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07/11/2015

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

2 hours

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Sat 7 Nov 2015 07:00

Saturday 7th November

0710

Investigators in France are reported to have picked up sounds of an explosion on the Russian plane which crashed in Sinai last week. Russia has suspended all flights to Egypt. 听

Mark Lowen is the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 correspondent in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Steve Rosenberg is the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 correspondent in Moscow.

0715

Sierra Leone has declared that it is officially free of the Ebola virus. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a country must record zero new infections in 42 days to be declared Ebola-free. The milestone has happened one year on from the opening of the first Ebola treatment centre funded by DFID and built by the British army.

Tulip Mazumder is the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Global Health correspondent.

0720

The Government says it investigated reports a missile may have come very close to a British passenger plane flying into Sharm el-Sheikh in August.听 Reports say the pilot was forced to take evasive action, but the passengers on board were not told.

Alastair Rosenschein is a former BA Pilot and aviation expert.

0723

After the story of Layla Richards - the baby whose leukaemia was reversed by an experimental gene therapy - should more cancer patients have access to these sorts of treatments?

Professor Pam Kearns from Birmingham University is Cancer Research UK's childhood cancer expert.

0735

There will be another push today to try and get a number of the 19 thousand British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh home. Yesterday barely a third of the 29 flights scheduled to leave for the UK managed to do so.

Kate Dodds is British tourist still stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh

Shaun Tipton is spokesperson for the Association of British Travel Agents.

0743

Professional Cricket comes to New York City tonight, with the first of three Twenty20 games to be played in the Big Apple, Houston and Los Angeles involving Shane Warne and Brian Lara. Americans have long been mystified by a game that can last five days without producing a winner. Will the shortened version of the game help achieve a breakthrough?

Nick Bryant is the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 correspondent from Citifield baseball stadium in New York. 听

0750

Jeremy Corbyn's senior policy adviser Andrew Fisher has been suspended from the Labour Party, pending a report by its ruling body the NEC. He had faced calls for his expulsion after suggesting people should back a Class War candidate in May's election instead of Labour's candidate.

Lord Soley is former chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Ken Livingstone is former Mayor of London and a member of Labour鈥檚 National Executive Council.

0810

Further analysis of Sierra Leone being declared Ebola-free by WHO. (See 0715)

0815

The winner of the First Biography Prize this week wasn't a conventional biography but an autobiography. Not My Father's Son is the actor, Alan Cumming's story, of his search for his own family history, in which he interweaves an exploration of his grandparents' generation with the story of the abuse and cruelty he endured at the hands of his father as a boy - only to learn from him much later, in a confession just before his death, that he wasn't his father after all.

Alan Cumming is an actor.

0820

Further analysis of the Russian plane crash and Sharm el-Sheikh (See 0720)

Jason Burke is author of The New Threat from Islamic Militancy

Richard Barratt is former head of counter-terrorism at MI6 and Global Security advisor at the Soufan Group.

0840

Access to fast broadband is 鈥渁 fundamental right鈥 according to the Prime Minister. That鈥檚 why the Government is announcing today that every home and business should have be able to get speeds of at least 10 megabits per second by the end of the decade.

Malcolm Corbett is Independent Networks Co-operative Association.

Ed Vaizey is Culture and Digital Economy Minister.

0846

Ballet superstars Sergei Polunin and Natalia Osipova have revealed they are dating - and say directors and the big theatres are doing "everything possible" to separate them rather than let them dance together as they want.

Deborah Bull was a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, is now Assistant Principal Kings College London.

Matt Trueman is theatre critic for What's On Stage and Variety amongst others.

0852

At the height of World War One, several million handwritten letters were sent to and from the front every week. As well being a crucial connection to normality for soldiers at the time, these documents provide us with some of our most poignant and personal historical insights into the war.

Sebastian Faulks is Novelist and editor of 'A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War'.

Matt Brosnan is Historian at the Imperial War Museum and curator of upcoming exhibition 鈥楩ighting Extremes: From Ebola to ISIS鈥.

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  • Sat 7 Nov 2015 07:00