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World Service,01 Mar 2017,26 mins

Iraq Likely Removed From New Trump Travel Ban

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US officials told the Associated Press that a new travel ban will exclude Iraqi citizens. A new executive order is expected within days, and we ask Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform what he hopes for in the new order. Also in the programme, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have been banned in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. We find out more from Suhrith Parthasarathy, a lawyer and newspaper columnist based in Chennai. A mobile phone app in China which enables payments between friends has taken the country by storm. The BBC's Jennifer Pak reports from Shenzhen. Footage of ride-hailing app Uber's boss berating one of his company's drivers has been released. Occupational psychologist Jane Clarke from Nicholson McBride tells us whether the technology sector is a fertile ground for executives getting hot under the collar. Plus we talk to Hungarian journalist Daniel Izsak about why Hungary has ended its bid to host the 2024 Olympics. (Picture: Donald Trump signs an executive order. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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