Is America on the mend?

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There's less than 24 hours to go before the head of the US central bank could announce a wind-down of quantitative easing. If Ben Bernanke does end the process of pumping money into the US economy - does this mean the American economy is on the mend? The BBC's Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders reports from Baltimore. Engineers in Italy have succeeded in righting the capsized cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, twenty months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio. The operation to roll the luxury ship onto a salvage platform took all day and most of the night. We talk to Andrew Bardot from the International Group of Protection and Indemnity Clubs about the operation. Plus, we speak to Zainal Bava, CEO of Portugal Telecom and one of Brazil's largest telecoms companies Oi and discuss how europe compares as an operating environment for the telecoms business compared with the rest of the world? Our special guests are Jinha Lee is speaking to us from Seoul in South Korea where he's an Interface designer and engineer at Samsung a technologist and from Toronto we speak to journalist Lee Carter.