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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has condemned Syria's use of tanks and live fire against peaceful demonstrators and has called for an independent investigation of the violence. When we speak to political analyst and journalist Thabet Salem in Damascus he tells us that the Syrian army was now working to it's own set of rules.

Sony announces that the reason its PlayStation network has been down for nearly a week is because the personal details of over 75 million subscribers have been stolen. Ricardo Torres from Gamespot in San Francisco joins us to discuss the fallout.

Texas, Arkansas and Missouri have seen weeks of hard weather and deaths in the high winds. In our second hour Jeff Rowland, the deputy chief of police in Poplar Bluff, Missouri gives us the latest on the situation there where a levee failed earlier.

In our third hour author Tim Radford talks to Rhod about his place on the planet and his new book 'The Address Book'.

The chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, Changyong Rhee joins us in our fourth hour to discuss the effect rising food prices are having on the region's poor. Huge price rises could force many more people into poverty.