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02/03/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 2 Mar 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have emerged as the clear winners of Super Tuesday - the biggest day of voting so far in the race to become each of their party's candidates for November's presidential election. Frank Luntz is a political consultant and Republican Party strategist.

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Airline pilots are calling for tests to be carried out to discover what would happen if a drone hit a passenger jet, amid a recent spate of near misses. ÌýSteve Landells is a former RAF and British Airways pilot and flight safety specialist at British Airlines Pilots Association.

0710

Yesterday was Super Tuesday – the biggest day of voting so far in the race to become presidential candidate in November. Donald Trump was the big winner yesterday from the Republican primaries and it seems he will win the Republican nomination. We have been speaking to Piers Morgan.

0715

The government has published its second paper in a week on Europe. The latest paper asks what a post-Brexit world could look like and argues that all alternatives to EU membership will harm Britain. Dominic Raab is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

0720

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are due to return to Earth overnight today after spending almost a year aboard the International Space Station. The mission, which is a record for the ISS, aims to study the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body – it could allow us to explore Mars. Libby Jackson is from the UK Space Agency.

0730

Should traditional school rugby become a thing of the past? That’s what over 70 academics, doctors and public health professionals argue – they have sent an open letter to ministers to request a ban on contact rugby in schools. Allyson Pollock is professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University of London and Matt Perry is former Rugby Union full back for Bath and an England International.

0740

Reporting from Syria is so dangerous now that very few correspondents from any news organisation go anywhere near IS controlled areas. But there are a number of activist groups that smuggle information to the outside world at huge risk to their own lives. We have been in touch with one activist based in Raqqa - the capital of 'Islamic State'-controlled territory. This week we are broadcasting diaries he has written about life there.

0750

The government has published its second paper in a week on Europe. The latest paper asks what a post-Brexit world could look like and argues that all alternatives to EU membership will harm Britain. We speak live to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.

0810

Yesterday was Super Tuesday – the biggest day of voting so far in the race to become presidential candidate in November. Donald Trump was the big winner from the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday and it seems he will win the Republican nomination. James Naughtie reports and we hear from Kate Andrews, spokesperson for Republicans Overseas.

0820

Members of the oldest cohort study in the UK turn 70 this week. Joan Worker was part of the 1946 cohort and Helen Pearson is author of The Life Project, a book about the series of ‘cohort studies’ that began in March 1946.

0830

The new investigatory powers bill - or so-called 'snoopers charter' was published yesterday. The Home Office was forced to revise the draft bill after concerns by MPs committees that it did not do enough to protect privacy. Nigel Inkster is director of Future Conflict and Cyber Security for IISS and former assistant chief of MI6.

0835

The government has been coming under increasing pressure from human rights groups and other activists to suspend its military assistance to Saudi Arabia. It follows widespread reports of civilian casualties in Yemen, many blamed on airstrikes by a Saudi-led Coalition. So what exactly is Britain's role in Yemen's bloody but largely unseen war? The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s Security correspondent Frank Gardner has been investigating.

0840

Cancer charity Marie Curie is warning that poor communication in the NHS is damaging patient care and wasting as much as £1 billion in England alone. Its report was produced by Andrew Mcdonald - he used to run IPSA the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - but now has prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease.

0850

What do the causes spoken about at the Oscars tell us about Hollywood and the actors who work there? And does it make a difference when actors mention politics? Toby Young is former contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rhianna Dhillon is a film critic.

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  • Wed 2 Mar 2016 06:00