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Chile is gearing up for a presidential runoff next Sunday after neither top candidate clinched a definitive win in the first round of voting. Independent candidate Sebastian Pinera, a conservative billionaire, is in the lead at prseent against former president Eduardo Frei. It is the largest show of support an independent candidate has seen in recent history. The two main candidates faced off in a televised debate late on Monday as their camapigns reach teh final stretch. At the centre of that debate was Chile’s human rights rceord. Some of Pinera’s conservative supporters are known to have backed Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship decades ago. Amid this flurry of political activity, a new memorial msuemu is opening this week in Santiago, the capital, a project led personally by Micehlle Bachelet, the current president. The museum is a tribute to tens of thousands of victims, who like herself, suffered under Pinochet’s dicatatorship. Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman has this report (12 Jan 10).

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Residnets in southern Afghanistan are accusing Nato and Afghan troops of killing 13 civilians after opening fire on a group of demonstrators.

Nato insists the only person killed was a sniper.

The shootings happened in Helmand provnice, where people were protesting against a raid in which troops allegedly destroyed copies of the Quran.

Hashem Ahelbrara reports.

January 10, 2010

An Iranian nuclear physiicst has been killed in Tehran – a killing the governemnt is placing squarely on the shoulders of the US and Israel. The US has denied this calling it absurd. Massoud Ali Mohammadi was leaving for his job at Tehran University, when a bomb placed on a motorcycle nera his house went off. Al Jazeera’s Alireza Roneghi reports from Tehran (12 Jan 10).

The recent anti-government demonstrations in Iran have once again highlighted its stark political divisions. The country remains tense after clashes between security forces and tens of thousands of opposition supporters in December. Eight people died on Ashura, one of the holiest days in the Shia Muslim calendar. Iran has been simmering since protests erupted after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the disputed Presidentila elections in June. The pro-reformist opposition called the vote fraudulent but Irans government blamed western powers especially the U.S., UK and Israel for orchestrating those protests.

In this episode of Riz Khan we ask, how far will the Iranian government go in dealing with this ongoing political crisis? And what role, if any, should the international communiyt play? Joining the conservation is Iranian-American journalist and writer Azadeh Moaveni, author of the book &quto;Honeymoon in Tehran" about life under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Also with us is political analyst Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and former U.S. diplomat Hillary Mann-Leverett, who presently heads Stratega, a political risk consultancy taht works on Middle East issues.