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	Podcast:		World Business Report
	Episode:		New South Africa President Vows to Fight Corruption
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2018-02-15 10:16:00
	Description:		The newly elected president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, told MPs he will seek to work with all political parties to improve peoples' lives. Addressing parliament minutes after being elected, Mr Ramaphosa said he'd make the struggle against corruption one of his main priorities. We hear from Alan Mukoki, the chief executive of the South African Chamber of Commerce, on what he thinks needs be done to turn around the country's fortunes. The Iranian currency, the rial, has lost a quarter of its value over the past six months, following President Trump's announcement that he wants to tear up an international agreement over Iran's nuclear ambitions. The BBC's Amir Paivar has the latest. The economist Roger Bootle goes head-to-head with Sir Vince Cable, the leader of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK, to debate the latest developments in the Brexit negotiations. Lyrics by US artist Taylor Swift have been deemed “too banal” to copyright, according to a US judge. John Linnekar, a copyright lawyer based in London, gives his reaction to the ruling. And how some commuters in Sweden are embracing the wintry weather by ice-skating to work. The BBC's Maddy Savage meets the volunteers who plough around 50 kilometres of tracks a day to help people take shortcuts across the town's lakes.
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