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Republicans, Transitions and Actions

Reality Check: the Republican presidential campaign; environmental concerns after cruise shipwreck; Libya’s transition; campaign against racism; young winter athletes under pressure.

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Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul a the the CNN Southern Republican Presidential Debate in North Charleston, South Carolina. Photo: EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

Republican presidential contenders

There are four candidates left in the competition to select the Republican nominee for the US presidential election. Just ahead of tomorrow’s South Carolina primary Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum appeared in a TV debate which saw an angry outburst from Gingrich about the media. So two and half weeks in to the campaign what has changed? Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff:

Shipwreck environmental concerns

Concerns are mounting that fuel aboard the cruise ship which ran aground off the Italian coast and capsized last week, may leak into the water.

Libya’s Transition

Guma El Gamaty is a Libyan activist and the former UK coordinator for Libya’s National Transitional Council. He was in our studio to tell Joanna Bostock about some of the issues the country is tackling as it transitions from revolution to normality:

A Week of Action

A group of more than 50 organisations has declared the next seven days as a week long campaign “against racism, anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism in Austria”. Alexander Pollack from SOS Mitmensch tells Elizabeth Alcock why:

Youth Winter Olympics

More than a thousand teenage athletes have been competing in the Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, but are they under too much pressure? Our reporter Johnny Bliss has been investigating: