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17/02/2011 (1400 GMT)

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Last broadcast on Thu, 17 Feb 2011, 14:05 on BBC World Service.

Synopsis

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Bahrain

    (13.00)

    Police use batons and teargas to break up anti-government protests. Newshour speaks to a journalist beaten during the violence.

  2. Chapter 2

    Zu Guttenberg

    (16.03)

    Germany's defence minister accused of alledgedly plagiarising his PHD dissertation- Newshour speaks to the professor who discovered it.

  3. Chapter 3

    Handbags

    (22.56)

    "How can you be unhappy if you pick up a big pink bag?" The new unifying force according to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

  4. Chapter 4

    Libya

    (31.27)

    Spreading unrest as anti-government protestors call for a "day of rage"

  5. Chapter 5

    Middle East unrest

    (37.45)

    Author Peter Bergen gives us some insight into what al-Qaeda might make of recent events in the Arab world.

  6. Chapter 6

    Italy

    (42.50)

    Are Silvio Berlusconi's legal troubles splitting Italy in two? The BBC's Robin Lustig reports from the south of Italy.

  7. Chapter 7

    Regional politics

    (48.59)

    Reports say ministers from the Gulf Arab states are due to meet to discuss events in the Kingdom. Newshour speaks to a former UK ambassador to Bahrain and UAE.

  8. Chapter 8

    Handbags

    (52.56)

    "How can you be unhappy if you pick up a big pink bag?" The new unifying force according to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Broadcast

  1. Thu 17 Feb 2011
    14:05
    BBC World Service

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