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07/04/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Tue 7 Apr 2015 06:00

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Amnesty International is today launching a report which shows that the number of attacks on Afghan women is growing, especially those who stand up for human rights. As well as the Taliban and armed groups, women also face persecution from local commanders, officials and family members. The charity says 'institutional indifference' by the Afghan authorities mean most women defenders lack adequate protection and perpetrators are almost never held to account. Mary Akrami is director of the Afghan Women Skilled Development Centre, a women鈥檚 shelter for victims of domestic abuse, based in Kabul.

0650

Speculation about when Hilary Clinton will finally declare that she will run for the Democratic nomination for President has reached fever pitch in the US in recent days. Few doubt her mind is made up, and a formal announcement is expected later this month. So what sort of a candidate will she make? Our North America Editor Jon Sopel reports.

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The Conservatives promised at the weekend to force pornography websites to adopt effective age-restriction controls. They want an independent regulator to decide what content should be filtered, and to compel internet service providers to block specific websites.听 Dr Gilad Rosner is a visiting researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute at the University of Nottingham and member of the Cabinet Office Privacy and Consumer Advocacy Group听

0710

Islamic radicalisation in England's prisons is getting worse because of staff shortages and a crisis in the penal system. That's according to Chris Philips - the former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office. He says a decline in the number of prison officers means extremists are not being monitored properly which is enabling them to easily recruit others and spread messages of hate and violence. This comes after a report by the Justice Select Committee said safety in jails was being compromised because of cuts in staffing levels. Sima Kotecha reports

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Labour and the Conservatives have clashed over the issue of access to GPs in England.听 Labour鈥檚 Andy Burnham has highlighted figures suggesting that a smaller proportion of surgeries were offering extended opening hours than when the Coalition took office. But the Conservatives' Jeremy Hunt said that the figures did not take account of the impact of the Prime Ministers Challenge Fund introduced to extend GP access. Andy Burnham is the Shadow Health Secretary.

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Don McLean鈥檚 American Pie is one of the most iconic songs of the 20th Century and McLean鈥檚 fans have long wondered what the mysterious lyrics actually mean. When was 鈥渢he day the music died鈥, is it all about Buddy Holly, is the Jester Bob Dylan, or was he making it up as he went along? Later today we might find out some of the answers to these questions as Don McLean鈥檚 original manuscript and notes used in the process of writing the 1971 anthem will be sold at Christie鈥檚 in New York.听 McLean claims the manuscript 鈥渨ill divulge everything there is to divulge鈥. Alexis Petridis is head rock and pop critic at the Guardian.

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Islamic radicalisation in England's prisons is getting worse because of staff shortages and a crisis in the penal system (see 0710). Theresa May is the Home Secretary.

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Britain's first new nuclear power station in a generation is planned in the constituency of Bridgwater and West Somerset where many have been continuing to deal with the impact of last year's floods. But the area has also seen some sharp and divisive politics, culminating in a Conservative council leader being airbrushed out of an official photograph. Tom Bateman reports in the latest of our visits to 100 constituencies.

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The ICRC is hoping to get aid deliveries into Yemen in the next two days as the humanitarian situation is reported to be worsening, with dire shortages of food, water and medical supplies. Over the past two weeks, fighting in the country has left more than 500 dead and over 1,700 wounded.听 The south of the country is worst affected with fighting continuing in the city of Aden, where rebel Houthi insurgents are confronting the forces of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. He is supported by a Saudi led military coalition who are using air strikes and a warship on the outskirts of the city. Robert Ghosen is head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Aden in the South of Yemen.

0810

Anthony Ray Hinton has been freed after spending nearly 30 years on death row. He was convicted of murdering two restaurant managers in Birmingham in 1985, but was granted a new trial last year. Tests on bullets found at the crime scene could not be connected to a gun found at Mr Hinton's home, prompting prosecutors to drop the case. Anthony Ray Hinton and Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative director, who campaigned for Hinton's release.

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The leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett speaks to the programme ahead of the election.

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When Jay Z's music subscription site, costing 拢19.99 per month, website TIDAL launched it promised exclusives from their 16 superstar artist-partners. Over the weekend TIDAL delivered on its promise with an exclusive track from Beyonce. But within minutes of the exclusive release, fans had taken the material and plastered it across the internet, including on YouTube. Mark Mulligan is a music industry analyst.

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Islamic radicalisation in England's prisons is getting worse because of staff shortages and a crisis in the penal system (see 0710). Stephen O'connell is President of the Prison Governors鈥 Association.

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The ICRC is hoping to get aid deliveries into Yemen in the next two days as the humanitarian situation is reported to be worsening, with dire shortages of food, water and medical supplies (see 0750). Sara Alzawqari is a journalist with multi-media news organisation Yemen Times Radio.

0845

Young people have access to cameras like never before, so could this lead inspire a new generation of young film makers and lead to a new and different type of film making? The Leeds Young Film Festival ended yesterday with the announcement of the INDI award for best young filmmaker. This year it judged films made by children as young as 5. Wendy Cook is general manager of the Hyde Park Picture House, an independent cinema in Leeds, which hosts the Leeds Young film festival and Alfie Barker is听an award-winning 18 year old young film maker who has entered a film in the festival.

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We're still waiting for manifestos from the main parties. None of them will confirm a date but say it's likely to be in the next few weeks. But now we have Fixed Term Parliaments, should manifestos be published sooner so that voters can properly scrutinise their policies? Should manifestos be published as soon as the campaign period is declared? And has the status of manifestos changed now we're in a period of multi-party coalition politics? Lord Finkelstein is a Conservative Peer and journalist, he was intensively involved with drafting the 1997 and 2001 manifestos; Miranda Green is a former Press Secretary to Lord Ashdown and Contributing Editor at Newsweek and Patrick Diamond is a former policy advisor in the Labour government, he was one of the authors of Labour's 2010 manifesto, and is a now a lecturer in public policy at Queen Mary, University of London.

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  • Tue 7 Apr 2015 06:00