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0607 |
What's the next step in the mounting diplomatic crisis over Iran's nuclear programme? |
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0609 |
Millions of Afghans have defiedÌýTaleban threats to vote in elections for a new national assembly. Andrew North is our correspondent in Kabul. |
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0615 |
Greg Wood has the business news. |
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0626 |
Garry RichardsonÌýwith the sports news. |
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0631 |
Angela Merkel's conservatives have won the German election...by just three seats. Ray Furlong is in Berlin. |
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0634 |
The Liberal Democrats are arguing about the future direction of the party. What's the mood at their conference in Blackpool? |
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0636 |
Plans for prisoners serving short sentences to be held in community jails will be set out by the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke today.ÌýOur home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, reports. |
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0640 |
Today'sÌýnewspaper review comes from the UK and Liberia. |
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0645 |
Britain has more television channels devoted toÌýpornography than any other country in Europe. But the big new growth area is apparently mobile phones. Our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh reports. |
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0649 |
Our correspondent in Baghdad, Richard Galpin, has been considering to what extentÌýIraq has already degenerated into civil war. |
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0654 |
Teachers want more powers to restrainÌýbadly behaved children and to exclude them from school if need be. Steve Sinnott is the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers. |
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0709 |
Germany faces a deeply uncertain political future. Our reporter Andrew Hosken has been watching events unfold from Berlin. |
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0715 |
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips says that Britain is "sleep-walking" its way to becoming a society of segregation. We speak to his predecessor Lord Ouseley. |
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0719 |
TheÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood. |
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0721 |
The International Atomic Energy Agency is meetingÌý in Vienna today. What canÌýit do about Iran? We hear from Hans Blix, the former UN Iraq weapons inspector. |
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0727 |
Garry Richardson has the sports news. |
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0734 |
In BlackpoolÌýthe Liberal Democrats are reconsidering all their policies. Our political correspondent Iain WatsonÌýhas been out and about on the conference fringe and we hear from the party's campaign chairman, LordÌýRazzall. |
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0744 |
The tawny owl is Britain's most common owl species, but there are fears that its numbers are in decline.ÌýThe British Trust for Ornithology wants people to take part in an owl survey. Our environment correspondent Tim Hirsch finds out more. |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day. The speaker is the Reverend Dr Alan Billings. |
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0751 |
Political leaders inÌýGermany will begin the scramble to form a workable coalition government today. Our Europe editor is Mark Mardell and we hear from Friedrich Bokern,ÌýaÌýCDU MP in BerlinÌýand Walter Momper, former Berlin mayor and a member of the SPD party. |
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0810 |
The man who was Britain's most senior police officer,Ìýthe former Metropolitan Police Chief Constable, Lord Stevens. |
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0824 |
As residents return to New Orleans we'll hear how the city'sÌýblues musicians are starting to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina. |
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0831 |
A group of Bishops in the Church of Englandsays that if the government will not apologise for the war in Iraq then the church should meet Muslim leaders to say sorry for what has happened. The Rt Rev Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford chaired the house of bishops working group that came up with the idea. |
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0835 |
Greg Wood with a business update. |
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0838 |
The first of three commissioned essays from political veterans. This week the Liberal DemocratÌýLord Steel offers adviceÌýtoÌýhis party as it begins its conference. |
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0841 |
The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten on his party'sÌýannual conference in Blackpool. |
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0845 |
Tony Blair believes theÌý´óÏó´«Ã½'s coverage of Hurricane Katrina is "full of hate" for America, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has claimed in a speech. Listen to what Mr Murdoch had to say. |
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0848 |
ManyÌýBritish MuslimsÌýare unhappy about the Iraq war and feel alienated by the government's anti-terrorÌýlegislation. So have they been turning to the Liberal Democrats instead? Zulfi Bukhari is from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee andÌýBaroness Kishwer Falkner speaks for the Lib Dems in the Lords. |
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0852 |
The people ofÌýAfghanistan went to the polls yesterday. Many of the candidates are warlords and former Taleban. Labour MEP Richard Howitt, the foreign affairs spokesman for the EuropeanÌý parliament. |
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0854 |
How willÌýGermany 's political stalemate be resolved and how will a "grand coalition" impact on the rest of Europe? Hugh Williamson, Berlin correspondent for the Financial Times andÌýGisella Stuart, aÌýGerman-born Labour MPÌýfor Birmingham.Ìý |
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