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0607 |
TheÌýLikud party in Israel meets today to decide what to do after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to leave and form his own political movement. |
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0609 |
InÌýUkraine they're marking the anniversary of the Orange Revolution. Helen Fawkes is our correspondent in Kiev. |
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0615 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0627 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0630 |
The Department of Health has admitted a shortage ofÌýflu vaccine and has told GPs to prioritise who they use it on. |
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0635 |
Can Europe and the United States find any common ground on the environment?ÌýThe head of climate change policy in the United States is meeting his european counterparts in advance of a key conference in Montreal. |
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0640 |
It now seems clear that Tony Blair will give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear reactors. Our political correspondent, Norman Smith, tells us more. |
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0645 |
A look at theÌýpapers from Britain and Kenya. |
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0647 |
We take a look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament. |
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0653 |
Angela Merkel will take office as German chancellor today. |
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0657 |
A new Tory leader will be announced in a couple of weeks and there is plenty of advice already for the winner.ÌýHoward Flight, the former deputy party chairman and ousted MP for Arundel and South Downs joins us.ÌýÌý |
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0709 |
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has found evidence of widespread cheating in school coursework due to an "over helpful parent" factor and internet plagiarism. General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Steve Sinnott,Ìýand Margaret Morrissey, from the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, join us. |
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0714 |
The Liberal Democrats are producing a new pensions policy today.ÌýDavid Laws is their work and pensions spokesman. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0719 |
Angela Merkel will take office as the new German Chancellor today, if as expected she's elected by MPs in a vote in the Bundestag. |
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0724 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0738 |
The Department of HealthÌýhas admitted that there is aÌýis a shortage of flu vaccines. Head of immunisation at the Department of Health, Dr David Salisbury, and Dr Lawrence Buckman, deputy chairman of the BMA's GP's committee discuss the problem. |
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0741 |
Less than two months after Katrina blew through New Orleans, much devastation remains, but has the home of Jazz held onto its musical heritage? |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark. |
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0750 |
Lord Rogers, the man appointed by the government to regenerate Britain's towns and cities says the middle classes need to wooed back to avoid ghettoisation and allow cities to flourish. We speak to Lord Rogers, and Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Planning and Regeneration at University College London, who disagrees. |
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0810 |
President BushÌýhas softenedÌýhis scepticism about the nature of global warming and the best way to tackle it. But his administration is still opposed to the approach in the Kyoto treaty, which set targets for the industrialised world. James Connaughton, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality in the United States, joins us. |
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0822 |
Anne Wareham, a gardener and writer, thinks we need to take our gardens more seriously, and appraise and criticise them like we would a novel. She talks to us about this, along with Eric Robson, presenter of Radio Four's Gardeners Question Time. |
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0827 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0832 |
Gerry Adams joins the programme to talk about what he calls a vision for a new Ireland, the subject of a lecture he is giving in London tonight. |
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0838 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0841 |
Lord Rogers, the chairman of the government's Urban Task Force, has written to the Deputy Prime Minister warning him that England's urban areas are under threat from poor design. Yvette Cooper, the minister for housing, responds to his criticism. |
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0845 |
Is theÌýmurder of a police officer a bigger crime than the murder of a civilian? The former head of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens, seems to think so and his remarks have prompted some to question the wisdom of appearing to place more value on the lives of police officers than the people they're employed to protect. |
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0850 |
The Queen's Medal for Music is a new award, suggested by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Master of the Queen's Music, and it will be presented today to one of our most distinguished and best-loved conductors, Sir Charles Mackerras. |
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0855 |
The Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has ordered a review of the way coursework in schools is completed following warnings that teachers and parents are sometimes giving youngsters too much help. Those warnings came from the Chief Executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, Dr Ken Boston. |
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