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Adam Lynch, a PhD student in London who is researching one of the world's deadliest diseases, appears to have saved his university a huge amount of money by adapting a microscope for his work that costs less than 拢200. A standard piece of equipment would cost more than 拢100,000. We hear from him today.

0710

A grand jury has decided not to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by a white police officer sparked weeks of protests in the US this summer. The Brown family have said they are profoundly disappointed by the decision not to have a trial. Many people are on streets of Missouri and there have been reports of shots being fired.

0715

Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia are two brain disorders that typically affect people at very different stages of life, with schizophrenia usually emerging in younger people. Scientists have now found that in both groups of patients, the same networks of cells are impaired. Dr Gwenaelle Douaud is from the Oxford University Functional MRI of the Brain Centre.

0720

A Dutch teenager who married a jihadi fighter in Syria is due to appear in court in the Netherlands on Tuesday, charged with threatening state security. Nineteen year old A茂cha, whose real name is Sterlina Petalo, converted to Islam before traveling to Syria last February. Her mother went to the Turkey-Syria border to rescue her daughter from the Islamic State. They arrived back in the Netherlands last week. Anna Holligan reports from Maastricht.

0730

A 'class war' on private schools is one description this morning of Labour's plans to remove valuable tax breaks from the schools. The idea is to make relief of business rates conditional on private schools working more closely with state schools. Tristram Hunt is the Shadow Education Secretary and Barnaby Lenon is chairman of the Independent Schools council.

0740

The celebrated novelist Hanif Kueishi became the victim of a crooked accountant, now in jail, who swindled him out of more than 拢100,000. Kueshi has since written about this experience. Hanif Kureishi joins us.

0750

The Commons intelligence and security committee will reveal today some details of how much the security service, MI5, knew about one of the killers of fusilier Lee Rigby last year. It's believed that the report will be critical of the monitoring, but will also conclude that MI5 did not have intelligence that could have prevented the murder. Abu Nusaybah, an associate of one of the killers Michael Adebolajo, has claimed that Adebolajo was tortured in Kenya and subsequently put under pressure by MI5. We hear from Richard Walson of Newsnight, who spoke to him, and Tasnime Akunjee, the solicitor for Abu Nusaybah.

0810

A grand jury has decided not to indict Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting by a white police officer sparked weeks of protests in the US this summer. The Brown family have said they are profoundly disappointed by the decision not to have a trial. Many people are on streets of Missouri and there have been reports of shots being fired. Guests tbc.

0820

The Government's flagship welfare reform, Universal Credit, reaches a milestone today as the new benefit is rolled out to families for the first time. The programme to bring in Universal Credit has been dogged by delays and the benefit is still being claimed only by a fraction of the more than seven million people who would eventually be moved onto it. Iain Duncan Smith is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

0825

Lewis Hamilton is only the fourth British driver to have won the Formula One world championship twice. He said that his win in Abu Dhabi, in the last race of the season, was the greatest day of his life. We speak to him today.

0830

Robert Shiller is one of the world's most celebrated economists, winner of the Nobel Prize last year and author of a hugely influential book called Irrational Exuberance. A new edition is being published in the New Year, and is considered by many people to be the best explanation of the background to the stock market crash. Today presenter Jim Naughtie spoke to him at Yale University where he teaches.

0835

The Irish government says it's considering the establishment of a cross-border inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse by members of the IRA, in light of a recent controversy in which a woman claims to have been raped by one of its members. Andy Martin reports from Dublin.

0840

Raymond Kelly was, until last year, the Commissioner of the New York Police Department, a role he took up for the second time just after the 9/11 attacks. He's in London to receive the Colin Cramphorn Memorial Prize from the Policy Exchange think tank, which was presented last night. We speak to him.

0845

When Pope Francis addresses MEPs in Strasbourg today it will be the first time a Pope has done so since John Paul the Second in 1988. During this speech, John Paul faced an unexpected interruption. He was heckled by the late Dr Ian Paisley, who held a banner calling the Pope 'the antichrist'. Jonathan Luxmore is a journalist and writer specialising in church affairs in Europe, and Anne Applebaum is a historian and the author of 'Iron Curtain'.

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