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0607 |
European Union foreign ministers meet today to tackle the budget - still the sticking point of the British Presidency - with the leaders' summit only three weeks away. |
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0609 |
A French non-governmental organisation called the Senlis Council is calling for the licensing of opium in Afghanistan. Andrew NorthÌýreports fromÌýKabul. |
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0615 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0627 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0630 |
It is reported from Israel that the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is leaving his own party to fight the elections that are coming up. |
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0635 |
Fifteen failedÌýIraqi asylum seekers have been sent home. Some refugee groups think they shouldn't be returned to a country in such turmoil. |
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0640 |
Six people are being questioned in connection with the shooting of theÌýBradford policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky. |
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0645 |
A look at theÌýpapers form Britain and Egypt. |
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0647 |
Kenyans are voting on a proposal for a new constitution today. Karen Allen reports from Nairobi. |
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0653 |
It's the tenth anniversary of theÌýDayton peace accord which ended the war in Bosnia. |
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0657 |
President Bush is inÌýMongolia today.ÌýDr Stefan Halper of Cambridge University's Centre for international studies, who worked for four US presidents and in the state department, tells us why. |
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0709 |
Yuli Edelstein, the former Deputy speaker of the Knesset in Israel, speaks about Prime Minister Sharon's decision to leave the Likud party. |
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0714 |
Marsha Singh, the MP for Bradford West where WPC Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead last Friday, talks about her murder. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0719 |
The cultivation of opium for pain relief medicines could become legal in Afghanistan.ÌýThe head of the UN office on drugs and crime in Kabul, Doris Buddenberg, and Raymond Kendall, former head of Interpol, disagree on the idea. |
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0724 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0738 |
Leader of the Labour members of the European Parliament, Gary Titley, and Graham Brady, the shadow Europe minister, talk about the latest attempts in Brussels to settle the Eu's next seven year budget. |
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0741 |
Maya Plisetskaya, Russia's most famous ballerina, celebrated her eightieth birthday last night by appearing on stage at a gala concert in Moscow. |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day with Cannon David Winter. |
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0750 |
Should killers of policemen and women receive the death penalty? Shadow Home Secretary,ÌýDavid Davis, and Michelle Forbes of Mothers Against Guns, speak about this debate. |
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0810 |
We talk to the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten, and Tony McNulty, the Immigration minister, about the group of failed Iraqi asylum seekers who are being returned to that country against their will. |
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0822 |
Dr Uzi Arad, former Head of Intelligence at Mossad and former foreign policy adviser to Binyamin Netanyahu when he was Prime Minister, talks about Ariel Sharon's decision to leave the Likud party. |
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0827 |
Sports update with Steve May |
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0832 |
John Timpson, the former presenter of the Today programme, died on Saturday. We have a look back at his life. |
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0838 |
Representatives of the the Save our Sleeper campaign - that's the Paddington to Penzance service - are appearing before the Commons Transport committee today. The poetÌýMurray Lachlan Young is a passionate supporter, and has written a poem about its virtues. Former governor of the Bank of EnglandÌýLord George also supports the campaign. |
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0841 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
Today is the tenth anniversary of the Dayton agreement. David Owen, the UN's peace envoy to the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, talks about a decade of peace in Bosnia. |
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0850 |
A study on patients at Bristol Homeopathic Hospital has concluded that more than 70% of them with chronic diseases reported "positive health changes". The clinical director at the hospital,ÌýDr David Spence, and Professor Matthias Egger of the University of Berne discuss the benefits of homeopathic treatment. |
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0855 |
Ninety years ago today today Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance sank in the ice of the Antarctic. HMS Endurance is spending December in the same region.ÌýNick Lambert is her captain and joins the programme. |
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0858 |
Robert Rosenberg, Editor at Israel's Haaretz newspaper, discusses Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's departure from the Likud party. |
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