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Up All Night: 05/11/2012

05/11/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 05/11/2012

All the latest campaigning as the US presidential election enters its final countdown.

As the race for the White House moves into its final hours, we catch up with the latest frenetic campaigning from President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

News from home and abroad with Dotun Adebayo. 
In an election many say is too close to call, we catch up with all the latest as the US presidential campaign enters its final hours, and the candidates criss cross America in search of votes. Up All Night's very own Rhod Sharp reports from the key swing state of Ohio, where thousands have been queuing to cast an early vote. Two journalists travelling with the Obama and Romney camps shares their tales from the exhausting life on the road. Despite one British bookmaker already paying out to those who've backed Obama to win, Reid Epstein from Politico.com denies it's a done deal until Tuesday night - but that the President's people feel they are in a good position.
The latest on the ongoing violence in Syria with journalist Sakhr al-Makhadhi, as opposition groups begin a series of meetings in Qatar to try to unify their ranks and eventually form a government in exile. Sakhr describes the talks as a 'futile' attempt to bring about peace, saying groups outside the country simply don't influence what goes on inside its borders.
Hedgehogs and cranberry bushes are just two of the topics tackled on our gardening phone-in. Brian Minter, from Minter Gardens in Vancouver, answers your texts, emails and calls on how to care for your plants and gardens over winter.
And all the latest from the Abu Dhabi grand prix in our podcast, the Chequered Flag.

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