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I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
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The Trump administration's knee-capping of America's science institutions is having an unintended yet entirely predictable effect.
Brainy researchers want out.
We look at what European institutions are doing and should be doing to hoover up all that talent.
And Britain's consumer price index is, as elsewhere, calculated from a notional standard basket of goods.
But standards really have changed.
We look at what's been in the basket over the years from cod liver oil to small, caged mammals.
First up, though.
Sumi is a town near Ukraine's northeastern border.
It's a classic, small provincial town founded by the Cossacks in the middle of the 17th century.
I was there exactly ten days ago to meet the head of Sumi province's military administration and refugees who fled from settlements close to the border,
which is now being pummeled by the Russians.
The border's about 20 miles north of the city.
On Sunday, two Russian missiles hit the city of Sumi,
killing 34 people including two children and wounding at least 117.
Videos show
that the target of one of the missiles was the building I interviewed the head of the military administration in. Yesterday was Palm Sunday.
Lots of people were out and about and many would have been in church at the moment of the missile strikes.