29 March 2003

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Temporary Halt

When is a pause not a pause? When it's a "formational pause". Well, so says the US military when asked why the push on Baghdad seems to have temporarily halted. Are there problems with the supply lines? Is the Iraqi resistance bogging them down? Or is it all too early to proclaim either pessimism or optimism?

War on TV
Never has a war been so instantaneously beamed, via television, to the four corners of the globe. But what are the TV stations of the world making of it all? Our new culture correspondent David Sillito reported.

Simon Schama
And how will this conflict be viewed in history? Jeremy Paxman put that question to historian Simon Schama.

France
Finally, David Grossman reported from Paris on how Jacque Chirac was attempting a French kiss-and-make up with the UK and US.

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