新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 20:00 2017/04/04（在线收听）

The Beijing Hour

Evening  Edition

Bob Jones with you this Tuesday the 4th of April, 2017.

Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital...

On our program today

Optimism ahead of President Xi Jinping's latest overseas trip to Finland.

A Chinese student caught up in the St. Petersburg subway explosion tells of the attack

Power outages hamper the Colombia disaster relief as the death toll continues to rise

and 20 years of the Chinese train that takes the gift of sight to inaccessible areas.

In the second half of the hour - in depth discussion.

We consider the prospects for creating an enduring friendship between China and Finland.

Is too much being made of the differences between China and the United States.

The IMF signals another step towards the internationalisation of the Chinese currency

And we savour Uganda's banana leaf delicacy

All that and more to come in the next 60 minutes - it's one and a half minutes past the hour.

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