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World Business Report: First broadcast 2017/06/01 22:32 GMT: US Quits Paris Climate Pact

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First broadcast 2017/06/01 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2017/06/01 22:32 GMT: US Quits Paris Climate Pact

US Quits Paris Climate Pact

BBC World Service - World Business Report, US Quits Paris Climate Pact

President Trump has announced the US will leave the pact and seek a 'fairer' deal.

President Donald Trump has announced that the US is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Timothy Coma , Energy and Environment reporter at The Hill in Washington explains why Mr Trump chose to go down this route and how it may be received in America.

Also in the programme, new anti-bribery legislation has come into force in France. We find out more from Lisa Osofsky, who's a former deputy general counsel of the FBI, and is now at the London consultancy Exiger. 

Black Crows is a new television drama made and shown by Saudi Arabia's MBC channel. It is set among families living under the rule of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and the harsh treatment they receive. Storylines include women being turned into sex-slaves, child soldiers being recruited and a woman travelling to IS territory to become a jihadi bride. MBC spokesman Mazen Hayek discusses one of the channels most costly dramas in more detail. 


Some Premier League footballers are asking to be paid in euros rather than pounds to mitigate the effects of the decline in the value of sterling, after last year's Brexit vote. 

Keiran McGuire is a football finance expert at Liverpool University, and tells us how much sympathy he has for those affected. Plus the BBC's Rob Young hears from hi-tech British businesses who fear for the consequences of Britain's coming split with the European Union.

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