27/10/2010 (1300 GMT)
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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Airport security
Aviation experts discuss whether the chairman of British Airways is right that there are pointless security arrangements on transatlantic flights.
Duration: 06:10
Gorbachev
The former Soviet leader tells Steve Rosenberg a NATO military victory is impossible in Afghanistan.
Duration: 03:55
Ireland economy
Ireland has one of Europe's most stringent austerity programmes, Ed Butler looks at why there haven't been French style street protests to cuts.
Duration: 05:06
Hobbit
Reaction from New Zealand to news that the Hobbit will be filmed there.
Duration: 03:46
Indonesia tsunami
Dr Dave Jenkins from charity Surfaid discusses the relief effort after a tsunami killed 272 and left 400 missing.
Duration: 03:40
Indonesia volcano
Rachel Harvey reports from Java where Indonesia's most volatile volcano Mount Merapi has erupted.
Duration: 04:02
Tajikistan radicalism
BBC Uzbek's Khayrullo Fayz looks at why so many young Tajiks are being drawn into underground Islamic groups.
Duration: 04:54
Haiti Cholera Clinic
Medecins Sans Frontieres' Joan Tubau tells how inhabitants of the city of St Marc attacked a cholera clinic fearing it would spread the disease in the neighbourhood.
Duration: 02:53
Obama Daily Show
Governing in prose, campaigning in comedy. Why is President Obama appearing on a top satirical show just days before the mid term elections?
Duration: 05:32
Nestor Kirchner
Dr Celia Szusterman a lecturer in Latin American studies at London's Westminster University remembers Nestor Kirchner.
Duration: 03:20
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