Panorama's week that was - March 23 - March 29
Friday's has brought this region that Panorama visited in December back into the headlines. Dozens were killed in the blast in the Khyber region in north-west Pakistan just 20 miles from the Afghan border. The area is has seen several such attacks linked to the Taleban insurgency and Sunni-Shia sectarian divisions.
This, on the same day . In a break from President Bush's strategy, Obama pledged to work with both countries to defeat al-Qaeda and militants in the region which he said threatened not just America but the people in the region. His commitment to Afghanistan, which he said had been under-resourced over the last three years, and Pakistan also signalled a change his predecessor's administration whose main focus was the Iraq war. noted Pakistan's positive reaction to America's change of approach.
Panorama's Jane Corbin visited the frontline in the War on Terror at the end of 2008, travelling to the mountainous region on the hazardous Afghan-Pakistan border. There she met US and Pakistani soldiers and would-be suicide bombers in her investigation into instability in the region.
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If you missed it, you can still watch Britain's Terror Heartland online and an extended interview with Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik.
Monday's report from condemned a quarter of government databases as illegal and called for them to be scrapped or redesigned.
The following day, Labour announced plans for a new government database which will track social networking sites such as, and .
Unsurprisingly this has upset the blogosphere, not least Conservative political commentators including . His brief assault on the proposal which he blogged about encapsulates a growing concern about the "Big Brother" strategy of a government which already plans to store information about each phonecall, email and internet site visited by everyone living in the UK.
This certainly alarmed Panorama's reporter Simon Boazman after he investigated just how much information was stored about him in You Can Run, and how easy it was to obtain it. Putting concerns about privacy to the test he discovered how his mobile phone and laptop can give up secrets and even how hospital records can be passed outside the NHS.
Panorama's investigation into the Omagh bombing has been drawing more attention this week. Two days after was broadcast, a review was set up conducted by Sir Peter Gibson into "any intercepted intelligence material available to the security and intelligence agencies in relation to the Omagh bombing and how this intelligence was shared".
The report that vital intelligence about the Omagh bombing was deliberately held back. Panorama's reporter John Ware rejected his findings this week when he was called before the . He said that Sir Peter Gibson's report was flawed, saying the approach by the author was "adversarial, impatient and dismissive".
You can find out a lot more about Panorama's coverage on this in .
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