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We are at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington DC, the capital of the United States. Do you have a question for the students, the future of the US?

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I've just heard the other team's Detroit programme going out which means we've nearly finished our trip. Tomorrow it's our turn again and we're broadcasting from a school in Washington, Woodrow Wilson. It's apparently very diverse - with 85 nationalities of children attending it. We've also been encouraged to bring pizzas and sodas...

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One of the key aspects of getting a good live audience programme going well is the standard of Roving Mic Producers (from now on RMPs) you have at your disposal. These are the people who speed to your seat with a microphone as soon as you even nod or shake your head to a point you've heard.

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The Atlanta programme of the WHYS tour featured one of the coolest contributions of the week from Pastor Raphael Warnock at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Wednesday. He's a tall, very smartly dressed man and he carries a lot of charisma. He certainly wasn't phased by talking to our audience when he preaches to thousands every week in his own church.

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We are just doing last minute checks before we go on air from Colors restaurant in New York. We're talking about how the city is struggling with the legacy the 11 September 2001 attacks and US-Israeli relations.

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Old Blue Eyes talked about leaving those little town blues behind when coming to ole New York, but we had an uphill battle today here in the Big Apple.

It was largely due to communication orders. We fought all day long with Verizon to try to get the lines installed for our broadcast. Cross your fingers.

Team New Orleans had a great day. They heard the stories of New Orleanians today, and they came away moved saying that after two hours, they felt as if they were actually there through the trials after Hurricane Katrina.

Just last week, I was checking back in with the , written about the thousands of New Orleanians livinig 'in exile'. Go back to August and September of last year to not only hear the they made as they left.

Tomorrow, as half the team leaves New Orleans behind and settles in at Atlanta, here in New York we'll talk about US-Israeli relations and the lasting impact of the 11 September attacks.

I was reminded of how New Yorkers remembered the attacks one year on as I revisited Battery Park. A battered globe sculpture that used to stand between the two towers of the World Trade Center now is there with an eternal flame to commemorate those who died in the attacks.

Join the conversation on Tuesday, live from New York.

Two hours live from New Orleans! We had a great time and hope you did too. We were at Preservation Hall, a wonderfully atmospheric jazz club in the French Quarter, that has been closed since Katrina but opened their doors to World Have Your Say.

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While half of the World Have Your Say team is in New Orleans, the other half landed in New York Sunday evening. After a long way in the immigration queues, we settled in and went to the site of our first broadcast .

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We're in New Orleans, we've been to Preservation Hall, we're nearly ready to go an air, and we're excited.

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Ahhhh! That's what Fiona and I said to each other after the show today. Not just because we had a great show, but because the next time we're on air, we'll be live on air from New Orleans!

But more about that in a moment, back to today. To be honest I wasn't very involved in setting up the days show, but on hearing the voices, it was a top effort all round.

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The programme team's been talking all week about the case of the Afghan man facing execution for converting to Christianity. It's clearly a great talking-point: your comments to the 麻豆社 website have thrown up some interesting angles, and it's now become a deeply embarrassing issue for the Afghan government and its friends abroad.

There must be plenty of high-level diplomacy going on behind the scenes over the case of the 41-year-old man, Abdul Rahman. He's been a Christian for 16 years, and has only just returned to Afghanistan from Germany. Now, his own family has turned him in to the authorities.

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French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday after a French union leader chose to speak in English rather than French.

When asked by Mr Chirac why he was speaking English, the French president of the employers' association UNICE, Ernest-Antoine Seilliere, said that English was the working language of that particular session and the accepted business language of Europe today.

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We welcome you to the global conversation. But what exactly is it? I'm blogging from Geneva, where ironically I was asked to talk about blogging to other European broadcasters.

of Finland's YLE asked me about blogging and World Have Your Say and took a quick video of our conversation. 'Read on' to watch the video.

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Today we'll be talking about , and .

To be honest it's been a bit difficult concentrating on getting the days show on air because most of us are busy sorting out the logistics for our US tour. But we had a really interesting conversation about terrorism and whether terrorist activities actually achieve anything.

Today we wanted to hear your hopes and expectations on the news that ETA now wants to stick to a permanent ceasefire.

The group is still listed as a terrorist group by the US and the European Union. The group is blamed for killing more than 800 people in its fight for independence for the Basque region of northern Spain and south-west France.

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A busy week in the WHYS office; first we get a new blog which we're all pretty excited about and then we're off to the U.S next week.

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If you are wondering why this is late, it's because I'm having some problems with blogging technology. I wrote this entry last night and thanks to Kevin's help, 14 hours later, I'm publishing it.

Last night we put your questions to James Yee, the former chaplin of Guantanamo and we discussed whether Muslim girls should be allowed to wear full Islamic dress - the Jilbab - to school following the case of Shabina Begam in the UK.

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A Muslim girl from the UK, Shabina Begum, has lost her right to be allowed wear the jilb膩b at a school in England.

Should she have a right to wear religious dress to school? What do you think?

Read on for more details, and leave your comments here or e-mail us.

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Chaplain James Yee was accused of betraying America and assisting Al Qaeda while serving as an army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was arrested and held for 76 days in solitary confinement.

After an extensive investigation all charges against him were dropped in 2004, in order - according to military officials - to avoid making sensitive information public. Chaplain Yee resigned from the army and has now written a book about his experiences.

James Yee will be our guest on World Have Your Say at 1830 GMT today.

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So this is our blog. After months of 麻豆社 bureaucracy and more meetings than I care to remember, we've got a blog.

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James Yee served as the army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and was accused of espionage and assisting Al Qaeda. He'll be on the programme Wednesday to take your questions.

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We got many texts and emails on the subjects of the Nigerian census and the rights and responsibilities of fatherhood. What did you think? Read your comments and tell us your thoughts on today's programme.

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Can a father refuse to take responsibility for a child he never wanted?

Matt Dubay, a computer programmer in the United States, is trying to do just that. He's .

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Radio hosts and their listeners around the world are discussing the situation in Iraq three years after the invasion. We asked radio presenters around the world to tell us what their audience was saying.

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"It" is racism. And Fifa, football's world governing body, is getting serious, with clubs facing automatic relegation if their fans racially abuse opposition players.

Football has mostly tried to ignore and other acts from fans, but events of the past year or two have made it .

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As voting starts, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, says that any protest would be treated as an act of terrorism.

The EU, the US and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe are concerned about the intimidation of opposition campaigners. But President Lukashenko is telling the west to mind its own business. What do you think?

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The Liberian government has requested that of the country Charles Taylor, who is living in exile in Nigeria.

He has been indicted for war crimes, but he agreed to step down and leave the country in 2003 as part of a peace deal. What do you think should happen now?

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Following the Israeli siege of the prison in Jericho, Britain has come in for a lot of of collusion with the Israeli military as the British monitors guarding Ahmed Sadaat were pulled out shortly before the Israelis moved in.

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and young people are expected to take to the streets to protest the new labour law. They're angry that the new contracts, for workers under 26, can be terminated by their employers at anytime without explanation.

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The British government has launched a , and is due to announce within weeks whether forcing people to marry will be made a specific . Will publicity or new laws make any difference?

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Today, we're trying to speak to Taida Pasic. Taida's family fled Kosovo during the war to the Netherlands, where they lived for six years until the Dutch government told them they had to leave.

Taida and her supporters are now fighting parliament, the courts and public opinion to allow her to stay in the Netherlands long enough to complete her final exams in May.

We're going to look attitudes towards immigration in the Netherlands. Are you trying to emigrate to the Netherlands? Are you Dutch? What are your views of immigration?

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in a London hospital after a drug trial went very wrong.

Have you ever taken part in a drug trial? Did you feel safe? Were you told of the risks? If you are a doctor, what are the precautions taken? E-mail us or leave your comment here, and remember to include a phone number so that we can call you back.

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You might think that all the talk in Serbia this week was over the death of former President Slobodan Milosevic, but you'd be wrong. A row has blown up over Serbia and Montenegro's entry for this year's which means the federation this year.

The dispute has highlighted the divisions between the two republics ahead of a in May - coincidentally to be held the day after the Eurovision song fest.

Let us know if this has hit a sour note with you.

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The people who keep any country going are the domestic staff, usually from a foreign country, who cook, clean and look after other people's children.

In Singapore authorities recently each week, despite claims that domestics are overworked, underpaid and often vulnerable to abuse.

We have spoken to two Filipina women who went to Singapore to become domestic workers, but .

We will hear their stories on the programme tonight. We also want to hear your experiences if you've worked as a domestic anywhere in the world or if you employ a maid and feel there is another side to the story.

Just a few months after launching, we're taking World Have Your Say on the road.

We're spending a week doing the programme from the U.S. It'll still be a global programme looking at global talking points but with a live audience and contributors from America.

Read on for the details and see if we'll be coming to a city near you. And feel free to send us an e-mail with topics you want to talk about or leave a comment here.

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In the UK, an ad campaign targetting men has begun saying that unless a woman actively says yes to sex, then they must assume that the answer is no.

The campaign will feature adverts on the radio as well as in men's magazines, on condom machines and in men's toilets in pubs.

Do you think this will work?

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Are you a copycat? Would you or did you copy text from the internet for essays or reports at college or work?

Apparently

What do you think of students copying work from the internet? How about buying essays from web sites? Send us an e-mail, leave your comment here or take part in .

First, we're going to go to Thailand. We've been watching this story for a while now during a series of protests against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

have seen tens of thousands take to the street in Bangkok. They have surrounded the Government House there ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting.

We'll talk to ordinary Thais to find out what touched off the protests and what they mean for the future of the country.

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One man's personal mission to lose weight has captured peoples imagination in America.

says he has a pretty good life in California, two kids a great job and a nice home. But the only thing stopping him from truly enjoying it is that he is overweight, and that is making him unhappy.

Last April he embarked on an extraordinary journey. He started walking across the United States from San Diego to NYC to lose weight and "regain his life".

We're going to try to catch up with him and his supporters on his cross-the-US trek

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died on in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention centre at The Hague. He was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning.

We're going to hear from Serbia, where so far there has been .

So what do Serbs think of Mr Milosevic's death in custody? And what about other people in the former Yugoslavia? We'll be trying to find out. And we'd also like to know what you think - send us your comments or .

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British Prime Minster Tony Blair has admitted that talking to his children about sex made him "nervous".

But he said that ultimately it was parents' responsbility to tell their children about sex. Do you agree? Who's responsibility is it to teach children about sex?

Leave your comments here, e-mail us or join the .

When reports started coming in from Iraq that the American military should be ready to begin moving detainees from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison within three months we made a late decision to start the programme with reaction from Iraq.

After that it was back to the plan: We discussed the takeover of six US ports by Dubai Ports World (DPW) but for many of our listeners around the world we may have got a bit up close to American politics, but hopefully you stayed with us.

We were joined by Dennis Lormel - the former head of the terror financing unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and now senior vice-president at Corporate Risk International, a security consultancy - and Dr James Zogby - founder and president of the Arab American Institute.

To finish we looked at attitudes to the communist era in Eastern Europe. Soviet journalist Vladimir Pozner, who now works on Channel 1 TV in Russia, joined us from our Berlin studio.

Also on the line was Ivan Krastev, director of the Open Society Research Centre in Hungary, and Blasco Gabric, who owns the Yugoland theme park north of the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

There was a lot of understanding for those East Europeans who miss the security of the past. As a 76-year-old man told our reporter in Hungary: "In those days, there was peace and quiet. Everyone had work. Now, nothing is certain."

But Martin, a Bulgarian living in Atlanta, Georgia, called to point out that people tend to remember the good and forget the bad.

What do you think?

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A poll found that nearly a quarter of the population in eastern Europe would like to return to communism, while only 28% favoured democracy. Almost a third didn't care.

If you live in eastern Europe, do you miss communism? Or do you see that as a return to the bad old days?

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Today I'm working on the ongoing row over the deal that would see a.

Should the deal be allowed to go through? Will security at US ports be safeguarded or compromised under foreign control? What do you think?

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With several stories in India, we decided to devote the hour to issues in India and issues affecting South Asians around the world.

We talked about the murder case of Jessica Lal and how Indians are discovering 'people power'. We also took you to Varinasi, the site of twin bombings.

And we also talked about the practice of foeticide as Indian couples still feel pressure to have sons and not daughters.

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