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0607 | The French authorities are going to remarkable lengths to stop any more arson incidents in the forests of Southern France. Jonathan Charles听is in St Maxim in the Var.
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0611 | How are Canadian farmers reacting to GM crops? Our Correspondent, Tim Hirsch went with former Minister, Michael Meacher to find out... | |
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0615 | Rebecca Marsden has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | Tony Blair is holding a news conference today - what will he be saying? Our political correspondent is Norman Smith. | |
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0635 | There's a report of another tape of Saddam Hussein - Mike Donkin is in Baghdad.
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0638 | President Bush has been criticised by Palestinians for not putting enough pressure on Ariel Sharon. Our Jerusalem correspondent is James Rogers.
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0640 | The Environment Agency says the system of fines designed to stop big companies committing environmental crime isn't working - Pallab Ghosh is our science correspondent.
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0643 | The World Press Review comes from Caroline Wyatt in Paris.听 | |
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0650 | The new Iraqi council can't agree on a new President - instead nine leaders will rotate the post. Dr Isam Al-Khafaji is a former council member.
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0655 | Why is President Bush dithering about sending troops into Liberia? Gayle Smith was responsible for Africa听under the Clinton Administration.
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0709 | The members of the governing council in Iraq have failed to agree which of them should be president. The Council was established to听set-up听civilian rule, but have only managed to declare a听national holiday on听the day the听US invasion toppled Saddam. Ahmad Fawzi is the spokesman for the UN Special Representative in Iraq Sergio de Mello.
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0718 | The Saudi Foreign Minister in Washington is angry with the US Congress.听 He denies the Saudi Government encourage terrorism.听 Sir Andrew Green is a former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. | |
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0724 | A major AIDS conference is happening in South Africa this weekend.听 Botswana has a 40% incidence of HIV - Alastair Leithead looks at how the government deals with this problem. | |
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0730 | If the government give the go-ahead for commercialisation of GM crops will this be the end of Organic farming? Correspondent, Tim Hirsch and Former Minister, Michael Meacher have been to Canada to find out. | |
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0739 | Peter Donaldson has a review of today's newspapers. | |
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0746 | The Queen's going to the proms tonight. The musical menu is pretty conventional and very English - Benjamin Britten, William Walton, Edward Elgar and....Percy Grainger. Rob Cowan is one of the presenters on Radio 3. | |
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| Today the children's charity Unicef is publishing a report on the way child trafficking into Britain is changing - David Bull听is the UK Director. | |
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0810 | The Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on the need for new homes in the South East..... and that famous magazine, 'Prospect'. | |
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0820 | It's rare good news on the railways -听the Eurostar has just broken the British record which should听reduce journey times.. Tom Symonds is on a platform at Waterloo Station. | |
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0830 | Doubts have been raised about the way the police and army investigated the deaths at Deepcut barracks - but concerns about army investigations into deaths on its own premises go far wider. Dominic Arkwright reports.
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0844 | The last of the old fashioned听VW Beetles rolls of the production line today. It's the most successful car ever听 - but it has its roots in the darkest episodes in history. Helen Evenden is lecturer in car design and motoring journalist Quentin Wilson.
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0846 | Lack of facilities on听the A9 in Scotland may be the cause of many accidents.听 Adding new facilites may reduce the death toll at the expensive of local businesses. Huw Williams reports. | |
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0850 | Why 11/9 changed the world as we know it. Influential American columnist Thomas Friedman and Maher Osman, the听Editor of Al Hayatt newspaper.
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