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Ayman Safadi, Dore Gold, Nicholas Burns

Are we heading for the 'perfect storm of unrest' that Hillary Clinton has warned of? Carrie Gracie hosts a discussion asking whether we are on the brink of a new Middle East.

A Tunisian president ousted, an Egyptian hanging on, and a raft of neighbouring governments introducing political reforms to pre-empt the spread of copycat demonstrations that might sweep them away. Are we heading for the 'perfect storm of unrest' that Hillary Clinton has warned of? HARDtalk's Carrie Gracie hosts a discussion with Ayman Safadi, former deputy prime minister of Jordan, Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the UN, and Nicholas Burns, former US under-secretary of state for political affairs, and asks them whether we are on the brink of a new Middle East.

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