Hundreds feared missing in Nigeria school attack

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says the security forces have tracked down and exchanged fire with the gunmen who've abducted several hundred students from a secondary school in the north of the country. Reports say about half of the school’s eight-hundred students are still missing.

Also in the programme: A new bill intended to fight radicalism in France and violent clashes between supporters of US President Donald Trump and counter-demonstrators.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are the writer, broadcaster and comedian, Timandra Harkness and Peter Tatchell, international human rights campaigner and director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation

(Picture: The Government Science secondary school in Katsina State, Nigeria which was attacked by armed bandits. Credit: REUTERS/Abdullahi Inuwa)