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Kalashnikov: the Gun that Changed the World

A look at the Kalashnikov - the gun that changed the world - as its inventor dies at the age of 94. A royal pardon for Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer age.

A look at the Kalashnikov - the gun that changed the world - as its inventor dies at the age of 94. Also on the programme: Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer age, has been given a royal pardon. Turing was convicted of gross indecency with a man in 1952 - a time when homosexual acts were criminal offences in Britain - and he was forced to undergo chemical castration.

We're joined by economics professor Peter Morici, who's in our Washington bureau, and also business journalist Jyoti Malhotra, who's in New Delhi.
And Juliana Liu will have the latest from Hong Kong.

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Christmas Eve 2013 01:06GMT

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