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Chipmaker Nvidia has lifted its earnings to new record levels. Does this suggest a wider boom amongst companies in this sector? The US and the European Union have each announced new sanctions on Russia on the second year anniversary of the conflict with Ukraine. We examine whether they making a difference. AND Germany becomes the latest country to make cannabis use legal. Could the move lead to the emergence of a legal profitable cannabis market?

The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. So what impact will they have? And how are Ukraine's people and its economy faring two years on? Devina Gupta talks to Irina, a Ukrainian businesswoman who started a new life in the UK. And she hears from an Ukrainian chicken producer about what it's like to keep going in a war zone.

Nvidia shares are on the up, after an extraordinary set of earnings results. Revenues surged 265% in the three months to 28 January. We examine the reasons behind the chipmakers success. Research from the US reveals roughly half of college graduates end up in jobs where their degrees aren’t needed. The study tracked the career paths of more than 10 million people who entered the job market over the past decade. And a spacecraft owned by a private US company is attempting an historic moon landing. If it succeeds, it will become the first commercial lander to make it down to the lunar surface.

A ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them, has opened up a new front in the US battle over reproductive medicine. We hear how it could affect Alabama’s fertility clinics. Also, in the programme, we will hear about about the company driving a global stock market rally.

The US government is announcing a series of actions to strengthen the cybersecurity of U.S. ports the move is aimed at targeting Chinese cyber-attacks. Ed Butler will be finding out what kind of plans are being put in place. We also take a look at Sir Jim Ratcliffe the new co-owner of Manchester United as his one and a quarter billion pound deal has been completed. And the world’s biggest mining project has been approved in West Africa.

South Africa faces several challenges with an economy that has barely grown in more than a decade amid rolling power cuts and problems with its railways and ports as it gears up for national elections on May 29. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in his budget speech was under pressure to curtail the government's growing budget deficit while also maintaining spending, and keeping taxes low, in order to not put voters off. Also, in the programme we will talk about Indian farmers protests and will find out why is Germany’s economy slowing down?

South Africa is heading back to the polls on May 29th. The news comes on the same day that the country revealed its unemployment numbers - officially the world's worst. Ed Butler will find out what's behind the latest rise in unemployment. President Joe Biden may be languishing in the opinion polls, but he's winning some impressive results in campaign donations. Could finance be the key to his re-election bid? And hacking the hackers we hear how the police may have brought down one of the world's biggest cybercrime groups.

Another day, another protests. Polish farmers are staging protests against cheap Ukrainian grain flooding the market and EU regulations on pesticide and fertiliser usage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the protests demonstrated the "daily erosion of solidarity" with Ukraine. We will hear from Ukrainian grain farmer who's exporting his product to Europe. Also, in the programme, we will find out why over 6 000 doctors resigning in South Korea and how The People’s Bank of China is helping home buyers.

The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement. Ed Butler will be finding out the latest. Also in the show, we look at the latest surging protests over spiralling inflation in Nigeria. And a billionaire tells us about his passion for collecting sneakers - and why he's selling them off for charity.

The Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 led to major reductions in household spending and business investment in Israel. We also assess what the Houthi Red Sea attacks mean for global shipping. Also, in the programme, our presenter Devina Gupta finds out why Paytm's digital wallet in India at risk; and how rising inflation in Nigeria is impacting businesses.

A New York judge has ordered Donald Trump to pay $354.9 million over fraud allegations and banned him from running companies in the state for three years. Roger Hearing gets the latest on what this means for Trump and his business empire. Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, has died in a prison near the Arctic Circle. We look at what this could mean for Russia and for future possible sanctions.

We look at Russia's economy after the opposition leader Alexei Navalny is reported to have died at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a three-decade jail term. Also on the programme, investment firms quit a global investor coalition which was pushing companies to rein in climate-damaging emissions. And Indian election bonds are ruled “unconstitutional” by the country’s Supreme Court.