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Tackling the terror threat

Reality Check: fighting terrorism with security, ban on gay adoption ruled unconstitutional, Ukraine violence increasing, Hypo investigation vote, Oscar Bronner on Charlie Hebdo

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We can expect to see increased police and military presence in public places in the future

Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks last week, security services around the world are looking at how they can ratchet up their defences to prevent another such attack happening.

Countries across Europe are putting more armed police on the streets, and places and people who might be specific targets are being given heightened protection.

However, can this really help, when no one knows when or where the next attack might happen, or what form it might take.

Our security and military analyst, Paul Beaver, looks at the ways security forces try to counter the threat, and how media organisations are now becoming a new "front line".

Bus shelled in eastern Ukraine

12 people died and many more were injured when a shell hit a bus yesterday in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. David Stern reports from Kiev on the deteriorating security situation.

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Ban on gay adoption ruled unconstitutional

Austria's Supreme Court has ruled that the current ban on adoption by homosexual couples is unconstitutional.

The move is being seen as a major milestone for LGBT campaigners, according to Dr. Helmut Graupner, the head of Rechtskommitee LAMBDA

Opposition motion on Hypo inquiry

The opposition is bringing a motion today demanding a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Hypo Alpe Adria. Robert Zikmund explains why this is a landmark vote, and what the scope of the inquiry would be.

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"We have to defend freedom of speech... wherever it's endangered"

Why Der Standard is publishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Der Standard's publisher, Oscar Bronner, explains the processes and decisions that led to his paper printing four pages of today's Charlie Hebdo edition, even though the content may not be what we would normally find in Der Standard.

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