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Talal says many of her neighbours and friends were killed - but she says she doesn't blame anyone for the violence. She was born in Lebanon, but she says life is very difficult - she's always lived in the camps, but she says she can't get a job in Lebanon because she's Palestinian. She says her family are just watching the news and waiting to find out what will happen next. She says she just wants to be back home and for her family to be safe.

Mayada in Geneva writes:
"Why is it that after 60 years, there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinian peoples still living as refugees in camps spread out in several Arab countries? How long does one need to be a refugee before he or she is granted a state or a citizen status?"

We speak to the Reverend James MacFarlane, who is in Edinburgh, Scotland. He's been appealing directly to the captors of our colleague Alan Johnston, who was abducted in Gaza ten weeks ago.
He says "Alan's parents are people of tremendous character. At the same time, the uncertainty of his situation is a stress that cannot be avoided. Alan has been such a magnificent interpreter to the world of what has been happening in Gaza, and recent events in Gaza have pointed up the need for him to be there to do his job. My message to his captors, is that the teaching of Islam, as of my own faith, is that we should honour the cause of the oppressed and seek to show consolation to the distressed. Please honour that call and bring this distress to an end."

Next - it's called Serbia's Trial of the Century.

The former Serbian Zoran Djindjic was meant to bring stability to Serbia after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. But he was gunned down in March 2003 as he got out of his official car in Belgrade.
Today, 12 people have been found guilty and sentenced. All the defendants, who include members of the secret police and alleged mafia kingpins, had denied the charges. And during the trial, one protected witness and another eyewitness were murdered, while one judge resigned and another received death threats.

So do these verdicts mean Serbian politics have been cleaned up?

We talk to Liliana Smajlovic, editor-in-chief of Serbia's leading newspaper, Politika, in Belgrade and Dukadjin Gorani, an Albanian journalist from Kosovo, who's in Pristina.
Liliana says "the mythology surrounding Djindjic is similar to that of JFK. He was the first democratically elected prime minister of Serbia. He was a reformist, pro-Western, modern politician.

Dukadjin says: "the structures surrounding the secret police, politics and the military in Serbia won't change as a result of this verdict."

Igor, who's listening in Detroit, emails: "Until those who inspired this crime are convicted, there cannot be "cleaning up" of Serbian politics or public life in general."

It's a packed hour so we have to move on... to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A ±«Óãtv investigation has revealed the UN may have suppressed an internal enquiry into allegations that peacekeepers in the Congo were re-arming militias in return for gold. There are currently more than 17,000 UN peacekeepers in Congo - the largest UN mission anywhere.

The ±«Óãtv's Martin Plaut broke the story.
He says "We've been looking at these allegations for a year. We heard that Pakistani UN peacekeeping forces started to trade arms for gold with the very militias they were meant to be disarming. But Pakistan is the biggest troop-contributing country in the UN - so the allegations were particularly explosive."

We talk to Cyril, a secondary school teacher in the DRC, Patrice, a local freelance journalist in the DRC, and Kabamba, a medical doctor in Zaire. We also hear from Saqlain Imam, a producer from the ±«Óãtv's Urdu Service, to find out what the reaction has been in Pakistan.

Patrice says that the DRC's gold and minerals are too tempting - everyone wants a cut.

Abdul calls from Birmingham in the UK, to say - "Any country that contributes troops to the UN should be subject to international law and if they misbehave they should be punished."

Kabamba says - "the reputation of the UN is sinking in the country."

Martin Plaut explains that the problem for the UN is that it has never been allowed to have its own army. There are relatively few UN interventions in wars, because of the way the UN is structured.

Now today is a pretty important day for anyone who likes football - in less than an hour, the Champions League final in Athens kicks off between AC Milan and Liverpool.

We talk to Kim, a Liverpool supporter in Athens, and Chawesi, an avid football fan from Malawi who tells her that everyone in Malawi is glued to the television.

Kiru in Jamaica emails: "Milan all the way. Today the world will see the greatest player in the world....KAKA in all his brilliance."

But the final word goes to Kim: "Come on the Reds!"