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Obama criticises US bank bonuses

President Barack Obama has reacted angrily to reports that US bank executives paid themselves $18bn (�12.6bn) in bonuses last year.

He said that at a time when taxpayers money was being used to bail out the financial services industry, bonuses were shameful.

Russell Trott reports.

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