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🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Two ancient and archeologically priceless rock shelters in Western Australia were destroyed earlier this year by the mining company Rio Tinto. On this episode of Business Weekly we ask whether the punitive measures imposed on senior executives this week are tough enough. Could biotechnology transform the way we eat and the way we treat animals? We investigate the future of food and find out how a cat food made from mouse meat could be made without harming any mice. As workers in the UK are seemingly unwilling to return to city centre offices during the Coronavirus pandemic, we wonder what these spaces will look like in the years to come. And we look at the romance scammers who are conning lonely hearts on social media. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.

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0:00.0	Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment,
0:06.1	and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments.
0:10.1	That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly,
0:14.4	a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed
0:21.7	from the BBC's business team.
0:27.7	Hello, this is Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.
0:31.2	Welcome and thanks for joining us today as we look at two social media companies,
0:36.2	Facebook and TikTok, who are facing increasing legal
0:39.4	and regulatory challenges. Facebook says it's preparing to take legal action against Thailand
0:45.0	after the government pressured the tech giant to block access to a popular anti-monarchy page
0:50.2	on the site. And over at Chinese own TikTok, CEO Kevin Mayer quit this week, just two months
0:56.8	into the job as the clock ticks down to President Trump's ultimatum, sell to an American
1:01.8	firm or leave the US. We're going to start the program, though, by talking about two 46,000-year-old
1:09.2	shelters in the Duke and Gorge in Western Australia. These caves were the
1:13.7	only inland sites to have seen continual human habitation through the last ice age. Aboriginal
1:19.9	people can claim a DNA link to artefacts found in the shelters, including a plat of human hair.
1:26.2	A kangaroo bone pick found during archaeological excavation
1:29.6	was shown to be Australia's oldest bone tool, and it was a place full of cultural and ancestral
1:35.2	significance for the Indigenous PKK people. I say was, because in May, the mining company Rio Tinto
1:42.6	blew them up to access iron ore.
1:45.4	It was acting within the law.
1:47.0	The permit the company was granted before archaeologists discovered just how ancient this site was still stood.
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