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World Service,26 Feb 2015,28 mins

Are fears over EU US trade deal valid?

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The US and EU are negotiating a deal which could be the biggest trade agreement in history - but who will be the winners and losers? The Âé¶¹Éç has obtained a draft of what the EU wants excluded from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP. One such exclusion would remove publicly-funded health services like Britain's National Health Service. India's government has announced a $170bn injection of cash for its ageing railway network over the next 5 years - the Âé¶¹Éç's Ashleigh Nghiem reports from Mumbai. Brazil's biggest energy company, Petrobras, has been engulfed in a corruption scandal involving allegations of price fixing and bribes paid to politicians. The Âé¶¹Éç's South America Business Correspondent Daniel Gallas looks at how one of Brazil's largest and most admired companies fell from grace. And what to do when recruitment goes disastrously wrong - our regular commentator Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times gives her take on hiring and firing.

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