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| We begin with Tanzania, President Obama’s last leg of his Africa trip where he signed an executive order to prevent the slaughter of rhinos and elephants for their horns and tusks. Ginette Hemley, Senior Vice President of Conservation Strategy and Science at the World Wildlife Fund joins us to discuss the conflicting agendas of developing Tanzania’s gas fields and building more roads, that will lead to more poaching, adding to the toll of the 10,000 elephants killed in Tanzania last year. |
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Then we get an update on the deteriorating situation in Egypt where the military have given President Morsi 48 hours to bring together a country that his Muslim Brotherhood government has bitterly divided. Samer Shehata, a professor of Middle East Politics at the University of Oklahoma joins us to discuss the growing protests organized by Tamerod “the rebellion,” whose petition has 22 million signatures calling for Morsi to step down and for fresh election to follow. |
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Then finally, with the American fugitive Edward Snowden having applied for political asylum in Russia, we talk to a prominent whistleblower about how civil liberties and national security can be balanced. Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent who pushed for an investigation of the so-called 13th 9/11 hijacker, joins us to discuss Putin’s announcement that if Snowden “wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must cease his work aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners, as strange as it may sound from my lips”. |
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