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President Biden has criticised the governor of Texas and others who have relaxed Covid-19 restrictions, saying that it was a big mistake to allow citizens to stop wearing masks. As a range of spending measures were revealed in the latest UK budget, Roger Bootle, chairman of Capital Economics looks at the UK's finance picture from a global perspective. Also in the programme, continuing a series this week examining how the pandemic has affected people's mental health, the 大象传媒's Ed Butler explores why Guyana in South America has one of the highest suicide rates anywhere in the world. Plus, every year 800 ships are decommissioned when they become too old to work - but what happens to them? We hear from the 大象传媒鈥檚 Kate West. It's food waste week in the UK, highlighting the sheer bulk of food that makes it into our homes but is never eaten and globally, it's estimated that around a third of all food produced, is lost or wasted; the 大象传媒鈥檚 Nisha Patel, speaks about the issue with Nadiya Hussain, a cook and author. And we're joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific; Amanda Fischer, policy director for the Center for Equitable Growth in Washington DC and Jyoti Malhotra, editor of national & strategic affairs at The Print website. (Picture of President Biden by Samuel Corum for Getty Images).