Donald Trump's Business Experience

The business skills of America's next president, Donald Trump, will soon face the stern test of boosting the US economy. Is the new American leader truly a successful businessman and will he keep his economic promises? We hear from Roger Bootle, the founder of Capital Economics and Mark Fisher at the Washington Post, an author of a biography on Donald Trump.

There has been chaos outside banks in India, after the prime minister made the surprise announcement that the government was cancelling high denomination currency notes. Banks have run out of cash and police have been called to deal with chaos, as customers rushed to exchange cash for new legal tender bills. The aim of the move is to stop tax dodging by people and businesses that hoard cash. The BBC's Rahul Tandon reports on developments in Kolkata and Madhavan Narayahan, a senior editor at the Hindustan Times, tells us if the measure to introduce new currency bills will achieve its aim of cracking down on the black economy.

The so-called "hound of Hounslow" has pleaded guilty in a Chicago courtroom to helping trigger the Wall Street "flash crash" of 2010. Almost a trillion dollars was wiped off the value of the US stock market when it suddenly fell a thousand points, before recovering a short time later. Navinder Sarao lost his battle against extradition from the UK to the US and had faced charges that could have seen him sentenced to a maximum of 380 years in jail. Damian Lazarus, who is following the case for the Wall Street Journal, tells us more about the legal proceedings and the defence strategy of Navinder Sarao.

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