21/01/2011
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Tony Blair
Tony Blair is again being grilled about why he took Britain to war in Iraq in 2003 and whether this decision was legal. Newshour speaks to Lord Falconer - a former lord chancellor under Tony Blair.
Duration: 08:54
Kenya
Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation, has printed images of what appear to be undercover police shooting three unarmed suspects. So what's the reaction been so far? The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Will Ross is in Nairobi.
Duration: 12:54
Tunisia
All political prisoners detained in Tunisia during the rule of the ousted President have been freed. Newshour hears from a Tunisian journalist who’s taking advantage of the new found freedom.
Duration: 19:32
South Korea pirates
The South Korean navy has stormed a ship which had been seized by Somali pirates. Newshour asks if individual nations have the right to rescue hijacked crews by whatever means they choose.
Duration: 22:58
Andy Coulson
The British prime minister's communications chief Andy Coulson has resigned. The former editor of the News of the World has been under pressure over phone hacking allegations at the newspaper.
Duration: 31:30
Silvio Berlusconi
Our correspondent in Rome, Duncan Kennedy, has been following the latest and perhaps most damaging scandal to surround the Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi.
Duration: 36:14
Indian literature
An Indian political editor, Hartosh Singh Bal, has accused the co-founder of the Jaipur literary festival, historian William Dalrymple, of being "a pompous arbiter of literary merit in India".
Duration: 43:11
Shakespeare
Newshour hears from the artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London, which is staging all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, each in a different language.
Duration: 48:08
Aaron Sorkin
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Justin Webb speaks to Aaron Sorkin, one of the most successful screenwriters of the modern age, about what's happening in American politics and American society.
Duration: 52:44
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