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0607 |
3 UN workers kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan are reported to have been released . Our correspondent in Kabul is Roland Burke. |
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0610 |
Relations between India and Pakistan which were at danger point in recent times are now warming. |
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A review of the morning's papers. |
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The business news with Greg Wood. |
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Today's Queen's Speech is expected to herald tougher sanctions against animal rights activists and others who threaten people at work or in their homes. |
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Britain's five main business organisations are in Brussels today to complain about various things to the new team of European commissioners. |
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The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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It's the Queen's speech today...Tony Blair's speech, if you prefer. Our political correspondent is James Hardy. |
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The opposition candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections, Viktor Yuschenko, is demanding an emergency parliamentary session today after Prime Minister Yanukovych was declared the winner. |
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A look at the papers here in the UK and in Paris. |
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A year ago laws were passed banning drivers from using mobile phones. But it appears that more drivers are using them. |
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It's World Aids Day on December 1st . But according to a report out today, there's not much to celebrate. |
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There have been overnight protests in the Ukraine due to the alleged fraud in the Ukrainian presidential elections. |
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It's the Queen's speech today. The Liberal Democrats say it will be dominated by a "climate of fear" created deliberately by the government.
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There's supposed to be a ceasefire in Sudan - yet 4-0 aid workers from Save the Children had to flee into bush areas to escape clashes in Darfur yesterday. |
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One of the things to look out for in today's Queen's Speech is the inclusion of a bill to ratify the European constitutional treaty in UK law. |
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0745 |
Apparently, eating chocolate is one of the best remedies around for persistent coughing. |
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Thought for the Day. The speaker is Martin Palmer - Director of an International Consultancy in World Religions. |
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When MG Rover was sold by BMW four years ago for 10 pounds to the Phoenix Consortium, its new owners predicted it would be profitable by 2003. Wrong. |
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The government has been in power for seven and a half years and we'll find out today what its plans are for the next parliamentary session. They will be delivered in the Queen's speech. Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports and we're joined by John Prescott. |
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Dr Andrew Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Ukraine Studies at University College London. What does he make of the recent elections there? |
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Remember all those campaigns to protect the rain forest? We were told the government of Brazil and others were actually doing something to stop the forests being ripped apart. Hylton Murray-Philipson of Rainforest Concern and Stanley Johnson, a prospective Conservative candidate speak to us. |
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It's now a year since the British Society for Middle East Research warned of a crisis in the teaching of Arabic and other Middle Eastern subjects. Kate Clark reports. |
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Who needs authors now we've got computers? |
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