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The US government has filed charges against Google, accusing it of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. The lawsuit marks the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against a major tech company in years. Google called the case "deeply flawed". We speak with Tim Wu, an American attorney, professor at Columbia Law School and the author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age and also with Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo search engine.

Also in the programme, we will go to Thailand where, despite threats, the protests continue. We look at why the protesters have had enough of the government.

Plus, President Trump's America first policies have involved pressing the reset button on trade relations with the rest of the world, with the aim of bringing jobs back to the US and levelling the playing field between the US and China. We assess whether Mr Trump has achieved what he set out to do.

And - how can the very name of a town put off investors? We hear from a town call Asbestos.

We are joined by guests Alison Van Digglelen in San Francisco and David Kuo in Singapore.

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