Archive for June 17th, 2008

17
Jun
08

Four choices for you

Meet Bryony from Zimbabwe, Chola and Susan from Zambia, Ivana from Serbia, Carolien from The Netherlands and Nthabeleng from South Africa. They are six delegates at the Civicus Youth Assembly which will be our venue on Wednesday. They’re going to be hosting the show with me, but first things first we need to choose a subject. See the four issues that they have chosen below. Please leave your comments on the questions and if they should make the show. We’ll be deciding at 0830GMT on Wednesday morning. In the mean time Laura in the States is your Night Editor.

17
Jun
08

Should we accept that women and men have different but equal lives?

Ivana from Serbia and Carolien from The Netherlands suggest this.

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17
Jun
08

Does private healthcare stop everyone having access to medical treatment?

Should every country have universal healthcare? Nthabeleng from South Africa will argue we should do this. More here…
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17
Jun
08

On Air: Has President Bush made the world a better place?

Today we’ll be discussing what’s very much on George Bush’s mind at the moment… how he’ll be remembered. On his farewell trip to Europe, President George W Bush has been thinking about his legacy

At the weekend, in an interview with the Times, he expressed regret of his legacy as a man who wanted war. And wonders if his “gun-slinging rhetoric” didn’t help him be thought of a man of peace. Today Max Hastings in the Daily Mail says that Bush has been the most disastrous president of modern times.

What will his legacy be? Is he the most disastrous president of modern times?  Or has President Bush made the world a better place?  

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