Football controversies, Dutch politics and child killings
We've got a full programme tonight. We've discussed it before, but we're going to return to Italy today as four top clubs in Serie A all answer questions about match fixing. The inquiry has until after the World Cup. We're also going to be talking about France, football and race; the government in turmoil in the Netherlands; and the discovery of the bodies of two Belgian girls.
France, football and race
It's the World Cup so we're all thinking football right now so it also caught our eye that French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen said that because there are too many non-white players.
Lilian Thuram, France's most-capped player from the French-Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, had this reponse for Le Pen:
He's the type of person who would turn on the television and watch a game of basketball and wonder to himself: ‘Hold on, there are black people playing in the American NBA. What’s going on?'
Turmoil in Dutch politics
We're also going to talk about the meltdown in Dutch politics as the . The government has resigned because of a dispute over immigration minister, Rita Verdonk, and her handling of the citizenship case of a Somali-born Dutch MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
The MP has been under police protection since a militant Islamist murdered Theo van Gogh, her collaborator on a film they made lambasting the treatment of women in Islamic society.
Mrs Verdonk threatened to strip Ms Hirsi Ali of her Dutch citizenship for lying in her asylum application in 1992.
And we will also talk to Belgians. The country is talking about the discovery of the. Here's a review of what have been saying.
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