The Education Minister's Watch

Looking behind the headlines: the new patriotic conservative mood in Russia - it's making the country's beleaguered opposition feel it's under siege; the Thai military which has seized control of the country promises increased prosperity but warns protestors to keep quiet; the Nigerian authorities try to improve educational facilities in the north as the insurgency by Boko Haram gathers pace; education's under discussion in Mexico too - the president's decreed there must be improvements and the politicians in the United States who're not tightening up the firearms laws, they're GIVING guns away!