Fox Bid for Sky Challenged by Comcast

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US TV giant Comcast has bid for Sky, exceeding an existing offer from 21st Century Fox. Stephen Taylor of telecom and media strategy consultants Redshift tells us why Comcast is interested in the Sky media empire. Also in the programme, we have a report from Sierra Leone on how prostitutes in the country are exploited by wealthy individuals. A court in Germany has ruled that cities can ban diesel cars from their streets, in a bid to cut air pollution. We get reaction from Arne Fellermann of Friends of the Earth Germany, and Johannes Boos from the German automobile club ADAC. The Japanese authorities say they have detained nearly 100 asylum-seekers for working illegally. Robin Harding from the Financial Times in Tokyo explains the background. Plus with publishing in India growing by 19% a year, the BBC's Rahul Tandon heads to the Kolkata Book Fair to find out what is behind the boom. (Picture: A Sky News studio. Picture credit: Sky.)