Bananageddon?

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The UN warns of a growing threat to the world's banana crop. It's a fungus that has spread from Asia to Africa and the Middle East, and it is impervious to fungicides. We speak to the head of the United Nations' banana task force. The crisis in Ukraine has dominated world headlines for two months and yet one man insists it's the ideal place to launch a computer language training initiative. Torben Majgaard tells Roger Hearing all about his Ukrainian 'Brain Basket'. You might not immediately associate Morocco with the manufacture of aeroplanes but that could be about to change. The government in Rabat are keen to promote an industry already flourishing in the desert nation. Jeremy Howell travels to Casablanca to find out more. In conversation about the week's main news stories: Diane Brady of Bloomberg Businessweek in New York and Katie Martin of the Wall Street Journal in Europe.