28/03/2012 (1300GMT)
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Afghan woman
Hundreds of Afghan women are in prison because they ran away from abuse at home. President Hamid Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Farzi, and Ken Roth, of Human Rights Watch, discuss Afghan women's rights.
Duration: 09:29
Syrian atrocities
The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, tells the 大象传媒 there is evidence that the Syrian authorities are systematically targeting children and that many detained children are being tortured.
Duration: 12:46
Cleft palate study
A new survey is being conducted in Britain into cleft lips and palates. Newshour hears from one of the researchers, Jonathan Sandy, and the mother of a girl born with a cleft.
Duration: 21:37
Crazed Pilot
It's the stuff of nightmares: you're on a flight from New York to Las Vegas, when suddenly the pilot comes out of the cockpit, and starts shouting about a bomb鈥�
Duration: 22:57
Palestinian doctor
Newshour hears from a Palestinian doctor, who has been awarded over a million dollars in damages for the 8 years he was kept in a Libyan prison on charges of infecting children with the AIDS virus.
Duration: 30:33
Palestinian doctor - lawyer's reaction
Liesbeth Zegveld is the lawyer of the Palestinian doctor and speaks to Newshour from Amsterdam.
Duration: 34:19
Baghdad summit
Rami Ruhayem reports from Baghdad, which is hosting this week's Arab League meeting. Security has been stepped up but what sort of welcome will the leaders get from the residents of the Iraqi capital?
Duration: 38:14
Nigerian schools
The Nigerian government has announced it intends to build hundreds of official religious schools. Mark Lobel travelled to the north-western state of Sokoto, home to one of this new type of school.
Duration: 42:58
Syria - breaking news
The Syrian state news agency, SANA, is reporting that an army general has been killed in the city of Aleppo.
Duration: 44:25
Enid Blyton updated
Professor David Rudd, of the University of Bolton, and the critic Lady Juliet Townsend, talk about the plans to modernise "The Secret Seven" children's books by the British writer Enid Blyton.
Duration: 51:47
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