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Business Matters: Expected election victory for Assad 5 Jun 14

Thu, 5 Jun 14

The BBC's Jeremy Bowen reports from Damascus, where supporters of President Bashar al Assad are celebrating his landslide¹ victory in Syria's presidential election. We're at a gun raffle² in Hendricks County, Indiana to find out why Americans get so hot and bothered about their Second Amendment³ rights. Nick Davis hangs out at the recording⁴ studios and dance halls of Kingston, Jamaica, looking at the clash between gangster⁵ culture and real gangsterism⁶. And senior US television executive, Steve Capus, the new Executive Editor of CBS, joins presenter⁷ Roger Hearing in the studio to discuss the extent of government snooping, one year to the day since Edward Snowdens revelations were published in The Guardian⁸ newspaper. In our New York bureau, former Federal Reserve official Andrew Huszar, and in Bangalore, Revathy Ashok, founder⁹ of the Political Action Committee campaign group.