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Up All Night: 06/08/2010

06/08/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 06/08/2010

Blood diamonds, the fringe and the northern lights.

We learn about blood diamonds, find out what makes the northern lights light up and ask whether Time magazine should print shocking front page images?

Blood diamonds - what are they and why should we care from the spokesman for the UN secretary general Yve Sarokobi. 

David Cameron and Pakistan's President Zardari have met for the first time since the British Prime Minister soured relations. 

Northern Lights with Dr Mike Kosch from the University of Lancaster. 

Fourteen people in the US are being charged with terrorist offences which include providing money and support to Somali based group al-Shabab. Greg Miller is the National Security Correspondent for the Washington Post and has been covering the story.

Sheldon Garon, Dodge Professor of History and Eastern Asian Studies at Princeton, also a specialist in modern Japanese history look back at Hiroshima 65 years on.

Staring out from the front cover of this week's Time magazine is an image which has provoked shock and debate around the world. An 18 year old woman called Aisha. she's had her nose and ears sliced off - reportedly as punishment by the Taliban for fleeing from her abusive in-laws. Sunita Viswanath from the group Women for Afghan Women - based in the US - which has helped to get Aisha the treatment she's now receiving.

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