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World at One - 17/04/2009

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National and international news with Shaun Ley. After President Obama publishes the legal advice under which the CIA interrogated terrorist suspects but orders that those who carried it out will not be prosecuted, the head of the International Bar Association gives his thoughts. Pakistan has been promised five billion dollars of extra aid, but after previous failures to honour commitments made at donor conferences, Shaun asks the vice president of the World Bank whether she can be sure that other countries will actually contribute their share. As the newspapers publish Jacqui Smith's political obituaries, a former Labour home secretary says that sometimes it is civil servants, not ministers, who should be called to account.