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Up All Night: 10/04/2012

10/04/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 10/04/2012

Hamza faces court ruling; cross-border Syria shooting; Titanic memories.

Abu Hamza faces European Court of Human Rights ruling; a refugee describes the shooting across Syria's border with Turkey; Facebook buys Instagram for 1 billion dollars.

Rhod Sharp with stories from around the world.
Abu Hamza will learn today whether human rights judges will allow the British government to extradite him to America to face terrorist charges. Charles Stimson, who advised George W Bush's Secretary of Defence on detainee issues around the world, tells us why the US is so keen to see him extradited. He admits that the UK government will be in "a pickle" if they want to deport him but the European court says no.

It's the deadline for the violence to stop in Syria - but it looks less and less likely that that will happen. There's been shooting across Syria's border with Turkey, and Nawar Mazri, a Syrian refugee tells us all about it. He says Western leaders are talking about Syria too much - he wants to see much more action.

The special prosecutor investigating the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida has ruled out using a grand jury in the case. Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for the Martin family, tells us they're cautiously optimistic, because they're hoping the decision means there's enough evidence to make an arrest.

Facebook has bought the photo app, Instagram, for $1 billion. Ari Levy from Bloomberg says it's a good deal for both, especially Instagram's 13 employees, who stand to become very rich indeed.

And it's 100 years since Titanic set sail from Southampton. Muffet Brown, the great granddaughter of Titanic passenger Molly Brown, looks back on the doomed voyage. She describes how her great grandmother came to enjoy being described as "unsinkable".

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