The World Tonight
When it comes to daily news, The World Tonight takes international events seriously and covers them in depth. Using the BBC's international network of correspondents we report on what is going on, put it in context and provide a forum for debate on the big issues facing us all. The programme is presented by Robin Lustig or Ritula Shah. It is broadcast Monday to Friday at 10pm on BBC Radio 4 and lasts for 45 minutes.
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The World Tonight - Monday 28 May
Mon, 28 May 12
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38 mins
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7 days remainingThe first harrowing eyewitness accounts have emerged from Syria of the massacre of more than a hundred people - nearly half of them children. Kofi Annan will meet President Assad tomorrow, but is it time to give up on his peace plan?
The World Tonight - Friday 25 May
Fri, 25 May 12
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38 mins
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3 days remainingResults from the Egyptian presidential election point to a second round run-off between the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood and a former Prime Minister who served under the ousted president Hosni Mubarak. It's not what the protesters of Tahrir Square wanted, so has their revolution been a failure? Spain's fourth largest bank is asking the Madrid government for a bailout of nineteen billion euros. What will that mean for the rest of the eurozone? David Cameron has defended his decision to put Jeremy Hunt in charge of ruling on News Corporation's bid for BSkyB - he said the Culture Secretary did act impartially. Also tonight, why spend a billion pounds on the world's biggest array of radio telescopes?
The World Tonight - Thursday 24 May
Thu, 24 May 12
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39 mins
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3 days remainingSyria are guilty of serious human rights abuses, according to a report by United Nations investigators, Moscow's newly-energised opposition movement is struggling to maintain its momentum and all the latest on Leveson.
The World Tonight: Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Wed, 23 May 12
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39 mins
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2 days remainingEuropean Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss ways to tackle the eurozone crisis, and restore confidence after stock markets fell sharply. But if Greece does crash out of the euro, would it hurt Germany more than Greece? Also on the programme tonight, what went wrong with the Facebook share floatation?
The World Tonight: Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Tue, 22 May 12
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1 day remainingThe International Monetary Fund has praised the government's efforts to reduce the budget deficit but it says growth is too slow and warns of the risks to the economy, from the Eurozone we find out why even China and Brazil are worried. Also on the programme tonight, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood is among the frontrunners as Egyptians prepare to vote for their first democratically elected president.
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