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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
This week Sonja Karadzic, daughter of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, gave an exclusive interview to the BBC in which she defended her father, claiming that he is innocent.
Karadzic is currently awaiting trial at The Hague on 11 counts of genocide and war crimes over his role in the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.
Speaking to reporter Alan Little she also insisted that former US President Bill Clinton was responsible for the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosniak Muslim civilians in Srebrenica, not her father.
The year after the killings, reporter Jane Corbin went to Srebrenica to make a Panorama film about what really happened there called War Crimes: Five Days in Hell.
You can read Jane's blog entry on her experiences in Srebrenica and her meeting with Karadzic himself on our website.
TROUBLES TROUBLES
Another past conflict was back in the news this week when the Eames/Bradley report looking at ways to ease the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles was published.
Among 30 recommendations made in the report was a plan to pay £12,000 to the families of all those killed in the Troubles - a move which sparked anger and controversy.
Unionists and some victims' groups have rejected the proposed payment because it would include republican and loyalist paramilitaries.
In 2008, 10 years on from the Good Friday Agreement which brought a halt to the conflict in which more than 3,600 people lost their lives, Panorama reporter Declan Lawn returned to the subject of Northern Ireland to see how far lives have changed.
You can watch that programme online via our website now.
NOT SO NEET
In other news, official figures released this week suggested that increasing numbers of young people are not in work, school, or college.
There were 850,000 so-called Neets - youngsters aged 16 to 24 who are "not in education, employment or training" -in 2007, up 94,000 from 756,000 in 2003.
In 2007, Panorama reported on these Neets in The Real Apprentice and took the radical step of making a programme in which we did not just talk about the problems they face, but tried to help them too.
You can find out more about how we fared on our website now.
TAX REVIEW
Finally, this week the former head of Germany's Deutsche Post, Klaus Zumwinkel, was convicted of tax evasion and fined 1m euros and given a two-year suspended jail term.
He had already been forced to pay back 3.9m euros after his arrest for using a foundation in Liechtenstein to defraud the German taxman by transferring huge amounts to it.
Zumwinkel was the first big name caught by evidence provided by a whistleblower at the banking group run by Lichtenstein's royal family - but as Panorama reports this week, he is just the tip of the iceberg.
In Tax Me If You Can this Monday at 8.30pm on BBC One, Panorama sheds a light on the shady world of tax havens and asks whether in this time of plummeting tax revenues they can survive.
BYE FOR NOW
That's all for now, but remember if you wish to contact us at any time you can do so by e-mailing panorama@bbc.co.uk
The Panorama Team
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