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We've just had the meeting and here are the stories we'll be looking at today.
Jessica Lal
A court in India has found the son of a former politician guilty for the murder of a model in 1999. Earlier this year, Manu Sharma and nine others were acquitted for the murder of Jessica Lal. But public outrage led to protest rallies and an unprecedented campaign to bring her killers to justice, was mounted by the media.
Today we're asking for to the guilty verdict, and does it ahil a new era for India's elite in the courts, or is it a one-off case?
Is everyone now a star?
Time magazine's is YOU - they put a mirror on the front page.
Time think you are the star, but who would you pick?
Iran
This is a long shot, but we're going to see how we get on. Student activists in Iran, who staged an angry protest against President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad last week have reportedly gone in to hiding in fear for their lives.
They say they are being tracked by the Presidents supporters who have threatened them with revenge. It's in stark contrast to the support President Ahmedinijad has recieved in appearances around Iran since coming to power.
We're going to try and hear some of the voices that are critical of of the President, it may be in the form of blogs or people willing to come on air and talk to us.
Here's what didn't make it on to today's agenda...
Peter and Anna suggest...
Talking about the two over liberal attitude on issues such as homosexuality.
They have placed themselves instead under the authority of the Anglican Archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola. Archbishop Akinola is an outspoken critic of homosexuality and has backed plans by the Nigerian government to make even meetings of gays illegal.
Can this really better reflect the views of the parishioners of Truro and Falls in Virginia? But David isn't keen on this question because it feels a bit too close up.
Paul has sent me this suggestions..
And Paul says we could look at whether the state actually ?
Cologne seems to have made it work with its sex tax. But the thinking all round is that it may not sit well with the news in Suffolk, here in the UK that one man has been arrested in connection with the murder of five prostitutes in the town.
David suggests looking at the rising tensions between Somalia and Ethiopia.
Somalia's de facto government, the Islamic Courts Council, that are protecting the embattled 'official government' of the country. We have heard before that many ordinary Somalis support the Islamists who have brought them a measure of peace for the first time in many years.
So how confident are they that another round of bloody fighting can be prevented?
Anna is on a roll, and suggests these two extra stories...
- is this a big talking point in South Africa?
What's been the reaction out in South Africa? Should we return to the issue of violence in the country? Is it getting worse?
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