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It's ten years since there was a dramatic run on the British bank Northern Rock. We ask our regular economic commentator Roger Bootle of Capital Economics whether enough lessons have been learned from the event, which marked the start of the financial crisis in the UK. Also in the programme, the US government's federal flood insurance programme is under strain in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. We get analysis from the British environmental author and campaigner, George Monbiot. We have a report from Cologne in Germany, ahead of next week's elections in the country. Plus work begins on a new high speed bullet train to connect Ahmedabad and Mumbai in India. The Indian journalist Jyoti Malhotra looks ahead to the prospect of faster trains in her country.

(Picture: A Northern Rock bank branch. Picture credit: Getty Images.)