Erstellt am: 14. 12. 2011 - 15:04 Uhr

Guns, grenades and no apparent motive

Reality Check: Liege shootings, Higgs boson, university fees, the future of education, social inequality.

Belguim shooting

Belgium is in shock today after a man opened fire on a busy marketplace in Liege, killing 4 people and injuring over 120.

Vanessa Mock reports on what is known about the man, and the debate now raging in the country over whether tighter firearms legislation is needed. Police say he had an extensive arsenal of firearms and grenades.

"Glimpse" of Higgs boson

Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN say they may have seen the so called "God particle".

Joanna Bostock asked Professor Christian Fabjan of the Institute for High Energy Physics in Vienna about what Higgs boson is and why it's so important.

SPÖ changes position on study fees

Political analyst Thomas Hofer looks and the new SPÖ stance on university fees. Chancellor, Werner Feymann, says he is willing to consider the Australian system of student loans from the government - but would this be politically or practically viable in Austria?

The future of education

Veronica Boix-Mansilla talks to Chris Cummins at the Salzburg Global Seminar about the ways teaching and teachers need to adapt to the requirements of young people in the cyber age.

Social inequality increasing in Britain

The rich are getting richer, and following a period of stability, the poor are now getting poorer again.

Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, England, explains the reasons why polititians seem to be unable to close the poverty gap.

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