The World Tonight
In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and major breaking news from a global perspective
The World Tonight - 01/01/2009
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn.
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The World Tonight - 01/01/2010
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. A look at how the prime minister is creating a Friends of Yemen club of nations to thwart terrorism.
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The World Tonight - 01/02/2007
National and international news and analysis with Clare Bolderson.
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The World Tonight - 01/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti.
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The World Tonight - 01/02/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic grapple with spending plans and deficits, and there's an exclusive report from tribal lands in Sudan.
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The World Tonight - 01/03/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Under 2 per cent for nurses, 10 per cent for squaddies: is there justice in the public sector pay round? Is silicon in the petrol why cars aren't working?
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The World Tonight - 01/03/2010
News from a global perspective with Ritula Shah. Rescue efforts continue in Chile, Afghan child migrants seek asylum in the UK, and Lord Ashcroft admits to being a 'non-dom'.
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The World Tonight - 01/04/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on a possible split in Zanu-PF over Zimbabwe's election and opposition to Ukraine's joining NATO.
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The World Tonight - 01/04/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including Sarkozy and Merkel side by side at the London summit, Obama and Medvedev start work on a nuclear treaty and New Yorkers say adieu to Roquefort.
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The World Tonight - 01/04/2010
Reports as the High Court blocks a planned national rail strike, and the economy is at the centre of a row between politicians and business leaders. With Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 01/05/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Secularists and Islamists are divided over Turkey's future. Young Cambodians are taught about the Khmer Rouge. And Scotland gets ready to vote.
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The World Tonight - 01/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the recent US airstrike in Somalia, local government in the UK and global warming.
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The World Tonight - 01/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including a report from Mexico City, which has been shut down to prevent the spread of flu, and a radical solution to Kenya's problems.
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The World Tonight - 01/06/2007
The World Tonight reports from moscow - looking at Russia's own brand of democracy. With Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 01/06/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the implications for the US economy of the GM bankruptcy and Alistair Darling's position as Chancellor, as he defends himself over expenses.
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The World Tonight - 01/06/2010
National and international news and analysis. How should the US react to Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla? Can BP survive the oil spill disaster?
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The World Tonight - 01/07/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on African reaction to the election in Zimbabwe and the unlikely singing star who is the US Ambassador to Paraguay.
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The World Tonight - 01/07/2009
With David Eades. The government takes back control of the east coast rail service, Buenos Aires is put under swine flu 'curfew' and China's filtering software is trashed.
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The World Tonight - 01/08/2007
News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Can the coalition in Iraq win? Also a preview of the report into the de Menezes death, and is a there a great White Shark off Cornwall?
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The World Tonight - 01/08/2008
National and international news with Ritula Shah. Including features on Barry George's acquittal of the murder of Jill Dando and India's proposed nuclear deal and proliferation.
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The World Tonight - 01/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on EU action against Russia, Hurricane Gustav and the tale of two Chinese statues.
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The World Tonight - 01/09/2009
With Ritula Shah. The government and Scottish executive publish their Lockerbie documents. Also, why is the Russian view of the Second World War so different to ours?
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The World Tonight - 01/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 01/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Bridget Kendall. As the Tories meet in Blackpool, are they shifting to the right in preparation for a possible early election?
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The World Tonight - 01/10/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Ireland's banks guarantee scheme and David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference.
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The World Tonight - 01/10/2009
With Felicity Evans. As three people, including a Plymouth nursery worker, plead guilty to charges of child sex abuse, what are the long-term effects of such offences on children?
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The World Tonight - 01/10/2010
Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis.
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The World Tonight - 01/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. A look at the de Menezes verdict with London's police found guilty of breaking health and safety laws in the case.
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The World Tonight - 01/11/2010
The World Tonight reported four years ago on the security loopholes for transporting airline cargo - has anything changed?
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The World Tonight - 01/12/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on Barack Obama's announcement of his new foreign policy team and the release of a damning report on Haringey Council and Baby P.
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The World Tonight - 01/12/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on President Obama's appearance on TV to outline his new strategy for Afghanistan and the Welsh Labour Party's announcement of its new leader.
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The World Tonight - 02/01/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including the latest on the political upheavals both in Kenya and in Pakistan; and a brief encounter with frustrated passengers seeking trains at Northampton.
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The World Tonight - 02/02/2007
National and international news and analysis with Clare Bolderson.
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The World Tonight - 02/02/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including the Celtic Tiger in recession and will the snow cause more chaos in parts of the UK overnight?
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The World Tonight - 02/02/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The Shadow Chancellor sets out his benchmarks for UK economy. Heavy weapons flood into Sudan. Brazil approves a new dam in the Amazon rainforest.
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The World Tonight - 02/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 02/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on how the money pledged by donors to rebuild Gaza will get through and AIG's declaration of the record corporate losses.
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The World Tonight - 02/03/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Reports of looting in epicentre of Chile's earthquake, Concepcion. One of the killers of toddler James Bulger is back in prison.
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The World Tonight - 02/04/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 02/04/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the dispute over Zimbabwe's election results and a new programme to tackle kerb-crawlers.
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The World Tonight - 02/04/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the G20 decision to boost IMF funds and target tax havens, a blow to jobs in Northern Ireland and an investigation of Kurdish war graves.
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The World Tonight - 02/04/2010
With Felicity Evans. Another government advisor resigns over mephedrone; Washington calls on Israelis and Palestinians to pursue talks.
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The World Tonight - 02/05/2007
Israel's Foreign Minister calls on Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert to resign. Plus, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal debate on French television. Who will win over floating voters?
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The World Tonight - 02/05/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including Paul Moss with reports on the local elections and the London mayoral election result. Plus religious tolerance in Indonesia.
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The World Tonight - 02/06/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah, including reports on the Home Secretary's wooing of Labour rebels, the UN's fact-finding trip to Africa, and security issues in East Timor.
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The World Tonight - 02/06/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Jacqui Smith is to step down as home secretary: is the government losing control? Plus, is consumer confidence on the up?
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The World Tonight - 02/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 02/07/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including features on the effect of rising fuel costs on industry, Turkey's latest political crisis and a farewell to Simone Ortega, doyenne of Spanish cuisine.
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The World Tonight - 02/07/2009
With David Eades in London and Robin Lustig in Mexico City. The government predicts that swine flu could spread rapidly and California goes broke.
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The World Tonight - 02/07/2010
With Robin Lustig. Is Taliban influence spreading in the north and how can it be resisted? Dignitas founder argues healthy people should be allowed assistance to end their lives.
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The World Tonight - 02/08/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Britain's most senior anti-terrorism officer is criticised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. And the latest from Minneapolis.
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The World Tonight - 02/08/2010
With Felicity Evans. President Obama prepares to announce the end of combat operations for US troops in Iraq. Pakistan tries to deal with disasterous floods.
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The World Tonight - 02/09/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the British and American economic strategies, the Republican Party Convention and why Somalia matters to the rest of the world.
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The World Tonight - 02/09/2009
News and analysis with David Eades. New evidence of fraud in Afghanistan's election; Vancouver's middle-class drugs gangs; Robin Lustig reports on Japan's immigration dilemma.
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The World Tonight - 02/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 02/10/2007
News and analysis, including Congress questioning the chief of Blackwater, a controversial private security firm operating in Iraq. With Bridget Kendall and Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 02/10/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including the resignation of Sir Ian Blair, the Bank of England predicting more credit problems and the nuclear deal between India and the US.
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The World Tonight - 02/10/2009
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. Rio wins the bid to host the 2016 Olympics - but has it been given a poisoned chalice?
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The World Tonight - 02/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 02/11/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. No second ballot in Afghanistan; how can the new government gain any legitimacy? How much are MPs worth?
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The World Tonight - 02/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe and the resumption of talks between Europe and Russia.
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The World Tonight - 02/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Taliban respond to Obama's Afghanistan plan; the row intensifies over leaked emails on climate change.
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The World Tonight - 03/01/2008
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. Featuring reports on the crisis in Kenya and tonight's presidential caucuses in Iowa.
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The World Tonight - 03/02/2009
National and international news with Ritula Shah. Is a European directive responsible for social dumping in Britain? Plus, why Obama is retaining 'Extraordinary Rendition'.
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The World Tonight - 03/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Green Paper on defence is published; we discuss its implications. A look at the protests in the streets of Venuezela.
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The World Tonight - 03/03/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on Condoleezza Rice's visit to Israel, the future for European relations with Russia and tomorrow's primaries in Ohio and Texas.
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The World Tonight - 03/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan and the government bail-out of PFI projects.
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The World Tonight - 03/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. William Hague on the Lord Ashcroft affair. The Greeks announce austerity measures. Remembering Michael Foot.
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The World Tonight - 03/04/2007
How Iran views its relations with the UK. Many G8 countries are not living up to their pledges on aid to Africa. High house prices are distorting the British economy.
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The World Tonight - 03/04/2008
With Robin Lustig in Bucharest and Ritula Shah in London. Including reports on a fractious NATO summit, the jailing of a Chinese activist and steps towards rapprochement in Cyprus.
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The World Tonight - 03/04/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on high-tech exam cheating in China, a gunman in New York kills several people and NATO celebrates its 60th birthday.
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The World Tonight - 03/05/2007
As the polls close in Scottish, Welsh and local elections, Robin Lustig is in Glasgow at the start of a long night waiting for results.
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The World Tonight - 03/05/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The UN hears calls for a nuclear free Middle East. Election 2010: can politicians protect the least well-off from cuts?
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The World Tonight - 03/06/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including the latest on US politics and the Democratic race, plus reports on the Rome food summit and why Britons have lost interest in oranges.
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The World Tonight - 03/06/2009
With Ritula Shah. Is it now time for a general election? Twenty years after Tiananmen Square. President Obama arrives in the Middle East. Should the MMR vaccination be compulsory?
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The World Tonight - 03/06/2010
News and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. The latest from Cumbria on the shooting rampage; reaction from Gaza to the attack on the aid ships; is poker a game of chance or skill?
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The World Tonight - 03/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 03/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 03/07/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Tensions rise as an Iranian cleric says that British Embassy staff in Tehran may be put on trial.
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The World Tonight - 03/08/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 03/08/2009
Global news with Brian Hanrahan. A former US lieutenant colonel says that Afghanistan could turn into Obama's Vietnam. India outlines an ambitious solar power programme.
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The World Tonight - 03/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans.
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The World Tonight - 03/09/2007
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabati.
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The World Tonight - 03/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Julian Worricker. Including reports on Dick Cheney's visit to former Soviet states and Sarah Palin's electoral appeal.
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The World Tonight - 03/09/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. A senior defence aide resigns over UK policy on Afghanistan, Europe agrees on bankers' bonuses and new designs for Britain's social housing.
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The World Tonight - 03/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 03/10/2007
With Robin Lustig. Has David Cameron's conference speech made a general election more, or less likely? Plus the fight to save the shipyard where a democratic Poland was born.
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The World Tonight - 03/10/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the vote in the US Congress on the financial rescue package, Peter Mandelson's dramatic return to government and the proposed Severn Barrage.
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The World Tonight - 03/11/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig and Ritula Shah. On the final day of campaigning in the US election, the candidates make their final pitch for votes.
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The World Tonight - 03/11/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. David Cameron is set to announce a new Europe policy, Iranian students plan a big demonstration, and taxpayers put more billions into the banks.
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The World Tonight - 03/12/2007
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Putin's party wins the Russian election - but despite allegations of vote rigging, are Russians content with the outcome?
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The World Tonight - 03/12/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Gordon Brown's mortgage rescue plan and what the US can do to defuse regional tensions after the Mumbai attacks.
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The World Tonight - 03/12/2009
National and international news with Robin Lustig. A Scottish banking spokesman defends RBS bonuses; how cyclists are three times more likely to die in England.
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The World Tonight - 04/01/2008
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. Including reports on a possible deal between Kenya's political rivals and the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses.
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The World Tonight - 04/01/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Why Al Qaeda has established itself in Yemen. The election campaign starts in earnest. What will the next year hold for Afghanistan?
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The World Tonight - 04/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the alleged bugging of an MP and how the Darfur refugees are threatened by civil war in Chad.
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The World Tonight - 04/02/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including a report on claims that the US pressured UK authorities to withhold information about alleged torture in Guantanamo Bay.
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The World Tonight - 04/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. More than half of MPs have to repay expenses - how can public trust in politics be restored? Calls for reform to out of hours GP services.
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The World Tonight - 04/03/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on Condoleezza Rice's Middle East trip and today's primaries which could determine the Democrat candidate for the US presidential election.
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The World Tonight - 04/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Congress's reception to Gordon Brown's speech, Europe's fragile economies and the story of a drug addict son.
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The World Tonight - 04/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 04/04/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 04/04/2008
With Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on NATO's relationship with Russia, the first screening of a Pakistani film in India for 40 years and Martin Luther King's killer's background.
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The World Tonight - 04/05/2007
The World Tonight comes from Edinburgh, where we hear the latest news from the Scottish elections: we speak to the winners and the losers.
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The World Tonight - 04/05/2009
A special edition focusing on Somalia. What should be done to prevent the spread of piracy and extremism? And can the world's first 'failed state' be turned around?
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The World Tonight - 04/05/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. No let up for party leaders as the vote nears. We're in Wales to discuss power sharing. The Times Square bomber says he was acting alone.
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The World Tonight - 04/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. Featuring plans for an American defence shield, former Liberian president Charles Taylor's trial in The Hague, and the threat posed by counterfeit Chinese drugs.
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The World Tonight - 04/06/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the UN emergency food aid budget, Barack Obama's attempts to court Jewish American voters, and interest rates in Washington and London.
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The World Tonight - 04/06/2009
Robin Lustig in Gdansk marks the 20th anniversary of the day in which voters in Poland brought down the communist government.
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The World Tonight - 04/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 04/07/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including features on the Anglican General Synod, Barack Obama's apparent change of policy on Iraq and the enduring appeal of Doctor Who.
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The World Tonight - 04/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including a report on an attack in the Chinese border province of Xinjiang which left 16 policemen dead.
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The World Tonight - 04/08/2009
On her tour of Africa, Hillary Clinton offers support to Somalia's beleaguered government, while Bill Clinton visits North Korea to try to bring back two detained journalists.
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The World Tonight - 04/08/2010
With Robin Lustig. The oil spill in the Gulf appears to be over, so did President Obama overreact? Political tensions rise in Rwanda ahead of presidential elections.
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The World Tonight - 04/09/2007
With Reeta Chakrabati. An influential Senate committee criticises Iraq's government for lack of political progress. And Israel's security fence must be moved.
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The World Tonight - 04/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Julian Worricker. Including reports on Gordon Brown's fightback in Glasgow and the man who may become Pakistan's next President.
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The World Tonight - 04/09/2009
With Jane Hill. Gordon Brown defends British strategy in Afghanistan; and a British Second World War mission remembered in Montenegro.
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The World Tonight - 04/10/2007
The end of the last post cold war confrontation? The significance of North Korea. The future of space - what do the next 50 years have in store. And is poetry a dying art?
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The World Tonight - 04/10/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah in Birmingham and Felicity Evans in London. George Osborne signals big reforms to welfare at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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The World Tonight - 04/11/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including news of Taiwan and China's agreement to work together, the latest from the DR Congo and voters flock to the polls in the US.
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The World Tonight - 04/11/2009
With Ritula Shah. Five British soldiers are shot dead by an Afghan policeman they had been training; the Parliamentary expenses review says MPs should no longer claim for mortgages.
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The World Tonight - 04/12/2007
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on the airworthiness of the Nimrod, Iran's nuclear programme, and immigration strains in Ireland.
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The World Tonight - 04/12/2008
With Robin Lustig. Winners and losers after the latest interest rate cut; is the French bid to kick-start their economy a good model?; and an African leader's call for Mugabe to go.
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The World Tonight - 04/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. The omens for the Copenhagen Climate conference; England's World Cup football group competitors announced.
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The World Tonight - 05/01/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Featuring reports on the chances of a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Gaza and is AIDS money being spent wisely?
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The World Tonight - 05/01/2010
National and international news with Ritula Shah. President Obama gives his response to intelligence failures over the failed airline terrorist attack.
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The World Tonight - 05/02/2007
The US senate is debating Iraq - can they change Bush's policy? Bird flu - and the lessons from earlier food scares. And its 20 years since Wapping and a revolution in newspapers.
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The World Tonight - 05/02/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig and Ritula Shah. Including reports on Super Tuesday in the American presidential race and proposed government reforms on social housing.
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The World Tonight - 05/02/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on whether reducing interest rates is the right tactic to stimulate the economy and whether restrictions on executive pay should be introduced.
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The World Tonight - 05/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Four politicians are to face criminal charges in connection with their expenses claims. What's the answer to southern Europe's economic woes?
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The World Tonight - 05/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Support for the Taleban is growing. And can Northern Ireland politics ever be non-sectarian?
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The World Tonight - 05/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 05/03/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 05/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Gordon Brown defends the decision to go to war in Iraq at the Chilcot inquiry.
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The World Tonight - 05/04/2007
Now the marines are back, questions are being asked as to how they wwere captured in the first place. With Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 05/04/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 05/05/2008
A cyclone in Burma has killed thousands of people. How is the country coping and are the Burmese accepting international aid? Plus a look ahead to Tuesday's Democratic primaries.
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The World Tonight - 05/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Is the Pakistani army committed to taking on the Taleban? Has Belarus - dubbed Europe's last dictatorship - changed?
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The World Tonight - 05/05/2010
The election campaign - the parties' last bid for votes. Violence in Greece and political rows in Germany over the bail-out.
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The World Tonight - 05/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. Featuring a look forward to the G8 summit, a report from Palestinian refugee camps and an assessment of Tony Blair's legacy for children and working families.
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The World Tonight - 05/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 05/06/2009
All the latest political news and analysis of the bigger picture with David Eades, as Gordon Brown reshuffles his Cabinet and Labour lose seats in local government.
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The World Tonight - 05/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 05/07/2010
With Ritula Shah. Turkey warns it will cut diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologises for the attack on the Gaza aid convoy. The government announces further budget cuts.
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The World Tonight - 05/08/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Loan sharks are on the loose in the recession and a government report says we must do more to guarantee energy supplies.
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The World Tonight - 05/08/2010
With Robin Lustig. Naomi Campbell gives evidence in the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor. The potential benefits of 'civic national service'.
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The World Tonight - 05/09/2007
With Robin Lustig. Germany uncovers its own home-grown terrorist plot. The environmental threat to thousands along the Yangtse river. Voyager 1 is still sending signals to Earth.
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The World Tonight - 05/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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The World Tonight - 05/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 05/10/2009
With Ritula Shah and Felicity Evans. The Conservatives start their conference - but are they ready to govern? An explosion in a UN building in Pakistan kills five.
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The World Tonight - 05/10/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 05/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on Pakistan's state of emergency, falling bank stocks, blockbuster art shows and floods in Mexico.
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The World Tonight - 05/11/2008
Robin Lustig assesses the significance of Barack Obama's victory for race relations in the US and asks if the world will see many changes in American foreign policy.
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The World Tonight - 05/11/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Bank of England is to inject another 25 billion pounds into the economy; the Afghan view of the troop deployment debate.
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The World Tonight - 05/12/2007
With David Eades. Including reports on doubts over a Northern Rock takeover, Mike Huckerbee's surge as a Republican front runner and why the French want to shut down Ebay.
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The World Tonight - 05/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 06/01/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on America's position on a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli attack on a UN-run school in Gaza and the 'lost' Hemingway documents found in Havana.
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The World Tonight - 06/01/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Labour in crisis - two former cabinet ministers call for a leadership election. What will happen in Iraq in 2010?
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The World Tonight - 06/02/2007
With Jackie Hargrave. Maternity services cut or 'reconfigured' - why can't ministers accept government plans for the closure of maternity units?
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The World Tonight - 06/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on a possible NATO troop surge in Afghanistan and the results of yesterday's US primaries.
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The World Tonight - 06/02/2009
With Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on local authorities running out of salt as winter deepens and an end in sight to nuclear proliferation as leaders meet in Munich.
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The World Tonight - 06/03/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. A White Official is found guilty of lying about intelligence on Iraq. Somalia's peacekeepers are greeted with rounds of mortar: can the country be pacified?
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The World Tonight - 06/03/2008
Will new laws force drugs companies to come clean on research trials? Plus, how to lose and save pounds, according to the Duchess of York. With Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 06/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the prospects of a new relationship between Washington and Moscow and US unemployment rises to a 25-year high.
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The World Tonight - 06/04/2007
The captured Marines have defended their conduct while detained. Does the Royal Navy need to change its rules of engagement in peacekeeping operations?
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The World Tonight - 06/04/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the earthquake in central Italy and the announcement of new US defence priorities.
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The World Tonight - 06/04/2010
The 2010 General Election is called for May 6th. We report on the first day of campaigning by party leaders and assess the mood of voters at Wetherby Races.
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The World Tonight - 06/05/2008
With Robin Lustig. Reports on trying to help the people of Burma but not the regime; the lessons from last year's floods; and on the Russian presidency.
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The World Tonight - 06/05/2009
News and analysis with Felicity Evans in London and Robin Lustig in Strasbourg. Including a look at President Obama's meeting with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The World Tonight - 06/06/2007
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. How the US and China could derail climate talks at the G8 and how Labour's Deputy Leadership contest is like going back to the Seventies.
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The World Tonight - 06/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 06/07/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Could a failure to speak English exlain why Imams aren't getting their anti-terrorist message across to their communities?
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The World Tonight - 06/07/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on President Obama's arrival in Moscow and the worst violence to erupt in China since Tiananmen Square.
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The World Tonight - 06/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 06/08/2007
National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. A look at biosecurity at the Institute for Animal Health; Bangladesh's 'worst floods'; and missing weapons in Iraq.
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The World Tonight - 06/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Featuring reports on the verdict at the first Guantanamo military tribunal and the Iraqi government's large surplus.
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With Ritula Shah. The Bank of England extends its quantitative easing programme, the enduring resonance of the First World War and the future of new media and social networking.
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With Robin Lustig. Authorities in Pakistan say 12 million people have been affected by the floods in the country - we report from the devastated regions.
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With Robin Lustig. Can the UK have a 'fair' referendum on Europe? Another top US general voices his concerns about Iraq. And a surprising study about mental health and conflict.
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News and analysis with Ritulah Shah. Alistair Darling's latest response to the financial crisis, including a historian who thinks there won't be a depression.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah and Paul Moss. George Osbourne sets out his plans to deal with debt, but do they add up? Drought reaches crisis point in the Middle East.
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News and analysis with David Eades. Will measures in the Queen's Speech help in the battle against climate change? Plus exploring religion and politics in Iran.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. As Gordon Brown defends British involvement in Afghanistan, we consider political strategies for the country.
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With Reeta Chakrabarti. Including reports on the UN plan for peacekeepers in Darfur, President Bush's offered lifeline to homeowners, and a plan to provide clean energy from space.
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With Paul Moss. Including reports on a possible political compromise in Kenya, new Conservative Welfare to Work plans and waste disposal problems in Naples.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the resumption of Israeli attacks on Gaza after a three-hour ceasefire and the latest diplomatic moves for a longer-term truce.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama gives more details of security intelligence failings.
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The letter bomb is back. Is road rage responsible? Plus, India's street food vendors face a ban - is this the end of a way of life?
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With Brian Hanrahan. Including reports on reactions to the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments on Sharia Law and the possible effects of today's interest rate cut.
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With Roger Hearing. Tsunami survivors are selling their organs to survive: whatever happened to disaster relief? Nicolas Sarkozy: France's presidential frontrunner.
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With Roger Hearing. Including reports on prospects for peace in the Middle East after last night's killings, this weekend's Spanish elections and alleged corruption in Bulgaria.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including the latest news on the earthquake in Italy, President Obama's arrival in Iraq and RBS job losses.
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The UK economy is forecast to make a rapid recovery, but who will it help at the election? Violent clashes in Kyrgyzstan as protesters demand the overthrown of the president.
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France's new president, Nicholas Sarkozy, gets down to work - we report on the challenges he faces.
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With David Eades. Including reports on the Burmese junta's alleged blocking of visa applications from aid workers and the use of lie detectors to curb benefit fraud.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Pakistani army steps up the fight against the Taleban and the US Treasury reports on the health of American banks.
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Jane Little asks if the climate change deal made at the G8 summit represents a real breakthrough. Also, a special report from Syria on the legacy of 1967's Six-Day War.
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With Ritula Shah. A curfew is imposed in China's western region of Xinjiang, the government faces a rebellion over the 10p tax and Michael Jackson is laid to rest in Los Angeles.
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With Ritula Shah and Robin Lustig. The final investigation into 'Climategate' clears scientists of allegations of manipulating data.
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National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Stories include Britain's decision to request the return of five UK residents from Guantanamo Bay.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the threat to impeach Pervez Musharraf, Scotland's high death toll from drugs and the international Aids conference in Mexico City.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the strength of the Taliban in Afghanistan, why Arab countries are failing their youth and folk artists taking on the BNP.
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With Robin Lustig. Including the latest on the questioning of Gerry and Kate McCann. And should the building of Britain's biggest mosque in London's East End go ahead?
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With Ritula Shah. Three British men convicted of huge airline terror plot; a year on from the bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, how much has changed?
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Home Secretary will review the extradition treaty between Britain and the United States following concerns over cases like Gary McKinnon's.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritulah Shah. Including a debate on what's best to do with your money as the International Monetary Fund warns of a world slowdown.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. The former head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, is lined up for a role with the Conservatives.
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With Robin Lustig. Sarkozy tells Congress a weak dollar could lead to 'economic war'; Bhutto threatens a 'long march' against Musharraf; and Georgia expels Russian diplomats.
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National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn.
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With Reeta Chakrabarti. The implications of the jockeys race-fixing case outcome; the EU's approach to human rights at its African summit; and is sci-fi stuck in a time warp?
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. The Copenhagen summit begins - what will success look like? Are quangos an easy target for politicians?
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The World Tonight - 08/01/2008
National and international news and analysis with Paul Moss. Including reports on the New Hampshire primary, a prison offenders database, and what Israel expects from George Bush.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the Gaza Conflict, a possible deal to restart Russian gas supplies to Europe and plans to twin the town of Staines with Mauritius.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Northern Ireland's First Minister meets DUP members amid allegations of a corruption cover-up. The alleged 'Detroit bomber' appears in court.
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With Robin Lustig. Another appalling child abuse case - why are social services still letting children down? Has Britain finally learned how to deal with bad weather?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the fallout after Rowan Williams' comments on Sharia law and a similar incident in Ontario.
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With Ritula Shah. Jack Straw appears a second time before the Chilcot Inquiry. Could sanctions on Iran harm the opposition movement? Senior Met Police officer Ali Dizaei is jailed.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Jack Straw says he will keep information about Jon Venables secret. The Conservatives unveil new plans for inventing our way out of recession.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the continuing credit crisis, calls for US troop withdrawal from Iraq to be frozen and why food riots are spreading around the world.
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Presented by Jane Hill. Including the latest on anti-terror raids in north-west England, and a report on the public's trust in the police following a death at the G20 protest.
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With Robin Lustig. A historic day in Northern Ireland as power-sharing resumes: but who or what was really responsible for bringing the old enemies together?
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Ministers defend expenses claims, Turkey and Armenia agree to an entente cordiale and a report on saving the world's oldest apple trees.
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With Jane Little and Jeremy Bowen. Featuring anti-poverty campaigners rounding on the G8 for cutting back on pledges and the Middle East 40 years after the Six Day War.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Gordon Brown meets backbench MPs after Labour's worst election result for 90 years.
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News and analysis with Roger Hearing. The programme asks how the state can be made smaller, and Iran says new UN sanctions will have no effect on its nuclear programme.
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With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the prospects for high street sales, China's moves to combat air pollution ahead of the Olympics and the golfer who had a stroke of luck.
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With Robin Lustig. The government promises better regulation of the economy, the G8 meets in Italy to tackle climate change and the battle for water in the West Bank.
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With Robin Lustig. Do we have the right laws to deal with potential terrorists? The IMF's views on the British economy, and a special report from Scotland.
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With Peter Dobbie. Farmers outside the danger zone can send animals to slaughter, but will that help fill supermarket shelves? Did Channel 4 distort the words of Muslim clerics?
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including features on the escalating tension between Russia and Georgia, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and BMX at the Olympics.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the major terror bomb plot verdicts and the US plan to save mortgage guarantors.
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With Ritula Shah. Senior Labour MPs air their doubts about Gordon Brown's leadership; President Karzai's lead hardens as Afghanistan's Election Commission demands recounts.
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Gordon Brown announces Iraq troop reductions - what difference will it make? A British scientist has won the Nobel Prize for medicine - we talk to him live.
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With Reeta Chakrabarti. Featuring reports on whether America is headed for an economic crisis and the snap election called in Georgia after the declaration of a state of emergency.
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With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the plea to be entered by a top 9/11 suspect, military intervention in Zimbabwe and the discovery of new letters from Oscar Wilde.
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News and analysis with David Eades. A series of bombs kill more than 100 in Baghdad. Will public services suffer in an era of cost cutting? Is this century really warming up?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Featuring reports on George Bush's visit to Israel and the results of the New Hampshire primaries.
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With Robin Lustig. A look at Israel's strategy as the attacks on Gaza continue. Plus the problems on the west coast main rail line, and Tintin's 80th birthday.
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With Ritula Shah. Including reports on President Obama's economic stimulus package, the problems awaiting a new Israeli administration and how vegetables have become fashionable.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Greek unions prepare to strike in protest at government austerity measures. Obama says sanctions on Iran are moving closer.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Tonight's features include elections in Ulster and a third candidate for the French presidency.
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Ritula Shah has reports on President Obama aiming to press on with embryonic stem cell research; China saying no to Western-style democracy and Boris Johnson on illegal immigrants.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. An exclusive report into the Irish priest abuse scandal. The former head of MI5 says US misled allies over torture.
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Robin Lustig asks what the new regulations governing the armed forces talking to the media should be and explores the role of religion in public life.
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With Robin Lustig. With reports on possible repercussions of further protests against China's Olympics; and how Zimbabwe's neighbours are reacting to delayed election results.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the fallout from the resignation of anti-terrorism chief Bob Quick and Somali pirates hold a US ship's captain hostage.
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With Robin Lustig. The other big announcement tomorrow: the implications of a rise in interest rates. And does growing crops for biofuels do more harm than good?
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With Ritula Shah. Including reports on aid to Burma, Hezbollah's takeover of most of western Beirut, and the Cuban blogger who wasn't allowed to pick up her award.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the first Guantanamo detainee going on trial in New York and unexploded bombs in Laos.
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With Ritula Shah. The UN approves new sanctions against Iran. The battle for the Labour Party leadership heats up. Immigration and Islamaphobia in the Netherlands.
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National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. Is the booming south leaving the north behind? Plus Welsh protesters take on the great gas pipeline; and polite Paris.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Iran's missile tests, a Saudi 'rehab centre' for Jihadis and a breakthrough in earthquake prediction.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig, including the latest revelations over allegations of mobile phone hacking by News of the World journalists.
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With Robin Lustig. The government plans to scrap Primary Care Trusts. Praising the Ayatollah: the limits of diplomacy. A report on Haiti, six months on from the quake.
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National and international news and analysis with Peter Dobbie. Including features on the cost of ID cards and the volatile state of the stock markets.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the redeployment of US troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and Alistair Darling's speech to the TUC.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Featuring reaction to Obama's big healthcare speech. Also, is sleeping with your partner bad for your health?
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With Robin Lustig. The Chancellor's pre-Budget report, will his numbers add up? Also Che Guevara's legacy 40 years on; and is Turkey planning an incursion into Northern Iraq?
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize; is it too early in his presidency? A suicide bomb kills more than 40 people in Pakistan.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The government announces its energy strategy; world leaders mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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National and international news with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the reasons behind the Greek riots; Barack Obama's economic rescue plan; and is children's TV in decline?
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Labour's last roll of the dice - will the Pre-Budget Report win over voters? Alan Johnston returns to the Palestinian Territories and why finding Osama is back on the US agenda.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the Bank of England's decision not to change interest rates and the situation in Iraq a year after the surge of troops.
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National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Including reports on an EU warning that energy shortages could trigger global conflict and how inflation figures are calculated.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the new Irish Republicans behind recent killings in Northern Ireland and claims that Christopher Columbus was Scottish.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. An incest case has led to recommendations for changes in child protection procedures. Somalia food aid was siphoned off, says a UN report.
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With Robin Lustig. Can President Bush persuade Democrats to continue funding troops in Iraq? Plus, can the web be regulated, and why more trees could increase global warming.
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With Mishal Husain. We hear from an award-winning Chinese singing phenomena, and look at the latest developments in the Zimbabwean presidential elections.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including the latest on the resignation of police chief Bob Quick, Iran's new nuclear technology, and the cardboard box doubling as a cooker.
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National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. As Tony Blair announces his resignation as Labour leader, politicians and voters assess his career.
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News and analysis. Deal or no deal? Live update and analysis on the negotiations taking place between the three main parties. What does the European rescue package entail?
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Gordon Brown's package to cleanse Parliament and Morgan Tsvangirai's declaration that Zimbabwe needs aid immediately.
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With Roger Hearing. How much damage is Obama's BP bashing doing to Britain? Is it time for David Cameron to intervene? Can philanthropists shore up falling arts funding?
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With Jackie Hardgrave. Can President Musharraf beat extremism after the Red Mosque siege? Plus President Sarkozy's friends in the Socialist party, and cloning a frozen baby mammoth.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama's first trip to Africa raises hopes. What can he deliver?
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A look at stock markets around the world, a report on Sierra Leone before tomorrow's election and as India and Pakistan celebrate 60 years of independence, a look at partition.
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With Ritula Shah. Including reports on bomb attacks in Iraq, opposition to President Obama's healthcare plans, and China, mining company Rio Tinto and industrial espionage claims.
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With Robin Lustig. Debating the differing British and American approaches to tackling the deficit; are the 'Sunni Awakening' returning to violence?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Tonight, the US army's General Petraus presents his report on the success of the troop surge in Baghdad.
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National and international news and analysis with Julian Worricker.
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With Robin Lustig. How a First World War massacre is threatening the US's relations with one of its closest allies. Also the nuclear row which could bring down India's government.
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With Ritula Shah. Gordon Brown calls for a new international order. We speak to a rebel leader in the Congo. And the president of the Maldives tells us why he wants to move islands.
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News and analysis with David Eades and Robin Lustig. Why is The Sun gunning for Gordon Brown? The Palestinian Authority faces crisis after Mahmoud Abbas threatens to quit.
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Including reports on the next Russian President, Kosovan independence, the poor levels of skills evinced by many young people and Led Zeppelin's first concert for 19 years.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the pound's record low against the euro and the BBC obtains a draft UN report accusing the Rwandan government of colluding with DRC rebels.
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France is backing the British idea of a one-off supertax on bank bonuses. Egypt is building an underground wall along its border with the Gaza Strip. Who's smarter? Dogs or cats?
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Including reports on a Ghanaian woman's battle for healthcare, Liverpool's status as European Capital of Culture, and the potential damage to Peter Hain's political career.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Peter Robinson stands aside as Northern Ireland's first minister. Canvassing the views of ordinary Afghans. Sarah Palin joins Fox News.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Rowan Williams' speech to the General Synod and problems for Hillary Clinton in the US elections.
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With Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on the resignation of the deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority and American bankers' testimony to a US Congressional committee.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the prospects for Opel and Vauxhall as jobs go in Europe's car industry and civil rights leaders' opinions of the Pakistani president.
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News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Four politicians appear in court on charges related to their expenses. Afghanistan and Pakistan's leaders meet to discuss the Taliban.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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Robin Lustig reports from Milan ahead of the Italian elections, and Mishal Husain in London has the latest on the Zimbabwean election crisis and a report on food shortages.
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National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Featuring a look at what is expected from Gordon Brown as he prepares to move to No 10.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including the UN's claim that there is a 'bloodbath' in Sri Lanka's war zone. And have MPs' expenses produced a crisis in the political class?
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News and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Will Gordon Brown be able to take the politics out of security and intelligence issues? Plus Iran's growing influence in Afghanistan.
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With Ritula Shah in London and Robin Lustig in Dublin. The latest on the 42-day vote in the Commons, plus Ireland gets ready for a critical referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. How will the world cope with a swine flu pandemic? Iran prepares to vote in presidential elections.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on new jitters on the US housing market, possible sanctions against Zimbabwe and the menu for the Beijing Olympics.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. As more details emerge about Baby Peter's life, The World Tonight spends two days with social workers dealing with children at risk.
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National and international news and analysis with Brian Hanrahan.
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With Robin Lustig. Senators grill America's leading general and ambassador on Iraq. And we explore allegations about why Radovan Karadzic hasn't been arrested.
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A special edition with Owen Bennett-Jones, assessing the impact of 9/11 on Afghanistan and Pakistan, seven years on.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. General Motors sells Opel and Vauxhall to a Canadian company. And why is women's football not as popular as it deserves to be?
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Presented by Fergus Nicoll. More than 200 people have been killed in fighting in Waziristan, a region bordering Afghanistan. Why does this impact on Europe and the USA?
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the case of Baby P and whether increased government spending will get us out of recession.
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National and international news and analysis. Unemployment has risen again, but the increase is slowing. The Bank of England warns that the recovery is 'only just starting'.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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With Robin Lustig. The EU's 7bn euro package to 'mitigate' climate change; would a dose of Irish medicine be good for Britain's deficit; is anyone still sending Christmas cards?
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on Egypt's role in a Gaza ceasefire and how the fashion industry is dealing with recession.
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News and analysis with Jane Hill. Alastair Campbell faces the Iraq inquiry. RBS boss says even his mum thinks he's paid too much. Venezuelans go on a supermarket sweep.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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Robin Lustig considers whether the Treasury has backed down on new tax rules for non-domiciles, and looks at the government of Australia's apology to the aboriginal community.
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National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. A month on from the earthquake, a day of mourning in Haiti. With European economies contracting, is a 'double dip' recession looming?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Featured stories include green taxation and the UN report accusing the Sudanese government of war crimes.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the effects of Alistair Darling's budget, results of the surge in Iraq and criticism of China's human rights record ahead of the Olympics.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on protests against the government in Pakistan and proposals to change the architecture of Paris.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. British Airways cabin crew announce strike dates. A special report behind the scenes with the probation service in Sheffield.
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With Jackie Hardgrave. Including the latest from Baghdad after the blast at the Iraqi parliament. Scottish independence - good for England? And obesity - it is in the genes?
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Party leaders act on MPs expenses and the Pakistani army closes in on the Taliban in the Swat Valley.
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The World Tonight - 12/06/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Including reports on the Iranian presidential elections, the art of resignation and Bermuda and the former Guantanamo inmates.
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The World Tonight - 12/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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With Ritula Shah. More than 70 people killed in bomb attacks in Uganda: were Somali Islamists Al-Shabaab behind it? What will the government's NHS reform plans mean for patients?
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The World Tonight - 12/08/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Why is unemployment falling in Wales but rising everywhere else in Britain? Can Australia kick King Coal?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 12/09/2007
The Conservatives reveal new green taxes. Plus how do the police feel about being criticised for not taking risks and Russia's new PM is a tax inspector. What's Putin's game?
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The World Tonight - 12/09/2008
News and analysis with Jane Hill. Including reports on a Labour whip's call for a Labour leadership election and the EU's response to news of a power-sharing government in Zimbabwe.
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With Fergus Nicoll. Is the West's approach to President Putin the right one as Russia and the US fail to agree on American plans for missile defence in Europe?
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The World Tonight - 12/10/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. An Afghan member of a UN-backed panel looking into election fraud resigns from his post; MPs receive letters on their expenses.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 12/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis. Gordon Brown proposes to tighten up immigration; BA and Spanish airline Iberia agree to merge.
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The World Tonight - 12/12/2007
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on Gordon Brown's blueprint for governing Afghanistan, the truckers' strike that has paralysed Italy and human trafficking in Central America.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. There was an open verdict in the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, but what are the lessons to learn?
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The World Tonight - 13/01/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on Western governments looking for new ways to protect businesses from the credit crunch and Hillary Clinton wanting a 'new approach' to Iran.
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News and analysis with David Eades. An earthquake in Haiti kills hundreds. A new wave of migration from Ireland. Roma children are 'segregated' in the Czech Republic.
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The World Tonight - 13/02/2007
With Robin Lustig. Should the Metropolitan Police apologise over the Forest Gate anti terrorist raid And North Korea's nuclear pact: a sign of weaknessor strength?
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The World Tonight - 13/02/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including a report on the Court of Appeal's decision to free five men jailed for possessing Islamic extremist propaganda.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the swearing-in of Zimbabwe's new government, the US Congress vote on the stimulus package and was Henry VIII a romantic?
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The World Tonight - 13/03/2007
With Robin Lustig. Five Europeans held captive in Ethiopia have been released. How Iran and Syria are buying influence in Lebanon. Prison is not for women.
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News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Including reports on problems with the US economy, the role of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran and a deadly fungus which attacks wheat.
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The World Tonight - 13/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including a report on the Sussex meeting of the finance ministers of the 20 richest nations, being held to discuss the global crisis.
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The World Tonight - 13/04/2007
An interview with Boris Berezovsky following his call for the violent removal of President Putin. Plus, why French politicians are attacking the euro.
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The World Tonight - 13/04/2009
News and analysis. Is Thailand on the brink of revolution? The US eases restrictions on travel to Cuba. Anti-Christian violence hits India. Plus, political muck-raking.
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The World Tonight - 13/04/2010
The Conservatives launch their election manifesto, but will it 'seal the deal'? Cuban hairdressers to be handed over to employees and is Kyrgyzstan on the brink of civil war?
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The World Tonight - 13/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. In a special edition of the programme, Foreign Secretary David Miliband gives an extended interview.
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The World Tonight - 13/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama opposes the release of prisoner abuse photos and thousands of refugees flee the Taleban-controlled regions in Pakistan.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. More Liberal Democrats join the government; can the party retain a distinctive voice? Ireland's lessons on how to cut public spending.
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The World Tonight - 13/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. As the spiral of violence in Gaza continues, is meddling by the US and Israel a factor? And is there more to succeeding in business than pleasing Sir Alan Sugar?
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The World Tonight - 13/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, President Bush's farewell to Europe, and the teabag.
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The World Tonight - 13/07/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Looking at the verdict in the Conrad Black case; the reshaping of UK foreign policy; and the world's largest telescope.
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The World Tonight - 13/07/2009
With Ritula Shah. Are tensions between the military and the government over Afghanistan unprecedented? Are exams or continuous assessment the best way to appraise students?
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The World Tonight - 13/07/2010
With Robin Lustig. Three British soldiers are killed by an Afghan soldier - where does that leave the NATO strategy of training Afghan troops and soldiers?
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The World Tonight - 13/08/2007
Robin Lustig looks at where Karl Rove's resignation leaves the Bush administration, why government struggles to function in Pakistan, and John Redwood's red tape cutting proposals.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on George Bush's warning to Russia over Georgia, rising unemployment and the scarcity of bees.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Brian Hanrahan.
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The World Tonight - 13/09/2007
National and international news and analysis. A Sunni leader on the American side is killed in Iraq; and could old-fashioned banking solve the credit crisis? With Reeta Chakrabarti.
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Is the talk of cuts about ideology as much as saving money? More children die on the roads in poor countries than from TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS.
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The World Tonight - 13/10/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritulah Shah. Including reports on the government bailouts of banks across Europe and the stock market reaction.
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The World Tonight - 13/10/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. MPs express anger over expenses; Hillary Clinton meets her Russian counterpart; the Archbishop of Canterbury lectures on climate change.
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The World Tonight - 13/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. As Britain calls for and end to emergency rule, what do Pakistanis themselves make of events?
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The World Tonight - 13/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on what the recession in Germany means for Europe, how the people of Gaza are coping without power and an earthquake drill in California.
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The World Tonight - 13/11/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The man alleged to have planned the September 11 attacks in the United States is to be put on trial in New York.
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The World Tonight - 13/12/2007
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on how Gordon Brown is viewed in Europe and the legacy of Carla Del Ponte after eight years leading the UN's Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal.
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The World Tonight - 14/01/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on George Bush's Middle East tour, the first Mercury probe for 30 years, and an alleged plan to overthrow a Communist government in Italy.
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The World Tonight - 14/01/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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A special edition with Robin Lustig in Washington. Help for Haiti. Obama's first year in office: what difference has it made to the rest of the world?
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The World Tonight - 14/02/2007
With Robin Lustig. Is the way to defeat the Taleban to let Afghan farmers produce opium legally? The refugees from Iraq no one wants.
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With Reeta Chakrabarti. Including reports on the plight of an estimated 4 million Iraqi refugees, the future of the world's oceans and the identity of St Valentine.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. Including reports on violence in Lhasa, alleged corruption in Bulgaria and the state of British theatre.
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The World Tonight - 14/04/2008
With Robin Lustig and Ritula Shah. Reports on Silvio Berlusconi's forecast return to power, options for Zimbabwe's opposition and illegal immigration from Africa to Israel.
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The World Tonight - 14/04/2009
With Jane Hill. Gordon Brown comes under attack from Blairites over the email smear row; and US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke sees the green shoots of recovery.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The latest on the earthquake in China. Mexico's new idea in the fight against drug crime.
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The World Tonight - 14/05/2007
John McDonnell will challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership. Does he have any support? Chrysler is in private American hands. Can it still motor? With Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 14/05/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Chinese rescue efforts after the earthquake and the surprise resignation of Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva.
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The World Tonight - 14/05/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports from the City of London, China and New York on the global economy, plus the latest on MPs expenses.
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The World Tonight - 14/05/2010
With Robin Lustig. William Hague meets Hillary Clinton in Washington. Thailand's government fires on 'Red Shirt' protestors; can there be a deal for new elections?
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The World Tonight - 14/06/2007
Will Gaza become a mini Islamic state under Hamas; and do economic migrants threaten UK social cohesion? Plus The Falklands marks liberation 25 years on. Presented by Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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News from a global perspective with Felicity Evans. The government publishes proposals on care for the elderly. But is decent care a luxury we can't afford?
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 14/08/2007
With Robin Lustig. The world's biggest toymaker recalls milions of toys made in China. Does the world need 18-year-old volunteers overseas? And Pakistan is 60 today.
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The World Tonight - 14/08/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including features on Russian activity in Georgia, a threat of diplomatic action from the Ukraine and Nepal's search for a new goddess.
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News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama goes on the offensive in the healthcare reform row and scientists discover a gene that determines how much sleep we need.
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The World Tonight - 14/09/2007
News and analysis with Paul Moss. Was the Bank of England right to bale out Northern Rock? Plus curing obesity, the world's number one killer; and Vladimir Putin gives an audience.
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The World Tonight - 14/09/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah, including the mood in New York as President Obama calls for financial regulation.
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The World Tonight - 14/09/2010
With Ritula Shah. The EU says France's deportation of Roma could be illegal. How will the French respond? And the report into Billy Wright's murder in the Maze prison is published.
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The World Tonight - 14/10/2008
With Ritulah Shah. Including reaction following President Bush's announcement that the US government is buying bank shares and a report on anti-Christian violence in India.
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The World Tonight - 14/10/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Gordon Brown promises more troops for Afghanistan; the government promises targeted help for white working-class voters.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 14/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Featuring Gordon Brown's visit to the US as leaders aim to kick-start the world economy. Plus on Children in Need day, are people still giving to charity?
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The World Tonight - 14/12/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 14/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. British Airways threatened with strike action over Christmas and New Year; Greece faces austerity budget cutting.
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The World Tonight - 15/01/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on problems in the American banking system, the Republican Primary in Michigan and debate over the function of public schools.
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The World Tonight - 15/01/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Gordon Brown's diplomatic intervention into the Central European gas supply row and the Africans who love President Bush.
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The World Tonight - 15/01/2010
News and analysis with Felicity Evans. Problems with delivery bedevil Haiti relief. An internal report into the Fort Hood shootings. Chile prepares to return a right-wing president.
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The World Tonight - 15/02/2007
National and international news and analysis with Clare Bolderson.
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The World Tonight - 15/02/2008
News and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. Including reports on possible reconciliation between the two main parties in Kenya and the impending Kosovan declaration of independence.
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The World Tonight - 15/02/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Day three of the latest Afghan offensive. Is Chinese economic growth benefiting Japan?
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The World Tonight - 15/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 15/03/2010
With Ritula Shah. British Airways publishes its 'strike' schedule as the prime minister calls Unite's action 'deplorable'. The EU condemns Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem.
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The World Tonight - 15/04/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on rising food prices and what role the EU should play, the Pope's comments on abusive priests and a panda who went astray.
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The World Tonight - 15/04/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Met Commissioner orders a review of riot policing following the G20 death and Somali pirates threaten a fightback against US ships.
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The World Tonight - 15/05/2007
News and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. The programme looks at Gordon Brown's plans for maths tuition, the global struggle for secure energy supplies and Bob Woolmer's death.
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With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the aftermath of the Burmese cyclone, preparations for the Crewe by-election and how geopolitics influences the nationality of film baddies.
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The World Tonight - 15/05/2009
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans. Including reports on Obama's U-turn on Guantanamo Bay's military tribunals and Springtime for Hitler in Berlin.
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The World Tonight - 15/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. Does the EU need a reality check after voicing support for President Abbas? Plus can you tell Tory and Labour apart; and Houston on fixing the space station.
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The World Tonight - 15/06/2009
With Robin Lustig. The government announces an inquiry into the Iraq war, and thousands rally in Tehran in support of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
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The World Tonight - 15/06/2010
With Ritula Shah. The Saville Inquiry publishes its findings; the US Congress grills oil executives over safety; why has Kyrgyzstan descended into ethnic violence?
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The World Tonight - 15/07/2009
With Robin Lustig. Another prominent Russian human rights campaigner has been murdered. Government proposals for a big increase in the production of renewable energy.
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The World Tonight - 15/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 15/08/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including Iran's Revolutionary Guard to join banned US terror list; and is there a link between alcohol and youth offending?
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The World Tonight - 15/08/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including features on Russia's military options in Georgia, attacks on oil pipelines in Nigeria and an alleged smear campaign against Barack Obama.
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The World Tonight - 15/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 15/09/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Gordon Brown says cuts are needed in 'low priority budgets'; we hear from the TUC and the Conservative Party.
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The World Tonight - 15/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Plus, William Hague says that human rights must be part of foreign policy.
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The World Tonight - 15/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. How will Russia's President Putin be received on his first visit to Tehran?
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The World Tonight - 15/10/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the future of international regulation as EU leaders discuss the economy, a flare-up on the Thailand-Cambodia border and red squirrels.
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The World Tonight - 15/10/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Another MP is standing down after allegations about his parliamentary expenses; militants carry out a series of bomb attacks in Pakistan.
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News and analysis. London Zoo special: Ritula Shah chairs a debate from London Zoo asking what can be done to prevent the extinction of many forms of life on Earth.
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The World Tonight - 15/11/2007
With Robin Lustig. As a US envoy travels to Islamabad and President Musharraf dissolves the Pakistani parliament, we ask if America is considering the alternatives.
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The World Tonight - 15/12/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on Thailand's third prime minister in the last three months and why regulators failed to spot the Bernard Madoff scam.
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The World Tonight - 15/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. The defence secretary announces spending cuts. Is Al Qaeda establishing a stronghold in Yemen?
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The World Tonight - 16/01/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 16/02/2007
An extraordinary report about gun crime in Philadelphia: can local projects stop youths shooting each other.
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The World Tonight - 16/02/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on UN accusations that the Tamil Tigers are trapping civilians, the UK's anti-terrorism strategy and is scarlet fever back?
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The World Tonight - 16/02/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's military commander, is arrested in Karachi.
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The World Tonight - 16/03/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Are war and justice compatible? The Zambian Foreign Minister tells us what African leaders want Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to do next.
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The World Tonight - 16/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on emerging differences ahead of the G20 summit, the British binge drinking culture and what now for Pakistan?
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The World Tonight - 16/03/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Hillary Clinton says the ball is in Israel's court, if it wants to repair relations. Are older people being pushed into the dole queue?
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The World Tonight - 16/04/2007
National and international news and analysis. A shooting at a university leaves 30 dead and Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr orders his ministers to quit the Iraqi government.
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The World Tonight - 16/04/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 16/04/2009
With Robin Lustig in London and Ritula Shah in Mumbai. Elections start in India and Conservative MP Damian Green will not face police charges over civil service leaks.
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The World Tonight - 16/04/2010
Nick Clegg's performance in the Leaders' Debate has lifted support for the Liberal Democrats. Can he transform his party's chances in the General Election?
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The World Tonight - 16/05/2007
With Robin Lustig. The Army has decided Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq: is this a victory for the insurgents? How India's caste system is holding back economic development.
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The World Tonight - 16/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 16/06/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on Britain's troop deployment in Afghanistan, how a new US president could alter British foreign policy and who pays most for more costly food.
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The World Tonight - 16/06/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the situations in Iran and Yemen and the government's digital strategy.
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The World Tonight - 16/06/2010
With Ritula Shah. George Osborne puts the Bank of England in charge of bank regulation and scraps the FSA. Protests in Birmingham over CCTV and number recognition cameras.
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The World Tonight - 16/07/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. How strained are Anglo-Russian relations? Plus a look at the lawless Pakistan/Afganistan border and a report on Turkish elections.
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The World Tonight - 16/07/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on exchanges of prisoners in the Middle East, the debate on parliamentary expenses arrangements and the Greatest Russian.
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The World Tonight - 16/07/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. China's economy surges ahead despite worldwide recession. The UK swine flu helpline launch has been brought forward.
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The World Tonight - 16/07/2010
With Ritula Shah. As Goldman Sachs pays compensation and the US Congress approves a tighter system of financial regulation, will Britain and EU now tighten the rules on banks?
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The World Tonight - 16/08/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Global markets continue to fall: can anything be done to stop the slide? And is it a good idea to sell arms to all sides in the Middle East?
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The World Tonight - 16/08/2010
News and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. The UN warns that 3.5 million children in Pakistan are at risk of waterborne diseases.
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The World Tonight - 16/09/2008
With Shaun Ley. As shares around the world tumble, how does it affect the 'real economy'? We hear the latest from Wall St and on the rural economy from Cornwall.
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The World Tonight - 16/09/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. How those with jobs are also feeling the pinch, Afghanistan's president lashes out at his EU critics, and what hope from new talks with Iran?
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The World Tonight - 16/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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With David Eades. A Home Office report says that Britain is benefiting economically from immigration, so who needs controls? Plus why the Liberal Democrats want a pretty face.
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The World Tonight - 16/10/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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News and analysis with Felicity Evans. The High Court rules that details of the torture allegedly inflicted on a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be made public.
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The World Tonight - 16/11/2007
What next for Northern Rock? More than a thousand people die in a cyclone in Bangladesh. And how space technology used on Beagle 2 is helping to diagnose TB.
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The World Tonight - 16/11/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Gordon Brown proposes a conference to plan the timetable for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 16/12/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on a possible interest rate cut in America, whether family courts should be open to the media and a wine that promises to unblock arteries.
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The World Tonight - 16/12/2009
National and international news and analysis. Chaos, confusion and crisis in Copenhagen. The latest on the planned BA strike. Scientists crack cancer's gene code.
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The World Tonight - 17/01/2008
Reeta Chakrabarti analyses the day's news including a look at the Heathrow plane crash and the latest from Kenya as the protests against the election results continue.
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The World Tonight - 17/02/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on a new peace deal for Darfur, the first anniversary of Kosovan independence and the UK and US 'bonus culture'.
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The World Tonight - 17/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Gordon Brown promises a 'full investigation' into the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who assassinated a Hamas commander in Dubai.
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The World Tonight - 17/03/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on growing concerns over the US economy and clashes between peacekeeping troops and Serbs in Northern Kosovo.
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The World Tonight - 17/03/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on what went wrong at Stafford Hospital, whether mothers of one-year-olds should be made to sign on as unemployed and Russia's rearmament plans.
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The World Tonight - 17/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn.
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The World Tonight - 17/04/2007
What are our obligations to Iraqi refugees? Are gun laws in Virginia less stringent than in other states? PY Gerbau gives his view of doing business in France.
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The World Tonight - 17/04/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the latest bloodshed in Iraq, how the potato could solve the current food crisis, and a team of researchers trying to save the white rhino.
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The World Tonight - 17/04/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Cuba's relations with the US, the UN's concerns about Sri Lanka and President Sarkozy's undiplomatic lunch.
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The World Tonight - 17/05/2007
A look at what kind of relationship Gordon Brown will have with President Bush. Plus is a fighting fund the best way to get Madeleine back and is Estonia under cyber attack?
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The World Tonight - 17/05/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Will Thailand's crackdown on protestors turn more bloody? How easy is it to cancel government spending projects?
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The World Tonight - 17/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah, including the release of Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, Abu Qatada, on bail, and a rise in inflation.
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The World Tonight - 17/06/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The Iranian authorities crack down on blogging websites and President Obama plans to announce banking regulation reforms.
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The World Tonight - 17/06/2010
The Israelis say they'll ease the land blockade on Gaza; as EU leaders meet, is the EU facing a long-term crisis? Slovaks flock to communist nostalgia holidays. With Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 17/07/2007
National and international news with Jane Little. Russia threatens to drop anti terror co-operation with Britain; and MPs vote on compensation for pensioners with insolvent firms.
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The World Tonight - 17/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 17/07/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on renewed turmoil in Iran and terrorism returning to Indonesia.
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The World Tonight - 17/08/2007
News and analysis with Peter Dobbie. Features include the US Federal Reserve's intervention in the global markets and tension between Amnesty International and the Catholic Church.
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The World Tonight - 17/08/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Will Afghanistan's elections do much for the rule of law and women's rights? The hijacked cargo ship, Arctic Sea, is found.
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The World Tonight - 17/09/2007
National and international news and analysis. Featured reports include Northern Rock's troubles and foreign minister Mark Malloch-Brown's recent trip to Darfur.
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The World Tonight - 17/09/2008
With David Eades. Including reports on the international markets, rising unemployment in the UK and the importance of the Latino vote in the American presidential election.
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The World Tonight - 17/09/2009
News and analysis with David Eades. Includes Washington scrapping the European missile defence system, the deadly air strike in Yemen and Brixton's new currency.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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In a special edition, Robin Lustig speaks to a worldwide panel of guests on the future direction of Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 17/11/2008
Presented by Ritula Shah. As sterling falters, is it time to join the euro, and will it be easy for Barack Obama to close Guantanamo? Also re-visiting Mississippi after Katrina.
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The World Tonight - 17/11/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Israel approves 900 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem; President Obama ends his China tour.
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The World Tonight - 17/12/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Alistair Darling announces new security measures after the loss of confidential data on two computer discs, but will they work?
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The World Tonight - 17/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. Including a report on how the increase in unemployment compares with other recessions.
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The World Tonight - 17/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Robin Lustig reports from Copenhagen on the latest news from the climate change summit.
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The World Tonight - 18/01/2008
With Reeta Chakrabarti. Including reports on the economic stimulus package announced by George Bush, yesterday's crash landing at Heathrow and Kevin Keegan's return to Newcastle.
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The World Tonight - 18/01/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Haiti's horror worsens as aid struggles to get in. The army prepares to fight the enemies of the future.
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The World Tonight - 18/02/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Pakistani elections, the future for Northern Rock and reaction after Kosovo's declaration of independence.
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The World Tonight - 18/02/2009
News and analysis with Jane Hill. Including President Obama's call for more European troops in Afghanistan and the Mexican drugs cartels accused of paying people to protest.
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The World Tonight - 18/02/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Dubai assassination - straight out of a spy novel? Record budget deficit for January.
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The World Tonight - 18/03/2008
with Ritula Shah. Including reports on a further anticipated cut in US interest rates, splits in the Tibetan movement and Belgium's experience of surviving without a government.
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The World Tonight - 18/03/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on why the justice system failed a man who served 27 years in jail for a murder he did not commit and how Britain is placed to face recession.
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The World Tonight - 18/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. Can the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow revive the peace process in the region?
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The World Tonight - 18/04/2007
With Jane Little. George Bush meets congressional leaders to discuss US policy in Iraq. Plus live coverage from Nigeria ahead of Sunday's presidential elections.
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The World Tonight - 18/04/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on Gordon Brown's visit to the US, gender in politics in Europe and smoke clouds over Buenos Aires caused by the burning of farmland.
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The World Tonight - 18/05/2007
With Robin Lustig. After a summit in Samara, what is the way ahead for relations between Russia and the EU? And writer Philip Pullman explains why he loves Neighbours.
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The World Tonight - 18/05/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Amid mounting pressure for Speaker Michael Martin to resign, disillusioned voters are likely to opt for extremist parties in the June elections.
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The World Tonight - 18/05/2010
British Airways and the Unite union are back in court, debating the legality of strike action. In Westminster, it is the first session of the new parliament. With David Eades.
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The World Tonight - 18/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. Including how can the world deal with two Palestinian entities; the smashing of an international peadophile ring and Brazil's place in the global economy.
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The World Tonight - 18/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including coverage from Mansion House of tonight's speech by chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling.
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The World Tonight - 18/06/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. We have an eye-witness account as mass demonstrations in Tehran keep the pressure up on Ahmadinejad.
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The World Tonight - 18/06/2010
As many as 2,000 may have been killed in ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan; Obama cajoles Europe ahead of the G20 summit; why dark matter may not exist after all. With Felicity Evans.
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The World Tonight - 18/07/2007
With Jane Little. Boris Berezovsky tells more about the plot to kill him. The BBC bans phone-in competitions. And International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander is in Darfur.
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The World Tonight - 18/07/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on an apparent thaw in diplomatic relations between the US and Iran, government borrowing and Nelson Mandela at 90.
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The World Tonight - 18/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 18/08/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The IMF says global economic recovery has begun, and a US senator explains why the Lockerbie bomber should not be released.
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The World Tonight - 18/08/2010
The Government's first 100 days in office. The latest on the floods from Pakistan. Are relations between the US and Cuba thawing?
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The World Tonight - 18/09/2007
News and analysis with Bridget Kendall. If the Fed cuts interest rates in the US, is that a sign of giving in to political pressure? Plus immigration issues in France and Britain.
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The World Tonight - 18/09/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the FSA's ban on short selling, the impact of the financial crisis on the US election and Ukraine's second thoughts about joining NATO.
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The World Tonight - 18/09/2009
News and analysis with Felicity Evans. NATO wants a 'new beginning' with Russia, and Angela Merkel's dowdy charisma wins votes in Germany.
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The World Tonight - 18/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Troubled times for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and Polish voters focus on corruption.
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The World Tonight - 18/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Should the US prop up its struggling car industry? Why Somalia is a haven for pirates. And Lord Goldsmith defends his advice on the war in Iraq.
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The World Tonight - 18/11/2009
National and international news and analysis. What was in the Queen's Speech and how much may actually become law? Iraq suspends preparations for elections.
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The World Tonight - 18/12/2007
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the election of new leaders of both the Lib Dems and the ANC, a report from inside Uzbekistan and the story of Radio 1 and an F-word.
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The World Tonight - 18/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 18/12/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig and Paul Moss. Will the Copenhagen 'Accord' match the challenge of climate change? Serbians gain access to the EU.
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The World Tonight - 19/01/2007
National and international news and analysis with Clare Bolderson.
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The World Tonight - 19/01/2009
With Ritula Shah. Will the latest bank bail-out plan be any more effective than the last? Also, why the Greeks won't recognise Macedonia and Gaza two days after the ceasefire.
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The World Tonight - 19/01/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Haiti's horror continues - but how best to reconstruct the country? Why Italians might be forced out of the parental home.
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The World Tonight - 19/02/2007
France's Man in the Middle, Francois Bayrou, could upset the form in the great Presidential Race. Plus, are policy-makers being unfair to council estates? With Claire Bolderson.
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The World Tonight - 19/02/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on calls for President Musharraf to stand down after defeat in the Pakistan election and the lack of EU unity over Kosovan independence.
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The World Tonight - 19/02/2009
News and analysis with David Eades. With reports on new ways to crack down on Afghanistan's opium industry and the spread of the bank fraud in Antigua to Venezuela and Ecuador.
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The World Tonight - 19/02/2010
With Robin Lustig. China-US row: will Beijing now block stronger Iran sanctions? Fighting intensifies in Helmand. International attempts to reverse the latest coup in Africa.
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The World Tonight - 19/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Four years on, how has life changed for Iraqis? Plus a damning new probe into safety failures at BP in Texas.
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The World Tonight - 19/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on Tibetan protests in China and forthcoming elections in Taiwan.
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The World Tonight - 19/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Josef Fritzl is given a life sentence in a psychiatric hospital. French unions protest in the streets, while EU leaders meet in Brussels.
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The World Tonight - 19/03/2010
With Carolyn Quinn and Robin Lustig. Strikes by BA cabin crew will go ahead, as last-ditch talks fail. How Rome is responding to the mounting problems of the Catholic Church.
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The World Tonight - 19/04/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jane Little.
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The World Tonight - 19/04/2010
With David Eades. Is an end in sight to the volcano flight chaos? How should the Lib Dems approach their rise in popularity? How will defence spending change after the election?
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The World Tonight - 19/05/2008
National and international news and analysis, including the latest from the House of Commons on the embryology bill, Asian aid in Burma and the ongoing rescue operation in China.
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The World Tonight - 19/05/2009
News from a global perspective with Ritula Shah. The Speaker resigns - should it be just the start of political reform? An ancient fossil gives clues to our evolutionary origins.
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The World Tonight - 19/05/2010
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. The latest on the Euro crisis, activists surrender in Thailand, and how radical is Nick Clegg?
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The World Tonight - 19/06/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including Britain solo in Europe again; an 'eco town' report from Milton Keynes and the Glasgow cleaner turned concert star.
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The World Tonight - 19/06/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on European leaders' discussions on the Lisbon Treaty, the African Union's view on elections in Zimbabwe and a Bournemouth-based airline.
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The World Tonight - 19/06/2009
With Ritula Shah. Scotland Yard launches an investigation into the alleged misuse of expenses by some MPs and peers. Plus Iran's supreme leader calls for a halt to protests.
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The World Tonight - 19/07/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. As Russia expels four British diplomats, where do relations go from here? The new Foreign Secretary outlines his vision.
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The World Tonight - 19/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 19/08/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Russian withdrawal from Georgia and what the future holds for Pakistan after Pervez Musharraf's resignation.
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The World Tonight - 19/08/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The worst attack for months hits central Baghdad, Afghan women discuss the election, and what should school leavers do in a recession?
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The World Tonight - 19/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 19/09/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Trades Unions threaten a wave of strikes in protest at President Sarkozy's public sector reforms.
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The World Tonight - 19/09/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on President Bush's views on the world economy, what can be done to restore confidence in financial systems and Labour's annual conference.
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The World Tonight - 19/10/2007
With Robin Lustig. After the Karachi blasts, what next for Benazir Bhutto? Also, the US religious right and their voting dilemma; and have England's rugby team captured the nation?
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The World Tonight - 19/10/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. President Karzai's election as Afghan president is cast into doubt. Gordon Brown foresees a climate catastrophe.
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The World Tonight - 19/10/2010
National and international news and analysis with Brian Hanrahan. Featuring a preview of the Government's spending review, the Obama impersonator in Chicago, and defence cuts.
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The World Tonight - 19/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig, including an undercover report from inside Burma.
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The World Tonight - 19/11/2008
National and international news and analysis. Is DR Congo rebels' honouring of an agreement to pull back an encouraging sign? Plus, the mapping of the extinct Mammoth genome.
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The World Tonight - 19/11/2009
News and analysis with Felicity Evans. As he begins his second term as Afghan president, Hamid Karzai has said he wants Afghan forces to take charge of security within five years.
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The World Tonight - 19/12/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on proposed EU action on car emissions and the showdown at the UN over Kosovo's future.
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The World Tonight - 19/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 20/01/2009
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, Robin Lustig presents a special edition from Birmingham, Alabama.
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The World Tonight - 20/01/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. A setback for President Obama as the Democrats lose the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
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The World Tonight - 20/02/2007
What's better for the environment, banning light bulbs or setting emissions targets?
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The World Tonight - 20/02/2008
News and analysis with Mishal Husein. Including reports on proposed new citizenship rules and growing criticism of British government support for the Colombian armed forces.
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The World Tonight - 20/02/2009
News and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed and prospects for Middle-East peace following political movements in Israel.
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The World Tonight - 20/03/2007
The Home Office says 10,000 passports were issued fraudulently last year. Israel snubs Norway's deputy foreign minister. With Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 20/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the credit crunch and why the British government does not support a boycott of the Olympics.
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The World Tonight - 20/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. EU leaders resist US calls for more money to combat the recession and President Obama proposes a new beginning in relations with Iran.
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The World Tonight - 20/04/2007
Featuring special coverage from Jackie Hardgrave in France and Robin Lustig in Nigeria, before the weekend's presidential elections in both countries.
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The World Tonight - 20/04/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the UN anti-racism conference, whether unemployment is higher than government figures suggest and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
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The World Tonight - 20/05/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the House of Commons vote on abortion, food prices and EU subsidies, and the orphaned victims of the earthquake in China.
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The World Tonight - 20/05/2009
National and international news and analysis. Including the MPs expenses row - is it a chance to reform the British political system?
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The World Tonight - 20/05/2010
National and international news and analysis, with Jonty Bloom in Berlin and Robin Lustig in London.
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The World Tonight - 20/06/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 20/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 20/07/2007
National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. Including how 'cash for honours' has affected trust in politics; the Turkish elections and more flooding woe in the UK.
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The World Tonight - 20/07/2009
With Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on swine flu, why warnings on banking practices were not heeded and pythons on the loose in Florida.
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The World Tonight - 20/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 20/08/2007
Gaza is without power for the fourth day - who is responsible? And we hear from Cancun as it prepares for Hurricane Dean to strike.
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The World Tonight - 20/08/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Lockerbie bomber Megrahi returns to Libya, the latest news from the Afghan elections and a report on the American healthcare row.
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The World Tonight - 20/09/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 20/09/2010
News and analysis with David Eades in London and Robin Lustig in Liverpool at the Liberal Democrats' conference as Nick Clegg delivers his keynote speech to the rank and file.
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The World Tonight - 20/10/2008
With Ritulah Shah. Reports on early voting in the US Presidential election and why Iraq's politicians are wary of of a deal with coalition forces.
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The World Tonight - 20/10/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Afghanistan's presidential election goes to a run-off. President Karzai accepts the decision, but what will it mean?
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The World Tonight - 20/11/2007
Robin Lustig examines the HM Revenue and Customs' information leek, there's an interview with a former Russian Prime Minister and Donald Trump's battle with a Scottish farmer.
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The World Tonight - 20/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on a warning by China's government of economic problems and social unrest and the UN's decision to send more troops to Congo.
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The World Tonight - 20/11/2009
Felicity Evans asks if the deluge that hit Cumbria was a 'one in a thousand years' event. Plus France's plans to run Europe's single market and how to report eco crime.
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The World Tonight - 20/12/2007
Including reports on the man found innocent of making the Omagh bomb, the witness to Anna Politskaya's killing seeking asylum in London, and the demise of the traditional nativity.
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The World Tonight - 21/01/2008
National and international news with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the falls in stock markets around the world, the Gaza blockade, and the lure of independent publishers.
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The World Tonight - 21/01/2009
With Jane Hill. Including reports on Obama's first day in office, whether the EU should end the suspension of a deal with Israel and what it is like growing up in the White House.
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The World Tonight - 21/01/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Jack Straw defends the decision to go to war in Iraq to the Chilcot Inquiry. Harriet Harman launches a campaign against inequality.
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The World Tonight - 21/02/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. A resident of Basra says they are not ready for the reduction of British troops in Iraq. We talk to the commander of British troops in the city.
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The World Tonight - 21/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on David Miliband's admission on extraordinary rendition and a look ahead to the Spanish elections.
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The World Tonight - 21/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/04/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the government's response to the threatened backbench revolt and the left-leaning former Catholic Bishop who is Paraguay's new leader.
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The World Tonight - 21/04/2009
With Robin Lustig. The Tamil Tigers say they will never surrender, what to look out for in the Budget and hopes of South African youth on the eve of the general election.
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The World Tonight - 21/04/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Unemployment rises to a 16-year high; who will it hurt at the election? Volcanic chaos subsides, but are we too vulnerable to nature's whims?
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The World Tonight - 21/05/2007
With Robin Lustig. According to the NSPCC, one in four British teenagers say they have witnessed domestic violence in their family: some youngsters describe their experiences.
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The World Tonight - 21/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on Lebanon's new government and tomorrow's by-election in Crewe and Nantwich.
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The World Tonight - 21/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including President Obama speaking about the 'war on terror' and Guantanamo Bay, and a rare inside view from a BBC reporter in Chechnya.
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The World Tonight - 21/05/2010
With Robin Lustig. European finance ministers gather to discuss their economic woe; the unexpected consequences of GM in India; and what's in a name in the car industry?
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The World Tonight - 21/06/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. As European leaders gather in Brussels, why does it matter that they reach a deal on a new constitution? Plus an interview with Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai.
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The World Tonight - 21/06/2010
With Ritula Shah. As the death of the 300th member of the British armed forces in Afghanistan is announced, is the strategy in the country working?
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The World Tonight - 21/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 21/07/2009
News from a global perspective with Carolyn Quinn. There are new clashes in Iran between protestors and riot police. The head of the US Federal Reserve assesses the US economy.
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The World Tonight - 21/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/08/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Following toxic toys, children's clothes made in China have now been recalled in New Zealand. Plus why do fewer Britons survive cancer than other Europeans?
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The World Tonight - 21/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Shaun Ley. Including a report on human rights in China and a profile of Hamid Karzai - an unreliable ally?
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The World Tonight - 21/08/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Scotland prepares to recall Parliament for the Megrahi debate and General Motors are to decide on their preferred buyer for Opel/Vauxhall.
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The World Tonight - 21/09/2007
With Roger Hearing. Could talks in New York over Darfur make matters worse on the ground? Plus how worried should the world be about the decline in the value of the US dollar.
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The World Tonight - 21/09/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan says the next 12 months will be 'decisive' for the outcome of the mission.
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The World Tonight - 21/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/10/2008
The story of George Osborne, Peter Mandelson and the Russian billionaire's yacht, and the lessons British politicians are learning from the US elections. With Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/10/2009
With Robin Lustig. The nationwide postal strike is to go ahead; the UN in Afghanistan begins replacing election officials accused of corruption.
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The World Tonight - 21/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 21/11/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the effect of plunging oil prices, the future of Tibet's independence movement and a new form of theatre in Germany.
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The World Tonight - 21/12/2007
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. Have the Irish police let down the victims of the Omagh bombing; and are our railways being starved of cash?
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The World Tonight - 21/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Eurostar to run limited service tomorrow. Evidence that dead Palestinians were harvested for organs.
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The World Tonight - 22/01/2008
National and international news with Ritula Shah. Including reports on interest rate cuts in America, Israeli action in Gaza and David Shukman on the fear of flooding in Tuvalu.
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The World Tonight - 22/01/2009
With Jane Hill. Including reports on the announcement of President Obama's new Middle East envoy, and the gloomy prospects for the class of 2009.
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The World Tonight - 22/01/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Two brothers who tortured two other boys are given indeterminate sentences. Rebuilding the Haitian capital, Port au Prince.
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The World Tonight - 22/02/2007
Examining the new gun laws. Plus a look at repairing the family and bringing back marriage - as David Cameron advocates. Also how the Dutch control the C Difficile bug.
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The World Tonight - 22/02/2008
News and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on renewed calls for a compulsory DNA database and a war of words between Russia and the USA over Kosovo.
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The World Tonight - 22/02/2010
News analysis with Ritula Shah. The bullying helpline in the eye of a political storm. A NATO airstrike kills civilians in Afghanistan. How should fragile states be dealt with?
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The World Tonight - 22/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing in Baghdad and Robin Lustig in London. As the UN Secretary General visits Iraq, what is security like?
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The World Tonight - 22/03/2010
With Ritula Shah. A new BBC investigation into abuse of Parliamentary rules by MPs; tense relations between the US and Israel; Sarkozy's heavy losses in the polls.
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The World Tonight - 22/04/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on health care in the US and a Zimbabwean church leader who says that the country is like a bomb waiting to explode.
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The World Tonight - 22/04/2009
With Robin Lustig. Darling targets rich in the Budget. What can 2000 pound scrappage grants do for the car industry? Did the police jump too soon on the Pakistan 'terror plotters'?
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The World Tonight - 22/05/2007
Will Russia agree to extradite Andrei Lugovoi for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko? Has the west mishandled its relationship with Russia?
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The World Tonight - 22/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 22/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The UN appeals for 500 million dollars for aid for displaced people in north west Pakistan and Germany favours a Russian plan to save Opel.
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The World Tonight - 22/06/2007
News and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. The latest from the EU summit; the CIA opens up its files and the moving story of a Czech boy killed in the Second World War.
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The World Tonight - 22/06/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The new Speaker is announced, but how much will they change? Are the stories about Silvio Berlusconi's private life starting to damage him?
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The World Tonight - 22/06/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 22/07/2008
With Carolyn Quinn and Ritula Shah. Including reports on demands to arrest General Mladic, surviving the credit crunch in Yorkshire and why the time is right for the electric car.
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The World Tonight - 22/07/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on US vice president Biden's message to Georgia's president and British and American capability in Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 22/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 22/08/2007
With Robin Lustig. Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel reveal a global health plan; President Bush tells US veterans America will win in Iraq; and the seaplane returns to British waters.
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The World Tonight - 22/09/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah and Carolyn Quinn. Including reports on Japanese financiers buying stakes in American banks, the changing face of Wall Street and Belarus.
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The World Tonight - 22/09/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. World leaders promise dramatic targets on climate change; the build-up to Germany's elections; why Colonel Gaddafi couldn't camp in New York.
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The World Tonight - 22/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 22/10/2007
With Robin Lustig. A study says oil production will fall by 7 percent a year - timely warning or scaremongering? Are the Tories making trouble for themselves with referendum calls?
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The World Tonight - 22/10/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 22/10/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. BNP leader Nick Griffin appears on Question Time; despite protests the BBC defends the move. The postal workers' union announces more strikes.
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The World Tonight - 22/11/2007
News and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. Commonwealth Heads to rule on suspending Pakistan, plus the National Audit Office publishes emails on the missing data discs.
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The World Tonight - 22/12/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on Russian protests over the state of the economy, drug wars in Mexico and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The World Tonight - 22/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. Will President Obama's Health Care Bill do enough to help the poor?
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The World Tonight - 23/01/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on new EU limits for carbon emissions, keeping the lights on in South Africa and the problems of governing Italy.
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The World Tonight - 23/01/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. With reports on the UK recession, the new US attitude to Hamid Karzai and prosecuting 'war cimes' in Gaza.
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The World Tonight - 23/02/2007
With millions in bonuses for City folk creating overnight millionaires, can we live with an unequal society? Plus, will balls of concrete stop a mud volcano in Indonesia?
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The World Tonight - 23/02/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the return to the UK of Binyam Mohamed, the British resident held in Guantanamo Bay. Plus the impact of the recession on pensioners.
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The World Tonight - 23/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Karzai issues a decree to control Afghanistan's electoral commission. Gordon Brown is set to apologise to 1950s child migrants.
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The World Tonight - 23/03/2007
What has happened to 15 British sailors in the Gulf? We try to unravel the story, plus a report on what British troops are doing in southern Iraq.
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The World Tonight - 23/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on another US bank bailout, why the French do not collect ethnic data and Israeli soldiers talk about fighting in Gaza.
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The World Tonight - 23/03/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Britain expels an Israeli diplomat over the Dubai assassination. What to expect from the Budget. Delving into the World Tonight archives.
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The World Tonight - 23/04/2007
With Jane Little. Nigeria's elections are condemned as 'not credible' by the EU. Boris Yeltsin is dead: how will he be remembered? Reactions to Nicolas Sarkozy's success in France.
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The World Tonight - 23/04/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on government moves regarding the 10p tax rate, reforms in Cuba and the latest on tomorrow's planned teachers' strike.
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The World Tonight - 23/04/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Jacob Zuma is poised for a large victory in South Africa, Taliban militants advance in Pakistan and how to make Whitehall more efficient.
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The World Tonight - 23/04/2010
Greece gets its bail-out - but will it work? Economic growth slows - the impact on the election campaign.
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The World Tonight - 23/05/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including features on the Severn Barrage, Australia's worst drought in over a century and Google's ever-expanding influence.
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The World Tonight - 23/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. As Labour comes to terms with the loss of Crewe and Nantwich, we examine the economy.
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The World Tonight - 23/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has taken refuge in the Dutch embassy in the capital Harare.
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The World Tonight - 23/06/2009
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on Iran and the challenge for international diplomacy, the new Commons Speaker's first day at work and the release of new Nixon tapes.
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The World Tonight - 23/06/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 23/07/2007
National and international news and analysis. As flood waters rise in Abingdon and Oxfordshire, Jackie Hardgrave asks if we should prevent more floods or simply get used to them.
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The World Tonight - 23/07/2008
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including an assessment of Raul Castro's reforms in Cuba and Radovan Karadzic claim that he will represent himself at his trial.
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The World Tonight - 23/07/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama struggles to reform the healthcare system. Is Britain rushing production of a swine flu vaccine?
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The World Tonight - 23/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 23/08/2007
National and international news with Robin Lustig. The latest on the shootings in Liverpool and Letchworth; and the possible return of Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan from exile.
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The World Tonight - 23/08/2010
UNICEF says the international response to Pakistan's floods has been lacking - is that fair? With Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 23/09/2008
With Robin Lustig and Carolyn Quinn. Gordon Brown received a standing ovation for his speech at the Labour Party conference, but will it convince voters?
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The World Tonight - 23/09/2009
A special edition from New York as world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly. Ritula Shah asks if the global recession has shifted the balance of political power.
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The World Tonight - 23/09/2010
Indian government ministers hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis surrounding facilities for next month's Commonwealth Games.
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The World Tonight - 23/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 23/10/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Recession deepens in Britain, Iran hesitates over a nuclear deal and Radovan Karadzic faces justice.
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The World Tonight - 23/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti.
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The World Tonight - 23/11/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Brown, Cameron and Clegg pitch to Britain's business leaders. What the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq might tell us.
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The World Tonight - 23/12/2008
Ritula Shah looks at the record falls in US house prices and what that signals for the country's economy. Plus champagne loses its fizz and soaring UK flu cases.
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The World Tonight - 23/12/2009
With Robin Lustig. The government plans to cut millions from university budgets in England, and snow and ice cause disruption on the busiest travel day of the Christmas season.
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The World Tonight - 24/01/2008
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the fallout from Peter Hain's resignation and major losses at Societe Generale, France's second largest bank.
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The World Tonight - 24/02/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on Labour MPs' passionate views about the Royal Mail, the new free online jukebox and will American banks be nationalised?
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The World Tonight - 24/02/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 24/03/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The latest on Pakistan's new Prime Minister's showdown with Musharraf and what Taiwan can teach China about democracy.
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The World Tonight - 24/03/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on clashes between Israeli Arabs and right-wing Israeli Jews and Mervyn King says no to further fiscal stimulus.
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The World Tonight - 24/03/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Labour's last Budget of the Parliament: has Alistair Darling raised the prospects for the economy and his party's electoral chances?
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The World Tonight - 24/04/2007
National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. The focus is on 'vulture funds' gobbling up African debt relief, the madness of Mogadishu and a miners' compensation scam.
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The World Tonight - 24/04/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 24/04/2009
Including reports on international pressure to allow 50,000 civilians trapped by fighting in Sri Lanka to flee, increased domestic violence in Gaza and a new use for empty shops.
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The World Tonight - 24/05/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. The spotlight is on the impact of sanctions on Iran and the arrest of more Hamas members by Israel.
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The World Tonight - 24/05/2010
With Ritula Shah. The government announces six billion pounds-worth of cuts - how will they affect the economy? Two children are found guilty of attempted rape.
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The World Tonight - 24/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 24/06/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the tussle between the FSA and the Bank of England for control over financial regulation.
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The World Tonight - 24/06/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. What effect will austerity measures in Europe have on the global economy? Cleaning up oil spills in Nigeria.
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The World Tonight - 24/07/2007
National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. Including a debate on flood protection; the impact on Serbs of Kosovan independence, and the hazards of space junk.
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The World Tonight - 24/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including features on Barack Obama's message to Europe and reported French plans to take over British Nuclear Energy.
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The World Tonight - 24/07/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig, including reports on the by-election win for the Tories in Norwich.
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The World Tonight - 24/08/2007
With Robin Lustig. Is the growing momentum for withdrawal from Iraq unstoppable? Plus the nature of rocket science; and the impact of a predicted price hike in bread.
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The World Tonight - 24/08/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah, including Scottish Justice Minister under fire over Lockerbie release; and Israel's PM heading for the UK amid peace hopes.
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The World Tonight - 24/08/2010
With Ritula Shah. An investigation concludes that a Catholic priest suspected of involvement in one of Northern Ireland's worst atrocities was not arrested because of a secret deal.
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The World Tonight - 24/09/2007
With Roger Hearing and Robin Lustig. Gordon Brown's first speech as PM: have we heard it all before? Plus President Ahmedinejad in Manhattan, and who wants an ambitious PM?
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The World Tonight - 24/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 24/09/2009
News and analysis with Jane Hill. G20 leaders arrive in Pittsburgh to talk about global financial recovery; a NASA probe discovers water on the Moon.
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The World Tonight - 24/09/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 24/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 24/10/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on how some countries are avoiding the global downturn, politics in Italy and real crime in a virtual world.
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The World Tonight - 24/11/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the chancellor's pre-budget report, the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe and president-elect Obama's new economics team.
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The World Tonight - 24/11/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Iraq's chief election official warns that January's elections will not happen; the secrets of Brazil's great economic success.
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The World Tonight - 24/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 24/12/2009
Robin Lustig presents a special edition with the focus on drugs: how to control the cultivation of drugs, how to smash the trade in drugs, and how to treat drugs users.
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The World Tonight - 25/01/2008
Robin Lustig hosts a special edition of the programme discussing 'British Values', with Michael Wills, David Willetts, Joan Smith, Salma Yacoub and Neal Ascherson.
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The World Tonight - 25/01/2010
With Felicity Evans. Crisis talks go through the night in Northern Ireland. Has the relief effort in Haiti been badly managed? Is the British economy moving back into growth?
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The World Tonight - 25/02/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on child care in Jersey, signs that Sudan may be yielding to Chinese pressure on Darfur and global food poverty.
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The World Tonight - 25/02/2009
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Tributes flood in after the death of David Cameron's son, plus the EU proposes more pan-European financial regulation.
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The World Tonight - 25/02/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama brings together Democrats and Republicans in an attempt to revive the healthcare bill.
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The World Tonight - 25/03/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including Gordon Brown's offer of a free vote to MPs on amendments to the Embryology Bill, plus a crackdown on Al Sadr's militants in Basra.
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The World Tonight - 25/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the government's announcement of a judicial inquiry into the Iraq war and the fall of the Czech government.
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The World Tonight - 25/03/2010
With Robin Lustig. Questions raised about the Pope's involvement in the cover-up of child abuse cases in the Catholic Church. EU leaders meet; will they agree how to help Greece?
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The World Tonight - 25/04/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 25/04/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 25/05/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 25/05/2009
News from a global perspective with Felicity Evans. The UN meets to decide response to North Korea nuclear test; could proportional representation revive interest in politics?
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The World Tonight - 25/05/2010
The Queen's Speech discussed the Freedom Bill, which sets out plans to curb surveillance and data retention. But does the public actually want more CCTV?
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The World Tonight - 25/06/2007
The latest from the Dafur conference in Paris - should the international community be doing more?
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The World Tonight - 25/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the future for Zimbabwe and the increasing gap between rich and poor in the UK.
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The World Tonight - 25/06/2009
Mir Hossein Mousavi speaks out. The BBC unveils expenses. Pakistani suicide bombers. And can live theatre work at the cinema? With Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 25/06/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Will richer countries honour their aid pledge to the developing world? Italians protest against budget cuts.
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The World Tonight - 25/07/2007
With Peter Dobbie. Can local government be trusted to clean up England's flooded towns? Does Britain need two new aircraft carriers? And Greece swelters as this country drips.
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The World Tonight - 25/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Democratic party as it gathers in Denver for the first day of its convention.
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The World Tonight - 25/08/2009
With David Eades. Preliminary results from Afghanistan point to a second round contest for the Presidency. President Sarkozy takes on the bonus culture at France's big banks.
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The World Tonight - 25/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 25/09/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jane Little and Robin Lustig. Is Burma on the brink of a military crackdown?
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The World Tonight - 25/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Presidential candidates go to the White House to discuss financial bail-out bill.
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The World Tonight - 25/09/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig, including world leaders' anger at Iran's admission that it has been secretly building a second nuclear plant.
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The World Tonight - 25/10/2007
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti.
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The World Tonight - 25/11/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the 800 billion dollar loan programme from the US administration and the Scots and independence.
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The World Tonight - 25/11/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama will attend the Copenhagen summit; the Israeli cabinet approves a ten-month restriction in settlement building in the West Bank.
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The World Tonight - 26/01/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Have the Tamil Tigers been defeated by the Sri Lankan army?
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The World Tonight - 26/01/2010
With Felicity Evans. The UK economy creeps back to growth; what will our future economy look like? Foreign Office advisors tell the Iraq inquiry that the war was illegal.
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The World Tonight - 26/02/2007
The probable cause of the Grayrigg rail accident was highlighted in the HSE report on the Potters Bar accident. Serbia 'not guilty' of genocide. So has justice been done?
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The World Tonight - 26/02/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on terrorist recruitment in Britain and allegations of dirty tricks by Hillary Clinton's campaign staff.
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The World Tonight - 26/02/2009
National and international news with Robin Lustig. The government apologises to Parliament over renditions and RBS reports a record loss in UK corporate history.
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The World Tonight - 26/02/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Appeal Court judge says MI5 agents' word cannot be trusted; Greece's prime minister warns of 'bankruptcy' danger.
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The World Tonight - 26/03/2007
Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams meet for the first time to agree on power sharing in Northern Ireland. But are people ready for 'normal politics' conducted by them?
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The World Tonight - 26/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 26/03/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The United States proposes a radical overhaul of financial regulation a report on the row in Ireland over paintings of the naked Taoiseach.
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The World Tonight - 26/03/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. The US and Russia agree a treaty to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
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The World Tonight - 26/04/2007
With Robin Lustig. A top American general in Iraq tells us the effect on troops of the continuing debate over their role. And what's behind President Putin's rhetoric against Nato?
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The World Tonight - 26/04/2010
With Ritula Shah. The parties clash over cuts to the NHS, but how will they really deal with the deficit? A critical vote on Obama's plans to overhaul financial regulation.
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The World Tonight - 26/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 26/05/2009
With Felicity Evans. Including reports on Sri Lanka's refugee camps, a radical new solution to Afghanistan's drug problem and the journalists who missed the Watergate story.
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The World Tonight - 26/06/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 26/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 26/06/2009
With Robin Lustig. The US Congress votes on the bill aiming to cut carbon emissions and fans around the world remember Michael Jackson, the King of Pop.
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The World Tonight - 26/07/2007
The government has shut the Defence Export Services Organisation. What does this mean for arms exporters? Plus a rare view from inside the Central African Republic.
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The World Tonight - 26/07/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. A mass of leaked American military documents paint a grim picture of the Afghan conflict. The government proposes big police reforms.
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The World Tonight - 26/08/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states and Hillary Clinton's supporters at the Democrat Convention.
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The World Tonight - 26/08/2009
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. After Ted: The Kennedy legacy; a day with the climate campers; who needs high-speed rail?
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The World Tonight - 26/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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The World Tonight - 26/09/2007
Presented by Robin Lustig. The latest from Burma as the first protesters are killed during mass demonstrations; and the slow pace of reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 26/09/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 26/10/2007
News and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti. A look at the apparent French mercy mission to Chad; Syria's vanished 'nuclear facility'; and are you too young to vote at 16?
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The World Tonight - 26/10/2009
With Felicity Evans. George Osborne wants to limit bankers' bonuses; the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic starts; the secret of a happy marriage.
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The World Tonight - 26/11/2007
Including reports on potential bidders for Northern Rock, the Annapolis Middle East Summit and the invitations to Nick Griffin and David Irving to speak at the Oxford Union.
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The World Tonight - 26/11/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 26/11/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The Irish government reveals how the Catholic Church actively covered up cases of sexual abuse committed by priests on children.
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The World Tonight - 26/12/2007
What's behind the expulsion of two officials from Afghanistan? Which face of China will we see at the 2008 Olympics? And the first of our series of suggestions for Gordon Brown.
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The World Tonight - 26/12/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 27/01/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the government's moves to help the car industry and compensation for victims of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
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The World Tonight - 27/01/2010
National and international news and analysis. Lord Goldsmith gives evidence to Chilcot Inquiry. Officials from 60 countries meet in London to discuss the future of Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 27/02/2007
The US agrees to talk to Iran and Syria. FDR's grandson talks about the "special relationship". And it's 400 years since Monteverdi wrote Orfeo. Is opera still elitist?
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The World Tonight - 27/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 27/02/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. President Obama sets out the US withdrawal timetable from Iraq, plus reports on data sharing and house price bubbles.
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The World Tonight - 27/03/2007
Iran - the latest on the 15 British service personnel. Plus, how ethical is it to take a holiday in countries like Zimbabwe?
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The World Tonight - 27/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 27/03/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan and whether we need a unified response to the economic crisis at the G20 summit in London.
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The World Tonight - 27/04/2007
With Robin Lustig. Why is Russia angry after Estonians moved a war memorial? Plus how shared history is viewed differently by Israelis and Palestinians; and the teenage politicians.
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The World Tonight - 27/04/2009
Including reports on what we need to know about swine flu, job losses in the US car industry and the relations between the UK and Pakistan, as Gordon Brown visits the country.
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The World Tonight - 27/04/2010
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah in London and Robin Lustig in Edinburgh. Goldman Sachs faces the Senate over fraud allegations.
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The World Tonight - 27/05/2008
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on international aid to Burma, the alleged benefits of high fuel prices and a growing feud amongst chefs in Spain.
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The World Tonight - 27/05/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the car bomb strike in Lahore and why North Korea's defiance could spark a nuclear arms race in Asia.
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The World Tonight - 27/05/2010
The government outlines plans for welfare reforms to get people off benefits and back to work, but will they succeed? We examine the existing schemes in Birmingham and London.
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The World Tonight - 27/06/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 27/06/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig in London and Roger Hearing in Johannesburg. Including features on the Zimbabwean election and what the future holds for the supermarket.
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The World Tonight - 27/07/2007
With Roger Hearing. A bomb explosion in Islamabad: why is it such a flashpoint and so important to the Pakistani government? Nasa responds to allegations that astronauts are drunk.
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The World Tonight - 27/07/2009
With Carolyn Quinn. Including a report on foreign secretary David Miliband's comment that dialogue should begin with moderate Taliban groups in Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 27/07/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Hans Blix tells the Chilcott enquiry why he didn't accept the case for war in Iraq. India awaits David Cameron's mission for a new relationship.
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The World Tonight - 27/08/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 27/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including features on David Miliband's visit to Ukraine and the hereditary aspects of bravery.
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The World Tonight - 27/08/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Has there been a serious row between the US and President Karzai?
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The World Tonight - 27/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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The World Tonight - 27/10/2008
With Carolyn Quinn. Including Gordon Brown's plan to increase government borrowing to beat the recession and reports from Budapest and Kiev as Hungary and Ukraine get IMF bailouts.
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The World Tonight - 27/10/2009
News and analysis with Jane Hill. The BBC learns details of expenses review; the government reverses Territorial Army cuts; plus a look at immigration in Iowa.
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The World Tonight - 27/11/2007
The latest on the Labour donation row, the Middle East talks in Annapolis, and why the Scottish ecclefechen cake is outselling mince pies in some places. With Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 27/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including the latest from Mumbai and the stories of those caught up in the attacks, reflections from Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, and the Danes and the euro.
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The World Tonight - 27/11/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Iran is censured by the IAEA - will sanctions follow? Why European extradition can mean rough justice. China's garlic boom.
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The World Tonight - 28/01/2008
National and international news with Roger Hearing. Featuring reports on unrest in Pakistan, calls for army intervention in Kenya and why bank robberies are becoming scarcer.
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The World Tonight - 28/01/2009
Including reports on the growing violence in Nigeria, the IMF's grim analysis of the UK economy, the Congress vote on President Obama's rescue package and did Goya paint the Giant?
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The World Tonight - 28/01/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Can a scheme to 'buy' support for President Karzai work long-term? One of the doctors who started the MMR scare, was 'unprofessional', says GMC.
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The World Tonight - 28/02/2007
With Robin Lustig. Do Black people in Britain want an apology for the slave trade? The Church of England is at loggerheads over gay clergy.
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The World Tonight - 28/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with Reeta Chakrabarti.
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The World Tonight - 28/03/2007
With Robin Lustig. The UK tightens the screws on Iran. The plight of India's enslaved children. And are London's soaring house prices damaging the economy?
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The World Tonight - 28/03/2008
News and analysis with Peter Dobbie. Including reports on the fiasco at Heathrow's Terminal 5, preparations for Saturday's elections in Zimbabwe and the revival of Spitting Image.
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The World Tonight - 28/04/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Austrian who locked up his daughter for 24 years, alleged corruption within the United Nations and the secret behaviour of orang-utans.
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The World Tonight - 28/04/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. The UN looks for the cause of the swine flu outbreak and three men are cleared of helping to plan the July 7 bomb attacks in London.
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The World Tonight - 28/04/2010
News and analysis with David Eades. How damaging was Gordon Brown's 'bigot' moment? Germany comes under further pressure to agree to a financial rescue plan for Greece.
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The World Tonight - 28/05/2007
Examining the latest US and Iran talks, how life for the oridnary Russian has changed under President Putin, and a report from Japan on why they are so keen on whaling.
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The World Tonight - 28/05/2008
National and international news and analysis with David Eades.
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The World Tonight - 28/05/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. As two more MPs announce they will stand down, just how do party leaders deal with the expenses crisis?
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The World Tonight - 28/05/2010
Efforts to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the UN may fail. President Obama sees Louisiana's oil-covered sands for himself. With Robin Lustig and Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 28/06/2007
With Robin Lustig. Who's in and who's out of the cabinet? What does it tell us about Gordon Brown's priorities? We look in detail at the wide-reaching reshuffle.
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The World Tonight - 28/06/2010
Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis.
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The World Tonight - 28/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 28/07/2009
With Carolyn Quinn. Iran releases 140 political prisoners detained after the disputed elections and Greenland grapples with climate change.
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The World Tonight - 28/07/2010
With Robin Lustig. David Cameron accuses Pakistan of 'pointing both ways' on terror. Does greener energy mean higher costs for the least well off?
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The World Tonight - 28/08/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 28/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 28/08/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. How effective is child protection in the United States? Has the SNP been damaged by the Lockerbie affair? A look ahead to the Japanese elections.
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The World Tonight - 28/09/2007
The Cabinet minister responsible for the media is the subject of a fake photo; Rolls Royce is investing in Germany; and could China solve the Burma crisis? With Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 28/09/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. More money for car scrappage, less money for bankers' bonuses - will this help Labour win back support?
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The World Tonight - 28/09/2010
Ed Miliband delivers his first major speech to the Labour conference as new leader. Can he unite his party and what will voters make of him?
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The World Tonight - 28/10/2008
National and international news and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. Including an examination of the Bank of England's performance in the financial crisis.
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The World Tonight - 28/10/2009
With Robin Lustig. As Hillary Clinton visits Pakistan, a car bomb kills more than 90 people in a market in Peshawar. A report on a plane crash accuses the MoD of sacrificing safety.
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The World Tonight - 28/11/2007
Including reports on the effect of President Musharraf's decision to stand down as head of the military and the British schoolteacher charged with insulting religion in Sudan.
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The World Tonight - 28/11/2008
With Robin Lustig. Including the latest from Mumbai on the terror attacks, president Medvedev of Russia's visit to Cuba and whether it is our duty to shop our way out of recession.
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The World Tonight - 28/12/2007
Benezir Bhutto is laid to rest. Should elections go ahead in Pakistan? Plus, 20 years on, is life better with Prozac? With Roger Hearing.
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The World Tonight - 28/12/2009
News and analysis with Roger Hearing. A British man found guilty of drug smuggling in China - said by his family to be mentally ill - will be executed in the morning.
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The World Tonight - 29/01/2007
With Robin Lustig. The Conservatives launch an attack on the Muslim Council of Britain for being 'unrepresentative'. And who gave way in the British Airways cabin crew dispute?
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The World Tonight - 29/01/2008
National and international news with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the continuing unrest in Kenya and the possible fallout from a report on Israel's war in Lebanon.
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The World Tonight - 29/01/2009
With Robin Lustig. Reports on the UN warning of a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka , plus a disgraced Illinois governor makes one last plea against impeachment.
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The World Tonight - 29/01/2010
With Robin Lustig. Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot inquiry to explain why he took Britain to war in Iraq. Political parties in Northern Ireland continue to discuss policing.
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The World Tonight - 29/02/2008
National and international news and analysis with Peter Dobbie. Including reports on Serb unrest in Kosovo, a threatened Israeli incursion into Gaza and keeping the kilt Scottish.
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The World Tonight - 29/03/2007
News and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave, including a look at the current political crisis in Zimbabwe. Plus is child labour still being used in the production of cocoa?
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The World Tonight - 29/03/2010
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable take part in a live TV debate explaining why they should be in charge of the economy.
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The World Tonight - 29/04/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the fall of the pound against the euro and its effects on immigration, the fate of Tariq Aziz, and the price of food in Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 29/04/2009
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. With reports on the government's Commons defeat over Gurkhas' rights and the first death in the USA from 'swine' flu.
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The World Tonight - 29/05/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Six foreigners abducted in Baghdad - five of them British: we hear the latest from there and ask what can be done to improve security.
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The World Tonight - 29/05/2008
News and analysis with David Eades. Including reports on reconstruction in Iraq, the healthiest and the sickest places in the UK and how the Bundesliga overtook English football.
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The World Tonight - 29/05/2009
Presented by Robin Lustig. Sri Lanka denies killing thousands of civilians, will the UN investigate? Plus a curfew in Somalia's second city - can anyone stop the country's slide?
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The World Tonight - 29/06/2007
Robin Lustig with the latest on the bomb found in central London, how Gordon Brown's government of all the talents is taking shape, and the tenth anniverary of Hong Kong's handover.
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The World Tonight - 29/06/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Iran completes a partial vote recount, Gordon Brown sets out his vision for public services and Sweden takes over the EU presidency.
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The World Tonight - 29/06/2010
With Robin Lustig. Is public support for the war in Afghanistan on the wane? What impact will the US spy ring allegations have on relations between Washington and Moscow?
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The World Tonight - 29/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including world trade talks collapse, new hope for Alzheimer's treatment, and a final push against al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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The World Tonight - 29/07/2009
News and analysis with David Eades and Jonty Bloom. Corby families win their case over birth defects, Ireland gets tough with spending cuts and the BBC is welcomed back to Zimbabwe.
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The World Tonight - 29/07/2010
With Robin Lustig. US senators call for the WikiLeaks founder to be prosecuted over the Afghan war files. Can Barack Obama bounce back with Latino voters over immigration?
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The World Tonight - 29/08/2007
With Robin Lustig. Including a report on today's prison strike and its implications for public sector pay. Republicans assess their chances of retaining the White House.
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The World Tonight - 29/08/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 29/09/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the vote by the American Congress on whether to bail out US financial institutions and the Bradford and Bingley nationalisation.
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The World Tonight - 29/09/2009
With Robin Lustig at the Labour conference and Ritula Shah in London. Gordon Brown delivers his keynote speech to the Labour party conference; we hear reactions from voters.
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The World Tonight - 29/09/2010
National and international news and analysis, with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 29/10/2007
Should we roll out the red carpet to welcome Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah? And the Government gives councils the go-ahead to pilot 'pay-as-you-throw' rubbish schemes.
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The World Tonight - 29/10/2009
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Will Europe's leaders back Gordon Brown's climate change fund? Congress gets tough with 'too big' banks. Why nothing succeeds like dying.
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The World Tonight - 29/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 29/12/2008
With Carolyn Quinn, including reports on Israeli strikes in Gaza. Plus the future of space travel and the difference between fiction and a memoir.
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The World Tonight - 29/12/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Al Qaeda claims a bomb plot was hatched in Yemen. Is it another Afghanistan? Plus what will a hung parliament mean for Britain in 2010?
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The World Tonight - 30/01/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on possible further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and a ruling by the Law Lords on a compensation claim.
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The World Tonight - 30/01/2009
With Robin Lustig. Including reports on the MDC's declaration that it will go into government with Robert Mugabe, and on whether protectionism will make the recession worse.
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The World Tonight - 30/03/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave.
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The World Tonight - 30/03/2009
With Ritula Shah. As terror strikes Lahore again, is Pakistan out of control? President Obama tells US car makers they must try harder. And should politics stop being a vocation?
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The World Tonight - 30/03/2010
News and analysis with Ritulah Shah. New plans for social care in England are unveiled; Blair is back - the former prime minister campaigns for Labour.
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The World Tonight - 30/04/2007
With Jackie Hardgrave. Five British-born 'bombers' are convicted: is there really a Pakistan connection? Israel's prime minister is blamed for the invasion of Lebanon by an inquiry.
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The World Tonight - 30/04/2008
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. The Mehdi army is under attack in Baghdad. Can it be defeated? Plus, officially the US economy is not in recession. Is the only way up now?
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The World Tonight - 30/04/2009
Robin Lustig looks at the legacy for Iraq as British troops pull out of Basra. Plus swine flu - when being prepared can lead to panic; and the plight of Britain's hill farmers.
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The World Tonight - 30/05/2007
The latest news on the kidnapped Britons in Baghdad and a perspective on Tony Blair's legacy in the African nations. Plus Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Vladivostock.
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The World Tonight - 30/06/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.
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The World Tonight - 30/06/2009
News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Iraq's oil 'greed' backfires on 'Sovereignty Day'. Why Britain's defence strategy needs to change.
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The World Tonight - 30/06/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 30/07/2007
National and international news and analysis with Roger Hearing. Tonight's programme looks at the special relationship as Gordon Brown and George Bush meet at Camp David.
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The World Tonight - 30/07/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. We're live in Turkey after the governing party narrowly survives a ban.
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The World Tonight - 30/07/2009
News and analysis with David Eades. Laws on assisted suicide to be clarified and President Obama buys the officer at the centre of a row a beer.
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The World Tonight - 30/07/2010
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig.
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The World Tonight - 30/08/2007
National and international news with Jackie Hardgrave. Features include a report on drug-related deaths in Scotland and our continued obsession with Diana ten years after her death.
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The World Tonight - 30/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans.
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The World Tonight - 30/09/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including reports on the European implications of America's economic problems, the Tory debate on family policy and why chef Nigel Slater thinks tea is so special.
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The World Tonight - 30/09/2009
News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Labour's plans for an efficiency drive in schools, and why Ireland will vote Yes on the Lisbon Treaty the second time around.
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The World Tonight - 30/09/2010
Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis.
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The World Tonight - 30/10/2008
National and international news and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the latest developments in Congo as aid agencies pull out of the vital town of Goma.
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The World Tonight - 30/10/2009
With Robin Lustig. The government's adviser on drug use is sacked and Europe agrees on a 100-billion euro climate fund for developing nations.
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The World Tonight - 30/11/2007
National and international news and analysis with David Eades. Including a report on the call for binding targets for cutting greenhouse gases by 150 multinational companies.
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The World Tonight - 30/11/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Five yachtsmen are held in Iran; Gordon Brown confirms extra troops for Afghanistan.
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The World Tonight - 30/12/2008
News and analysis with Carolyn Quinn. The latest on the crisis in the Middle East; how falling commodity prices could affect Africa; and Caroline Kennedy's disastrous interview.
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The World Tonight - 30/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah, including news of the British hostage released after spending more than two years in captivity in Iraq.
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The World Tonight - 31/01/2007
With Robin Lustig. The police mount another major anti-terror raid - is their intelligence improving? Is the US preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran?
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The World Tonight - 31/01/2008
Reeta Chakrabarti introduces three reports that paint a bleak picture of Afghanistan's future. Plus, can South Africa cope with millions of Zimbabwean refugees?
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The World Tonight - 31/03/2008
National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Including reports on the Zimbabwean election results and the dangers of eating too many sausages.
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The World Tonight - 31/03/2009
Presented by Ritula Shah. As the G20 meeting convenes in London, what are the hopes for the developing world? Plus does the new Israeli government represent a swing to the right?
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The World Tonight - 31/03/2010
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. David Cameron promises a Big Society, but will it work? Bombings stoke instability fears in North Caucasus. Why brainstorming doesn't work.
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The World Tonight - 31/05/2007
Bush talks about climate change, the latest on the Russian spy scandal, talks about a new Mediterranean union and the actor who would be president of the United States.
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The World Tonight - 31/07/2007
Roger Hearing looks at estate agents' predictions of chaos over Home Improvement Packs, the US plan to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, and the state of prisoner rehabilitation.
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The World Tonight - 31/07/2008
National and international news with Robin Lustig. With reports on whether deals are being done over war crimes charges in Darfur and the effect on our lives of high energy costs.
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The World Tonight - 31/07/2009
News and analysis with Roger Hearing. Hacker Gary McKinnon loses his appeal against extradition to the United States and tributes flow in after the death of Sir Bobby Robson.
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The World Tonight - 31/08/2007
National and international news and analysis with Jackie Hardgrave. Featured reports include President Bush's appeals to his allies and the shortage of head teachers.
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The World Tonight - 31/08/2009
News from a global perspective with Jane Hill. The top US general in Afghanistan calls for revised military strategy; Japan votes new party into power; Sri Lanka jails journalist.
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The World Tonight - 31/08/2010
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans.
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The World Tonight - 31/10/2007
News and analysis with Robin Lustig. Including reports on the convictions of 21 people over the 2004 Madrid bombings, the US economy and the international space station.
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The World Tonight - 31/10/2008
With Robin Lustig. Can peace moves succeed in ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Plus, more tainted food in China.
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The World Tonight - 31/12/2008
National and international news with Carolyn Quinn. Israel rejects calls for a truce in Gaza. Is the era of US supremacy over? Plus celebrating New Year with English fizz.
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The World Tonight - 31/12/2009
National and international news and analysis with Felicity Evans.
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The World Tonight - Special Debate
To mark The World Tonight's 40th anniversary, Robin Lustig chairs a special debate on Britain's future role in the world with a panel of global experts at Chatham House.
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The World Tonight - The Prime Ministerial Debates
For the first time in a British general election, the leaders of the three largest UK parties take part in televised debates
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