Erstellt am: 26. 1. 2012 - 15:00 Uhr

Libya: a decade away from stability?

Reality Check: Militias out of control in Libya, French presidential elections, Mein Kampf, Parliamentary reform, Kill kangaroos to save the mice!

The United Nations is expressing concern that the militias in Libya are getting of control. Amnesty International says many people are being tortured in illegal detention centres, and Medcins sans Frontieres has suspended its work in Misrata after treating 115 people with torture related injuries.

Our security expert, Paul Rogers, says that the perception that Libya was well along the road to stability was over-optimitistc and it could take up to 10 years for proper state institutions to be established to ensure security. He also says that the level of support for the Gaddafi regime was seriously underestimated. On today's Reality Check, he discusses the increasingly precarious situation with Gennie Johnson.

French presidential elections

Lucien Giordani previews the forthcoming elections in France, which could see Nicholas Sarkozy losing in the first round.

Mein Kampf publication

A British publisher has withdrawn its plans to print passages from Mein Kamps in a German magazine after objections from the Bavarian government. Historian Murray Hall explains the issues surrounding the book to Elizabeth Alcock.

Parliamentary Reforms

Political analyst Melanie Sully, from the Institute for Parliamentarism and Democracy Questions, reviews the proposed reforms to Europe's parliaments, including the idea of reducing the number of MPs in Austria.

The ethics of vegetarianism

Kill the kangaroos to save the mice!

Why one Australian ecologist says eating meat might be more ethical than vegetarianism.
More on this story here.

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