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21/09/2019 GMT

US troops to Saudi Arabia

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US sending troops to Saudi to protect oil fields; anti-immigrant violence in South Africa

US sending troops to Saudi Arabia to protect oil fields; anti-immigrant violence in South Africa

The US is sending hundreds of troops to Saudi Arabia to protect its oil fields from another attack.

Also in the programme:  Smoke from forest fires in Borneo is spreading across Indonesia, but the government seems ill-equipped to control the criminals who are setting the rain forest alight.

Plus, in South Africa violence against migrants from the rest of the Continent raises questions of whether the country can cope.

Joining Julian Woricker to discuss these and other issues are Loretta Napoleoni, Italian-born author and economist, and David Robert Grimes, Irish cancer researcher, physicist and science writer.

(Image: Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Credit: Getty Images)

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