Comey to Say Trump Demanded His Loyalty

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The former FBI director, James Comey, is set to testify to Congress that President Trump asked for his loyalty a few months before firing him. The opening statement of Mr Comey's evidence to the Senate Intelligence Committee has been published online. His appearance on Thursday has been eagerly anticipated - given the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia. We have analysis on America's reaction to the revelations. In Sri Lanka, expensive infrastructure projects are lying unused, even as the country is weighed down by Chinese loans it took to build them. The economy is struggling with a debt crisis and so the Sri Lankan government is now being forced to hand control of some of the projects to China. This is being fiercely opposed by people in some parts of the country. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports from Sri Lanka. Brazil's economy has just emerged from the longest recession in its history, but its politics seems about to lurch back into chaos Michel Temer, the man leading the country since the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is himself now on trial before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal which could remove him from office as well. Our South American Business Reporter, Daniel Gallas investigates. And throughout, our two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Peter Morici, professor of international business at the university of Maryland- who's in Washington, and journalist Puja Mehra in Delhi. (Photo: President Trump and James Comey. Credit: Reuters.)