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The World Tonight - 10/01/2011

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Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Lawyers acting for six green activists - who'd been accused of plotting to shut down a power station - have called for an inquiry, after the case against them collapsed. It emerged that an undercover police officer who'd gained access to the group had agreed to assist the defence. President Obama has said the United States is "grieving and in shock" after the gun attack in Arizona, in which six people died and a congresswoman was shot in the head - we talk to a top Democrat on the Homeland Security committee. David Cameron has invited bosses from some of Britain's biggest companies to discuss new ways of creating jobs - but is slow economic growth leading us towards a jobless recovery? And as Croatia wraps up the negotiations to become the 28th member of the European Union, why have ordinary Croats turned Eurosceptic?