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0607 |
Everyone seems to be heading to the constituency ofÌýDunfermline and Fife West today. There will be a by-election there in one week's time. |
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0609 |
Government departments are divided over how much pressure to put on big business to cut greenhouse gas emissions. |
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0615 |
Rebecca Marston has the Business news. |
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0626 |
Steve May brings us the latest sports news. |
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0632 |
The Dutch parliament is going to vote today on whether to send a thousand troops to Afghanistan. |
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0634 |
The United Nations nuclear inspectorate has an emergency meeting aboutÌýIran today. |
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0637 |
TheÌýtrial of Saddam Hussein is supposed to be continuing today, but will he be there? |
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0640 |
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in the UK and Paris. |
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0645 |
A look at the events ofÌýyesterday in parliament with David Wilby. |
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0650 |
A powerful parliamentary watchdog has condemned the state of many British rail stations. In a report out today the Public Accounts Committee criticises rail operators for failing to provide facilities such as waiting rooms or toilets at many stations. |
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0654 |
The Treasury and the environmental lobby are at loggerheads over how companies report theirÌýenvironmental policies after the chancellor scrapped the system. But Friends of the Earth claim they've managed to force ministers to try to find an alternative system. Tony Juniper is director of the organisation. |
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0709 |
The Oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, will today unveil the highest profits in UK corporate history. Rebecca Marston tells us more. |
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0712 |
Last week the govt confirmed that we are going to send 3,300 more troops to the most dangerous part of Afghanistan. The Dutch are also meant to be sending troops as part of a NATO force but the country is divided on the issue. |
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0717 |
Labour MP, Barbara Roche, and Michael Brown, a columnist for The Indpendent, and a former Conservative whip under John Major, discuss the embarrasment of the government defeat over the religious hatred bill by one vote, when the prime minister could have voted. |
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0720 |
Have you ever had your identity stolen? It's happening a lot these days, and it's becoming very expensive.Ìý We're joined by the Home Office minister, Andy Burnham. |
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0724 |
TheÌýsports newsÌýwith Steve May. |
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0730 |
The Government appears to have abandoned efforts to settle an interdepartmental row over what figure it should put to business for a cut inÌýcarbon emissions to combat global warming. We speak to the shadow environment secretary, Peter Ainsworth. |
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0738 |
It is forty seven years sinceÌýBuddy Holly was killed in a plane crash. His music has influenced singers as famous as The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and his widow, Maria Elena, has worked for nearly half aÌý century to make sure he's never forgotten. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with the writerÌýRhidian Brook who is broadcasting today from Mumbai in IndiaÌýwhere he and his family will be living in some of the world's HIV/AIDS epicentresÌýover the next 7 months. |
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0750 |
Prince Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the deposed Shah of Iran says he believes President Bush was right to focus on bringing democracy to Iran, but warned that military action against his country was not a serious option. He spoke to Justin Webb, our Washington correspondent. |
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0810 |
Thousands more British servicemen are going to Afghanistan to the most dangerous province in that troubled country. There will be a vote in the Dutch parliament today on whether to send 1200 of their own troops as part of the NATO force. We speak to the American ambassador in Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, about the current situation in the country. |
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0820 |
Prince Harry, who is at Sandhurst and will be joining the Blues and Royals, is reported to have said that if his regiment goes to Iraq, he will be there. The Historian Antony Beavor, and Kate McCluskey, director of the Shakespeare Institute, discuss the history of royal men at war. |
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0826 |
A sports update with Steve May. |
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0830 |
A married couple, both nearly 90, are this morning waiting to hear for definite whether they'll be reunited, after Gloucestershire Social Services continually refused to put them in the same care home. Annie Stevenson is senior policy adviser to Help the Aged. |
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0849 |
The managing editor of the French newspaper, France Soir, has been sacked for reprinting cartoons first shown in a Danish newspaper that caused outrage among Muslim readers.ÌýArnaud Levy is one of the the editors of the paper, and talks to the programme about the controversy. |
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0843 |
AÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0852 |
Hyperinflation is something you read of in history books, but it is happening in Zimbabwe. Basildon Peta is a Zimbabwean in politicalÌý exile in South Africa and David Boyle, author of a history of money called The Little Money Book, is from the New Economics Foundation. |
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0854 |
Ever wondered how people would react to you if you looked different if, for instance, you were a young Asian man with a beard?ÌýRajesh Thind grew one after the terrorist attacks in London, specifically to see if he would be treated differently. |
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0858 |
Some high-profileÌýdivorce cases are being heard by the law Lords this week with enormous settlements being given to wives who, in many cases, are young and high-flying themselves. Is it time for divorce law to change? We are joined by Joan Smith, the feminist writer and columnist, and Christina Odone, the Observer Columnist. |
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