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Women have made strides in Saudi Arabia during the last ten years with more and more getting jobs, outnumbering men at universities, and making inroads into politics. But they still can鈥檛 drive and continue to face severe social restrictions. Barbara Plett Usher has been looking at life behind the scenes.

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The Lake Oku clawed frog lives only in one lake at the top of a mountain in Cameroon, which is considered sacred by the local community. Until now it has never been bred in captivity, meaning the evolutionarily unique frog is at risk of disappearing if disease or predators hit the lake. Now, ZSL London Zoo has become the first zoo to successfully breed the frog in captivity. Ben Tapley is team leader of the herpetology section at ZSL London Zoo.

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Hillary Clinton has officially announced that she will run for the US presidency. Rich Galen is a columnist and Republican strategist and former press-secretary to Vice President Dan Quayle and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

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George Osborne has said a Conservative plan to remove family homes worth up to 拢1m from inheritance tax "supports the basic human instinct to provide for your children". It means more owners of homes in the UK would be able to pass them on to their children without paying tax. The policy is likely to be at the centre of the Tory election manifesto. Zoe Conway reports on inheritance tax and our Economics Editor Robert Peston.

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Malta has narrowly rejected proposals to ban controversial spring hunting, during which migrating birds are shot before they can breed. Those in favour of hunting won just over half the votes cast in the keenly-contested vote. Campaigners for the ban have conceded defeat. Bill Oddie is a bird watcher & supporter of ban on bird hunting and a supporter of League Against Cruel Sports's campaign in Malta.

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One of the leading authors on childbirth Sheila Kitzinger MBE has died at her home in Oxford aged 86. In the 1960s she developed the 鈥渂irth plan鈥� which aimed to give pregnant women greater choice in the birth of their babies.聽 She was also a strong advocate of home and natural births. She came to be seen as a pioneer in her field and received an MBE for her work. Elizabeth Duff is a senior policy adviser at the National Child Birth Trust and Professor Wendy Savage was the first woman consultant to be appointed in obstetrics and gynaecology at the London Hospital.

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As fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin will meet today to discuss the implementation of the Minsk ceasefire agreement reached in February 2015. Our Diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports.

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Tonight Panorama investigates male suicide, which is at its highest in England and Wales in 14 years and is the biggest killer of men under the age of 50. Simon Jack鈥檚 father took his own life at the age of 44. Now the same age, Simon has been speaking to men who have overcome suicidal thoughts and asks why more middle aged men kill themselves than any other group. Our business presenter Simon Jack.

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Hillary Clinton has officially announced that she will run for the US presidency. Our correspondent Gary O鈥橠onoghue reports from Des Moines, Iowa and Sidney Blumenthal who was a senior advisor to Hillary when she ran in 2008 and a former aide to Bill and family friend.

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鈥榃e鈥檙e responsible, and we鈥檙e credible鈥�. This seems to be the main message from Labour鈥檚 manifesto, which Ed Miliband is due to launch later this morning. In an attempt to break away from Labour鈥檚 past, it promises fiscal responsibility, guaranteeing that every policy will be fully funded and will involve no extra borrowing. Ed Balls is the Shadow Chancellor.

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Penelope Wilton won Best Actress at the Olivier Awards last night. It鈥檚 her first win at theatre鈥檚 most prestigious awards and was for her role in Mark Hayhurst鈥檚 pre-war Nazi Germany play Taken At Midnight. She joins us.

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Irvine Welsh鈥檚 new novel A Decent Ride is published this week. Despite spending most of his time in Chicago he鈥檚 deeply involved in politics at home. James Naughtie spoke to him in Edinburgh, his home town and the setting for A Decent Ride.

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As fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, the German, French, Russian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers will meet today to discuss the implementation of the Minsk ceasefire agreement reached in February 2015. Simon Ostrovsky is a Russian-born American investigative reporter for Vice. He was held hostage for four days by pro-Russian militia last year while reporting from Eastern Ukraine.

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Viv Nicholson, who became famous overnight when she said she would "spend, spend, spend" a 拢152,000 Pools win in 1961, has died aged 79. Mrs Nicholson and her husband Keith, from Castleford, West Yorkshire, took just three years to spend their prize money - equivalent to 拢3.5m today. Steve Brown was the composer and lyricist for 鈥楽pend, Spend, Spend鈥� 鈥� a musical based on the life of Viv Nicholson which premiered in 1999 鈥� who met her while writing the musical.

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European Club Football resumes this week, but there are no British teams in either the Europa or Champions Leagues. Where the Premier League teams once dominated now the Germans and Spanish teams have taken their place. How has the German league become so successful and what lessons can British teams learn from the German, World Cup winning, model? Ronald Reng is author of 鈥楳atchdays 鈥� The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga鈥� and Thomas Hitzlsperger, played 52 times for Germany as well as for Aston Villa, West Ham, Everton in England and Stuttgart and Wolfsburg in Germany.

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Soaring vinyl sales have prompted the music industry to launch special singles and albums charts. They'll be published on the Official Charts website every week.

All subject to change.