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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm David Harper and on this edition we are talking about the effects
or otherwise of fresh EU sanction on Moscow.
But we're also talking about the Russian shadow fleet,
a ghostly group of ships that transport goods around the world with questionable ownership.
Also, how could the cost of living in Germany affect the results of Sunday's?
There are a lot of people who are living on the edge and I don't know how they're managing now.
So I can well imagine
that they are dissatisfied and maybe won't vote the way the mainstream would like them to.
We've been hearing from voters there
and we were hoping to talk to you about South Africa's budget today,
but we can't because it hasn't happened.