20/01/2015

ISIS threaten to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive 200 million dollars. The Nobel prize winner, British biologist Sir John Sulston explains why he's put his name to an open letter calling on academics in Saudi Arabia to support freedom of speech following the public flogging of blogger Raif Badawi. And the programme marks the BBC's Democracy Day by speaking to first time voters in South Africa and football fans in England who have a say in the running of their clubs.