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Up All Night: 27/08/2011

27/08/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 27/08/2011

Evidence of atrocities in Libya, and America braces itself for an 'historic' storm.

More than a hundred decomposing bodies are found at an abandoned hospital in Tripoli, and America shuts down for Hurricane Irene.

Dotun Adebayo with news from around the world. 

A picture emerges of the scale of killings in the days before the fall of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. There are reports of decomposing bodies, with some victims found handcuffed or shackled and shot. Dotun speaks to reporters in the capital and a doctor one of the largest hospitals in the city about what they've seen.

Up All Night is live across the US as President Obama warns Americans to prepare for the worst from the approaching Hurricane Irene.

American Congressman Dennis Kucinich tells Up All Night he was asked by Colonel Gaddafi to travel to Libya and mediate between the African country and the United States.

Plus, Tim Vickery and Shaun Wheelock join Dotun for the world football phone-in.

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