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The US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign Minister meet as tensions simmer over Syria. We talk to Thomas Wright from the Brookings Institution in Washington about what's been said.

Virtual Reality is fast becoming the next big thing in entertainment, but are there more serious reasons to don a set of goggles and immerse yourself in a computer-generated world? The 麻豆约拍's Dave Harvey has been to the VR World Congress to find out.

It has roots way back in the seventeenth century, and it's been used in its current form to measure the wealth of countries since the 1940s. But is GDP still relevant in the 21st century? Lorenzo Fioramonti is the author of 'The World After GDP' and he tells us why he thinks the system is flawed.

It's unquestionably been a bad few days for United Airlines. After a video showing a passenger being forcibly ejected from his seat went viral online, the situation became something of a PR disaster for the firm. We talk to branding expert Simon Mainwaring of the We First consultancy, and see what he would advise United to do.

Discussing those stories with Roger Hearing are Rosie Blau, China correspondent for the economist in Beijing, and Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland in the US.

(Picture: Rex Tillerson and Sergei Lavrov shake hands, Credit: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)