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I'm Georgina Godwin.
On the show ahead...
The pharmaceutical companies were difficult, but they also love our country.
They knew it was unfair.
We'll hear the reaction from Zurich on the pharmaceutical deal affecting Switzerland's drug makers.
We'll have a rustle through today's front pages and get a roundup of news from Africa.
And then...
This is the only place where I live and that's in Rovaniemi.
A Christmas correspondent heads off to finish Lapland to meet the red-suited man with the beard at his busiest time of the year.
All that right here on the globalist with me, Georgina Godwin.
The White House has now finalised drug pricing agreements with several pharmaceutical groups,
including Swiss giants Novartis and Roth.
The deals commit companies to lower prices on some medicines in the US,
mainly for Medicaid and direct sales, in exchange for a three-year reprieve from threatened tariffs.
Pharmaceuticals are Switzerland's biggest export industry,