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World Service, I'm Rahul Tanden.
Plenty coming up on the program.
As always, we're going to take you to the U.S.
ecuador, India, UK as well.
We're going to be talking about AI for some part of the program as well.
We've also, as always, joined by two guests on opposite sides of the world.
We have Katya Dimitrieva, Asia Economics correspondent at Bloomberg News.
How are you, Katya?
Kathy, hey, good morning.
Another very, very hot day here in Hong Kong.
Okay, well, there we go.
I forgot to say where Kathy was.
She is, of course, in Hong Kong.
And Serhil Guzman runs his own risk analysis company in Bogota in Colombia.
How's life in Colombia, Sergio RAUL Good.
Afternoon, good evening and good morning to you, Katia.
In Bogota it's also quite warm, so we share that.
It's a very warm tide all over South America and unfortunately it's causing quite a bit of havoc.
Well, we're going to talk about that, Ecuador in particular a little bit later in the program.
We are of course a business program here on the BBC World Service Business Matters as the name implies.