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10/08/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Mon 10 Aug 2015 06:00

08/10/2015

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The Internet Watch Foundation has joined forces with Facebook and Twitter to remove millions of indecent images of children on the web, by sharing what are called hash lists. The charity which takes down indecent images of children says the wider use of a photo tagging system could be a game changer in the fight against paedophiles. 聽But there is much scepticism around whether it will make any real difference. Sima Kotecha reports.

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More than 300,000 households in Lancashire are still being advised to boil their water after United Utilities announced that "low" traces of the microbial parasite cryptosporidium at Franklaw water treatment works outside Preston last Thursday. Clare Fallon is in Warrington.

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The Department of Health has admitted there are loopholes in the rules for issuing European Health Insurance cards leaving British taxpayers potentially vulnerable to fraud. Ministers say they will look urgently at tightening the system after revelations that migrants who have not worked in Britain could obtain. Hugh Pyn is our health editor.

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United Nations sponsored talks on Libya are due to resume in Geneva today, aimed at reaching agreement on ways to set up a government of national unity, in order to bring some stability to Libya. But doubts remain over whether some of the key figures in Libya's divided political landscape will attend. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.

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The government will target illegal workers in the care, construction and cleaning industries this autumn as it tries to tackle firms exploiting undocumented migrant labour. Robin Brant is our political correspondent.聽

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There are pretty desperate scenes unfolding in Pakistan. Monsoon floods have killed at least 170 people. Overall nearly one million have been affected as the water has inundated vital agricultural land. It's the fifth year in a row that it's happened and some accuse the government of failing to build dams and manage the disasters. Shaimaa Khalil reports.聽
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Farming unions are holding a summit to discuss low prices in both diary and livestock which they say are causing a crisis in the industry. Farmers say the supermarkets are charging too little - less than it costs to produce - and it's forcing some of them out of business. Meurig Raymond is president of the national farmers union.

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Talks resume in Geneva today, aimed at reaching agreement on ways to set up a government of national unity, in order to bring some stability to Libya. An estimated 5,000 migrants displaced from Libya and other countries are believed to be camped in and around Calais. Yesterday the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Europe will not be able to preserve its living standards if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa. Mattia Toaldo is a policy fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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The Department of Health has admitted there are loopholes in the rules for issuing European Health Insurance cards leaving British taxpayers potentially vulnerable to fraud. Meirion Thomas, a consultant surgeon, joins us in our studio.

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More than 300,000 households in Lancashire are still being advised to boil their water after United Utilities announced that "low" traces of the microbial parasite cryptosporidium at Franklaw water treatment works outside Preston last Thursday. Gary Dickson is domestic retail director of United Utilities.

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Simon Jack speaks to Mark Goldring is chief executive of Oxfam UK following publication of their annual report. It comes at a time when big donor organisations are under great scrutiny about how they spend and gather their funds.

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Rory Cellan-Jones reports now on concerns that Europe simply doesn't have the entrepreneurial skills to compete with the world's technological superpowers. 聽

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For the first time in the UK, the Internet Watch Foundation has joined forces with Facebook and Twitter to remove millions of indecent images of children on the web, by sharing what are called hash lists. 聽The charity which takes down indecent images of children says the wider use of a photo tagging system could be a game changer in the fight against paedophiles. 聽But there is much scepticism around whether it will make any real difference. Claire Lilley is head of child safety online at the NSPCC.

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UK police officers begin patrols in Magaluf this morning as part of a security initiative funded by the British Foreign Office. Spanish resorts have struggled to deal with a surge in drunk or violent behaviour among tourists over the summer months. Tom Burridge reports.聽

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UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead says she wants allegations of widespread cheating to be investigated without becoming "trial by media". Eight British athletes - including Mo Farah - have published their blood test data from their 鈥渂iological passports鈥 on the Sunday Times website. Were they right to do so? Hattie Archer is a British steeplechase runner who has published her blood data, and Nicole Sapstead chief executive of the independent doping agency UK Anti-Doping,聽

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United Nations sponsored talks on Libya are due to resume in Geneva today, aimed at reaching agreement on ways to set up a government of national unity, in order to bring some stability to Libya. But doubts remain over whether some of the key figures in Libya's divided political landscape will attend. Alex Jakana speaks to a pregnant Nigerian woman who has just spent three years getting there and suffered severe abuse in Libya. Brando Benifei, Italian Democratic MEP and Andrew Mitchell former International Development Secretary, speak to us.聽

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David Nobbs, the author and creator of TV show Reggie Perrin has died. Caroline Raphael is a former commissioning editor for comedy and fiction at Radio 4. She left the 成人快手 in March this year, and Margaret Cabourn-Smith is a comedy writer and performer who worked with David Nobbs on the last radio series that he wrote - The Maltby Collection.聽

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The results of the Scottish Labour leadership contest are to be announced this Saturday. It鈥檚 the last week of campaigning for the two contenders. Kezia Dugdale is acting leader of Scottish Labour and Ken Macintosh is member of the Scottish Parliament for Eastwood.

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A film about the legendary LA rap group NWA will be released this week in the US. The band were hugely controversial when they burst on to the music scene in 1988. What impact did NWA have, and how does the new film chart the band鈥檚 legacy. Angus Baety is a freelance hip hop writer and Peter Dalton, also known as MistaJam, presenter on 成人快手 Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ, join us.聽

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The government will this week introduce new rules that will allow the fast-tracking of fracking applications through the planning system, the intention being to kick-start the shale gas revolution. Ministers will have greater powers to wrest decisions from local authorities if planners are perceived to be obstructive. Jennifer Mein, leader of Lancashire County Council聽

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The man who claims responsibility for ending Sri Lanka's bloody civil war is now fighting for his political life. Mahinda Rajapaksa lost the presidency and now, with parliamentary elections due next week, he is fighting to become an MP, hampered by allegations of industrial scale corruption. Our South Asia Correspondent Justin Rowlatt, reports

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Cricket documentary鈥 Death of a Gentleman鈥 is released this week. 聽It suggests that the sport is being governed by and in the self-interest of India, Australia and England, at the expense of smaller cricketing nations, and that the long form of the game test cricket is dying as the more lucrative IPL and T20 formats are prioritised. Sam Collins is the director of the film and Mihir Bose is a sports journalist.聽

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