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More fatalities are left in the wake of Hurricane Irma as the Virgin Islands begin a process of rescue and recovery. We speak to natural hazards expert at insurance company Swiss Re, Megan Linkin, who evaluates the damage and rebuilding costs of this record-breaking hurricane.

We look at acute poverty in one of the world's wealthiest economies. Parts of rural Alabama have such basic sanitation and minimal infrastructure that sewage overflow has led to a problem which was thought to have been completely eradicated in America - hookworm. We hear more from the author of the latest report on the problem.

2016 was an exceptionally good year for British music exports, says BPI, which represents the interests of British record companies. Michael Bonner from UNCUT magazine explains why exports were up 11% in 2016.

All this with live guests Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in Washington DC, and Sushma Ramachandran, former Business Editor of The Hindu in Delhi.

(Image: Hurricane Irma on a weather satellite. Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images)