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0607 | Rwanda's incumbent president Paul Kagame has proclaimed victory in yesterday's presidential elections - the first since the genocide in 1994. Ishbel Matheson is in Kigali.
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0610 | The report on the breakup of the space shuttle columbia is out today. Our Science Correspondent in Washington isÌýChristine McGourty.
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0615 | Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0632 | The Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) - John Scarlett will be questioned later today at the Hutton inquiry. Norman Smith is our Political Correspondent. | |
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0635 | Over 50 people have been killed by the two bombs in the Indian city of Mumbai. Our Correspondent is Sanjeev Srivastava.
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0637 | Following the bombing of the UN building many more aid agencies are scaling down their operations in Iraq. Valerie Jones is in Baghdad. | |
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0644 | Michael Buchanan with the World Press Review from Washington. | |
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0648 | Navid Akhtar has details of Pakistani clans known as 'Biraderi'.Ìý This is a Ìýpractice of voting along clan lines in local and national elections and is undermining the democratic process. | |
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0651 | Health authorities are trying to trace the source of an unusual form of salmonella which is affecting people throughout Britain. Dr John Cowden is from the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
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0654 | The United States is blocking a security council resolution which would make attacks on humanitarian organisations - like the bombing of the UN in Baghdad last week - a war crime. William PaceÌýchairs the coalition for the International Criminal Court. | |
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0709 | Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory of over 94% in the country's first elections since the genocide of 1994. Rosemary Museminali is Rwanda's ambassador to Britain. | |
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0713 | The National Institute for Clinical Excellence - NICE -Ìýis going to allow IVF treatment for women under 40 if a cause of interfility has been diagnosed. It's a big change in some regions. Our Health Correspondent, Adam Brimelow is at a fertility clinic near Cambridge. | |
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0720 | Hospitals and schools should be buying food that is produced in Britain to give to patients and pupils. Food Minister, Lord Whitty has more details. | |
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0730 | The report into the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle is out later today.Ìý We speak to Richard Bloomberg, who was - until last year, the ChairmanÌýof NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. | |
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0740 | Patrick Muirhead with a review of today's papers. | |
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0745 | Britain has a new World Champion... at Bog Snorkelling. Philip John from Brigend in South Wales has just won the title. | |
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0753 | The devastating bomb in India means that casualty figures are still rising in Mumbai. We find out the latest situation from Ahmed Javed, theÌýjoint police commissioner in Mumbai. | |
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0810 | John Scarlett will be appearing before the Hutton Inquiry today. We speak to Richard Norton-Taylor from The Guardian, and Former Defence Minister, Lord King former Chairman of the Commons Intelligence Oversight Committee. | |
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0823 | A residential street in Scarborough has been named as the country's worst rat-run. At certain times of the day Wykeham Street is over-run with motorists trying to use it as a short-cut. Our reporter Teresa Longworth pays a visit to find out how bad it can get...
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0831 | Many aid agencies have now pulled out someÌýof their staff from Iraq because it is too dangerous to deliver humanitarian aid. Barbara Stocking is the director of Oxfam.
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0836 | Network Rail is being criticised in Scotland for closing hundreds of level crossings - Our reporter, Huw Williams is at one of the padlocked crossings in Perthshire...
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0841 | Charles and Mary Lamb were two of the great figures of romantic literature, but they had dark sides. He was a depressive alcolholic. She had killed her mother. In her new joint biography, A Double Life, Sarah Burton delves into the life that's less well known - along with Professor Marilyn Butler from Oxford University. | |
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0852 | Less than 10 years ago Ìý800,000 people were killed in Rwanda when the country's two tribes turned on each other. There's no doubt on the outcome - in fact it looks as thought the incumbent president Paul Kagame has secured more than 90% of the vote. So is the country now assured of a peaceful future? Paddy Ashdown is the high representative in Bosnia-Herzogovina. Shamil Idriss is from an organisation called Search for Common Ground which is devoted to conflict resolution.
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