Hurricane Matthew Kills Hundreds
A state of emergency is declared in Florida as the US coast braces itself for Hurricane Matthew, which has already caused devastation and hundreds of deaths in Haiti.
The latest from America where a state of emergency is declared in Florida as Hurricane Matthew heads to the US coast. In Haiti the storm's death toll mounts - we hear from both affected areas.
Twitter shares plummet 20 per cent as potential bidders for the social media firm appear to lose interest.
As we get closer to the US elections, the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel speaks with Allan Lichtman, Professor of History at American University in Washington DC, about his method for correctly predicting the winner of every election for three decades and why forecasting this year's race has been more challenging than ever before.
Throughout the programme, Fergus Nicholl is joined by Antonio Garcia Martinez, the author of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley from San Francisco and economist and journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta from Mumbai.
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