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Business Matters: Hawaii Files Travel Ban Lawsuit

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09/03/2017 GMT

Hawaii Files Travel Ban Lawsuit

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Hawaii Files Travel Ban Lawsuit

Hawaii says President Trump’s new travel ban is still unconstitutional

A federal judge in Hawaii has allowed the state’s Attorney General to submit an amended lawsuit previously lodged against the president’s first, unsuccessful ban.

The Trump administration's second attempt at a travel ban may be heading the same way as the first. The state of Hawaii which says the revised ban, signed by the president on Monday, violates the US Constitution, has been allowed to update its earlier legal complaint. There's also the question of visa restrictions and we hear from the BBC's Justin Rowlatt who's been looking at the impact on India's vast software industry.

Proposed fracking projects in the south-eastern state of Tamil Nadu in India have prompted large and sustained protests from environmentalists, student supporters and Tamil political groups. We hear from Arun Kaliraja, a member of the May 17 Movement which campaigns for Tamil civil rights in India and Sri Lanka. 

After Brexit and after Trump could the Netherlands produce the next voting shock? The Dutch people go to the polls in a general election next Wednesday and Manuela Saragosa reports from the southern Dutch city of Maastricht.

WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents which it says are classified files lifting the lid on the CIA. They include discussions about turning internet connected Samsung televisions into listening posts. The BBC's Mike Johnson heads to Spymaster, where - if he were real - James Bond might well do his shopping.

We draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world, crossing to Hong Kong and the BBC's Juliana Liu.

And joining us throughout the programme are Sushma Ramachandran in Delhi; she's the former Business Editor of The Hindu and Professor Larry Smith of the University of Waterloo is with us from Toronto. 

Picture description: Palm trees are silhouetted before the sunset sky at Waikiki beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 17, 2016.
Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

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