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0607 | The European Union's court of auditors is refusing to approve the EU's annual accounts - again. Tim Franks is our correspondent in Brussels. | |
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0610 | Portuguese workers who are tricked into signing away their employment rights when they come here to work are to get help from the government. Stephen Cape is our labour affairs correspondent. | |
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0615 | Greg Wood with the business news. | |
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0632 | Our economics editor Evan Davis on Chancellor Gordon Brown and American Treasury Secretary Jon Snow, ahead of the Chancellor's address to the CBI conference later today. | |
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0635 | President Bush arrives in London today for his state visit. Danny Shaw is our home affairs correspondent. | |
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0638 | The Children's Minister Margaret Hodge announced late last night that she will make a public apology to the child abuse victim she described as "extremely disturbed". Norman Smith is our political correspondent. | |
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0640 | Charlotte Green with today's听paper review. | |
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0645 | For our world press review, Caroline Wyatt in Paris. | |
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0650 | Plans designed to end disputes between neighbours over high hedges have completed their passage through Parliament, as our correspondent, Susan Hulme, reports. | |
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0654 | 12,000 species are now at risk of extinction. Craig Hilton-Taylor, involved in producing the World Conservation Union's annual Red List. | |
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0659 | The first ever full annual report into the standards of education offered to adults in England is published today - David Sherlock is the Chief Inspector of Adult Learning. | |
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0709 | Gordon Brown is going to be talking about trade relations between Britain and the US in a speech at the CBI today - we speak to his Conservative shadow Oliver Letwin. | |
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0714 | David Frum - George Bush's speechwriter responsible for the phrase, "Axis of Evil", and Eric Pooley, Europe Editor of Time Magazine, ahead of the American President's arrival in London tonight. | |
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0719 | There are more signs that British Muslims have been recruited by extremists to fight as suicide bombers abroad. Bob Walker reports. | |
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0724 | Just a few more days to go in our photo competition... This morning we're featuring Patty Harrison's entry. | |
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0730 | A year ago听this month the Ethiopian听Prime Minister warned听that unless relief arrived on a scale never seen before the situation in his drought-stricken country would be worse than the famine which inspired the Band Aid appeal. Mike Thomson has returned to Ethiopia to see what has happened since. | |
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0745 | Yesterday we reported from a village in France, where听wild wallabies听have been spotted.听A number of you got in touch to say that they're here as well... | |
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0750 | Will Lord Black be able to hold onto his newspaper empire? Martin O'Neill is chairman of the Trade and Industry Select Committee. Don Foster is the Liberal Democrat trade spokesman. | |
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0810 | Leaving the predicted protests about Iraq to one side, the possibility of a trade war between Europe and the United States is casting its own shadow over this week's visit by the American President. The Chancellor, Gordon Brown. | |
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0821 | Mickey Mouse is seventy five today, but how much has he changed since appearing in听Steamboat Willie in 1928? Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novelist - and the broadcaster and fan Paul Gambaccini. | |
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0830 | This is a story that would be hard to make up... Ben Territt, creative director of the advertising agency Design Conspiracy, has more. | |
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0837 | Do you remember the Millennium Development Goals听? Roger Harrabin reports on how progress is already slipping, followed by International Development听Secretary Hilary Benn. | |
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0840 | Greg Wood with a business update. | |
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0845 | President Bush will听face questions about the Guantanamo Bay prisoners during his visit this week. Azmat Bett is the father of the Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. | |
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0855 | Clive Woodward said on this programme yesterday that the England Rugby team are using debugging devices - but听is this paranoid or just prudent? Mark Souster is a sports correspondent at the Times. | |
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0857 | Do the predicted protests against this week's state visit by President Bush give an entirely fair picture of opinion in the nation as a whole? Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland and writer William Shawcross. | |
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0859 | Bonnie Green from the premature baby charity Bliss, on the woman from East Sussex who had to be taken by ambulance to Manchester to give birth to her premature baby. | |
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