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18/12/2012

News from around the world, with Rhod Sharp. Including US political discussion in On The Hill, Peter Bowes on LA, archaeological news and Outriders.

Rhod Sharp with news from around the world. The first of the 26 victims in the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut in the United States are buried. As the heartbroken parents of six year old Jessica Rekos prepare to bury their daughter later today, they reveal how they discovered she'd died in the atrocity.

There's mounting pressure on President Barack Obama to introduce tighter gun controls. Up All Night talks to both sides in the gun debate including Colorado gun shop owner Dick Rutan who says gun sales began to increase within hours of the atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He says there's now a strong argument to arm teachers.

The vice principal of South Florida Univeristy explains how he thinks he can recruit English students by opening a London office, a computer hacker is jailed for 10 years after hacking into the private email of Scarlett Johansson and there's reaction from India after England's cricket team win a test there for the first time in 28 years.

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