10 global oil firms want a deal to reduce emissions at December's UN Climate Summit. Norway's energy company Statoil explains its stance while Greenpeace fears little will happen.As China continues to forge ahead with its Silk Road trade plan, linking Asia with Europe, we hear how Georgia hopes to benefit from its position on the ancient trading route.Activists around Europe have been staging a series of demonstrations to call for changes to the European Union. This weekend, starting from different locations, they aim to converge on Brussels to demand an end to what they see as the imposition of unpopular economic policies on national governments. The driving force behind the campaign has been social organisations and trade unions in Spain and the BBC's Guy Hedgecoe went to meet the marchers before they set off from Madrid.It has been another busy week for the BBC's Business News team, with developments like a multi-billion dollar merger in the beer industry and the award of the Nobel Prize for Economics. We reflect on the week in business with Charles Forelle from the Wall Street Journal in London and Megan Murphy at Bloomberg in Washington.(Picture: Oil rig and safety vessel. Copyright Getty Images)

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