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Up All Night: 11/03/2012

11/03/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 11/03/2012

Dotun Adebayo with world stories. Including Kofi Annan's peace mission to Syria.

Kofi Annan's peace mission to Syria and Roland Buerk is live from Japan as the country prepares to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami.

Dotun Adebayo with news from around the world. Joshua Landis is the director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He tells Up All Night that the situation in Syria will deteriorate despite Kofi Annan's peace mission. One of Mr Annan's key aims in Damascus is to get food and medical supplies into Homs. Omar Shakir has just escaped from the city after four weeks of bombardment by Syrian troops. He tells Dotun about his escape and his fear that violence will soon turn into civil war.

Roland Buerk is live from Japan as the country prepares to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami. 

Tara Gadomski is in New York with the latest news from the city that never sleeps and listeners choose the latest song for the Up All Night Virtual Jukebox.

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