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04/02/2020 GMT

Confusion over Iowa caucus results

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Democratic presidential candidates frustrated as technological failure delays results

Democratic presidential candidates frustrated as technological failure delays results.

The first stage of the race to choose a Democratic candidate for this year's US presidential election has resulted in chaos and anti-climax, as technological failure has delayed the results. An app designed to collate votes in the Iowa caucuses failed, and attempts by officials to phone the results through led to jammed phone lines.

Also on the programme there are 70,000 IS supporters and their family still being held in Syria. 10,000 of them are children. What can the international community do about them? And a school play performed in Karnataka, India results in the police interrogating staff and children as young as nine years old. We hear from the school's CEO.

(Picture: Democratic party supporters in Iowa. Credit: Reuters)

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