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BNP Paribas Faces $10 Billion Dollar Fine

The French bank BNP Paribas facing one of the largest fines ever imposed on a financial firm for allegedly breaching US sanctions. Also Libya tries to woo back oil customers.

The French bank BNP Paribas facing one of the largest fines ever imposed on a financial firm for allegedly breaching US sanctions.

Also on the programme Libya desperately tries to woo back oil customers despite terrible safety conditions in the country. Turkey’s highest court has lifted the ban on the social media site Youtube and e-cigarettes: should they have the same status as real cigarettes? A group of health experts has appealed to the World Health Organisation not to "control and suppress" the devices.

Discussing these issues we are joined from Seoul by Joseph Kim and from Boston by The Atlantic journalist David Freedman.

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Fri 30 May 2014 00:06GMT

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