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There鈥檚 been heavy fighting in Eastern Congo between the M23 rebels and DRC army. Reports say the rebels have killed DRC military governor of North Kivu province.

Also in the programme: Hamas is set to release four Israeli female soldiers held in Gaza for over a year as part of a six-week ceasefire deal which will also see the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, and we relive this week鈥檚 historic moment when Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage.

Joining presenter Shaun Ley to discuss these and other stories of the day are Julie Norman, an Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations at University College London (UCL), and a Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at the London based think tank, the Royal United Services Institute and John Nilsson-Wright, from the University of Cambridge where he is both Associate Professor in Japanese Politics at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) and Head of the Japan and Koreas Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics.

(Picture: Congolese Revolution Army (CRA) rebels sit in a truck as they patrol a street in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), November 20, 2012, soon after the rebels captured the city from the government army. Rebels widely believed to be backed by Rwanda claimed control of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, walking through the frontier city of one million people past U.N. peacekeepers who did nothing to stop them. Credit: REUTERS/James Akena)