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Up All Night: 19/06/2012

19/06/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 19/06/2012

G20 summit in Mexico and the clamour for a coalition government in Greece.

Giles Dilnot with news on the G20 summit in Mexico and the clamour for a coalition government in Greece.

Giles Dilnot with news from around the world. EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso tells reporters at the G20 summit that European leaders have not gone to Mexico for lessons on how to handle the economy. He insists the eurozone crisis actually started in North America and that Europe's financial sector was contaminated by 'unorthodox practice' in the US. BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall tells Giles all about it.

There are plans to form a coalition government in Greece. Financial and political experts Pierpaolo Barbieri and Roman Gerodimos tells us what is going to happen next.

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi is in Dublin for a concert in her honour. She tells Bono why she likes 'Walk On' - the song he wrote for her. Bono presents her with an award from Amnesty International and the organisation's executive director in Ireland tells Up All Night what an amazing honour it has been to have Aung San Suu Kyoi as their guest.

Microsoft launches its new tablet 'Surface' which it hopes will rival the iPad and British civil servant Jennifer Bradley tells us why she's running more than 3,300 miles across America in 80 days. She's 900 miles into the challenge and she talks to Giles from Minnesota where she's just arrived after running 42 miles today.

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