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Tobacco firms ordered to pay $12-billion to smokers in Quebec

Tue, 2 Jun 15

The Quebec Superior Court has ordered three big tobacco firms to pay $15 billion CAD to smokers in the province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. We speak to Andre Picard from the Toronto Globe and Mail. We hear why a new 10 year plan to kick start the renewable energy industry is modelling itself on the Apollo mission to the moon. We speak to Lord Richard Layard, the report's author. One of the biggest nights in the world restaurant calendar has taken place. Our reporter Elizabeth Hotson went to track down the winners. The BBC's Cindy Sui joins us from Taipei where the tech show Computex 2015 is underway. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, is rather peeved at the way business people use social media to puff themselves up. Our guests throughout the show are David Kuo of The Motley Fool from Singapore and Jos?? Mart?n, a radical organiser, joining us from New York City.