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Senator Lindsey Graham has said that temporarily reopening parts of the US government, which has been closed for 3 weeks) would allow talks to resume between Republicans and Democrats. Ariel Cohen, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, explains why pressure is growing to reopen the government. This could be the most defining week of the Brexit process so far, with MPs due to vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May's deal on Tuesday. Mrs May has said that failure to back the deal would be catastrophic. Does Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics agree? Indian elections are a few months away so we look at the current state of the economy and with Italy close to recession we hear that the populist government in Rome is learning some harsh economic lessons.

(Photo: a protestor demands an end to the shutdown. Credit: Getty Images.)