Tuesday's thoughts..
Good morning, a late but nonetheless varied look at what we think should be on the programme today.
Please send us your ideas so I can put them up here for discussion before we hold the morning editorial meeting. And don't forget you can join us via the telephone if you would like to pitch your idea to the team, just call us on +44 207 557 0635 and we'll call you back.
Honour killings
A big story that broke last night here in Britain is that of the 20 year old who was killed by her father and uncle for falling in love with someone they didn’t want her to be with.
In what's been dubbed as an , because the men believed she had brought shame upon the family by insisting to carry on with her relationship with her boyfriend.
, where honour is highly valued by the elders in a family. In for instance, honour is often said to be in the hands of the women of the family, if that is tarnished then there can be serious consequences.
Why is it so prevalent in some societies? What can be done to stop this kind of crime happening? If you are in a country where this does happen, what is being done by the authorities to stop it?
Send us your thoughts, here.
Violence in Gaza
, at least 16 people have been killed in an upsurge of fighting between the rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas, despite a new ceasefire being declared.
Gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Gaza home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, the third time he has come under attack since Monday. And mortars were also fired at the Gaza compound of President Mahmoud Abbas.
We've talked previously about the factional fighting in the region, but what can be done to resolve the situation? A ceasefire doesnt seem to be working, so should there be international intervention?
The violence poses a that has grouped Fatah and Hamas around the same cabinet table since March with the express aim of halting the bloodshed and ending crippling Western boycotts. But why is the fighting continuing?
Underage sex but consensual - should you go to jail?
A judge in the American state of Georgia has .
The judge ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, who is now twenty-one, after he served two years for child molestation. The state's attorney general has said he will file an appeal and seek a ruling from Georgia's supreme court.
In 2003, Mr Wilson was videotaped taking part in consensual oral sex with a fifteen-year-old girl. He was sentenced and permanently registered on the state's sexual offender list under a legal loophole which allowed a felony charge to be brought against him.
The case has provoked controversy in the United States with high profile figures such as former-president Jimmy Carter, supporting the release of Mr Wilson.
So if it is consensual and it can be proved as such, should the charge be dropped?
