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05/06/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Fri 5 Jun 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0710

Greece has told the International Monetary Fund it will delay today's €300m debt repayment and bundle all four of its June payments together. The Athens government will have until 30 June to pay the €1.5bn total, which is also the day on which its bailout deal with the EU and IMF runs out. Eleni Kakkalou GP works at Evangelismos, one of Athens' busiest hospitals.

0715

Government agencies in the United States have been hit by a massive IT breach affecting the personal data of millions of federal workers. The Office of Personnel Management says almost four million current and past employees may have been affected. Tom Bateman reports from Washington and Ken Ammon is chief strategy officer of cyber security firm Xceedium.

0720

Hundreds of thousands of candidates are currently in the midst of their GCSE maths exams. Yesterday many of those sitting the Edexel paper took to Twitter to comment on how hard it was. The fact is that 40% of 16-year-olds sittings maths GCSE and for that matter English will not achieve that all important C grade, regarded as a pass, despite years of study at school. Both qualifications are crucial if students want to progress onto any vocational or high quality apprenticeships courses. Gillian Hargreaves reports.

0730

The NSPCC is calling on the Government to make social media companies take action to prevent users posting inappropriate images or videos of children online. The charity has written to the Department of Culture, Media and Sports and Facebook today to raise the issue. The letter was prompted by a video of a crying baby being immersed in a bucket of water by an unseen adult circulating on Facebook. Claire Lilley is lead on Child Safety Online for the NSPCC. Simon Milner is director of policy for Facebook UK.

0740

The fourth installment of the Jurassic Park series premieres in Paris next week. Jurassic World is set 22 years after the original film on a dinosaur theme park island. Dr Jack Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University, has been the technical advisor on all four films in the franchise. Seemingly ignoring the advice from the films, he is currently attempting to recreate a small ‘dinosaur’ by genetically reverse engineering a chicken. We speak to him today.

0745

The first ever Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Music Day is taking place, with events being held all around the country and across Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Networks. Highlights include an attempt to break the world record for the longest distance between people singing a duet - with the singers in Cardiff and Patagonia. There will also be performances all along the route of Hadrian’s Wall, as part of a musical relay, called "Hadrian's Wall of Sound". To celebrate we asked DJ Yoda, the hip hop artist, to produce a ’musical mashup’ of some of Radio 4’s favourite sounds.

0750

The Football Association of Ireland has disclosed it was given a payment by FIFA, reported to be five million euros, to prevent legal action over a controversial match decision which stopped the team qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa. Emmett Malone is football correspondent for the Irish Times.

0810

Greece has told the International Monetary Fund it will delay today's €300m debt repayment and bundle all four of its June payments together. The Athens government will have until 30 June to pay the €1.5bn total, which is also the day on which its bailout deal with the EU and IMF runs out. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is trying to reach a deal to unlock final bailout funds but Greece's creditors say differences remain between the two sides. George Stathakis is Greek economy minister. Theodoros Fessas is president of The Association of Greek Industries.

0820

During the Second World War thousands of British soldiers were held in prisoner of war camps in the Far East. For those who survived starvation and disease once they returned to the UK they also had both mental and physical issues to contend with. Many had contracted tropical diseases of which sometimes stayed with them for years and about which very little was known. Seventy years on since their return a group of scientists, historians, academics and veterans will meet in Liverpool today. Meg Parks is author of Captive Memories. Geoff Gill is professor of International Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

0830

On Thursday’s programme, the Scottish Government warned that lack of clarity from the UK Government over subsidies for onshore wind farms could stall substantial investment in the UK and Scotland.  The government is expected to announce measures to "end any new public subsidy" for onshore wind.  Meanwhile the trade body for the wind power industry has raised the threat of legal action against the government over any subsidy cuts. Keith Anderson is chief executive of Scottish Power Renewables.

0835

The first ever Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Music Day is taking place, with events being held all around the country and across Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Networks. Katie Derham is a presenter on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3.

0840

Something sporty is stirring in Bristol. There's been promotion to next season's Championship for its leading football team Bristol City, and a heartbreaking near-miss on promotion to the English Premiership for its rugby team. These clubs are the standard bearers for Bristol Sport, the umbrella company set up three years ago for a number of activities for both elite and grass roots sport. Rob Bonnet reports

0845

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States has reported that an apparent slowdown in the pace of global warming in recent years may be an illusion based on skewed data. The 'hiatus' in warming has previously been used by some to question the existence of man-made climate change.  The report raises questions about the way scientists calculate global warming and the interpretation of their data. Tom Karl is lead author of NOAA report on climate change.

0850

Hundreds of thousands of candidates are currently in the midst of their GCSE maths exams. Yesterday many of those sitting the Edexel paper took to Twitter to comment on how hard it was (see 0720). Martin Doel is chief executive of the Association of Colleges. Richard Brooks is former Ofsted director of strategy.

0855

Hundreds of bikers in Texas say they're planning a demonstration against the police this weekend. They're angry because dozens of members of biker gangs are still being held by the police after a shootout in the city of Waco last month.  Police are warning that more gang violence is possible.  It was the deadliest incident in biker history and it shattered some of the romanticism associated with motorbike clubs in the US. North America correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports.

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  • Fri 5 Jun 2015 06:00