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Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289m Damages

A groundsman in California claimed the chemical giant's herbicides containing glyphosate caused his cancer.

A groundsman in California claimed the chemical giant's herbicides containing glyphosate caused his cancer. It's the first of a series of legal cases that could cost the company billions of dollars. We have the latest from San Francisco. As Turkey's currency falls, President Trump has doubled metal tariffs on the country. We ask Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, how damaging this is to the Turkish economy. Plus, why the opening of the shooting season on Britain's moorlands is missing a day, and a lot of birds.

Roger Hearing is joined on the programme by Peter Ryan, the ABC's Senior Business Correspondent in Sydney.

(Picture: A soybean field is fumigated. Soybean fields are often fumigated with glyphosate, a herbicide. Credit: AFP)

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