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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Eight countries across the world have already adopted the idea of specialÌý"Drug Consumption Rooms" where heroin addicts can inject themselves in a safe and hygenic environment. Today there's high level backing for it from the Independent Working Group. The group's chairman is Dame Ruth Runciman. |
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A group of eminent doctors has written to every NHS trust saying they shouldn't waste money on 'implausible' treatments such as homeopathy. Mrs Jane Gilchrist, who is 93 years old, says she has benefited from complementary therapies all her life. |
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Britain is not alone in struggling to cope with illegal immigration: 800 illegal immigrants arrived in Italy just yesterday. And there, unlike here, the authorities have introduced an amnesty to give them full legal status. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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MPs will vote on the education bill today - the last chance for the government's criticsÌý to amend it.ÌýJim Knight is the Schools Minister. |
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0740 |
Are the Palestinian territories on the brink of civil war? There's been heavy fighting in recent days between Hamas militants, and Palestinian police aligned to the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas.Ìý |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with Anne Atkins, novelist and columnist. |
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Nottingham is the most dangerous city in England and Wales.ÌýThis is theÌýconclusion of a study ofÌýserious crimes in big urban areas which has been published today by the independent think tank Reform. Andrew Holdenby is director of Reform, and John Collins is the leader of Nottingham City Council. |
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Does alternative medicine work? Plenty of doctors and scientists say it doesn't and whenever proper trials are held they prove the claims are bogus. One of them, Professor Michael Baum, is a leading breast cancer specialist at University College London. Dr Peter Fisher is clinical director at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. |
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The number of members of the United Nations has increased exponentially since the end of the Cold War but could we ever reach saturation point?ÌýWe speak to the former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, and Alex Hartley, the artist who has tried to set up his own mini state in Antarctica.Ìý |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
The broadcasting regulator Ofcom, has issued the following adjudication in relation toÌýaÌýcomplaint by Dr Paul Davis on this programme on the 13th of January 2004. |
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0835 |
Three young Asian men are starting a life sentence today because they murdered a a young black man during aÌýriot in the Lozells area of Birmingham last year. What has been happening in Lozells since the riots? Maxie Hayles is a community worker in the area, and Trevor Phillips is the chairman of the commission for racial equality. |
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Yesterday the Times claimed it had seen documents proving that three countries - France, Italy and Germany - had sanctioned the payment of tens of millions of dollars to free nine hostages in Iraq. That revelation has angered Baroness Emma Nicholson, who is the Liberal Democrat vice chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament. |
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0845 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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TheÌýIsraeli government is attempting to reach a deal so it keeps its largest settlements, such as Ma'ale Adumin, in return for closing down some of the other smaller and more isolated ones. |
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The G8 summit will be held in St Petersburg this summer.ÌýAlready the West is pondering how it should deal with an increasingly authoritarian Russia.ÌýAndrei Illarionov is a former economics adviser to President Putin. |
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It is a hundred years today since the death of theÌýNorwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and there is an event at the British Library today looking at his impact on British theatre. Stephen Unwin,Ìýa director of the English touring theatre and Professor Tore Rem of Oslo University join the programme. |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.ÌýA great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
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Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists thatÌýthe Home Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Home Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot. |
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The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) |
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Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon. |
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The uncut interview with Sir Peter Hall, the first director to stage the play in 1955, with the last surviving member of the original main cast, Timothy Bateson who played 'lucky', and playwright Ronald Harwood. |
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Jim Naughtie speaks to the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Idowu Fearon, about the Anglican Church in Africa and tensions between Christians and Muslims. (25/05/05) |
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Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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Part 2 |
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First ´óÏó´«Ã½ interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign for five Britons still there to be freed. |
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Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) |
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Tony Blair speaks to Jim at the British Embassy in Washington, following his controversial Rose Garden press conference with Bush. The Iraq war, the Middle East and the first hints of an EU constitution referendum u-turn. (17/04/04). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. |
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