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In India alone, an estimated 60-thousand infants die every year from infections that are resistant to drugs. Worldwide, super bugs could kill up to 10 million people by 2050 - that's as many as cancer - according to a recent British study. The problem of antibiotic resistance is a 'slow motion tsunami' according to the head of the World Health Organization. And today, all 193 countries of the United Nations signed up to an agreement to address the problem. Mahesh Patel, Director of Drug Discovery Research at Indian pharmaceutical company Wockhardt explains why the problem has got so out of control.

Last December's interest rate rise in the United States was the first for almost a decade. But anyone who thought it signalled a return to "normal" after the financial crisis would have been wrong. Nine months on, the US central bank has once again decided against any further increase. So - does this signal a gloomy outlook for the US economy for the rest of the year?

As the glow of the Olympic and Paralympic games fades, Rio de Janiero joins a long list of cities parsing the legacy of hosting the games. Rome's mayor wants to no part of it however. She announced today that the city will drop its bid to host the 2024 games. Boston and Hamburg have already dropped out. We get the reaction of Andrew Zimbalist, professor of economics and author of the book Circus Maximus, about the economic gamble of hosting the Olympics and the World Cup.

All this and more discussed with our two guests on either side of the Pacific: Nisid Hajari, Asia Editor for Bloomberg View, in Singapore. And Alison Van Diggelen, host of radio programme Fresh Dialogues, in San Francisco.

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