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Saudi Announces Budget Amid Oil Price Tumble
Reacting to the oil price slump Saudi Arabia's King announces his 2016 budget: spending cuts, a 40% hike in petrol and a drive to raise revenue from taxes and privatisation.
Saudi Arabia announced a record budget deficit of $98 billion for 2015. We talk to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Beijing correspondent, Danny Vincent, as the chairman of one of China's largest state-owned mobile operators, China Telecom, is being investigated by the country's anti-corruption watchdog. And unseasonably warm weather across the northern hemisphere has left some of Europe's biggest resorts short on snow. We talk to Benjamin Blanc, who runs the resort of Val Thorens, in France. (Picture Credit: Waseem Obaidi/Bloomberg via Getty Images.)
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