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05/12/2011 (1400 GMT)

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

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Mon 5 Dec 2011 14:05GMT

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  • Afghan President Karzai: Support 'vital to Afghan future'

    As 100 states gather in Bonn to consider the future of Afghanistan, the EU Kabul representative, Vygaudas UΕ΅ackas, tells us that there is a lot of hard work ahead.

    Duration: 05:39

  • Pakistan boycotts Afghan conference

    Just how significant is its no show in Bonn? Qamar Zaman Kaira, a former Pakistan Information Minister explains the government's decision not to be represented at the conference.

    Duration: 09:32

  • Making Afghanistan safe

    Quentin Sommerville has been to the Afghanistan - Pakistan border where Afghan and American troops come under almost daily attack - sometimes from inside Pakistan.

    Duration: 13:00

  • Ivory Coast's Gbagbo in The Hague

    Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo makes his first appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on war crimes charges. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Peter Biles reports.

    Duration: 17:13

  • Same sex couples face jail under Nigeria's new law

    Human rights groups have criticised the Same Sex Marriage Bill saying it forms a threat to the basic rights of a large number of Nigerians. Our Nigeria correspondent Jonah Fisher reports.

    Duration: 23:00

  • Polls setback for Putin's party

    Dmitri Babich, a political analyst and supporter of president Putin tells us why the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin suffered a political set-back in parliamentary elections.

    Duration: 32:18

  • Peru declares state of emergency

    Following protests against plans for a huge gold mine, a state of emergency has been declared in Peru. Javier Farje, editor of the Latin America Bureau talks about the significance of the protests.

    Duration: 35:28

  • Global Witness pulls out of Kimberley Process

    Has the scheme to prevent blood diamonds from being bought and sold failed? We hear from Christine Gordon, an observer of the Kimberley Process.

    Duration: 38:45

  • War Horse play remade for the big screen

    The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Tom Brook talks to the director Stephen Spielberg at the premiere of his new film War Horse.

    Duration: 43:00

  • The sound of 2012

    A list drawn up here in Britain by "tastemakers" to predict who they think will make it to the top in the coming year. We hear from one of them, Greg Cochrane of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Radio 1.

    Duration: 49:12

  • Are France's nuclear power stations are safe?

    Does Greenpeace's actions today show there needs to be a re-think of Nuclear security in France? We hear from Noel Mamere, an MP for the Green Party in France.

    Duration: 53:00

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  • Mon 5 Dec 2011 14:05GMT

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