新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/01/01（在线收听）

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi

Coming up：

--Rouhani slams Trump's "meddlesome" remarks over Iran's protests

--China outlines roadmap for rural vitalization

--China's total ban on ivory trade comes into effect 

For more on this, we are joining on the line by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran；Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice and Co-director of IMBA program, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and Winston Wang, Managing Director of Shipston Group Limited； Shen Shiwei, Business and Government Relations Consultant in Africa, earlier spoke with Wu You； Xu Qinduo, our current affairs commentator.

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