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The World this Week - August 10th, 2012 (part 2)

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In Syria, as rebels prepare a counter-attack for Aleppo, the British government says it's upping its assistance to the opposition. Annette Young and our panel of journalists also discuss how being the member of a feminist, punk band in Moscow can land you in jail, if there is a possibility of life on Mars and with the Olympics about to end, what will be the defining element of these London games.

THE WORLD THIS WEEK
  • Greg Viscusi, Journalist Bloomberg News
  • Alberto Romagnoli, Correspondent, Rai TV
  • John G. Keating, Bureau chief, Kuwait News Agency
  • Marcus Mabry, Editor-at-large, International Herald Tribune

    watch the first part

    Programme produced and prepared by Célia Caracena, Sara Bertilsson and Mary Colombel

 

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