Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,27 Aug 2016,49 mins

Rate Rise Case 'Strengthening' Says Yellen

Big Boss Interview

Available for over a year

The head of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, says the case for raising US interest rates again has "strengthened", but do the financial markets believe her? Meanwhile, outside the meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where her comments were made a demonstration by a group called "Fed Up" protests that the economic recovery in the US has passed a lot of people by. We hear from the group's spokesman, Jordan Haedtler. Bolivia's deputy interior minister, Rodolfo Illanes, is kidnapped and killed whilst attempting to mediate with striking miners. We talk to Dan Collins, a reporter covering the story from neighbouring Peru. Flaws are discovered in Apple's iOS operating system that make it possible to install spyware on someone's phone merely by getting them to click on a link. Apple says it's now fixed the problem but how can we be sure there aren't other flaws that are potentially putting sensitive information at risk? Can Brazil expect the tourists to stay after the bright lights of the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been turned off? We speak to Vinicius Lummertz, president of Embratur, Brazil's tourist board. We're joined throughout the programme by Danny Samson, from the University of Melbourne, in Australia. (Picture: US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images)

Programme Website
More episodes