Erstellt am: 11. 3. 2013 - 15:15 Uhr

Facing the historical music

Reality Check: Vienna Philharmonic's Nazi past; Fukushima 2 years on; India rape suspect dies; Afghanistan's angry president; the state of the FPÖ.

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• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the most prominent cultural ambassadors for Austria has responded to political criticism and posted a new report about its Nazi past on its website. We speak to one of the historians involved in the research, Professor Oliver Rathkolb from the University of Vienna:

• Fukushima

As Japan marks the second anniversary on Monday of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing, we ask what is the status of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, whose reactors melted down after its cooling systems were disabled by the tsunami.

• India

A man on trial for the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus has been found dead in jail. Police say he committed suicide, his family says he was killed. Geeta Pandy reports from New Delhi:

• Afghanistan & USA

President Hamid Karzai is known for making incendiary comments in public speeches. On Sunday he accused the US and the Taliban of working together to convince Afghans that foreign forces were needed beyond 2014, when most troops are to leave. International Security expert Paul Rogers analyses the increasingly tense relationship between Kabul and Washington:

• FPÖ

The Freedom Party is trying to project an image of unity, a week after the FPK’s historic defeat in Carinthia and the FPÖ’s poor showing in Lower Austria. Professor Reinhard Heinisch, head of the department of politics at the University of Salzburg gives us his take on the state of the party.

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