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We speak to some of the employees at a Starbucks branch in New York state who have made history, voting to become the first unionised workers at one of the coffee giant's stores since the 1980s, in defiance of company bosses. Plus, the World Health Organization says the emergence of new Covid-19 variants could encourage wealthy nations to hoard Covid-19 vaccines, depriving developing countries where few people have been jabbed. We speak to Lily Caprani, Head of Advocacy for Health, Vaccines and Pandemic Response at UNICEF. Also in the programme, Nicole Perlroth, author of 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends', tells us why we've "never been closer to a cyber-induced Pearl Harbor". We also hear from tobacco expert Dr Mirte Kuipers, after New Zealand's government outlawed the sale of tobacco products to anyone aged 14 or under, with the new policy set to take effect in the year 2027. Host Fergus Nicoll discusses all this and more with our guests, journalist Dimuthu Attanayake in Colombo, and contributing editor at NPR Paddy Hirsch in Los Angeles.

(Picture: The WHO's headquarters in Geneva; Credit: Getty Images)