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Bracing for a backlash

Reality Check: US releases CIA torture report; Football and the Russian Ruble; OECD wealth gap; Anti-nuclear conference; Ladakh aid project

USA: CIA torture Report

The US is to release the results of an Intelligence Committee investigation into the CIA’s use of torture post 9/11. Only some 400 pages of the ca. 6000 page report will be released but even this is expected to have serious repercussions for the safety of US citizens and property abroad and future US relations with some key allies.

Russia: Football & the economy

Extremely low oil prices and the economic sanctions imposed on Russia for its actions in Crimea are having a devastating effect on the Russian economy with the Ruble losing 40% of its value against the dollar this year. Russia-watcher and journalist Alexei Korolyov explains how the economic crisis is also having a major impact on sport; particularly football.

OECD: The wealth gap

The rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer; The OECD says the wealth gap is the largest it’s been in 30 years and this is a bad thing for the world’s economy. Trickle-down economics is just not working.

EPA/DRAGAN TATIC / AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and Japanese Hiroshima Survivor, Setsuko Thurlow, at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

Vienna: Anti-nuclear conference

The third conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons is currently taking place in Vienna. The exact number of nuclear warheads in the world today is not known but most experts agree that the number is between 16,500 and 17,500. We speak to Thomas Nash from the UK-based non-profit organistaion Article 36

India: Ladakh aid project

Snapshots, souvenirs and maybe a suntan – that’s what most of us bring back from our annual holidays and most of us probably don’t ask what we can give to the places we’ve visited. Ulli Felber from Graz found happiness in the Indian province of Ladakh and is giving something back with her Ladakh aid project.

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