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10/05/2016

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

3 hours

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Tue 10 May 2016 06:00

Today's running order

0650

The government has suffered renewed embarrassment over its controversial assessment tests for primary school children as answers to exams were posted prematurely online. The Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell claimed confidence in the test had been undermined. Christine Blower is General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers.

0710

An influential group of MPs says more clarity is needed over the use of drones outside of armed conflict, after a British man was targeted and killed by a British drone attack in Syria.  Harriet Harman MP is chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

0715

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew is publishing what it claims to be the first global study of the estimated 400,000 species of plant life in the world. It suggests a fifth of plants are threatened with extinction. Professor Kathy Willis is director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens.

0720

David Henty is a convicted passport forger who turned his hand to faking artistic masterpieces and selling them on eBay. He has an exhibition of his fakes in Brighton later this month. He joins us on the programme.

0730

There are questions about the reach and scope of HS2, following reports that the project may be scaled back to save costs. Two stations, in Sheffield and at Manchester airport may be scrapped, according to a weekend newspaper report. Tony Lloyd is Interim Mayor and also Police and Crime Commissioner of Greater Manchester.

0740

There are very few working fishermen left in Whitby in North Yorkshire and even fewer who have anything good to say about the EU. The ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Zoe Conway reports as part of our series looking at how different parts of country see the EU referendum.

0750

A fifth of the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray has been destroyed by the wildfire that has raged in central Canada for the past seven days. The battle to contain the wildfires has reached a turning point partly due to drizzle and favourable winds. Gordon Campbell is Canadian High Commissioner for the UK.

0810

More on the use of drones outside of armed conflict - Dr Peter Lee is Portsmouth University lecturer of military ethics who teaches at the RAF College Cranwell and Dr Alexander Leveringhaus is author of Ethics and Autonomous Weapons.

0820

A British Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, who was visiting her parents with her baby daughter, has been detained in Iran for the last month. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe joins us on the programme.

0830

1,700 men, women and children who died in the Mediterranean have been buried in unmarked graves in Greece, Turkey and Italy in the last two years. The figure has emerged from a ´óÏó´«Ã½ investigation looking at more than 70 sites in the three countries. The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Rami Ruhayem reports from island of Lesbos. 

0840

In a new book a professor of psychology argues that acquiring power requires empathy and sensitivity. Dacher Keltner is author of The Power Paradox and director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley.

0850

More on the wildfire in Canada – joining us on the programme is Martin Wooster, professor of Earth observation science at Kings' College London and the NERC National Centre for Earth observation. Dr Dan Bebber is senior lecturer in microbial ecology.

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  • Tue 10 May 2016 06:00