Do you trust Chinese goods?
| 15:27 UK time, Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Plenty to get through today. Three stories and one complaint (see the post below this one).
On yesterday's programme Pakistan's Information Minister told us that he was involved in 'last ditch' negotiations with the leaders of the Red Mosque. Clearly the government's patience ran out. Here's today's topics...
THE LATEST ON THE RED MOSQUE, with at least 50 people inside being killed. But that is not the end of the matter. Not all the militants inside have surrendered and the fighting is continuing. We'll have the latest from our reporters and from those of in Islamabad.
As I'm writing this Reuters news wire is reporting that one of the brothers who leads the mosque, Abdul Rashid Gazi, has been killed. He was a guest on WHYS in April. Do you support the Pakistani government's actions?
IS THE US 'SURGE' IN IRAQ WORKING?
US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, . He'll be supporting amendments to the annual military budget that, if passed, will add pressure on Mr Bush to start pulling troops out of Iraq. Is that what you would like to happen?
DO YOU TRUST CHINESE GOODS?
Zheng Xiaoyu was China's State Food and Drug Administration. after being executed for corruption that the authorities argued led to low quality medicines which in turn killed a number of people.
This isn't the first example of sub-standard Chinese products. We've had contaminated toothpaste, Melamine in wheat gluten exports (and headed for pet foods), cancer-causing dye in chicken eggs and some partially cooked snails that caused meningitis.
Of course, there are millions of other products from China that are pefectly safe. So do you trust Chinese products?
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