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Spain's richest region Catalonia prepares to declare independence from Madrid. The Spanish political commentator and author Miguel-Anxo Murado tells us what the mood is like in Barcelona. Also in the programme, Britain's Monarch Airlines has collapsed leaving more than 100,000 passengers overseas. The British aviation expert Julian Bray tells us about the airline's difficulties. As international business students are deterred by Donald Trump's immigration policies from studying in the US, we visit a British university picking up some of the slack. Sugar producers in the Caribbean fear for their future as the EU scraps quotas. We find out more from Karl James, chairman of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean, and Gareth Forber of commodity research firm LMC. Plus we hear about the challenge faced by the residents of Kiruna, a Swedish town that needs to move to make way for an iron ore mine.

(Picture: Catalans gather to hear the referendum result. Picture credit: Getty Images.)