2024-11-16
26 分钟Global vaccine makers' shares dip after news that Robert F Kennedy Jr is Donald Trump's pick to lead US health department. We find out why. One of China's investments in a Colombian mine has backfired after a drug gang commandeered part of the business. We look into what happened. The European Union has delayed by a year a regulation that was going to ban the import of goods linked to deforestation, a move that has been criticised by companies like chocolate maker Ferrero Rocher. We talk to one of its executives. Sri Lanka has a new president. We hear about the challenges he'll face to lift the economy. And we hear from our correspondent in the US about the latest ruling against a crypto scam.
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I'm Roger Heering and on this edition we'll hear from a biotech boss who isn't worried that vaccine orders will drop if Donald Trump's anti vax ally becomes the new US Health secretary.
Also, the enormous task facing Sri Lanka's new president helping his poverty struck people while also keeping in with the IMF and the perils for a Chinese company of gold mining in Colombia.
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Now the news that Donald Trump wants Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
To be his health secretary when he takes over as US president in January has caused some concern because Mr.