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Up All Night: 01/07/2012

01/07/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 01/07/2012

The Barclays interest rates fiasco. Storms in the USA leaves at least nine dead.

Barclays boss Bob Diamond has been summoned to appear before the Treasury Select Committee. At least nine people are dead as a result of storms in the USA.

Dotun Adebayo with news from at home and abroad. How the Barclays Libor interest rates fiasco has impacted on the US and beyond. Professor James Angel from Georgetown University in Washington tells Up All Night why.
Storms and a heat wave across 12 states in the US have left at least nine people dead. Up All Night talks to rescue workers on the frontline in Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
Foreign ministers meeting in Geneva have adopted a watered down version of Kofi Annan's plan for the future of Syria. It's a massive compromise says correspondent Jonathan Head. Meanwhile Up All Night talks to an activist called Tariq who is in Damascus. He says 30 people attending a funeral have been killed by mortars. 
And school bus monitor Karen Klein gives here reaction to the news that four students have been suspended after verbally abusing her on the journey home. The perpetrators filmed their onslaught and the video then went viral on the internet. Karen says she doesn't understand why they did it but she is glad they weren't dealt with more harshly.

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