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In a cordial joint news conference that heralded a thawing in relations between the US and Israel, Donald Trump dropped decades of US foreign policy insisting on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But behind the smiles, the new economic policy of "America First" could strain ties between the two trading partners. Yishai Schwartz from the Yale University Law School helps us examine what Netanyahu has to offer the deal-making President.

Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has been giving strong signals to Congress that borrowing costs are likely to rise again before much longer. British economist Roger Bootle gives us his assessment of what is likely to happen.

To many of us, Guinea pigs are adorable pets. But in South America they are an edible delicacy that is coming back into fashion and helping peasant farmers to raise themselves out of poverty. Jane Chambers reports from Lima in Peru.

North Korea has been in the news this week, both for its widely condemned missile test and for the apparent assassination of Kim Jong-Un's half brother. We ask our guests if these events will push the outside world to act.

Juliana Lui brings us the latest business stories from Hong Kong.

Plus the classic and much-loved Nokia 3310 cell phone may be making a return. David Pierce from Wired.com explains why this grandfather of mobile technology hits all the right notes.

Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme from Washington by Peter Morici, Professor Of International Economics at the University of Maryland, and from Hong Kong by Andy Xie, an independent economist.

(Picture: Donald Trump Holds Joint Press Conference With Israeli PM Netanyahu - Picture Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)