Is any intervention to the Fed a global risk?

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The head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, fears that any intervention by US president Donald Trump's administration into the Federal Reserve could have wider implications and be a global economic risk.

We hear from Dr Yu Jie, of Chatham House, on the significance of today's summit between China, India and Russia, as well as what a new development bank could look like.

Elsewhere, Ed Butler discusses Trump's claims that Ethiopia's showpiece hydro-project, formally inaugurated this month, has actually been financed with American money. But the east African country say that's nonsense.

And why a tiny Caribbean island is cashing in on its internet web name.

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.
1 Sep 11AM English United Kingdom Business

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