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Barack Obama, the US President is running out of patience with US bankers, whom he accused of fighting common senes consumer protecitons.

In a meeting on Monday he urged them to support new legislation to reform Wall Street. And he told them they owed it to the country to help the economy by lending more money to small businesses.

It comes after a clearly irritated president said he did not run for office just so he could help out a bunch of fat cat bankers.

But does the new legislaiton go fra enough? And will it prevent another financial crisis from happening again?

An interview with May Seikaly, who has spent the last twenty years collectnig Palestinian stories; and what to do if you need an extra pair of hands when you’re pregnant, we meet a doula

Election rallies in Malaysia and the women’s manifesto. Moroccan middle distance runner trains for Beijing.

The Badi women of Nepal demand the government recognise their worth and the everywoman news round up.

Are women breaking through in the tough world of media – or is it still a boys club? Also: Chinese migrant – each year in Chnia millions of migrant workers flock from villages to cities in search of jobs.