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An islamist group called the Al-Nusra Front has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday which killed at least 55 people. We try to find out more about the group from Richard Barrett, a former head of counter terrorism at MI6 and now coordinator of the UN's Taliban and Al Qaeda monitoring team.

We get an update on Greece's lengthy struggle to form a new government.

We look at the strange case of an Iranian cartoonist who's been sentenced to 25 lashes after drawing a caricature of an MP.

We also look at what could become a huge political clash as the french far left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon decides to challenge the National Front leader Marine Le Pen in her home constituency in next month's parliamentary elections.