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ECB Moves to Boost Eurozone Economy

What will it take to revive the eurozone economy? It turns out a trillion euros won't be enough. The bank has now said that stimulus will need to continue for longer than planned.

What will it take to revive the eurozone economy? It turns out a trillion euros won't be enough. That's how much Europe's central bank was planning to spend on a financial stimulus programme known as quantitative easing. But the bank has now said that stimulus will need to continue for longer than planned. It's also encouraging banks to lend more instead. Economist Irwin Stelzer gives us his take on the situation and we hear from the 91热爆's Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid, where there are some signs of recovery.

In Paris the on-going negotiations over climate change have turned angry and bitter. The big fight is over who should pay to cut emissions: developed nations like the US, who've polluted more per person and have benefited economically? Or developing economies, such as India, whose emissions are set to triple? India's capital, Delhi, has been experiencing some of the worst air pollution on record. We hear how the city's residents are coping.

Delhi's fifth annual Comicon opens later today - with both Indian and international icons from the world of comics, gaming, movies and television, on display. It started so that Indian fans wouldn't have to travel abroad to meet their idols.But now it's very much an event in its own right, featuring the best of India's comic and graphic novel scene.

All this and more live from Delhi. Presenter Anu Anand is joined by Jason Abbruzzese, Business Reporter at Mashable in New York and Jyoti Pande Lavakare, a financial journalist and co-founder of Care for Air, in Delhi.

Photo: Mario Draghi (R), President of the European Central Bank and ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio (3rd R) arrive for a press conference following the meeting of the ECB Governing Council in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. Credit: Getty Images.

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