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0609 |
InÌýDarfur despite a peace agreement struck a year ago, violence continues. Hilary Benn, the International Development Secretary, is holding talks with the Sudanese government in Khartoum today. |
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0611 |
The Government says it isÌýready to deal with bird flu; but it appears that there are no stocks of vaccine. |
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0614 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.
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0626 |
Arsenal claimed a shock victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League last night. Gary Richardson has this story and others in theÌýsports news update. |
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0630 |
A charity working withÌývictims of crime says that relatives of people who've been murdered aren't being treated properly. |
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0634 |
Churches and other faith groups have issued a joint statement saying they believe thatÌýreligious schools should teach children about faiths other than their own. |
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0640 |
Is the net closing onÌýGeneral Ratko Mladic one of the world's two most wanted war crimes suspects? The Serbian government is denying reports that he has been arrested. |
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0645 |
AÌýreview of the papers form the UK and Israel. |
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0648 |
TheÌýUgandan President Yoweri Museveni has held a final campaign rally ahead of elections tomorrow. The President warned Ugandans not to be influenced by what he described as 'foreign meddlers'. |
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The Government's plans for merging the four police forces in Wales have been criticised by the Welsh Affairs Committee of MPs.Ìý The Committee's chairman is Labour MP, Hywel Francis. |
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We now know that theÌýPrince of Wales regards himself as a "dissident" working against political opinion. That's according to a statement from his former private secretary Mark Bolland on the first day of a High Court case brought by the Prince. |
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0709 |
Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, a member of the European parliament foreign affairs committee, talks about the hunt for General Ratko Mladic, whoÌýis wanted by the International tribunal in the Hague for war crimes. |
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0711 |
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says everyone needs to be screened for signs of malnutrition. Andrea Sutcliffe is deputy chief executive of NICE. |
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0715 |
The charity, Victim Support, has published a report which says that relative of murder victims are getting a raw deal from the criminal justice system. Peter Dunn is one of the authors of the report. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0722 |
The UK freestyle mogul champion, Simon Bates, tells us why he is not at the Winter Olympics in Turin. |
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0725 |
In Iraq, one of the holiest sites in the Muslim world has been badly damaged in a bomb attack. |
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0727 |
The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0730 |
The International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, talks about his recent trip to Darfur, and the current situation in the region. |
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0740 |
Moles have come under attack recently in a House of Lords Debate. The Conservative peer, Lord Kimball, was one of those who spoke out against the animal. |
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0750 |
Thought for the Day with Anne Atkins, novelist and columnist. |
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0755 |
You may not have heard of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, but it isÌýimportant: it is a piece of legislation which will make it easier for government to change primary legislation without parliamentary consent. We speak to the cabinet minister, Jim Murphy, who is in charge of the bill, and the Conservative MP, Kenneth Clarke. |
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0810 |
The relatives of murder victims feel they're getting a raw deal from the criminal justice system according to the organisation Victim Support. Frances Lawrence, the widow of the murdered school teacher Philip Lawrence, speaks to the programme. |
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0817 |
The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shia community Ayatollah Said Ali al-Sistani has called for a week of mourning following the attack in the past few hours on the Askari shrine in Samara. Robert Hillenbrand is Professor of Islamic Art at Edinburgh University. |
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0820 |
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most important events in the history of the former Soviet Union -ÌýKhruschev's speech denouncing Stalin as a tyrant. |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0830 |
Should the heir to the throne be acting as a dissident, working against the prevailing political consensus, commenting on matters of public debate? The official biographer of the Queen, William Shawcross, and Tristram Hunt, the author and historian, tell us what they think.
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0838 |
As part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Action Week Polly Billington has been to Ipswich to find out what happens when mainstream politics interacts with grassroots campaigns. |
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0845 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0850 |
Edward Garnier, a member of the Conservative's home affairs team, and Rose Dixon, from the charity SAMM, "support after Murder and Manslaughter", discuss the claim thatÌýrelatives of the victims of murder are let down by the criminal justice system. |
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0853 |
Is it possible to reconcile the growth in air travel with the need to hit targets on CO2 emissions? |
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0856 |
The work of Michael Young,Ìý who wrote a classic account of the communities he observed in the East end of London, has been updated and is a remarkable account of what is going on in that are today. The shadow education secretary, David Willets, and Rushanara Ali, the associate director of the Young Foundation, speak to the programme. |
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