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27/05/2011

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Last broadcast on Fri, 27 May 2011, 14:05 on BBC World Service.

Synopsis

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

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The controversy surrounding Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, as he stands for re-election for a fourth term as president of world football's governing body.

  2. Chapter 2

    As a Serbian court rules that Ratko Mladic can be transferred to The Hague to face war crimes charges, we ask the former deputy prime minister of Bosnia did the Serb authorities know where he was?

  3. Chapter 3

    Malta is one of only two countries in the world to ban divorce, but will it lift the ban after the forthcoming referendum?

  4. Chapter 4

    Christian Fraser reports from the G8 summit on the proposed western economic help for pro-democracy movements in the Middle East and North Africa.

  5. Chapter 5

    Nick Thorpe reports from Srebrenica where Ratko Mladic ordered the massacre of up to 8000 Muslim men and boys in 1995 and why his extradition is being met with relief and anguish in the Netherlands.

  6. Chapter 6

    Why has it been more difficult to report on the anti-government protests in Syria than in other north African countries? Gabriel Gatehouse reports.

  7. Chapter 7

    An aviation consultant discusses the findings of the French air accident investigation agency into why an Air France plane plunged into the Atlantic killing all 228 people on board in 2009.

  8. Chapter 8

    Should garden design really be regarded as an art form? We speak to an art critic and to a garden historian who also describes himself as a "garden and landscape critic."

  9. Chapter 9

    Why has the Nepal peace process been stalled by continuing power struggles? Joanna Jolly reports from Kathmandu.

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  1. Fri 27 May 2011
    14:05

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