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Syria Peace Plan
Damascus accepts the UN's peace proposals. Jonathan Head reports.
Duration: 04:02
Annan's Peace Mission
Prof. Fawaz Gerges, the director of the Middle East centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, examines the prospects for Kofi Annan's mission to Syria.
Duration: 07:38
Afghanistan
The 大象传媒's Bilal Sawary gauges whether a series of scandals involving US soldiers in Afghanistan this year has damaged the coalition's chances of winning Afghan hearts and minds.
Duration: 12:39
London gangs
The recent shooting of a five-year-old girl in London has exposed the city's thriving gang-culture. Newshour speaks to Darrell James, a former gang member.
Duration: 18:26
Who is Jim Kim?
Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT and an expert on the economics of poverty, gives his views on Jim Yong Kim, the man the US has nominated to take over as head of the World Bank.
Duration: 22:58
Toulouse shooting video
Satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show recent killings in Toulouse, France, has said it will not be airing the pictures. Christian Fraser reports from Paris.
Duration: 29:14
Cyprus Football
The Cyprus team Apoel Nicosia has confounded all expectations by reaching the quarter finals of European Football's Champions League. Alex Capstick reports from Nicosia.
Duration: 33:52
Icelandic president
Pascale Harter interviews Iceland's president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, who was seen as something of a hero for refusing to bail out Iceland's banks, during the country's economic meltdown in 2008.
Duration: 39:28
Iran's death penalty
Amnesty International says Iran executed 360 people in 2011, the most of any Middle Eastern country. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam is co-founder and spokesperson for the group Iran Human Rights.
Duration: 42:59
UN peace plan: Syrian opposition view
Dr Rim Turkmani, a member of the Syrian opposition group "Building the Syrian state", gives her reaction to the news that Syria's President Assad has accepted the UN's peace plan.
Duration: 46:09
Centenarians
More than a third of British babies born in 2012 are predicted to live beyond the age of 100. Sociologist and broadcaster Laurie Taylor, and writer Fay Weldon, discuss the implications of this.
Duration: 52:58
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