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San Francisco is set to ban the sale of e-cigarettes. But might the ban actually be bad for public health? We speak to Ellen Huet at Bloomberg in San Francisco. Could security issues in the Strait of Hormuz affect international shipping? We speak to Professor Rockford Weitz, Director of the Fletcher Maritime Studies Program at Tufts University. In the US, the head of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell has warned against bending to ‘short-term political interests’. We hear from Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading in New Jersey. The next phase of mobile phone technology, 5G, is on its way across the world. We hear about the concerns that a minority take very seriously. Plus the latest in period drama: Downton Abbey, but set in India in 1795. BBC's Shabnam Mahmood brings us the story. And we're joined throughout the programme by Alexis Goldstein, an activist and financial reform advocate in Washington and Enda Curran from Bloomberg in Hong Kong. Picture description: smoking an e-cigarette Picture credit: Getty Images