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The World Tonight: 01/08/2012

01/08/2012

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, 01/08/2012

Assad's decisive battle in Syria, Olympic superpower rivalries, and ebola reaches Kampala.

President Assad's decisive battle in Syria, Olympic superpower rivalries between China and US, and ebola reaches Kampala. Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig.

President Assad's decisive battle in Syria, but what evidence for jihadi fighters with foreign support playing a decisive role in the conflict, and will rebels succeed in establishing a bridgehead in Aleppo? Slugging it out for superpower status at the Olympics, Paul Moss reports on China and the US battling out for supremacy at the top of the table; Ebola reaches Kampala,sowing fears of contagion, tonight with Robin Lustig.

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