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21/11/2015

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 21 Nov 2015 07:00

Today's running order

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0710

The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution, urging all countries able to do so to join the fight against the Islamic State group. Our UN correspondent Nick Bryant has more.

0715

The government in Mali has declared a ten-day nationwide state of emergency, following the deadly attack on a hotel in the capital Bamako by gunmen thought to be affiliated to an offshoot of Al Qaeda. Thomas Fessy, our West Africa correspondent joins us from Bamako. Ìý

0720

John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, has told Newsnight that the party has "had a rough week" after days of open revolt in Labour about his leader, Jeremy Corbyn's positions on whether to shoot to kill terrorists and to bomb ISIS in Syria. Alan Soady, our political correspondent has more. Ìý

0725

European Union ministers have agreed to strengthen the EU's external borders, with tighter checks on all passengers entering the Schengen zone.ÌýJohn Vine is the former independent chief inspector of Borders and Immigration in the UK.

0730

Thousands of Parisians have paid tribute to the victims of last Friday's terror attacks and expressed their defiance - a week after the first shots were fired. Our correspondent Kevin Connolly joins us from Paris.

0750

The hotel attack in Mali yesterday brought to the capital some of the violence which has been raging mostly in the north of the country.ÌýTomi Oladipo, ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Africa security correspondent joins us from Nairobi.

0810

The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution, urging all countries able to do so to join the fight against the Islamic State group. On the programme is Julian Lewis, ConservativeÌýMP and chairman of the Defence Committee .

0820

The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s new natural history programme narrated by David Attenborough explores the complicated relationship between predator and prey. But for a programme called ‘The Hunt’, we see very little blood and gore, in the first two episodes. Alastair Fothergill, executive producer of 'The Hunt', is on the programme.Ìý

0830

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, European Union ministers have agreed to strengthen the EU's external borders, with tighter checks on all passengers entering the Schengen zone. Joining us on the programme is the Director of Europol, Rob Wainwright. ÌýÌýÌý

0850

The head of Germany's security service Hans Georg Maassen told the Today programme that the attacks in Paris last Friday marked the start of a terrorist world war. Anne Applebaum is from the think tank The Legatum Institute and a columnist at the Washington Post and Professor Fawaz Gerges is Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at the London School of Economics and the author of 'ISIS: A History'Ìý.Ìý

All subject to change.

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  • Sat 21 Nov 2015 07:00