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World Service,30 Jan 2018,53 mins

CIA Head Expects Russia to Interfere in the Mid-Term Elections

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On the eve of Donald Trump's key State of the Union address, the head of the CIA has warned that Moscow will try to disrupt this year's mid-term US elections. Secondly, the deputy head of the FBI has stood down, ahead of his retirement, after reports of friction between him and the President. There has been an uproar in Germany over revelations that carmakers paid for a research group to carry out vehicle emissions tests on monkeys and on a group of humans as well. We look into ethics of such experiments. Can Indonesian city of Bandung become the next Silicon Valley? And holidaying in a slum - a good way of experiencing real life, of exploitative poverty tourism? Presenter Roger Hearing is joined by Delhi-based journalist and writer, Madhavan Narayanan and Kathrine Mangu Ward, editor in chief of Reason magazine in Washington.

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