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World Service,06 Dec 2014,55 mins

Russia 'Behaving as Terrorist State'

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The president of Lithuania says Russia is acting like a terrorist state - we speak to President Dalia Grybauskaite to ask her why she thinks so. As wages remain low in the US and Europe, we find out that this has a lot to do with corporate penny pinching. The Vatican has suddenly found millions of Euro in 'off balance sheets' - but we ask why it raises more questions than answers. We have a report on gentrification in the US, and what the pros and cons are. Finally, how is it possible for a four-year-old app to be valued at $40 billion? We ask how ride booking app Uber became more valuable than some of the world's biggest airlines. All this with our guest Ralph Silva, a markets and financial analyst based in Toronto.

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