蜜芽传媒

A big takeover deal in the global drugs industry has moved a significant step closer. As shareholders in the Japanese firm Takeda give the green light to its $59bn purchase of Irish rival Shire, public health policy expert professor David Taylor, of University College, London, tells us what it will mean for patients. Also in the programme, we have a report from the Spanish port city of Barcelona about efforts to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows. With global equity markets confused about the significance of last weekend's reported trade truce between the US and China, our regular economic commentator, US business journalist Diane Brady, tells us whether she thinks peace has really broken out. As the British parliament engages in days of debate about the government's proposed Brexit deal, we find out how food manufacturers in Devon in the south west of England have been dealing with uncertainty over what form Brexit will take. Plus London based chef Shrimoyee Chakraborty tells us the extraordinary story of the centenarian Indian grandmother Mastanamma who became an unlikely star on YouTube for her cooking.

(Picture: A Takeda logo. Picture credit: Reuters.)