US EU deal to avoid trade war
The US and the EU take steps to strengthen their trade relationship and avoid a trade war.
President Trump and the EU Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, have agreed on measures to fend off the threat of an all-out trade war. We get reaction from Germany's economy minister and from chair of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association. And we discuss whether today's agreement can form a basis for a long term US/EU trade co-operation.
Violence and claims of rigging on Pakistan's general election day -- we have the latest from Islamabad.
We hear from the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world and we talk to a Trinidadian writer who is the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize announced this evening.
(Picture: Pakistani women queuing to vote with ID card Credit: EPA).
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