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On the programme today we focus on land wars. Two Republican members of the US House of Representatives from the state of Utah have succeeded in pushing through a bill called the Public Lands Initiative. Its aim, they say is to provide greater conservation and local management of Federal lands in Utah. But several Native American groups have accused those behind the PLI of seeking to take land and resources from tribal nations. It's a story that involves tension between federal and state politics. We examine the issues.

Meanwhile there's a trial going on right now in Portland to try the leaders of a two-month armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon. Mitchell Hartmann of Marketplace has the story.

Plus, Robin Brant looks at a highly controversial part of the booming online credit industry in China. Groups of investors have lost tens of millions of dollars after numerous "peer-to-peer" lending companies have failed.

And, does popular hostility to trade deals currently hanging in the balance amount to a new anti-globalisation movement? We speak to Arancha Gonzalez, chief executive of the International Trade Centre in Geneva.

Fergus Nicoll is joined throughout the programme from Singapore by Tony Nash (Managing Partner at Complete Intelligence) and from Portland, Oregon by Mitchell Hartmann of Marketplace radio.

(Picture Credit: Indian Creek, PLI Photos)