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World Service,14 Aug 2018,53 mins

Turkey Acts to Curb Currency Crisis

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Turkey's stock market and currency have declined amid ongoing financial turmoil. Aaron David Miller, Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and former State Department adviser sheds more light on US role in the Turkish economic crisis. Also in the programme, following Friday's court ruling that Monsanto should pay $289m in damages to a man whose lawyers argued his cancer was caused by its glyphosate-based pesticides, we hear from one of the attorney's Brent Wisner from Baum, Hedlund Law. Also, Scott Partridge, vice-president of global strategy at Monsanto tells us he believes the product is safe. Our regular workplace commentator, Pilita Clark of the Financial Times explores the mysterious phenomenon of 'ghosting', where the perfect job hire doesn't turn up for their first day of work. Also how 'liveable' is your city? We hear a report on how to calculate how 'liveable' various cities are. David Moser of the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing, and Alexander Kaufmann, Huff Post Business and Environment reporter in New York join Roger Hearing to discuss. (Picture: Turkish lira in a till. Picture credit: Reuters.)

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