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World Service,27 Nov 2014,55 mins

Hope for Ebola Vaccine

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth from the Manhattan Institute and Jonathan Cheng from the Wall Street Journal in Seoul discuss the day's stories with Fergus Nicoll. We hear news that human trials of a vaccine to combat Ebola have proved promising, the BBC's Kamal Ahmed talks to the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline which is behind the medicine. Plus, ahead of a meeting of the oil producers cartel, Opec, we ask Gianna Bern from the University of Notre Dame Indiana why it's so hard to guess what the group will do about oil supplies. The European Union wants to break up internet giant Google, Spanish MEP Ramon Tremosa and James Waterworth, vice-president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association give us their views on Europe's plans. We go to St Louis, Missouri to hear from businesses affected by the latest protests against the lack of action by authorities following the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in Ferguson. And we'll hear from New Zealand about the latest down in the up and down story of German-born internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.

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