Erstellt am: 20. 10. 2011 - 16:02 Uhr

RC Today: **BREAKING NEWS** Gaddafi Dead!

Today's Reality Check was chock-a-block with stories about corruption, pirates, stem-cells, cash-woes, and guns but the highlight was definitely the breaking news!

EPA

Goodbye Golden Robes

At approximately 13:00 today, the FM4 Newsroom started buzzing with what the news wire services were publishing. News that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's 40-year-ruler, had been captured, injured, possibly killed... It all came streaming in fast and furious. As soon as confirmations could be made, we interrupted our regular Reality Check programming to report the latest.
Rest assured, Reality Check will get all the details and will ask about the ramifications of the toppling of a leader like Gaddafi and we'll get that to you on tomorrow's Reality Check!

EPA

Corruption, Austro-Style
The Austrian lobbyist Peter Hochegger says EVERYBODY does it! Cash-for-contacts, bribery, a little off the top...
Falter journalist Barbara Toth has taken a closer look at Peter Hochegger at the height of his lobbying activities and she told Chris Cummins some very interesting things about this chapter in Hochegger's life.

Euro-Crisis Chapter 1000

Greece - violent protests again. Spain and Italy - downgraded. Portugal - doesn't look too rosy either. Ministers will be meeting this Sunday to come up with a master plan which they hope will at the very least, calm the stormy economic waters the EU finds itself in. But wait - wasn’t that exactly what the Europe’s bailout fund the EFSF was supposed to do? Hal Rock finds out more from FM4's EU correspondent Nadia Hahn.

The International Language of Violence
USA, Russia and European countries have in the past supplied large quantities of weapons to repressive governments despite having evidence of a substantial risk that they could be used to commit serious human rights violations. Not exactly a newsflash but what may be news to you is how Austria is involved in all of this. Amnesty International's Heinz Patzelt gave Elizabeth Alcock the lowdown...

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

The European Court of Justice has made a ruling this week that has got European scientists rather upset. It's got to do with a patent, an invention, and stem-cells. Joanna Bostock spoke to Professor Ian Wilmut from the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University to find out more...

The Pirate Party Movement

The title says it all folks. Steven Hill, American political talking head, has been looking into the pirate party movement, and told Joanna Bostock about its beginnings.