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Sanctions Hit Russia's Financial Markets

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

Markets in Moscow have fallen sharply after the latest sanctions announced by the US. Aluminium giant Rusal is among the worst affected, losing more than 40% of its value. We hear from Chris Weafer of Macro-Advisory Ltd, which advises companies on doing business in Russia and we get further analysis from Pulitzer prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum.

China has dispatched the largest naval fleet it has ever sent in to the South China Sea. At the same time, an American aircraft carrier strike group has also entered the South China Sea. We hear from Rupert Wingfield Hayes who was one of a small group of journalists flown aboard the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt this weekend as it sailed in to the South China Sea.

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee will have their chance to grill the Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday. Hannah Kuchler who reports for the Financial Times on Facebook, social media and cyber security speaks to us from San Francisco.

The Spanish state has been accused of being on a mission to suppress freedom of expression. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.

We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and hear from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Cindy Sui in Taiwan.

Roy Orbison is on tour in Britain... as a hologram, Andrew Jenkinson, founder of the interactive technology company V-Stream tells us more.

And joining us throughout the show are Diane Brady, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal writer turned media entrepreneur. She's with us from New York. And David Kuo of the Motley Fool joins us from Singapore.

Photo description: Spires of St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square, Moscow
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Tue 10 Apr 2018 00:06GMT

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