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Immigration into the US suspended

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

President Trump has confirmed he's to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States following the coronavirus outbreak. Plus, what does the chaos in the oil markets mean for geopolitics, the oil industry and the environment? We hear from Daniel Yergin, author of The Quest: Energy, Security & the Remaking of the Modern World. Also in the programme, Anna Nicolaou, US media correspondent for the Financial Times in New York, talks about the effect Covid 19 has had on Netflix鈥檚 latest financial performance. We look at why being outside the World Health Organisation may have helped Taiwan get on top of the Coronavirus pandemic. We hear why in food security terms, having enough food is not the issue - it鈥檚 how you distribute it that's important. Also in the programme, over recent nights, stargazers in some parts of the world have been able to see chains of bright lights travelling across the night sky: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a British space scientist reveals what they are. And joining us throughout the programme are Nicole Childers, Executive Producer of Marketplace Morning Report and Samson Ellis, Taipei bureau chief for Bloomberg in Taipei. (Photo of President Trump by Drew Angerer for Getty Images).

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Wed 22 Apr 2020 00:06GMT

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