Will the London logo finish last?
Good morning from a sunny London, and first a little introduction. I'm James Harrod and I'm pleased to say I've just joined the World Have Your Say team.
I was coming in on the train a couple of hours ago and, as ever, we passed the building site for the Olympic Games - due to be held in . I looked across at a group of commuters sitting opposite me, all reading different newspapers. And - on every front page - the , unveiled yesterday. The headlines weren't very flattering. But Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister for Britain, said the logo was "very edgy, very imaginative", and that "kids will see it as a badge of ambition". But within hours of the logo launch, 10-thousand people had signed an calling for it to be scrapped and replaced. What do you think? Is it a futuristic symbol that will kick-start the process of selling some £750m of merchandise, or is it a load of rubbish destined for the scrapheap? Here's what's around today...
...The main focus for today's show will be the anniversary of the 1967 Middle East War, also known as the . We'll be speaking to soldiers and their families, volunteers, journalists who will be telling us their thoughts and memories of the events that took place during the conflict. Joining us in the studio will be , Editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem post and from Amman we'll hear from Ayman Al Safadi, Editor of the . If you have anything you'd like to ask them or indeed any of our guests tonight, leave us a message.
Although we'll be talking about the 6-day war today there's still room for other topics, here's a few I've seen this morning. Martin Binyon writing in the Times today writes a piece asking if Vladimir Putin is leading Russia into fascism? It's a bold statement but what do you think, does he have a point? Click to read his article and let us know what you think.
Meantime, a US military judge has thrown out charges against . Both cases collapsed because military authorities had failed to designate the men as "unlawful" enemy combatants. So does this cast fresh doubt on efforts to try foreign terror suspects at Guantanamo?
News from Pakistan came too late for the show last night, but this may be worth debating - President Pervez Musharraf has signed into immediate effect measures to . Current regulations related to television have been extended to the internet and mobile phones. Over the weekend, the largest TV channel, Geo News, was taken off-air after it ignored warnings not to broadcast a current affairs show. One question - is President Musharraf going too far?
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