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16/11/2011

Robin Lustig with national and international news and analysis.

The forecast for growth has been slashed, and new unemployment figures show the number of young people out of work has gone over 1 million for the first time since 1992. What can be done to get the UK economy going again?

Syria has been officially suspended from the Arab League, at an emergency meeting in Morocco. What is the best way forward for the Syrian opposition: seek a political solution or support armed struggle?

And we'll hear a special report from Iraq, with Gabriel Gatehouse and Charlotte Ashton. How much has the economy there improved? Who got those oil contracts?

On The World Tonight, with David Eades.

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