French Military Head Quits Over Cuts

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The head of the French armed forces has quit after a clash with President Macron. The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris tells us how an argument over funding led to the resignation. Also in the programme, India's aviation minister Gajapati Raju tells us why his government's patience has run out with Air India, the country's loss-making national airline. After a surprise fall in the rate of inflation in the UK, our regular commentator Roger Bootle from Capital Economics tells us whether an interest rate rise is on the cards any time soon. The BBC's Michelle Fleury reports on how drug companies have been introducing eye-watering price increases. Plus the BBC's John Sudworth in Beijing tells us about suspicions that the popular messaging app WhatsApp may have fallen foul of Chinese censors. (Picture: Emmanuel Macron and Gen Pierre de Villiers. Picture credit: AFP.)