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World Service,14 Feb 2022,26 mins

Ukraine tensions heighten

World Business Report

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Amid warnings from the West that time really is running out, the G7 group of nations has reiterated that it is ready to impose sanctions on Russia if it sends troops over the border; we hear from Oleg Chernyak who is based in Ukraine's second city, close to the Russian border. Plenty of companies talk about net zero campaign organisation Share Action, says many are failing to fulfil pledges, with a large number of the world's biggest banks continuing to fund oil and gas expansion programmes; we hear from Kevin Anderson, a leading British Climate Scientist. The Indian government has decided to ban more than fifty Chinese mobile apps, saying they pose a threat to the country's security; we get the details from Amit Bhandari, a senior fellow for energy investment and connectivity at Gateway House. One billion of the world's population have some form of disability - the BBC's Tamasin Ford has been speaking to some of the people working to end disability exclusion. An energy firm in Britain has apologised after mistakenly sending out compensation cheques worth several trillion dollars to some people hit by power cuts during a storm last year. So how common is this - we ask Olga Kolokolova, senior finance lecturer in finance at the Manchester Business School. (Picture of the Ukrainian flag via Getty Images).

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