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27/09/2017

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

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Wed 27 Sep 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650
Labour has promised to build at least 100,000 homes a year, a new generation of social housing and to make it easier for local councils to deliver homes required in their areas. Nick Forbes is the leader of Newcastle Council and Leader of the LGA Labour group and Claudia Wood is chief executive of the left-leaning think tank Demos.

0655
Tonight conservative MEP and Leave campaigner Daniel Hannan launches his new think tank, The Institute for Free Trade, in an event hosted by the FCO. It describes itself as a private, not-for-profit, non-partisan research foundation, and says it will make the intellectual and moral case for free trade.听 He joins us on the programme.

0710
Jeremy Corbyn will close the Labour conference in Brighton today with his speech. Angela Rayner is the shadow education secretary.

0715
The US Department of Commerce has ruled against the aerospace firm Bombardier in its dispute with rival Boeing. The government and trade unions fear the ruling may make Bombardier question remaining in Northern Ireland, where it employs 4,100 people in four locations. Davy Thompson is the regional co-ordinator for Unite in Northern Ireland.

0720
Brazil is emerging from an economic crisis which started in 2015, suffering its longest ever recession. Henrique Meirelles is the Brazilian finance minister.

0725
British holidaymakers in Indonesia are being warned volcanic ash clouds could cause flight disruption amid fears of an imminent eruption on the tourist island of Bali. Our correspondent Hywel Griffiths reports.

0730
Emmanuel Macron made an impassioned appeal to EU leaders to be 鈥渂old鈥 against the threat of populism as he presented a cascade of initiatives to overhaul the bloc in the most integrationist speech by a French leader since the creation of the euro. Delphine O is an En Marche MP for Paris 16th district.

0740
Should children in schools play tackle rugby? It鈥檚 a long-running debate and a recent report by Professor Allyson Pollock, from Newcastle University, has urged the UK's chief medical officers to eliminate contact from the school game completely. Sean Fitzpatrick is a former All Blacks captain.

0750
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, state media say. Aziza al-Yousef is a human rights activist who has been arrested for driving in Saudi. Madawi al-Rasheed is a Saudi Arabian professor of听social anthropology at LSE.

0810
The US Department of Commerce has ruled against the aerospace firm Bombardier in its dispute with rival Boeing. The government and trade unions fear the ruling may make Bombardier question remaining in Northern Ireland, where it employs 4,100 people in four locations. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a DUP MP and their chief whip. Haley Dunne is the director of public affairs at Bombardier Belfast.

0820
An experiment is being launched to gather data on how a flu pandemic spreads.听 The government now lists a flu pandemic as a bigger threat to the UK than natural disasters and terrorism 鈥 even more likely than a large scale nuclear attack. Dr Hannah Fry is a mathematician from University College London.

0830
The so called Islamic State may now control as little as 10% of the Syrian city of Raqqa - fighting is still going on there, but IS may be down to less than 400 fighters. Quentin Sommerville is our Middle East correspondent.

0840
Environmental group, Plan B Earth, have sent a letter to the government warning that they will seek a judicial review of their policy on climate change if the government fails to change its targets. Sir David King is a former government chief scientific adviser.

0845
大象传媒2鈥檚 Newsnight will this evening tell the story of the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower through the memories of survivors who lived there. Our special correspondent Katie Razzall reports.

0850
Jeremy Corbyn will close the Labour conference in Brighton today with his speech. Philip Collins is a columnist for The Times and former speechwriter for Tony Blair and Rachel Shabi is an author, journalist and supporter of Jeremy Corbyn.

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  • Wed 27 Sep 2017 06:00