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It's emerged that the former FBI Director James Comey wrote an internal memorandum before he was sacked, describing a conversation in the Oval Office in which he says the President asked him to hold off on the investigation into the former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn. Is the President of the United States guilty of the crime of obstruction of justice? We ask Professor Erwin Chereminsky, Dean of the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine.

The formal announcement of party manifestoes ahead of the UK election has begun. We'll be running a series of interviews with representatives of all the leading parties and we start with Labour, whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, unveiled what he called a radical and responsible plan for government. The 麻豆约拍's Susannah Streeter has been speaking to Peter Dowd, incumbent Labour MP for Bootle in North-West England.

In Hong Kong a piece of land currently occupied by a modest multi-storey car park has been sold for three billion dollars. We hear from Peter MacLean, a London-based property developer and real estate expert.

We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and cross to Taiwan and the 麻豆约拍's Cindy Sui who tells us about the impact on the country of WannaCry ransomeware.

Computer company Hewlett-Packard has unveiled a revolutionary new machine which it says can handle tasks at speeds thousands of times faster than the prehistoric gizmos we all carry around with us. They call it memory-driven computing and it uses light instead of chips. All is explained by Mark Potter, Chief Technology Officer at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

With us throughout the programme is Shalini Mahtani in Hong Kong. She's co-founder and Chair of the Zubin Foundation. And Andy Uhler, reporter with our US counterpart Marketplace, joins us from LA.

Picture description: Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing on the FBI on Capitol Hill May 3, 2017
Picture credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images