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Should technology companies be forced to hand over private information stored on mobile phones - if it is in the interests of national security? That is the question at stake in Apple's high-profile battle with the FBI over a phone once owned by Syed Farook - one of the killers in last December's terror attack in San Bernardino, California. On Tuesday a court ruling ordered Apple to provide the FBI with special software to bypass the phone's security features. In particular, it orders Apple to create a way around a self-destruct feature which erases the phone's data after too many unsuccessful attempts to unlock it. Apple are furious at the ruling and promised to fight it. But most politicians, including President Obama, have so-far sided with the FBI and the court. Matt Blaze, associate professor of Computer and Information Science at Pennsylvania University, gives us his thoughts.

With its cold nights and hot days Chile has some of the best conditions for wine growing in the whole of Latin America. As a result, Chilean wine has been growing in popularity in the last few years - particularly in China, the United States and Europe. But now there is a new trend emerging. A small number of vineyards are starting to produce organic wine, which is made without using pesticides, weed killers or synthetic yeast. Jane Chambers reports from Chile's capital, Santiago.

Jay Freeman is the Sheriff's detective in Butte County, California. Normally he investigates robberies and homicides. But each February his cases become a little more 'buzzy'. Beekeeping is big business in California, worth millions of dollars because the bees need to pollinate the almond trees that provide over 80% of the world's almond supply. And bees are in decline, in America and elsewhere, for reasons no-one has quite yet fathomed. The result of all this, Sheriff Freeman tells us, is bee crime - the theft of valuable hives - is at its height during the pollinating season, which is now.

And we hear from a student who has designed a new Monopoly board - this time reflecting accurate property prices in hugely expensive Hong Kong.

All this and more discussed with our two guests from either side of the Pacific - Peter Morici, professor of International Business at the University of Maryland in Washington, and Catherine Yeung, investment director at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, in Hong Kong.

(Photo: The Apple store on Fifth Avenue, New York City. Credit: Getty Images)