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25/11/2015

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

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Wed 25 Nov 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

In Nairobi tomorrow more than a million people are expected to attend an open air mass for the Pope鈥檚 first visit in 20 years. The 麻豆官网首页入口's Alan Kasujja has been talking to members of the youth choir who will sing at the mass.

0655

One of the chancellor's most difficult political problems in his spending review has been spending on the police. Speaking on the programme is the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw and Paddy Tipping, Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire.

0710

George Osborne will announce the biggest housebuilding programme since the 1970s as he uses his Spending Review to end the "crisis of home ownership". Stewart Baseley is executive chairman of the Home Builders Federation.

0715

Lawyers for Abid Naseer - the Pakistani man sentenced to 40 years in jail in the United States for plotting attacks including one on the Arndale Centre in Manchester - say they will appeal against his conviction. We have been speaking to James Neuman, Abid Naseer's lawyer.

0720

Babies born in NHS hospitals at weekends are more likely to be stillborn or die in the first week of life than those delivered Monday to Friday, research suggests. Professor Gordon Smith is a consultant obstetrician and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

0730

One of the key details we will discover today from the Autumn Statement is how George Osborne now intends to reform tax credits after his original plans were rejected by the House of Lords. The 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Social Affairs correspondent, Michael Buchanan, has been reporting from Watchet in West Somerset, and live on the programme is Baroness Stroud, executive director of the think tank Centre for Social Justice.

0740

Turkish warplanes have shot down a Russian military aircraft on the border with Syria. Speaking on the programme is Akin Unver, assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University, Istanbul.

0750

An inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Hollie Gazzard鈥檚 ex-boyfriend and killer, Asher Maslin, had a long history of violence against women. Speaking on the programme is Nick Gazzard, Hollie鈥檚 father.

0810

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will deliver an annual update on the government鈥檚 plans for the economy in The Autumn Statement. Speaking on the programme is Laura Kuenssberg, the 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 Political Editor and Robert Peston, our Economics Editor.

0820

The passions of Italian opera affect many people who would not think of themselves as opera lovers - some of the music of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci is familiar to many who have never seen them performed on stage.

James Naughtie spoke to conductor Antonio Pappano about these pillars of the Italian repertoire at the Royal Opera House.听

0825

GPs have been told to report elderly patients whom they fear are no longer capable of driving, under new guidance from the General Medical Council. Niall Dickson is chief executive of the General Medical Council.

0830

Turkish warplanes have shot down a Russian military aircraft on the border with Syria. Andrey Kortunov is director general of the Russian International Affairs Council and former special adviser to the Duma's foreign affairs committee.

0835

George Osborne will announce the biggest housebuilding programme since the 1970s as he uses his Spending Review to end the "crisis of home ownership".听Campbell Robb听is听chief executive of听Shelter.

0840

It's exactly 100 years since Albert Einstein presented his field equations - better known as the General Theory of Relativity - to the Prussian Academy of Science. The 麻豆官网首页入口鈥檚 science editor Tom Feilden reports.

0850

Experts say the world is closer to an agreement on climate change than ever before - if any country embodies the challenges of reaching a deal, it is India. Our correspondent Justin Rowlatt is reporting from the India capital Delhi.

0855

Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham and Liverpool have agreed to be part of George Osborne's "devolution revolution鈥, but this has so far failed to catch on in Yorkshire. Nick Robinson has been finding out why Yorkshire has become the chancellor's devolution problem child.

All subject to change.

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  • Wed 25 Nov 2015 06:00