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In Company versus Country, Michael Robinson explores the boom in foreign investors suing governments

and asks, is democracy threatened.

International trade, boring, well if it ever was it's certainly not now.

Hello everyone, welcome to the protest.

In London and in cities across Europe, protesters organized by social media are loudly opposing

a proposed trade treaty between Europe and the United States.

If we keep going we can win, the grassroots can stop this, thank you.

A really big issue triggering the protests is a right under the proposed

treaty for an investor on one side of the Atlantic to sue a government on the

other if they say that government's actions

damage their commercial interests. In legal jargon, bear with me, it's known as

Investor State Dispute Settlement, or ISDS,

and it's already built into thousands of treaties around the world.

In this program, we'll examine ISDS, how it came into being, and why protesters are now saying

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