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Business Matters: Jamal Khashoggi case: Mnuchin and Fox quit Saudi summit

Saudi Consul's Istanbul Home Searched Over Khashoggi Disappearance

19/10/2018 GMT

Jamal Khashoggi case: Mnuchin and Fox quit Saudi summit

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Jamal Khashoggi case: Mnuchin and Fox quit Saudi summit

US and UK Trade officials pull out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and UK International Trade Secretary Liam Fox have pulled out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia. Daniel Lipmann of Politico in Washington tells Roger Hearing his thoughts. Online auction site eBay has accused its rival Amazon of poaching sellers illegally, US technology journalist Melissa Jun Rowley tells us more. Roger is joined by Professor Jasper Kim, Ewha University in Seoul and Journalist Diane Brady in New York. Plus we hear about Landspace's ambition to become the first Chinese non-governmental commercial enterprise to launch a satellite to orbit. We ask gender neutral Christie Elan-Cane what she thinks about Kleenex scrapping 'Mansize' tissues.  We speak to the Economist's language columnist Lane Greene about his new book.

(Picture: EU officials boycott Saudi Conference after journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October Picture credit: EPA)

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