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US treasury secretary demands countries drop digital tax plans

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has urged countries to suspend plans for digital services taxes

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has urged countries to suspend plans for digital services taxes that Washington believes would unfairly target US tech companies. He said the OECD should be given time to reach an agreement on international taxation. Dr. Luminita Enache is from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and explains how a global digital tax might work.
A Christmas advert from exercise bike company Peloton has been widely mocked on social media as being "sexist", "out of touch" and even "dystopian". Matthew De Silva of Quartz explains how this translated to a hit to the company's share price.
An onion crop failure led to soaring prices in India where it can cause political turmoil. Vivek Singh of London's Cinnamon Club restaurant explains how significant the onion is to South Asian cuisine, and the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Mike Johnson takes it from there.
An economic crisis in Venezuela pushes millions of citizens to seek a more prosperous life abroad, our reporter Stefania Gozzer heads to Peru to find out why it has become home to the second largest community of Venezuelan immigrants in the world.
And as Michael Bloomberg continues his presidential campaign, the NRA manages to run an attack ad against him on his own news site. Chris Nolan, owner of Spot On Political Advertising in San Francisco, explains how it happened.
All through the show we鈥檒l be joined by Lahore journalist Mehmal Sarfraz and freelance journalist Melissa Chan in New York.
(Picture: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Washington, DC. Picture credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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