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0607 |
This morning a small spacecraft will collide, bullet-like, with a comet that is 9 miles wide.Ìý Will it provide answers to questions surrounding the origins of our own planet? |
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0609 |
Tony Blair is in Singapore for the final lobbying of the Olympic committee. |
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0615 |
Business news from Greg Wood. |
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0626 |
Sporting news from Garry Richardson. |
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0632 |
Final preparations for TheÌýG8 summit are underway. |
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0634 |
Pre-G8 summit talks onÌýClimate Change are also in there final stages. |
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0637 |
This week will see many commemorations for the end of World War Two. |
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0640 |
ThisÌýmornings papers from the UK and Johannesburg. |
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0642 |
Richard Aylard, external affairs director of Thames Water will explain why the company feels it necessary to draw supplies from its contingency reserve - for the first time since 1997. |
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0650 |
TheÌýpresidents of more than thirty African countries meet in Libya today to discuss, amongst other matters - what they want from the G8. |
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0709 |
In his interview with Trevor Macdonald, to be broadcast tonight, George Bush has admitted that human activity is "to some extent" to blame for climate change. Environment secretary Margaret Beckett tells us whether she is still disappointed by the lack of common ground upon this vital topic. |
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0715 |
Is Home secretary Charles Clarke too soft on crime? We speak to Labour MP Stephen McCabe and Shadow Home secretary David Davis. |
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0722 |
Business news from Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
Sporting news from Garry Richardson. |
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0732 |
G8 summits have a well-established track record as a target for protest. Reporter Andrew Hosken talked toÌýAnti-war campaigners as they marched on Sunday. We also speak to Tadzio an anti-capitalist protestor with the anarchist group Dissent.Ìý |
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0741 |
By now there should have been a historical and expensive explosion in space, but what will it tell us? |
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0744 |
Thought for the Day with The Reverend Angela Tilby, Vice Principal at Westcott House in Cambridge. |
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0747 |
This week is Veterans Week. A week of commemorations to mark the end of the second world war. We are joined for his first interview with us since taking on the job of defence secretary by Dr John Reid. |
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0810 |
It is America's Independence Day, and Radio Four is marking it with a lecture by Senator John McCain. He challenged George Bush for the Republican presidential nomination five years ago - On climate change he has described the Bush administration's record as "disgraceful". |
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0820 |
Poland is on the brink of becoming a powerful voice in Europe and it seems to be a natural ally of Great Britain, but will rows over the EU budget have damaged the potential of this relationship? |
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0824 |
There's been plenty of talk about the need to giveÌýAfrican businesses full access to world markets in the run up to the G8 summit - William Kalema is a Ugandan business leader and a member of the commission for Africa. |
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0827 |
Dr R K Pachauri is the head of the influentialÌýIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Roger HarrabinÌýasked him how the summit was viewed in the developing countries most likely to be hit by climate change. |
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0830 |
Apparently the British and French bid teams have been trading insults in Singapore during the final leg of their campaigns to host the 2012 Olympic games. |
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0844 |
Geoff Hoon will today give a speech recommending that voting in general elections becomes compulsary.Ìý Mark Tami explains why its important to combat voter lethargy.Ìý |
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0851 |
Has the "protest" against poverty and debt really been a protest? Weren't all those crowds in hyde park representing the mainstream rather than the alternative view? |
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