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The Democratic candidates hoping to take on President Bush in next year's American presidential election have had their first big televisied debate. Justin Webb is听in Albuquerque. |
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British police say they've broken up a major drugs ring and seized bonds worth six billion american dollars. Our Correspondent听is Daniel Sandford. |
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Greg Wood has a round up of today's business news. |
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld is in Baghdad. Our correspondent Valerie Jones is there.
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America's plan to give the United Nations a greater role in Iraq has met with a cool response from France and Germany. David Bamford is at the UN. I asked him what problems they had with the proposed new resolution.
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Privately-operated diagnostic and treatment centres inside the NHS are going to have a "catastrophic" impact on local services according to some eye doctors in Oxford. Our Social Affairs Editor is Niall Dickson.听听 |
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The World Press Review comes from Rachel Harvey in Jarkarta. |
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Iran's film industry has always enjoyed international acclaim, with many directors walking away with awards from film festivals all over the world. At this year's Venice film festival there's a 14 year old Iranian up for the best debut award. But inside Iran the industry is facing a crisis.听Miranda Eeles reports from Iran.
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Thirteen dilapidated American ships are soon going to be on their way from Virginia to Teeside to be broken up and environmentalists claim they're rusting, contamintaed vessels which shouldnt be coming here. The EU transport commissioner's office has even raised the possiblity that the operation may be breaking EU law.听Peter Stephenson is the Chief Executive of the company which is dealing with the ships in Hartlepool is and Caroline Lucas is a Green MEP. |
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France and Germany say America's proposal to give the United Nations more say in Iraq does not go far enough. America's new resolution says the UN should play a role in preparing for a new iraq government but it doesn't cede any political or military control. Pierre Lequiller is a member of the French parliamentary foreign affairs committee. He says France's insistence on UN involvement in Iraq has been vindicated. Ann Clwyd is Tony Blair's Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq. |
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A petition is being laid before the United States supreme court in Washington which is trying to get the court to change the status of prisoners held by the American military at Guantanamo Bay on Cuba. Lawyers acting for two British citizens and two Australians held there are arguing that the American courts should have jurisdiction, instead of the process being conducted through military tribunals. One of the lawyers in Washington whose arguing the detainees case is Stephen Watt. |
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The Prime Minister has made it clear that the euro won't be on the political agenda until the Chancellor looks again at the case for joining next Spring. Tony Blair insisted it had nothing to do with the Hutton inquiry or security problems in Iraq. Whatever the reason it makes life difficult for the campaigning group Britain in Europe.听We speak to Labour MP Chris Bryant and the Conservative MP, Ian Taylor.
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New diagnostic and treatment centres are being set up inside the NHS - provided by the independent sector - the argument is that it will take the pressure off local NHS services, and help patients who're frsutrated by long waiting times. Critics say it will听reduce the capacity of the NHS. Doctors at Oxford Eye Hospital are among the first to be raising their voices against it. We speak to Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrats' health spokesman and听Minister, Lord Warner. |
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Discovery of Blandings? Norman Murphy听is a retired colonel and former chair of the PG Wodehouse society. He thinks he's found the castle before and disagrees with the claims from the geographers听at University College London. |
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Scotland's First Minister, Jack McConnell, has stepped into the controversy over the paedophile who was sentenced to just听five years for raping a thirteen month old baby girl.听Derek Ogg is Chair of the Scottish Bar's criminal law group and Cathy Jamieson is the Scottish Justice Minister.
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Donald Rumsfeld, the American defense secretary, is in Iraq and says :"It is getting better every day". But the United States is spending a billion dollars a week on a campaign that is proving long and dangerous. Now Democrat presidential hopefuls, meeting for a televised debate in New Mexico, have seized on this apparent about-face...and, as Justin Webb reports, they're starting to land some punches... We听speak to former Minister, Clare Short. |
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If you were listening yesterday you may have heard that cricket is in such financial trouble that it risked becoming a niche sport.... like CROQUET...听 That has infuriated some croquet players. Rob Edlin White is chairman of the Nottingham Croquet Club and is ranked 592nd in the world at the game. |
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When the body of 2 yearold girl from the Wirral who died on holiday in Tenerife in April was returned to Britain, her parents were dismayed to find that all her internal organs had been removed. Spanish law apparently allows this to happen without the consent of relatives, and it seems Megan Jones' is not an isolated case.听Gary Titley is MEP for the North-West and leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament. |
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This week in 1666 the Great Fire of London started in Pudding Lane. It's effects were felt for decades. Now of course its widely accepted that it was an accident, but at the time many thought it was the work of terrorists. A new book on the fire draws parallels with the terrorist attacks of September 11th.听 The author is Adrian Tinniswood and听Professor Paul Wilkinson is听Chairman of the University of St. Andrews Centre for the Study of Terrorism & Political Violence.
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We've become used to hearing about the declining fortunes of the farming industry - the latest statistics suggest听18,000 jobs were lost last year. And that's meant many farm buildings have decayed or fallen into disuse. Well, now a farmer from Devon has come up with an unusual way of regenerating his derelict buildings - by using them to display hundreds of works of art. Our Arts Correspondent, Rebecca Jones is in Devon.
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The first stage of the Hutton inquiry ended yesterday - the next phase will begin on 15th September. Whatever the inquiry eventually finds it's already shed a little light on the way the govt manages its media operation. It's led to renewed accusations of that age-old charge: that New Labour is obsessed with presentation and - that old phraser again - spin. So just how revealing have these insights been?听 Sir Peter Stothard, former Times Editor, author of 30 Days - A month at the Heart of Blair's War - Dr Anthony Seldon, political historian and听MP Alan Duncan. |
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