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Business Matters: Ambassador's murder will not divide us, say Russia and Turkey

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20/12/2016 GMT

Ambassador's murder will not divide us, say Russia and Turkey

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Ambassador's murder will not divide us, say Russia and Turkey

Russia stands alongside Turkey, despite the murder of their Ambassador in Ankara

Russian stands with Turkey, despite the murder of their Ambassador in Ankara; IMF board expresses confidence in Christine Lagarde after negligence verdict; Cyrus Mistry resigns.

Despite the murder of the Russian Ambassador in Turkey by a serving police officer, both sides are pledging solidarity and promising this will not derail peace efforts in Syria. Terri Schulz, a reporter based in Brussels explains why the two nations with such fraught recent relations are standing side by side.

The board of the IMF has expressed its confidence in Managing Director Christine Lagarde, after she was found guilty of negligence at a trial in France. The judgement relates to an arbitration payment she awarded when she was France's finance minister. With help from French lawyer Stephane Bonifassi we pick apart the judgement while Shawn Donnan of the Financial Times puts the IMF's statement in context. 

The former chairman of India's most important business group, Tata, who was sacked in October, has resigned from all of its listed companies.  But Cyrus Mistry says he will step-up his dispute with the conglomerate's founder, Ratan Tata, over the way the group is run. Rahul Tandon reports from Chennai.

The market for testing cosmetics on animals in China is huge - estimated to be worth around 30 billion dollars annually. Jennifer Pak goes to the southern city of Shenzhen to find out why China is bucking the global trend of moving away from these procedures. 

Plus, can music be a force for good in the workplace?

Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme from Seoul by James Rooney, Chairman of Advanced Capital Partners and from Washington DC by Dave Shaw of Scripps News.

(Picture: Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov Shot Dead In Ankara - Picture credit: Getty Images)

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