Rex Tillerson: Trump's New Secretary of State

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Russia is welcoming Donald Trump's appointment of an oil man as America's top diplomat. But not everyone is impressed, as Philip Bump from the Washington Post tells us. Also in the programme, Italy's biggest bank Unicredit has announced a plan to stabilise its finances. Our regular economic commentator Roger Bootle of Capital Economics considers the health of the country's banking sector. West African leaders are trying to persuade Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh to step down after he lost the election earlier this month. We find out more from Dr Marloes Janson of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Qatar says it's introducing reforms to a controversial sponsorship system that forces foreign workers to seek their employer's consent to change jobs or leave the country. We get reaction from James Lynch of Amnesty International. Plus the BBC's Coletta Smith reports from Reykjavik, Iceland, on the country's place at the head of a global league table for gender equality. (Picture: Rex Tillerson. Picture credit: Getty Images.)