Dutch court mandates Shell emissions reduction

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A Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell should reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. Sara Shaw from environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth, which is one of the organisations that brought the case, discusses the background. Also in the programme, online messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, has launched legal action in India to counter a new law there which gives the government greater power to monitor activity online, including on messaging apps. The BBC's Arunoday Mukharji explains the dispute, and Isobel Asher Hamilton, technology reporter at the digital news website Insider, brings us the wider context. Plus, will a craze for a cryptocurrency which was started as a joke, end in tears? The BBC's Ed Butler delves into the world of Dogecoin, and asks why people are investing and what the consequences might be. (Picture: A Shell logo. Picture credit: Getty Images.)