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Oil Price to Hit $70 by 2020, says Opec

The oil producers club Opec reckons the price of oil will recover over the next few years.

The oil producers club Opec reckons the price of oil will recover over the next few years. Richard Mallinson from Energy Aspects assesses Opec's latest forecasts. Also in the programme, a court in New Zealand has ruled that controversial internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom can be extradited to the US. We find out more about Kim Dotcom from Wired Magazine's Kim Zetter, and intellectual property expert Severin De Witt considers the wider implications of the case. The owners of Beatles songs have finally allowed the music to appear on a range of streaming music services including Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play. We find out why it's taken so long from James Hanley at MusicWeek. Plus the 主播大秀's Lucy Hooker has been finding out why the global cosmetics retailer Lush devotes quite a bit of energy to political campaigns. And we have a report from Diarmaid Fleming in Ireland on the seaweed harvesters there who are worried about a new licensing regime being introduced for the activity.

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Wed 23 Dec 2015 18:32GMT

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