09/02/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
The mystery around
Surrey County Council鈥檚 鈥渟weetheart deal鈥 over social care funding has been
solved. Yesterday evening the DCLG disclosed that Surrey will be joining a
number of other councils piloting the move to retaining 100% of business rate
revenue locally. Jonathan Carr-West is the chief executive of the Local
Government Information Unit think tank.
0710
Provisional data leaked to 大象传媒 News suggests that England's A&E units suffered their worst performance last month since the four hour target was introduced thirteen years ago. Faye Kirkland is a reporter and practicing locum GP.
0715
Is there a serious
chance that the National Front in France will win the presidency in the coming
elections? Katya Adler is our European editor.
0720
The alarm calls of our closest ape relatives could reveal the origins of the first words in human language. Serge Wich is a professor at Liverpool John Moores University and co-author of the study published in Nature Human Behaviour.
0730
MPs have overwhelmingly agreed to let the government begin the UK's departure from the EU as they voted for the Brexit bill. Laura Kuenssberg is our political editor.
0740
MPs are to debate the governance of the Football Association in the Commons this afternoon. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee have tabled a motion of no confidence in the organisation's ability to "comply fully with its duties". Adrian Bevington is the former FA director and Damian Collins is the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport committee.
0750
Latvia's foreign minister will be coming to the UK to meet Boris Johnson to talk Brexit and the future of Latvia's political and economic relationship with the UK. Edgars Rink膿vi膷s joins us.
0810
Provisional data leaked to 大象传媒 News suggests that England's A&E units suffered their worst performance last month since the four hour target was introduced thirteen years ago. Dr Tajek Hassan is the President Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Baroness Camilla Cavendish is the former head of David Cameron's Policy Unit at No 10 who as part of her role headed up cross-party talks shortly after the 2015 election on health and social care.
0820
The Oscar nominated adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences is released in UK cinemas tomorrow. The film is directed by and stars Denzel Washington and explores race relations in 1950s America. Will Gompertz is our arts editor.
0830
The
phrase 'Greek debt crisis' is rearing its ugly head again. The Telegraph
reported yesterday that the EU faces a new Greek debt crisis and that the IMF
is running out of patience.聽Yianis Varoufakis is
the former Greek finance minister and Jochen Andritzky is the general secretary
of the German Council of Economic Experts.
0840
The mystery around Surrey County Council鈥檚 鈥渟weetheart deal鈥 over social care funding has been solved. Yesterday evening the DCLG disclosed that Surrey will be joining a number of other councils piloting the move to retaining 100% of business rate revenue locally. Graham Chapman is the deputy Leader of Nottingham City council.
0850
Since Donald Trump took over as US President his State Department which is responsible for the administration鈥檚 foreign affairs have received resignations from the entire senior level of management as well as officers from some of the department鈥檚 regional bureau. Anne Applebaum is the Visiting Professor at LSE Institute of Global Affairs and Washington Post columnist and Christopher Meyer is the former UK ambassador to the US.
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- Thu 9 Feb 2017 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4