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A year ago this month widespread protests started at universities across South Africa, under the banner Rhodes Must Fall. Now South African students are making more demands -Ìý cuts in fees and changes in the universities' language of instruction - in a series of protests whichÌý have increased racial tension. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, reports from one of South Africa's top universities, Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town.

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An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope say they have found a cluster of nine monster stars – each more than a 100 times more massive and millions of times brighter than our own Sun. It is the largest group of massive stars detected so far. Professor Paul Crowther is from the University of Sheffield.

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The NHS, schools, the armed forces and the police will all have to stump up more money to pay into their staff's pensions, according to what the Chancellor announced in his Budget. The Liberal democrats say this will cost more than £1 billion and it will come from frontline services. Speaking on the programme is Lib Dem leader Tim Farron.

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One of the hardest decisions a doctor could ever make is deciding on when a mentally ill patient who has done a terrible crime is well enough to be let back out into society. This programme has been given rare access to the low-security section of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Speaking live on the programme is Charlie Falconer, shadow justice secretary.

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A charity is warning of what it says is "an enormous hidden crisis" of people in the UK who have autism dying earlier than the rest of the population. Autistica, which is calling for more research into the problem, says people with the condition die on average 16 years younger than those not affected by it. Speaking on the programme is Jon Spires, chief executive of Autistica, and Sally Lawrence, mother of a child with autism and epilepsy.

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Amnesty International are to deliver mock Paveway missiles to Downing Street as part of a protest about the UK supplying them to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are using the missiles, delivered by Typhoon aircraft, in their campaign in Yemen, allegedly causing substantial civilian casualties. Frank Gardner is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Security correspondent.

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It has been extraordinary week for Brazil: an impeached president; a former president investigated for corruption; street protests and currency swings. And all this only five months before it hosts the Olympics – and when the country is still at the centre of an outbreak of the zika virus. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Julia Carneiro reports and we hear from Eduardo Dos Santos, Brazil’s ambassador to the UK.

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Britain's highest mountain has "grown" by a metre in the last 65 years. A new Ordnance Survey (OS) calculation found Ben Nevis stands at 1,345m rather than the previously recorded height of 1,344m. Mark Greaves is an Ordinance Survey geodetic consultant.Ìý

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The rail regulator is telling train companies to provide better information on compensation for delays and to do more to encourage passengers to claim. Alex Neill is director of campaigns and communications at Which?, who made the supercomplaint.

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One of the hardest decisions a doctor could ever make is deciding on when a mentally ill patient who has done a terrible crime is well enough to be let back out into society. This programme has been given rare access to the low-security section of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. Sanchia Berg reports and we speak live to Professor Tom Fahy, chair of forensic faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists who is the clinical director at the Bethlam.

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A mother received one of the UK’s largest blood transfusions when she lost 44 pints during an emergency caesarean section. Natasha Pollock, 34, arrived at hospital bleeding heavily. She says one doctor told her no-one had ever survived from losing so much blood. We hear from Ms Pollock and Dr Edwin Massey, consultant haematologist at NHS Blood and Transplant.

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Shadow defence minister Toby Perkins has written to defence secretary Michael Fallon asking for reassurances about defence spending, after Wednesday’s Budget revealed a drop in the amount of money that has been spent in this financial year, and lower projected spending than was promised in the last two budgets.

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How will energy drinks be affected by the sugar tax? Huib van Bockel is former head of marketing at Red Bull UK and founder of Tenzing Natural Energy.

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It has been extraordinary week for Brazil: an impeached president, a former president investigated for corruption, street protests and currency swings. And all this only five months before it hosts the Olympics – and when the country is still at the centre of an outbreak of the zika virus. Misha Glenny is author of Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio.

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Jordan has managed to avoid importing the ideas of violent extremism that have gripped neighbouring states. One possible reason is the work of the Zaal and Khadra theatrical company which is touring the country performing a play about the dangers of extremist recruitment called Terrorism at the Door. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly saw for himself how the actors are teaching Jordanians to resist the message of the so-called Islamic State.

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The box plant provides the structure for many historic gardens, but it is under significant threat from pests and disease. Matthew Cromey is Royal Horticultural Society principal plant pathologist and Simon Toomer is National Trust plant historian.

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