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Business Matters: FBI Confirms Trump-Russia Investigation

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21/03/2017 GMT

FBI Confirms Trump-Russia Investigation

BBC World Service - Business Matters, FBI Confirms Trump-Russia Investigation

Did Donald Trump's presidential election campaign have links with the Russian government?

The FBI says it's investigating whether Donald Trump's presidential election campaign had links with the Russian government.

FBI director James Comey has confirmed for the first time that the FBI is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. We get analysis from Courtney Weaver, political correspondent at the Financial Times in Washington.

The number of countries banning meat from Brazil continues to rise, after allegations health inspectors were bribed to allow rotten meat to go on sale. We hear from Neil Shearing at consultancy Capital Economics and Paul Kiernan the Rio de Janeiro correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

Since the last referendum on Scottish independence in September 2014 there's been a new First Minister of Scotland. There's also a new UK Prime Minister.  Brexit is underway and there's a potential second referendum to discuss. Our reporter Dave Howard has been to Scotland's oil centre, Aberdeen, to see the way the Scottish economy has changed since the last referendum.

Google has apologised after adverts from major firms and government agencies appeared next to extremist content on its YouTube website. The big UK retailer Marks and Spencer has become the latest firm to pull its online ads over the issue. We hear from Paul Smith, director-general of ISBA which represents British advertisers.

Our weekly commentator Lucy Kellaway, of the Financial Times, is on her final countdown. Later this year she'll leave journalism to start a new career as a maths teacher. They say that a change is as good as a rest but Lucy says her decision to move on goes deeper than that.

We look at the business stories gripping other parts of the globe with the BBC's Rahul Tandon in the Indian city of Kolkata.

And we're joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific; in New York, José Martín, a radical organizer and researcher of social unrest and David Kuo of the Motley Fool website, who's in Singapore.

Picture description: James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), testifies during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing concerning Russian meddling in the 2016 United States election.
Photo credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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