
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


With China and Russia agreeing to build a new gas pipeline through Siberia, we take a look at its global economic impact and what it could mean for the two countries as they become ever more reliant on each other.
Elsewhere, Ed Butler discusses the economic forces driving the brutal civil war in Myanmar while visiting a rehabilitation centre inside Thailand where wounded rebel soldiers go to recover.
We hear from farmers in Nigeria investing in solar power to keep water running to their farms.
And Hannah Mullane hears how a supermarket in France is upsetting bakeries by undercutting them on price.
By BBC World Service4.3
250250 ratings
With China and Russia agreeing to build a new gas pipeline through Siberia, we take a look at its global economic impact and what it could mean for the two countries as they become ever more reliant on each other.
Elsewhere, Ed Butler discusses the economic forces driving the brutal civil war in Myanmar while visiting a rehabilitation centre inside Thailand where wounded rebel soldiers go to recover.
We hear from farmers in Nigeria investing in solar power to keep water running to their farms.
And Hannah Mullane hears how a supermarket in France is upsetting bakeries by undercutting them on price.

7,685 Listeners

4,169 Listeners

521 Listeners

1,044 Listeners

411 Listeners

416 Listeners

5,433 Listeners

1,791 Listeners

367 Listeners

54 Listeners

243 Listeners

351 Listeners

229 Listeners

675 Listeners

225 Listeners

324 Listeners

3,185 Listeners

1,078 Listeners

65 Listeners

781 Listeners

998 Listeners

495 Listeners

615 Listeners

254 Listeners

259 Listeners

8 Listeners

34 Listeners

139 Listeners

87 Listeners

6 Listeners