China hits back in US trade war

Beijing has responded to new US tariffs on Chinese imports by promising to impose its own on $60bn worth of American products – including agricultural produce and machinery. We’ll hear from a pecan farmer who used to send nearly two thirds of his nuts to China, and ask whether it’s American or Chinese consumers who are going to suffer the most.

Also in the programme: the explorer who found a plastic bag in the deepest place in the ocean; and why Hindu nationalism is on the rise in some parts of India.

(Picture: traders on the New York Stock Exchange. Stock markets tumbled on the news of the China-US escalation. Credit: Getty Images)