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Pussy Riot protestor Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has announced that she is going on hunger strike to protest about conditions in Prison Colony Number 14, where she is serving her two year sentence. Tolokonnikova claims that she is being forced to work for up to 17 hours a day and that inmates are being treated like cattle 鈥� allegations the Russian authorities deny. She has now been placed in isolation in the prison colony in the remote region of Mordovia.听Professor Judith Pallot of Oxford University is a specialist in the Russian penal system and has visited Penal Colony 14.听She joins Jenni to talk about conditions in women鈥檚 prisons in Russia.

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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Southampton Dr Simon Fischel听from CARE Fertility and Connie St Louis the Director MA Science Journalism course at City University discuss how fertility stories are reported and whether they offer people false hope or vital information that could help them have a baby.

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