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Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, the US's central bank, gives evidence at a hearing in Washington, and hints at an imminent cut in interest rates. We speak to Susan Schmidt of Aviva Investors, who's in New York, about how the markets have reacted. As 2018 is revealed as the worst year on record for attacks against journalists, a conference gets underway in London hosted by the international Reporters Without Borders group, which campaigns for media freedom and the rights of journalists around the world. We hear from its UK bureau director Rebecca Vincent.

Nigel Cassidy is joined throughout the programme by Alexander Kaufman, a reporter at HuffPost, who's in New York, and Mehmal Sarfraz an analyst with Geo TV in Lahore.

(Picture: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)