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World Service,05 Feb 2015,28 mins
Greek and German Financial Leaders Go Head to Head
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
Greece's new finance minister has urged Germany to help end the "gross indignity" of the Greek debt crisis amid signs of a standoff after talks between Yanis Varoufakis and his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble. Also in the programme: is Ukraine edging closer to bankruptcy? Its currency falls 30% in a single day after the central bank hikes interest rates. Twitter's financial results are out today - CEO Dick Costolo admits the social media giant still has a long way to go in defeating internet trolls. And one is six Japanese workers took no leave from work in 2013 - we find out why the government thinks forcing workers to take some leave will encourage more women to enter the workplace.
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