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16/05/2017 GMT

Trump 'Shared Classified Information with Russia'

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Trump 'Shared Classified Information with Russia'

President Trump gave highly classified information to Russia, says The Washington Post.

The Washington Post has caused ructions by quoting two senior administration officials saying that during a meeting last week in the White House, President Trump gave Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, highly classified information about a planned Islamic State group attack. We hear from our North America correspondent David Willis and Daniel Lippman, co-author of Politico Playbook 

Retailers in the US are in dire straits. In the last few months alone more jobs have been lost in retail than exist in the entire coal industry. After years of steady recovery and a pick up in wages, the future for main street looks bleak as the BBC's Samira Hussain reports.

The World Health Organisation is charged with trying to raise standards of health care around the world. We hear from one of the three shortlisted candidates for the post of Director General, Dr David Nabarro who gained international fame as a special envoy for the WHO's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year. 

The fallout continues from the Ransomware computer virus; we hear from Adam Kujawa, director of Malware Intelligence at the cybersecurity company Malwarebytes. 

How do you describe yourself on your CV? Disruptive? Innovative? A leader? If so, be warned as our regular commentator Lucy Kellaway of The Financial Times is not impressed.

We cross to Kolkata in India to hear from the BBC's Rahul Tandon on how the Ransomware attack has affected the country.

And we're joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - in New York, Julia Powles, technology policy expert at Cornell Tech and in Delhi, Jyoti Malhotra, Consulting Editor at The Indian Express.

(Picture: U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Crown Prince Shaikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office of the White House. Photo credit: Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)

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