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Gathering clouds for Golden Dawn

Reality Check: Violent protests in Greece, clashes between opposition factions in Syria, Iran's President Rouhani says Iran will never build nuclear arms, France bans child beauty pageants, RadPublik

The stabbing to death of a left-wing hip hop artists with a member of the far right Golden Dawn party as the key suspect is threatening the future of Greece's fastest growing political movement.

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Violent protests broke out after Pavlos Fissas was stabbed to death in the Piraeus district of Athens

Support has been rapidly growing for Golden Dawn in the face of an ever deteriorating economic climate, but now there is talk of the party being banned. Helena Smith reports from Athens.

Battling factions in the Syrian opposition

Clashes have been reported between the Free Syria Army and an Al Qaeda linked group in the north of Syria. Defence analyst, Paul Beaver, explains the tensions and divisions that fragement the Syrian opposition.

Iran "will never build nuclear arms"

Iran's new president seems to be taking a very different line on the country's nuclear programme from his predecessor. Analyst, Rosemary Hollis, gives her interpretation of the latest signals coming from Tehran.

France moves to ban beauty pageants for under 16s

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Child beauty pageants are big business in the USA

In the United States, children taking part in beauty pageants is a societal norm, and the "Toddlers and Tiaras" reality show is a top rating programme.

Although the principle of young girls being primed and trained like professional models is controversial, it is well entrenched in the American culture.

However, in France a new law is in the parliament which would ban such beauty pageants on the basis that they promote the hyper-sexualisation of children. It has already been passed in the senate, and looks set to pass in the lower house soon. Although pageants of this type are not generally held in the German speaking countries, they are relatively common the France and the UK.

Psychologist and social critic, Susie Orbach, responds to the news of the ban, and comments on the attitudes to the sexualisation of children in Europe both in the media and in everyday life.

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