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15/08/2012

Standard Chartered will pay $340 million to American authorities over deals with Iran, plus Trinidad and Tobago's sports minister on their Olympic hero Keshorn Walcott.

The bank Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m settlement with financial authorities in New York over accusations it hid $250bn of transactions with Iran. We speak with Jimmy Gurule, a Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame who was an undersecretary at the US Treasury Department, responsible for enforcing U.S. economic sanctions.

A legal challenge to a new law to put plain packaging on cigarettes in Australia has failed. We speak with former Health Minister Michael Moore as well as British American Tobacco Australia's Scott McIntyre.

We look at the partition of India that created Pakistan, 65 years on, in the company of a journalist from each.

We found out more about the Waverider, a project co-funded by the Pentagon and Nasa which hopes to get an unmanned jet flying at 4 thousand 300 miles per hour or Mach 6. Our guest is Dr MARK LEWIS, a former Chief Scientist of the US Air Force.

And as the world winds down from the London Olympics we go to Trinidad and Tobago to speak with the country's sports minister Anil Roberts about their new favourite son Keshorn Walcott, his javelin triumph, his incredible welcome home and the astonishing gifts he's been given as a reward.

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