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Syria - The Year of Living Dangerously

Reality Check: Syria - one year of revolution, the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire that hasn't ceased, the ICC convicts its first war criminal, double-standards in Morrocan women's rights, and can LSD cure alcoholism?

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Syrian refugee camps in Turkey

Syria-One Year On

It is now a year since the first protests in Syria against President Bashar al Assad. The UN says 8000 people have been killed, whilst over 200 000 have fled their homes. Many are missing. In the face of widespread international condemnation, the regime has continued its crackdown on dissent. Shelling continues and there is still a large security presence in many cities. 100 tanks have stormed the city of Daraa in recent days according to CNN. Homs, the besieged city, continues to be bombed. Residents in and around the city of Idlib are fleeing to Turkey, according to a Turkish diplomatic source, 1000 Syrians crossed into the country over the last 24 hours. Our correspondent Jonathan Head delivers an on-the-spot report...

The Ceasefire that Won't Cease Fire

Israel has came to yet another fragile truce with Gaza but that truce has been punctured by volleys of rockets, over the last several days. Cross-border tensions are as prevalent as ever. Middle East correspondent Matt Rees brings us up to date...

International Criminal Court 1-International Warlords 0

In its first verdict since it was set up ten years ago, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has found Thomas Lubanga guilty of recruiting child soldiers during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Central Africa analyst Mark Kersten of the group Justice in Conflict tells us more...

A Moroccan Tragedy

Morroccan activists have stepped up pressure to scrap laws that allow rapists to marry their victims - after a 16-year-old girl killed herself. I take a look at the hypocrisy of these laws in a country celebrated as a relatively good place to be an Arab woman.

And in WTF news...

Timothy Leary would be all, "Far out man!" A new study claims that one LSD trip could put alcoholics off the tipple for at least a year. What? British scientist David Nutt says it could work...