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0607 |
It was widely predicted that election day would be greeted with enthusiasm in southern Iraq - and so indeed it proved. Ben Brown is in Basra. |
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0610 |
On his website he's predicted he'll be acquitted - today Michael Jackson, the pop singer who's charged with molesting a 13 yearÌýold boy faces day one of his trial. |
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0615 |
The business news |
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0628 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson |
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0632 |
There are still fewÌýdetails on the British Hercules transport plane that crashed north of Baghdad yesterday. It's understood at least nine troops were killed - the biggest British loss since the war. |
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0635 |
In Baghdad is our correspondent Paul Wood,Ìýand Jim Muir joins us on the line from Arbil in Northern Iraq. |
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0637 |
Under new legislation due to be announced today,Ìýanimal rights extremists who attempt to drive research groups and their suppliers out of business could face jail sentences of up to five years. |
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0641 |
The engineering company Balfour Beatty Raid maintenance and five railway managers will go on trialÌýfor manslaughter today. Tom Symonds is our Transport Correspondent. |
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0643 |
AÌýreview of today's papers in the UK andÌýin Cairo .
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0648 |
Campaigners trying to ban child labour in many of the poorest parts of the world might be doing more harm than good, according to new research by two leading professors of economics.Ìý |
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0653 |
What happened to Iraq's oil wealth that was supposed to be spent reconstructing the country?
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The last serious crash involving a Hercules transport plane was in 1994.ÌýAir Vice Marshal Tony Mason, is advisor to the House of Commons Defence Committee and joins us now. |
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0712 |
In Baghdad the polls have nowÌýclosed.ÌýHow did it go? |
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0723 |
The Sports news with Garry Richardson |
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0731 |
Animal rights extremists whoÌýintimidate companies which causes economic damage to an animal research organisation couldÌý be punishable with a five year prison sentence.Ìý Pallab Ghosh reports.Ìý |
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0742 |
Voting may be routine for us in Britain - it is anything but for the Iraqis. One of our translators here in the Baghdad bureau came back from voting in such a state of high emotion and spoke about the experience with such eloquence that we asked him to record his thoughts.
Read the transcript. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Oliver McTernan, writer and broadcaster. |
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0749 |
HIV:We talk to Edwin Cameron, a Justice of South Africa's Supreme Court of AppealÌýand to Chris Smith, former minister for Culture, Media and Sport both of whom are HIV positive. |
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0810 |
Iraq's election:The UN's advisor to the Independent Electoral, Carlos Valenzuela joins us along with Jack Straw, to discuss the recent election. |
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0824 |
Are we suffering from book awards fatigue?Ìý Ian Rankin, the crime fiction novelist and Boyd Tomkin, the Independent's Literary Editor join us. |
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0834 |
OurÌýWorld Affairs Editor, John Simpson has been covering the elections here in Baghdad - the latest in many years of assignments in Iraq. |
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0838 |
It could be the celebrity trial to beat all celebrity trials.Ìý Michael Jackson stands accused of sexually molesting a 13 year old boy at his Neverland home in 2003.Ìý Today the long process of selecting the jury at Santa Maria in California gets underway.Ìý
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0844 |
Iraq's Election:ÌýWe are joined by New York Times Bureau Chief John Burns here in Baghdad - the former conservative foreign secretary Malcolm RifkindÌýand ÌýDr Nadia All Ali of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. |
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