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0607 | The Hutton inquiry will hear from two spies today. Our Correspondent there is Jane Peel.
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0609 | An anti abortion extremist is due to be executed later today in the US for the murder of a doctor and his bodyguard. Our correspondent Fergal Parkinson is in Miami. | |
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0615 | Rebecca Marsden has a round up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | The government will tell us to day what immigrants will have to do to become British citizens. Our Home Affairs Correspondent is Rory Mclean.
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0635 | The government's announcing a big shake up to its media operation today - billed as an end to spin. Our political correspondent is Laura Trevelyan. | |
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0637 | The United States has accepted that the United Nations will have some say in the government of Iraq. Justin Webb is our Correspondent in Washington, and Valerie Jones is in Baghdad. | |
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0640 | Peter Donaldson has a review of today's papers. | |
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0645 | The World Press Review comes from Katya Adler in Madrid. | |
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0650 | Rural transport often doesn't work and is letting its customers down, according to a new report by Transport 2000.听 The author is Lynn Sloman. | |
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0655 | Some of our most distinguished actresses were baring all last night in the name of art.The film 'Calendar Girls' received its British premiere. The film is based on the Women's Institute members who famously stripped off to raise money for charity and stars the likes of Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. Film critic, Peter Bradshaw. | |
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0709 | Downing Street is announcing extensive changes to its media operation. A senior civil servant will be in charge rather than politically appointed special advisers. Andy Wood was director of information in Northern Ireland and a Downing Street press officer, and Tony Wright is chairman of the Commons Public Administration Committee which has called for a limit to the number of special advisers in government. | |
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0715 | What should this country require of someone who wants to become a citizen? An advisory group chaired by Sir Bernard Crick will report today.
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0720 | It takes an unusual event to unite anti-death penalty campaigners and religious extremists. Both groups are today protesting about the first man in the US to be executed for killing an abortion doctor. Paul Hill is due to die later today for killing two people outside a Florida abortion clinic nine years ago. Some people fear his death could lead to a backlash from more radical anti-abortion groups. More details from our correspondent Fergal Parkinson and Vicki Saporta from the National Abortion Federation.
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0730 | Colonel Ghadafi grudgingly accepted Libyan responsibility after a jumbo jet was blown up over Lockerbie and compensation is being paid to the families of those who were murdered. Libya wants to come in from the cold .. not least because its economy is struggling and sanctions are hurting. The country has a new prime minister, Dr Shukri Ghanem. | |
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0738 | It听looks as the Willow Tit population听in Britain at least - is dwindling rapidly. Graham Appleton from the British Trust for Ornithology in Norwich explains why there is听regional variation. | |
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0750 | There听have听been concerns that politically appointed special advisers have had too much power over civil servants. So today Downing Street is announcing a major reorganisation. There'll be a new senior civil servant - a permanent secretary who'll be in charge of communications. Jonathan Baume is general secretary of the senior civil servants union - the First Division Association and Sir Nigel Wicks is chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. | |
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0810 | For years governments have agonised over the question of how much immigrants themselves should be forced to adapt to their new country before they are granted citizenship.It is one of the most sensitive issues in British politics. Today we shall hear the proposals from an advisory body set up a year ago to look into it.听 The Home Secretary is David Blunkett. | |
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0822 | An attempt to break the world manned balloon altitude record has been abandoned this morning. Andy Elson and Colin Prescott were due to launch Quinetic 1 from a ship off the coast of St Ives in Cornwall around now and attempt to fly to the edge of space but a rupture to one of the balloons seamsforced them to call it of an hour ago. Brian Jones is the head of mission control in St Ives, Cornwall.
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0830 | President Bush has decided to seek international support for the military coalition in Iraq. He's asked Colin Powell to open negotiations at the UN security council over a new resolution to provide backing for a multi national force.How much backing is the initiative likely to get? Amr Moussa is the Secretary General of the Arab League.
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0840 | Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was ousted as an Edinburgh MP in 1997 has lost a comeback bid for the safe Conservative seat of Windsor. The local Conservative Association rejected his application in favour of 46 lesser known Tory candidates - our reporter Nicola Stanbridge has been looking at what you need to do to be selected as a Tory candidate.
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0850 | Are we failing to make new breakthroughs in science because the bodies with the money for research won't take risks? The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Sydney Brenner听thinks so. We put his points to the Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury. | |
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0855 | What lies behind our laws on cannabis? Not medical worries or concerns about law, according to a new book about the history of cannabis policy.听 The real priority was the British Empire and pragmatic political considerations. Former Home Secretary, Ann Widdecombe and author Dr James Mills. | |
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