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They haven't started building HS2 yet but now they're talking about HS3. It would join up the big cities in the north of England. The 大象传媒's north of England correspondent Dan Johnson reports.

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Votes are being counted in Ukraine, in the first parliamentary election since the overthrow of the old pro-Russian leadership and the start of the conflict with separatist rebels. Exit polls suggest pro-Western parties have won most of the votes. Olixey Solohubenko reports.

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The Labour Party in Scotland has begin the process of electing a new leader. Jim Naughtie is in Edinburgh.

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They should be at school, but instead they wear uniforms and carry weapons - children - in the world's youngest country of South Sudan, who are forced to fight on both sides of a bloody civil war. It's a conflict which has made few headlines, but cost many lives - including those of the youngest and most vulnerable. Tom Burridge has travelled to the northern area of Bentiu, an area where young boys, as young as 8, are recruited.

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Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected president of Brazil, after securing more than 51% of votes in the closest election race in many years. After a tough, often bitter campaign she beat her centrist rival, Aecio Neves by less than three percent of the vote. The 大象传媒's Brazil Correspondent, Wyre Davies reports

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The row over HS2 has hardly gone away before they've started planning HS3. In fact, the row has not gone away. The main political parties may have reached a pretty uneasy agreement on HS2 so it won't be stopped in parliament. But there's plenty of opposition still out there. Joe Rukin is Campaign co-ordinator of Stop HS2.

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Business news with Joe Lynam.

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Hundreds of NHS staff have responded to the Ebola outbreak by travelling to West Africa to work in treatment centres in spite of the risks that we all know about. Dr Geraldine O'Hara is one of them. She's an infectious diseases Registrar from Huddersfield working for Medecins San Frontieres in Sierra Leone - in an area called Kaliahun. She's been keeping an audio diary of her time there.

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Earlier this year someone flew a drone - a kind of mini helicopter - very close to a plane at Southend Airport in Essex. This technology has arrived.听听 There are plenty of very good things that drones can do for us: but the British Airline Pilots Association is telling a house of lords committee today that we ought to have stricter rules before someone gets hurt. Jim Mcauslan is General Secretary of BALPA.

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There was so much criticism amongst British MPs of the European arrest warrant when it was proposed by Brussels that we opted out. Now the government wants us to opt back in. But there has to be a vote in the house of commons before that can happen and many MPs (mostly Conservative) are still adamant that we should not. One of them is Dominic Raab. Bedfordshire's Chief Constable Colette Paul is the lead on international affairs for the Association of Chief Police Officers.

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One hundred years ago to the day Dylan Thomas was born. And the Welsh (well... not only the Welsh but especially the Welsh) are making a big fuss of it. You can barely switch on R4 without hearing a bit of Under Milk Wood. Cerys Matthews joins John Humphrys for a short excerpt...

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The scramble to cope with Ebola continues - we heard last week that trials of a vaccine are to start in west Africa before the end of the year - that's earlier than planned. The safety tests on the drugs are going to start this week with some staff at the World Health Organisation volunteering to be injected.听听 But the approach of the outside world to the disease still seems chaotic - there's an extraordinary row going on between the White House and some US states that have imposed quarantine restrictions on medical staff returning home from Africa. Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust and Dr Marie-Paule Kieny is Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovation, at the World Health Organisation.

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Why is the government so keen to get approval for yet another high speed rail link HS3 - while HS2 is still on the drawing board? It will be years before they dig the first spade in the ground... if they ever do. And yet proposals are already being put forward for HS3. Instead of running from south to north, it will be east to west... linking the great cities of Manchester and Leeds and also (maybe) Liverpool and Hull and York and Newcastle. They say it'll create vast economic growth. How? Sir David Higgins is Executive Chairman of High Speed 2.

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It's over. British troops have stopped fighting in Afghanistan. They've folded up the flags and they are coming home. 453 British lives were lost there, tens of billions of pounds spent, -- a war longer than any other in our modern war fighting history; for what.听 It certainly has not brought peace and stability to Afghanistan. 大象传媒 World editor John Simpson reports live from Kabul.

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Three of the girls who escaped from Boko Haram after those awful kidnappings in Chibok in Northern Nigeria in April听 have been talking to the 大象传媒. The great majority of the girls are still being held - you'll remember 276 were taken - and the Nigerian Government is accused by Human rights watch of completely failing in its duty to help them - and indeed many other women and girls enslaved by the Islamists. The girls stories were told to the 大象传媒 Hausa service, through translators. And Mausi Segun is Nigeria Researcher for Human Rights Watch

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There is a stigma surrounding dementia which is holding back research into the disease. That's what one of the country's leading researchers, Prof Hugh Perry is Chairman of the Mental Health Board at the Medical Research Council. Jade Rolph's mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers when she was only 48.

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Have computer programmes made chess more accessible, or have they ruined the spirit of the game? That's one of the issues explored in a new series of Across the Board, the Radio 4 programme in which presenter Dominic Lawson interviews guests while playing them at chess. Dominic Lawson - Journalist, Broadcaster & Presenter of Across the Board

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John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer - could the name Mitchell Tanner one day be added to that list of celebrated film composers? He's the recipient of the first scholarship set up in memory of the Oscar winner John Barry, who worked on the scores of some of the best known films from the 1960s through to the turn of the century.听

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The main political parties may have reached a pretty uneasy agreement on HS2. But there's plenty of opposition still out there. Liam Halligan is commentator at the Daily Telegraph & Philip Haigh is a rail analyst.

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