are so many of us willing to spend so much on what was once seen as a fast, cheap snack - the burger?

With us throughout are Ralph Silva, of the Silva Research Network in Toronto, and Simon Littlewood, president at Asia Now Consulting Group in Singapore.

(Picture: Dilma Rousseff at a rally of women in defence of democracy in July 2016. Credit: Victor Moriyama, Getty Images)

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