Trump and Clinton Spar over Tax and Trade

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Tax and trade deals are two areas that clearly differentiate the competing candidates. Our economic commentator Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute assesses last night's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And whilst Donald Trump criticised the NAFTA free trade deal which links the US to Mexico, we have a report from the BBC's Joe Miller on the border between the two countries, where he finds that a complex web of cross-border economic links is sustaining the local economy. Also in the programme, Nigeria's government is getting a $4bn loan from the African Development Bank to invest in farming and power infrastructure. Dr Judith Tyson of the Overseas Development Institute explains the significance of the deal. There have been violent clashes in China between police and protesters over the collapse of a peer-to-peer lending company, as the BBC's Robin Brant reports from Shanghai. Plus we find out about a new airport that was supposed to bring tourists and money to the remote island of St Helena, which has been deemed unsafe for landings, perhaps indefinitely, owing to high winds. Mike Olsson of the St Helena Independent newspaper explains the background, and Derek Richards of Island Images, a local tour company, tells us about the impact the lack of promised new tourists is having on local businesses. (Picture: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the first presidential debate. Picture credit: Getty Images.)