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Up All Night: 21/11/2011

21/11/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 21/11/2011

Running battles return to Tahrir Square and is this Beckham's swansong in the MLS?

A bloody crackdown of protestors on Egypt's Tahrir Square, the outcry after students are pepper-sprayed in California and charges for man accused of plotting to bomb New York.

Up All Night is live on the streets of Cairo as gunfire and fighting return to the city. Tahrir Square is the centre for anti-establishment protests as hundreds are injured and at least thirteen are killed.

The US authorities charge a man they accuse of plotting to bomb New York. Mayor Bloomberg claims Jose Pimentel used a book called 'How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom'.

A storm is brewing in California after some Occupy students are pepper-sprayed at a peaceful protest. We hear from one of the students who was there and an academic from the University of California Davis who's calling for the Chancellor to resign.

Colonel Gaddafi's spy chief is caught in the south of Libya. 

Has the curtain drawn on David Beckham's time in the MLS? 

Plus, we delve into the Pacifica Radio Archives for the story of boxer Rubin Carter who went from a  world middleweight contender to accused murderer.

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