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The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has announced his resignation, following a series of public disagreements with the country's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The main opposition leader called it a palace coup. The news comes as Turkey's once dynamic economy is beginning to falter significantly. At the same time, Turkey has concluded a deal with the European Union that will give its citizens visa-free travel in the EU in return for cooperation on the refugee crisis, and Washington sees Ankara as a key ally in holding back the Islamic State group in Syria. We speak to Fadi Hakura from the Chatham House think tank in London

The chief executive of the British consumer products company, Reckitt Benckiser, has apologised over a product linked to fatal lung injuries in South Korea. Nearly 100 people died after inhaling toxins from sterilisers in humidifiers. Angry demonstrators protested at the company's annual general meeting in London today.

We investigate so-called "Coco" bonds. These are a complex financial instrument introduced in the wake of the financial crisis, with the aim of bringing stability to the financial system. However, some commentators fear that they could under certain circumstances have exactly the opposite effect.

And we have a report from the remote and windswept Orkney islands off the coast of northern Scotland where fish-eating pigs and the world-famous "Tomb of the Haddock" most definitely do not exist.

Presenter Roger Hearing connects the time zones with commentary and analysis from Dr Jill Stein - an official candidate seeking the Green Party's nomination to run for US Presidential office, who joins us from Lexington, Massachusetts and Simon Long, Asia Editor of the Economist, who's in Singapore.

(Image: Ahmet Davutoglu. Credit: Getty Images)