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World Business Report: First broadcast 2017/04/10 00:06 GMT: Syria Set To Dominate G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting In Italy

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Syria Set To Dominate G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting In Italy

First broadcast 2017/04/10 00:06 GMT

First broadcast 2017/04/10 00:06 GMT: Syria Set To Dominate G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting In Italy

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Geopolitics to trump trade talks at meeting of top industrialised nations

Geopolitics to trump trade talks at meeting of top industrialised nations as US Secretary of State takes hard line on Russia over Syrian chemical attack

As foreign ministers from the world's seven top economies meet in Lucca, Italy, tensions are rising between the group and Russia over Syria. We talk to Athanasios Vamvakidis from Bank of America Merrill Lynch about why the meeting is so important.

The first freight train to transport goods from the UK to China leaves DP World London Gateway Port on Monday on a 7,500 mile rail journey. Andrew Grantham, from Railway Gazette International, tells us how this further extends China's revival of the ancient silk road trade route.

We hear about innovative homegrown tech products in China from the BBC's Jennifer Pak in Shenzen.

And Christie Viljoen, an economist at KPMG in Capetown, gives us his thoughts on why many foreign investors think President Zuma and his South African government colleagues are mismanaging the economy.

(Picture: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Credit:Reuters)

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