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Private Notes
As Iraq holds historic elections, Panorama presents a major film examining the state of Iraq today. Will the elections put the country on the road to peace - or push it deeper into war?
Reporter Steve Bradshaw travels from the Sahara to the Andes to discover some of the harsh truths about free trade and its impact on the developing world.
Last Summer the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, made an impassioned plea to draw a line under the Iraq issue. On the second anniversary of the Iraq war, Panorama reveals how several of the claims he made in public during the build up to the war - and afterwards - conflict with what we now know was going on behind the scenes, as evidenced for instance by government officials and documents.
The programme is produced by the team that made the RTS award-winning "A Fight to the Death", on Lord Hutton's Inquiry into the death of the British Government scientist Dr David Kelly.
Britain has the highest proportion of young cannabis smokers of any European country - 38 per cent have tried the drug by the age of 16. Until recently, little was known about how cannabis affects developing brains, so reporter Justin Rowlatt gets to grips with the latest research to explore growing evidence of links between the drug and psychotic illness in young people.
The overwhelming majority of heroin on sale in the UK originates in Afghanistan. Panorama looks at the traffic of this drug from the fields of Afghanistan to British shores and the efforts of the Afghan and UK governments to thwart the efforts of smugglers.
