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A comprehensive account of adult care services by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is published today. The CQC identified eight councils where services are in urgent need of improvement - Poole, Cornwall, Solihull, Surrey, South Tyneside, Southwark, Peterborough and Bromley. With an increase in the number of elderly people in care homes, or receiving care at home, the quality of social care is urgent. 'Pamela', who is campaigning for better standards in care reflects on her experiences, and Baroness Young, chair of the CQC, discusses the report.

25 years ago today the central Indian city of Bhopal awoke to the horror of the world's worst industrial disaster. 40 tons of a deadly gas had leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant, killing more than 8,000 people living in the poor and densely populated neighbourhoods nearby. Correspondent Allan Little reports from Bhopal and investigates how people are still trying to cope with the damage.

Former cricketer Sir Ian Botham is visiting Sri Lanka five years after the tsunami. Sir Ian outlines how sport has helped the island's communities to recover from the disaster.

President Obama has announced that he will send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, taking the total number of US troops in the country to more than 100,000. The president warned that America's commitment was not open-ended and that the military would start withdrawing in 2011 and urged other Nato countries to do more. Britain confirmed this week that it would send another 500 troops, taking its total deployment to 10,000. Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup, discusses the military's reaction to President Obama's exit strategy and political editor Nick Robinson comments on the UK's Afghan policy.

Western powers are increasing their offensive in Afghanistan. President Obama is set to make his long awaited speech on US strategy in Afghanistan, where it is expected he will send up to 35,000 more US forces. Yesterday Gordon Brown announced 500 more British troops would be sent to the region. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, and Michael Clarke, Director of the Royal United Services Institute, discuss Afghan policy.

Olive trees across the West Bank provide a livelihood to Palestinian farmers. But many olive groves lie close to Jewish settlements and for years there have been attacks on Palestinian trees. An Israeli human rights group says complaints of damage to thousands of trees are failing to result in charges. Correspondent Bethany Bell reports from the West Bank.

Share prices have fallen sharply in the United Arab Emirates, as investors react to the debt crisis in Dubai. Economics correspondent Stephanie Flanders, Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Terry Smith, chief executive of the money brokers Tullett Prebon, debate the future of the Emirate's economy.

The Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary next year, launching a new website featuring some of the most exciting and influential discoveries published in its journals from Isaac Newton's explanation of the rainbow to Crick and Watson's description of the structure of DNA. Our science correspondent Tom Feilden reports on the fascinating archive.