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We look at US billionaire Mike Bloomberg's bid to be the Democratic presidential nominee. Mr Bloomberg's biographer, Eleanor Randolph talks us through how his business empire's treatment of female workers has been in the spotlight, as well as how aspects of Mr Bloomberg's time as New York mayor have impacted the campaign. We also hear from Trevor Jarrett, who was hired by Bloomberg in 1989 to expand the financial information business in Asia. Technology reporter Georgia Wells with the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco discusses the Bloomberg campaign's spending spree to secure endorsements from social media users who have been paid up to $2,500 a month to post supportive messages. And we get a sense of how Mr Bloomberg might run the US economy from Steven Strauss, economic advisor to the New York mayor's office between 2008 and 2012. Also in the programme, the Court of Appeal in England and Wales has ruled that a government decision to give the go-ahead to a plan for a third runway at London's Heathrow airport was unlawful. 大象传媒 business correspondent Theo Leggett tells us the court said it failed to take into account the UK's commitments under the Paris climate agreement. Plus our reporter in New York finds out whether the city is ready for a new law due to come into effect this weekend which will ban single-use plastic bags in most stores.

(Picture: Mike Bloomberg. Picture credit: Getty Images.)