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The head of the World Organisation for Animal Health tells us why this latest outbreak of bird flu has come as such a shock to US industry. Also, as the latest round of negotiations towards a new trade pact between Europe and the US get under way, we report on the opposition to the proposals, at a protest attended by Vivienne Westwood in London.

Plus, we have the latest in our series of interviews ahead of the UK's upcoming general election, with key figures from each of the country's main political parties. Today it is the turn of Chuka Umunna, business spokesperson from the Labour Party.

Nancy Marshall Genzer of Marketplace in Washington brings us her report from Durrant, Iowa, on the hardships of modern farming in the US. Plus from Bangalore, we are joined by Ravathy Ashok of the Bangalore Political Action Committee.