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| 0609 | It's World Aids Day and the World Heath Organisation is launching a plan to ensure three million people get the treatment they need by the end of 2005. Karen Allen is our health correspondent. | |
| 0609 | There's an unofficial peace agreement being signed between the Israelis and the Palestinians in Geneva today. 听James Reynolds is our Middle East correspondent. | |
| 0615 | Rebecca Marston has a round-up of today's business news. | |
| 0630 | What hopes for today's meeting between the Northern Ireland Secretary, Paul Murphy, and the Democratic Unionists? Our Ireland Correspondent is Kevin Connolly. | |
| 0634 | There's been fierce fighting in the central Iraqi city of Samarra..U.S soldiers say they have听killed 46 Iraqi fighters. Jo Floto is our correspondent in Baghdad. | |
| 0641 | Some are suggesting the government is retreating over university top up fees - is this true? Norman Smith is our political correspondent. | |
| 0643 | Todays World Press Review comes from Adam Mynott in India. | |
| 0645 | A new online database is being launched today to try to establish what has happened to some of the two hundred thousand people who go missing every year. Rory MacLean reports.
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| 0650 | The local Muslim community in Gloucester was shocked by the arrest of 24 year old Sajid Badat. And today police there will meet community representatives, MPs and councillors to hear their concerns. Shabbir Bham is a representative of the muslim community in Gloucester. | |
| 0655 | There is evidence that there may be a solar system just like our own fairly close by - Mark Wyatt of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory. | |
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| 0709 | The British government will be setting out it's "Call for Action on HIV/AIDs" later today - to coincide with World Aids Day听The International Development Secretary is Hilary Benn. | |
| 0713 | There have been more reports suggesting the nine British prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay could be back in Britain by Christmas - Clive Sfafford-Smith is a lawyer representing听some of the inmates. | |
| 0716 | Is the government is getting cold feet about putting its proposals for university top-up fees to a vote in the House of Commons this week?听 Labour's former Chief Whip Nick Brown and Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin. | |
| 0720 | Today's signing of an unofficial peace agreement between a group of Israelis and Palestinians marks the beginning of a big week for negotiations. They could include a meeting between the Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and the Ariel Sharon. Jake Lynch reports from Bethlehem. | |
| 0730 | From today you could听face听a fixed penalty if you are spotted using a mobile phone while driving. Roger Harrabin reported a year ago about people driving through a busy junction in North London using mobile phones. Have habits changed? | |
| 0740 | Peter Donaldson has a review of today's newspapers. | |
| 0743 | Some of the wildlife in this country has only survived because of conservation efforts. But just as there are success stories there are also disasters.听Tony Juniper the Director of Friends of the Earth. | |
| 0751 | American soliders were involved in fierce fighting in the central Iraqi town of Samarra last night. November has been the worst month for deaths since the war started. Ann Clwyd is the Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq. | |
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| 0810 | A formidable task faces the Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy. He is meeting the Democratic Unionists today to see听if he can get any sort of conversation going between them and听Sinn Fein about the Good Friday Agreement. Leader of the DUP is Ian Paisley. | |
| 0822 | It's the world premiere of the final instalment of the Lord of the Rings听in New Zealand's capital Wellington. What has been the impact for New Zealand tourism? Peter Calder听and Chloe Groser from Positively Wellington Tourism... | |
| 0830 | John le Carre on his new book 'Absolute Friends' - a fierce polemic against American foreign policy.
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| 0843 | Should West Mercia police have prosecuted a doctor who agreed to the late abortion of a foetus that had a cleft palate? Ann Furedi is the Chief Executive of the Pregnancy Advisory Service. | |
| 0846 | We reported complaints last year from soldiers who felt they were being wrongly sacked under what's known as the manning control system. Now 160 servicemen say they will sue the Ministry of Defence.Liberal Democrat defence spokesman, Paul Keetch. | |
| 0849 | The Electoral Commission is publishing draft plans for new single tier councils covering areas like North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Northumberland. Luke Walton reports from Northumberland...
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| 0855 | The Northern Ireland Women's coalition lost its only two Assembly seats in the recent election there - we speak to two members of the coalition -听Jane Morrice was one of its two assembly members and Eliz Byrne McCullough was a candidate in the elections. | |
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