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Saudi Arabia Plans for a Post-Oil Future

We ask what has prompted a major rethink of Saudi Arabia's future plans.

We ask what has prompted a major rethink of Saudi Arabia's future plans. John Sfakianakis is a former adviser to the Saudi economy minister, and is director of economics at the Gulf Research Center in Riyadh. Also in the programme, investigators are blaming a flaw in the SWIFT system of international payments for the biggest cyber bank heist in history. The Central Bank of Bangladesh lost $81 million, and is struggling to recover the missing funds. We find out more from Peter Sommer, professor of cyber security at De Montford University in the UK. There's been a series of high-profile resignations in Spain's southern city Granada. The ±«Óãtv's Guy Hedgecoe reports on a corruption scandal that has affected a number of different political parties. The French oil giant Total has welcomed Uganda's decision to build a pipeline through Tanzania. We find out more from the ±«Óãtv's Catherine Byaruhanga in Kampala. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times fulminates on the distorted images used to portray women in a male-dominated workplace.

(Picture: A Saudi Arabia oil installation. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Mon 25 Apr 2016 17:32GMT

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  • Mon 25 Apr 2016 17:32GMT