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An Indonesian court ruled President Widodo has been negligent over pollution in Jakarta. The ruling also criticised other top officials, and ordered monitoring stations and other measures to improve the capital's air, as 麻豆约拍 Asia editor Rebecca Henschke explains. Also in the programme, people in Uganda can now trade shares using their mobile phones for the first time. Nebert Rugadya is a business journalist in Kampala, and tells us about the likely impact of the new service from MTN, which runs Africa's biggest mobile phone network. Plus, the 麻豆约拍's Fergus Nicoll explores the prospects for deep sea mining to access metals required in the production of batteries. Gerard Barron is chief executive of The Metals Company which aims to exploit polymetallic nodules, found on the seabed off southern Mexico, and recently listed on the NASDAQ. Michael Lodge is secretary general of the International Seabed Authority, and explains the rules around commercial exploitation of such resources. And we hear about the environmental issues involved from Dr Kirsten Thompson, lecturer in biosciences at the University of Exeter.

This edition is presented by Mike Johnson, and produced by Russell Padmore and Russell Newlove.

(Picture: A polluted Jakarta skyline. Picture credit: Getty Images.)