Also, Italian luxury fashion brand Prada has said it acknowledges the Indian roots of its new footwear line, days after the design sparked a controversy in India.

Why is it that cassava, a major food source across the world, doesn't make more money for one of the biggest producers – Nigeria?

And President Donald Trump blamed AT&T for technical issues in a conference call he has been holding with American faith leaders.

Throughout the programme, Roger Hearing will be joined by two guests on opposite sides of the world – Peter Morici, economist and professor of business at the University of Maryland, who's in Alexandria, Virginia - and Jennifer Pak, China correspondent at Marketplace, usually based in Shanghai but today she's in Canada.