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0607 | Three quarters of our roads footpths and cycleways have deteriorated in the last year according to the Institution of Civil Engineers. Our transport reporter, John Moylan has more details.
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0610 | Six-country talks on the Korean nuclear crisis are resuming in Beijing today. Our correspondent Charles Scanlon is there.
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0615 | Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0632 | The Prime Minister will be giving evidence to the Hutton Inquiry. Norman Smith is our political correspondent. | |
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0635 | The latest figures for asylum seekers are out today - Rory Maclean is our home affairs correspondent, he reports from the Belgium port of Zeebrugge.
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0637 | There are indications that the USÌýmay beÌýwilling to give the UN a leading role in Iraq. Our Washington correspondent is Justin Webb. | |
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0644 | Today's World Press Review comes from Adam Mynott in India. | |
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0648 | The Ministry of Defence has published the list of countries who've been invited to buy weapons at next month's big annual arms fair in Britain - Gideon Burrows is the author of the 'no nonsense guide to the arms trade'. | |
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0651 | A physicist at Trinity College Dublin is publishing some extraordinary work in the field of nanotechnology. He's created what's being described as the world's most efficient lightbulb. Dr John Donegan has more details. | |
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0654 | Last night the Red Planet was closer than it has been for 60,000 years -Ìýit was less than 35 million miles away, and in some places the view was good. Our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh joined some stargazers in East Sussex.
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0709 | Another witness today at the Hutton Inquiry is the chairman of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Governors, Gavyn Davies. The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú story which caused such anger in No 10 was the starting point for this crisis. How do the governors see it, and what should they do? Lord Rees-Mogg, former editor of The Times, was Deputy Chairman of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú in theÌý1980's. | |
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0716 | The US government has signalled for the first time that it might be willing to accept a UN-sanctioned force in Iraq.On the conditionÌýthat the American commander in Iraq would also become the UN commander. Former British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Crispin Tickell. | |
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0720 | Our roads are deterioriating, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers. They say they've found that 75% of roads, cycleways and footpahs are in worse condition now than they were a year ago. One of the reasons is that there's too much traffic. John Sanders is Chairman of the institution's municipal engineering board. | |
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0725 | A Leonardo da Vinci has been stolen from one of the homes of the Duke of Buccleuch, Drumlanrigg Castle. Julian RatcliffeÌýChairman of the art loss register has more details. | |
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0732 | It looks very much as if the government will be able to lay claim to progress when the latest figures for the number of people seeking asylum are published this morning. The figures aren't out for a couple of hours butÌýbut it's expected they'llÌýshow the government is onÌýtrack for its target to halve the numbers next month compared to those last October. Home Secretary, David Blunkett. | |
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0745 | Peter Donaldson has a review of today's papers. | |
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0748 | It's 40 years to the day since Martin Luther King made his famous "I have a dream speech", and many people would claim for it the rare distinction of being a speech that changed history. But has America reached what Dr King called on another occasion "the promised land". Colin Joseph has been to Alabama, and he reports from Montgomery, where Martin Luther King worked as pastor.
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0752 | Should patients who miss their doctors appointments be fined? The British Medical Association claim more than 66% of doctors surgeries believe this.ÌýSimon Fradd chairs the BMA organisation, now know as Developing Patient Partnerships and Simon Burns is a member of the Conservatives' health team. | |
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0810 | TodayÌýtheÌýPrime Minister will answer questions at the Hutton inquiry on the Kelly affair.ÌýÌýThe Prime MinisterÌý has acknowledged that a degree of trust in his Government had been lost: in answering specific questions about No 10's role in the events leading up to Dr Kelly's death. We speak to former Cabinet minister and close friend of the Prime Minister, Jack Cunningham and our Political Editor, Andrew Marr. | |
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0823 | It is theÌý40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's memorable speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Josh Gottheimer, was a speech writer for Bill Clinton, and Reverend Willie Bowden, a civil rights activist who was there on the day. | |
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0836 | It's the 14,000th edition of the Archers this evening and longevity doesn't seem to have diminished the programme's capacity for controversy. David Archer - solid citizen and local councillor - has broken the law he shot a badger he blames for infecting his animals with TB. Our reporter Bob Walker has found plenty of sympathy for him in the countryside.
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0840 | We look at another date in our series ofÌý events that have happened during the dog days of August - the Cat Scanner got its final specifications this month in 1972. Dr Neil Ridyard was an engineer working on the first CT Scanner, and Dr Sue Roe is a consultant radiologist at Homerton Hospital in London.
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0850 | The Prime MinisterÌýis giving evidence at the Hutton Inquiry today. Will public trust be restored ifÌýLord Hutton clears Tony Blair from anyÌýresponsibilityÌýof the death of Dr Kelly ? and will the focus now be on the domestic front? Robert Thomson, Editor of The Times, Clive Soley, former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party and Heather Wakefield of Unison
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