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Oil prices fell on Tuesday despite Saudi Arabia and Russia agreeing to freeze oil output at January levels if other producers follow suit. A potential stumbling block is Iran, after petroleum minister, Bijan Zangeneh, said that the country would "not forego its oil market share". Kevin Baxter, Global Commodities Spot News Editor at the Wall Street Journal, gives his opinion on the matter.

Rita Lobo and Marc Shoffman are joined by Shanza Ali from the Muslim Climate Action campaign and Jean Leston from Christian environmental group Operation Noah, to discuss climate change and whether it is up to faith groups to lead on tackling the issue, only on Questions of Faith. With guest Imam Mansoor Ahmad Clark explaining the significance of change in Islam.

Rita Lobo is joined in the studio by Dr Jon Wilson, senior lecturer in British Imperial and South Asian History at King's College London, to discuss the Bengal Famine of 1770, what happened during this devastating time and how it impacted the country over the long term.

Share Politics with Colin Bloom, talking to Wangu Kanja from the Wangu Kanja Foundation, Girish Menon, Chief Executive of ActionAid and Patty Whaley, Trustee from ActionAid, about Action Aid's Fearless Women Campaign to help end violence against women and girls.

Colin Bloom, talking to Krish Kandiah, founder of Homes For Good, about housing Syrian refugees and how ordinary people can help out.

Share Politics Colin Bloom, talking to Areeb Ullah, freelance journalist, about the recent petition to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to London.

Colin Bloom is joined on the phone with Louis Reynolds, a researcher for the Citizenship Programme at the think tank Demos, about integration and immigration to the UK.

US consumer confidence data is released later today and to look ahead to it, Nandini Ramakrishnan, Global Market Strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, joins Sandra Kilhof and Mark Johnson to discuss, as well as assessing the US economy after 'Black Monday'.

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Colin Bloom is joined over the phone by Baroness Meacher, co-chairman of The All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform and cross-bench peer, to discuss the decriminalisation of drugs, in particular cannabis, and why, according to a group of MPs and peers, the 'war on drugs' is over.