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There has been a major attack on Israeli forces - the first since the death of Yasser Arafat. James Reynolds has more. |
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 0610 |
The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will appear in court to answer allegations of using the Madrid train bombings for political gain. |
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 0615 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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 0626 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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 0632 |
There's been a big increase in the number of homeless people since Labour came to power. Norman Smith explains. |
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Today has interviewed the interim President of Iraq, Ghazi al-Yawar, on the forthcoming elections. James Robbins has listened to it. |
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The high court will be asked to rule on whether Stansted Airport should get an extra runway. Tom Symonds has the details. |
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A campaign is pressing for a law change to mean carrying a knife will carry the same penalty as gun possession. |
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A review of today's papers both in Britain and the Ukraine. |
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Azmat Begg, father of a detainee in Guantanamo Bay, on the long-term physical and mental damage the prisoners will suffer if they continue to be held without trial. |
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Ian Thomson of the UK Film Council on the government's plans to crack down on DVD piracy. |
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The Tories are demanding more protection for teachers accused of assaulting pupils. Richard Anderson is a teacher who was accused of assaulting a nine-year-old boy and Shadow Education Secretary Tim Collins. |
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 0712 |
Leader of Essex County Council, Lord Hanningfield on government plans to expand certain airports. |
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 0717 |
A business update with Greg Wood. |
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 0721 |
Who could have poisoned the Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yuschencko? Grigory Yavlinsky, of the Russian Democratic Party. |
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 0725 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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Following the murder of his son last year, Paul Walmsley has started a campaign to demand an increased punishment for carrying a knife John Denham is chairman of the Home Affairs select committee. |
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 0743 |
What it's like to be a Lord? The Earl if Onslow takes the BBC's Political Editor Andrew Marr on a tour... |
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 0748 |
Thought for the Day with the Reverend Dr Colin Morris. |
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Iraq's interim President Ghazi Al Yawar gives his thoughts on the county's first democratic elections next month. |
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 0810 |
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on the increase in the number of homeless people in Britain since 1997. |
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 0822 |
Today launches its Christmas poll - Listener's Lord - we want you to nominate somebody you think is worthy of a life peerage. Here with their nominations are writer Craig Brown and veteran broadcaster Joan Bakewell. |
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 0826 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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 0832 |
Tony Blair's Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq, Anne Clwyd, on the legacy of Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses. |
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 0839 |
A business update with Greg Wood. |
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Schools Minister Stephen Twigg gives the government's reaction to the Tories campaign for better legal protection for teachers
accused of assaulting pupils. |
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 0846 |
Seventeen volumes of political pamphlets from the English Civil War are being handed to the British Library today. |
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Adrian Lyons, Director General of the Railway Forum, on whether railways of the future could be run on hydrogen. |
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Baroness Warnock has suggested it might be better for a seriously-ill older person to kill themselves than to become a burden on their family. Melanie Phillips and Dr Michael Irwin. |
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