China Overhauls Food Safety Laws

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China puts in place drastic new laws to try to stop the rash of food contamination scandals - but do they need something else? We hear from Michael Roberts, a food law expert at UCLA. Indonesia's president tells the BBC's Karishma Vaswani about his efforts to revive his country's economic fortunes. We discuss what Volkswagen's crisis could do to the way we think about cars, with Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation in London. Plus, as David Cameron rules out slavery reparations during a visit to Jamaica, we discuss whether paying for a country's historic misdeeds is a viable option. And we hear from Kurt Wagner of tech site Re/code on Twitter's plans to allow posts longer than 140 characters. Roger Hearing is joined by David Moser - acting director of Chinese studies at CET in Beijing, and Diana Furchtgott-Roth of Economics21 in Washington DC. (Picture: Vegetable vendors carrying their produce to sell in China's southwest metropolis of Chongqing. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)