Yellen Signals March Rate Rise

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The Chair of the Federal Reserve indicates a potential rise in US interest rates later in March if the economy stays on track. Janet Yellen also says that the central bank is likely to raise rates more quickly than over the past two years. We look at what this is likely to mean for the US economy. As China's leaders prepare for the National People's Congress this weekend, we'll assess what Xi Jinping has and hasn't achieved during his first five years as president. Government help in The Philippines is enabling one man to create some revolutionary aids for disabled people. We find out how artificial intelligence can take images from a smartphone and describe the world around them to a visually impaired person. Nintendo launch a brand new console, the Switch, but will sales match their big successes of the past? Our reporter Will Bain has been trying it out. And in the first of a new feature 'Trumponomics', BBC correspondents pick over a week in the life of the US president. Fergus Nicoll is joined by Peter Ryan, ABC's Senior Business Correspondent in Sydney. (Photo: Janet Yellen. Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)