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World Service,13 Nov 2014,28 mins
Clinical trials to find ebola treatment to start next month
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
The medical charity MSF will start clinical trials to find an ebola treatment next month. Also, online retailer Amazon UK seeks experts to develop a drone-based delivery service. Amazon's Prime Air will use small drones to deliver packages up to 2.3kg in weight to customers within 30 minutes of an order being placed. Plus, we have a report from Indonesia where the biggest infrastructure project in Asia is underway. Forty billion dollars is being spent to protect the capital Jakarta from flooding. Whenever there's a particularly high tide or heavy rain, thousands of homes are swamped by a mixture of mud and water. But the thirty-two kilometre long giant sea wall that's being built is not supported by everyone. Environmental groups have called it a government vanity project.
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