25/04/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
The United Nations is holding a pledging event for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen that has left 18.8 million people in need of protection to sustain their lives due to food insecurity. Iona Craig reports from Yemen.
0710
UKIP's proposed ban on full veils worn by some Muslim women has "great public support", the party's deputy leader has claimed. UKIP wants no new Islamic schools in the state system until the Muslim community "is better integrated". Peter Whittle is deputy leader of UKIP.
0715
More than half of small firms employing workers from the EU are worried that Brexit will stop them recruiting sufficiently skilled staff. Mike Cheery is chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses and Lord Green is chairman of Migration Watch.
0720
The most valuable wildlife areas in Britain’s seas are not being properly protected, according to MPs. The commons environmental audit committee want more areas to be granted protected status. Joan Edwards is the head of Living Seas at The Wildlife Trusts.
0730
The founder of Wikipedia is launching an online news site aimed at tackling the spread of fake news. Amol Rajan is the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s media editor and Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.
0740
Exercising for at least 45 minutes several times a week can boost brain power in the over-50s, new research suggests. Dr Claire Steves is a practicing geriatrician and a senior clinical lecturer at Kings College London.
0750
Could Donald Trump's presidency be derailed next year in the mid- term elections that will see every seat in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate up for grabs? Justin Webb reports.
0810
Labour say they would scrap Theresa May's Brexit plans and unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU residents before talks start, if they win power. Sir Keir Starmer is the shadow Brexit secretary.
0820
Ivanka Trump is due to meet the German chancellor Angela Merkel at a summit of women from the world’s leading economies in Berlin. Tim Teeman is the senior editor at The Daily Beast and Jane Hampton Cook is the presidential historian and author of The Burning of the White House.
0830
The Environment Secretary, Andrea Leadsom, says the Government will now publish its draft plans to tackle air pollution on 30th June. Mike Hawes is the chief executive of SMMT and Professor David Begg is the former chairman of the government’s commission for integrated transport.
0840
A British firm says it plans to use artificial intelligence to build a medical application that can produce a diagnosis more accurately than a doctor. Peter Donnelly is the director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for human genetics and Sabine Hauert is co-founder and president of the Robohub.org
0855
Several types of exercise help improve thinking, attention, memory skills and executive function a new analysis of 39 studies found. Diana Moran hosted ´óÏó´«Ã½ Breakfast from 1983 – 1987 and has recently published a booked entitled Sod Sitting – Get Moving!
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- Tue 25 Apr 2017 06:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4