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21/02/2012

After marathon discussions Greece gets the money it needs to stay in the euro. Speaking from Misrata, Mohammed Benrasali tells us about the feeling of voting for the first time.

After a night of discussions, the euro group agrees to the second bailout for Greece. Mark Weisbrot, an economist and the co-director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in Washington, gives his thoughts on the deal.

Libyans in the city of Misrata have been voting in local elections, the first elections since the fall of the Gaddafi regime. Mohammed Benrasali talks about the feeling of voting for the first time and reflected on what his father, who was killed during the civil war, would have made of it all.

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, 50 years ago. Dr Ian O'Neill and Rory O'Neill look back at the early days of NASA and forwards to the future of manned spaceflight.

And if you've helped yourself to anything from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa, now is the time to return it. They are having an amnesty and Deneen Parrin from the hotel joins us to explain why.

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