Asia's Leaders Meet in Vietnam
We hear the latest from the APEC summit in Vietnam, where the focus on business and economics leads the agenda
We hear the latest from the APEC summit in Vietnam, where the focus on business and economics leads the agenda. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Karishma Vaswani is there and tells us more about what is expected from China and Japan - but also how the US is involved.
Illegal fishing is threatening livelihoods in west Africa. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Joshua Thorpe looks at the daily lives of those involved, and what drives them to do it.
And as Delhi suffers a pollution crisis yet again, we look at how damaging air affects indoors too. A device called 'airbubbl' allows people to clean inside our vehicles too - we speak to its founder Sophie Power, and her young daughter, who inspired her creation.
We discuss this all with experts Ralph Silva of the Silva Research Network in Toronto, and Yuan Yang of the Financial Times in Beijing.
(Image: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, centre, arrives at the international airport ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang. Credit: Ye Aung Thu / AFP / Getty Images)
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