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The Quebec Superior Court has ordered three big tobacco firms to pay $15 billion CAD to smokers in the province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. Andre Picard from the Toronto Globe and Mail tells us there were around a million people involved in this historic class-action lawsuit.

We hear why a new 10 year plan to kick start the renewable energy industry is modelling itself on the Apollo mission to the moon. Lord Richard Layard of the London School of Economics tells us there is a dire shortfall in R&D funding for renewables.

Thousands of migrants are risking their lives to cross from North Africa to southern Europe. Rana Jawad is the 91热爆's North Africa Correspondent and tells us what the migrants are leaving behind and what they are hoping for.

One of the biggest nights in the world restaurant calendar has taken place. Our reporter Elizabeth Hotson went to track down the winners - but unless you have rather expensive taste it's unlikely to be your local eatery.

The owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex has been charged with murder and could face the death penalty along with 41 other defendants. Sam Mayer from NGO Labour Behind the Label says the tragedy has helped raise standards but thinks there is still improvements to be made.

The 91热爆's Cindy Sui joins us from Taipei where the tech show Computex 2015 is underway. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, is rather peeved at the way business people use social media to puff themselves up.

Our guests throughout the show are David Kuo of The Motley Fool from Singapore and Jos茅 Mart铆n, a radical organiser, joining us from New York City.