Erstellt am: 11. 12. 2012 - 15:45 Uhr

What, no rules??

Reality Check: Salzburg financial scandal; the streets of Damascus; North Korea communications; Girls Only Radio.

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• Salzburg financial scandal

As the political parties wrangle about calling early elections and whether that inferes with investigating what went wrong, we talk to Hans Weitmayer from Wirtschaftsblatt about the rules and guidlines (or lack thereof) governing the investment of public money:

• The streets of Damascus

ORF's Robert Uitz is in the Syrian capital and describes how daily life continues in the midst of the destruction and disruption of a civil war:

• North Korea Internet and telecommunications

North Korea has an Internet - though it's more of an IntRAanet. There is also a mobile phone network, but it doesn't quite like the one we're used to. North Korea expert Scott Thomas Bruce describes the secretive state's own version of electronic media and mobile telecommunications:

• Girls only Radio

Amani el Tunsi is a woman with a mission - to liberate Egyptian women. She's doing it through the medium of radio, more precisely a web radio station called "Banatwi Bass" or "Girls Only". Riem Higazi reports:

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