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World Service,12 Dec 2018,53 mins

Fatal Shooting in Strasbourg, France

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We report on the latest developments on a fatal shooting in Strasbourg, France. Also in the programme, Google’s CEO, Sunder Pichai is answering questions to Congress members regarding many of its operations, including in China. We speak to reporter at Recode, Shirin Ghaffary, on the reception the tech giant is getting. Taiwanese businesses are heading back home from mainland China - it is partly about tariffs, but there is more to the story. We also look at a Huawei arrest in Canada - and what seems like a tit-for-tat detention in China, as the telecoms firm’s woes deepen. We'll ask why the world has forgotten about a country in which people are still dying - Libya, where cities are still under siege, despite it being nearly 8 years after western governments helped overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. We discuss all this with guests Nisid Hajari, Asia Editor for Bloomberg View in Bangkok, and Ralph Silva of the Silva Research Network in Toronto. (Image: Police stand in the streets of Strasbourg, eastern France, after a shooting breakout, on December 11, 2018. Credit: Sebastien Bozon / AFP / Getty Images)

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