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Many European cities have been on heightened alert during New Year's celebrations. Asiem Difraoui is security expert and adviser to French government on jihadism.

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Investigators are trying to find the cause of a huge fire engulfed a 63 storey skyscraper in Dubai last night hours before New Year鈥檚 Eve celebrations were due to begin.听Angus Villar, a British tourist who was staying on the 15th floor of the Address hotel when the fire broke joins us on the programme.

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Communities across Scotland which were hit by Storm Frank are starting the year clearing up the damage caused by floods and gale-force winds. Dan Whitworth reports from the border town of Peebles.

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Our guest editor today is Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, former Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Born with spinal muscular atrophy she was expected to die in infancy. Ali Kashmiri, 听a tech expert who uses a wheelchair and can't use his arms looks into the issue for us by meeting AMELIA, a software that one day could become the 'brain' of a real life robot, and one of her creators, Ipsoft engineer Ergun Ekici. 听

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Disability activists have been some of the most prominent opponents of efforts to change the law on assisted suicide and the right to die. Today's Guest Editor, the disability rights campaigner Baroness Campbell wanted to take up this issue directly with the journalist Matthew Parris, who angered many disabled activists with a recent article that staunchly defended the right to die.

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More than a hundred thousand police are being deployed across France to ensure security as crowds gather to welcome in the New Year. Jean Valfort, owner of Farago restaurant in 10th arrondissement and Joelle Garriaud Maylam, Senator for opposition UMP join us from Paris.

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Our Guest Editor Baroness Campbell of Surbiton was made a peer in 2007 after spending her adult life campaigning for equality for disabled people. Simon Minty, who runs the Abnormally Funny People podcast, which aims to discuss "all 听things disability with a splash of comedy" put the question to Jack Carroll, a comedian who has cerebral palsy and was runner up in Britain's Got Talent in 2013.

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As 2015 draws to a close The Wildlife Trust is celebrating the man who, 100 years ago, founded conservation as we know it today, Charles Rothschild. Simon Barnes, conservationist and former Times columnist is on the programme. 听

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Letters released by the Crown Prosecution Service have revealed that the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, a senior judge, MPs and headteachers wrote letters in support of the former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball in 1993 during a police investigation into allegations he sexually abused a young follower. We are joined by David Greenwood a lawyer who specialises in abuse cases; he has represented victims of Peter Ball.

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What should be done with the House of Lords? Attacked as full of cronies and politicians past their sell by date, crossbenchers like Jane Campbell believe they work hard and bring valuable expertise in the oversight of the Commons. She went across to the Lords to meet two Ladies Tanni Grey-Thomson, the former athlete, and the doctor Illora Finlay.

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Investigators are trying to find the cause of a huge fire engulfed a 63 storey skyscraper in Dubai last night hours before New Year鈥檚 Eve celebrations were due to begin. Huma Mumtaz from Birmingham, was in a bar in the Address hotel when the fire broke out.

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