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0607 |
The were two defeats for the government in itsÌýracial and religious hatred bill last night. |
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0609 |
The British and Irish governments are studying the report by the independent monitoring commission on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland. Will it allow progress on the coming talks to try to restore devolved government in Belfast? |
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0615 |
The steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal continues his charm offensive today as he meets the French president Jacques Chirac in Paris. Greg Wood tells us more in the business news. |
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0626 |
The football transfer window closed at midnight. Steve May brings us the latest sports news. |
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0632 |
What is the significance of President George Bush's state of the Union speech? |
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0634 |
Iran has responded to the new pressure from the permanent members of the security council over its nuclear programme. |
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0637 |
The government's considering a new scheme onÌýcarbon emissions to try to help progress towards its target for reductions. |
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0640 |
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in the UK and Russia. |
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0645 |
A look at the events ofÌýyesterday in parliament with Susan Hulme. |
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0650 |
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Chancellor to come to the Commons to explain how organised criminals defrauded his flagshipÌýtax credits system of millions of pounds. |
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0654 |
A private members bill called theÌýProtection of Private Gardens Bill is being introduced into the Commons today. Greg Clark, the Conservative MP for Tonbridge Wells, is behind it. |
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0709 |
The pollster, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Fried, the US Assistant Secretary of State, speak about President Bush's State of the Union speech. |
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0712 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0717 |
TheÌýYouth Hostels Association is, in its own words, "revitalising" its network of hostels. Its plans mean more than thirty youth hostels are to be closed over the next three years, and about seventy people will be laid off. |
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0720 |
Where do last night's defeats leave the religious hatred bill? Dominic Grieve, the shadow Attorney General, joins the programme. |
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0724 |
The sports newsÌýwith Steve May. |
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0730 |
Sinn Fein's general secretary, Mitchell McLaughlin, and Peter Hain, the Northern Ireland Secretary, talk about the latest report form the province's Independent Monitoring Commission, which will be published today. |
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0738 |
There's going to be a children'sÌýgarden party at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen's eightieth birthday this summer. The children's laureate, the writer Jacqueline Wilson,Ìýtells us more. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day withÌýMartin Palmer, director of an International Consultancy in World Religions. |
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0750 |
Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard was the 100th UK soldier to die in Iraq since the 2003 invasion of the country, and for families who have already lost sons or daughters there, the news of his death brings back painful memories. |
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0810 |
Embroiled in a war in Iraq which is increasingly unpopular among Americans, facing difficulties with Iran, and with the Hamas government elected by the Palestinians, George W. Bush gave a State of the Union speech which was bound to echo round the world. The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, talks to the programme. |
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0820 |
The announcement by Gabriel Garcia Marquez last week that he's given up writing has caused something of a stir He said 2005 was the first year of his life when he didn't write a line. Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is known as the father of Magic Realism. The novelist, Will Self, talks to the programme. |
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0826 |
A sports update with Steve May. |
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0830 |
Joseph Stiglitz is a nobel prize winning economist who chaired President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He tells the programme what he thought about President Bush's comments on the economy, during his State of the Union address. |
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0849 |
The Home Office Minister, Paul Goggins, talks to the programme about the religious and racial hatred bill, after the government lost two votes in the commons last night. |
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0843 |
AÌýbusiness update with Greg Wood. |
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0856 |
The famousÌýLondon planetarium is to close. Tussauds, who own the attraction, will soon be projecting a different kind of star on the ceiling of the green dome.Ìý From this summer they'll be showing a film about celebrity there.Ìý Our reporter Sanchia Berg went for a last look at the space show. |
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0854 |
Conventional wisdom has it that theÌýdinosaurs were cut down in their prime by a massive asteroid impact some 65 million years ago. This version of events has always had its critics, but a paper published in the journal "Sedementary Geology" today claims to put the "single impact" scenario firmly back on top. |
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0858 |
A former speechwriter in the Bush White House, David Frum, and Ambassador Wendy Sherman, who worked in the Clinton administration, discuss president Bush's State of the Union address. |
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