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11/08/2015

A US police chief gives his take on events in Ferguson. Plus Turkey attacks, the view from Holland on dairy prices and fresh salad grown on the International Space Station.

Milwaukee police chief Ed Flynn has been in policing for forty years. He gives Rhod Sharp his informed opinion of the forces that have led to the current disturbances in Ferguson & other US cities, and the police recruitment problems caused by negative portrayal of high profile police actions.

Scotland team coach Gail Parata speaks to Rhod live from the Netball World Cup in Australia.

Plus the latest on Turkey unrest; Game On with Adam Rosser; why Google has become a subsidiary of Alphabet; and Shaun the Sheep goes down a storm in America.

Japan reopens the nuclear reactor at Sendai after two years closure following the Fukushima disaster; Anna Holligan gives the view from the Netherlands on the European dairy crisis; and the seaweed sludge washing up on the beaches of the Caribbean.

And it's one small bite for a man, one giant leaf for mankind. How fresh lettuce is being grown in the International Space Station.

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Tue 11 Aug 2015 01:00

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