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02/05/2012

Barack Obama at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan; a US media critic says it is the end for Rupert Murdoch; the amazing escape from house arrest of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng.

News and views from around the world with Rhod Sharp. Up to six people killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan just hours after Barack Obama pays a surprise visit to Bagram air base. In a live televised address before the attack, Obama says there's a new dawn on the horizon. US media critic Jeff Cohen says it's the end for Rupert Murdoch and Up All NIght hears about the amazing 'Hollywood-style' escape from house arrest by Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. Also the announcement that Facebook is to go public in the most eagerly awaited flotation since Google in 2004 and the three Welshmen who stole a penguin from a Australian marine park.

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