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My name's Ed Butler.
On today's edition, we are going to be remembering Manmohan Singh, the former Indian Prime Minister who's credited with transforming India into one of the world's fastest growing economic powerhouses.
Also, why Europe's insurance market.
It may need a wholesale rethink in 2025.
And we hear about the new controversial law against homosexuality in Ghana that's got some warning that the country's Western aid program could be put at risk aside.
The fact that infringes on human rights of others, there will be huge financial implications.
We're going to lose a lot of money.
That should be something we should be very worried about.
More of that to come later in the show.
First though, our main story today.
The authorities in Finland have seized a ship that's believed to be linked to Russia.
They suspect it may have severed an underwater cable in the Baltic Sea.
The ESTLink 2 cable carries electricity between Finland and Estonia, but it stopped working on Wednesday.
Finnish police who boarded the Eagle S, a vessel which they suspect is being part of a Russian so called shadow fleet around the world say that they have found evidence that the anchor on this ship has been used to cut the cable in two.