The World Tonight

Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme bringing you global news and analysis. The French Senate passes the controversial pensions bill but the unions promise more protests across the country Wikileaks reveals over 400,000 US military files from the Iraq war - the largest document leak in US history With the US mid term elections only two weeks away we report on the close race between the Democrats and the Republicans in Wisconsin Gay rights activists in Uganda say they fear for their safety after a hundred gay people were named and pictured in a newspaper under the headline "Hang them" with Felicity Evans.