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19/03/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 19 Mar 2016 07:00

Today's running order

0710

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing 拢4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". Chris Mason is聽the 成人快手's political correspondent聽and Bernard Jenkin is Conservative MP and friend of Iain Duncan Smith.

0715

A passenger jet crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don killing all 55 passengers and seven crew on board. Steve Rosenberg the 成人快手鈥檚 Moscow correspondent joins us live from Moscow.

0720

An exceptionally bright meteor spotted in the skies above the UK in the early hours of Thursday morning was between the size of a basketball and family-car sized, weighing 109kg. Richard Kacarek is co-founder of the UK Meteor Network.

0725

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing 拢4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". Jonathan Portes is from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and used to be Chief Economist at the Department for Work and Pensions.

0730

On February the 20th, eight people in the small town of Kalamazoo, west of Detroit, were shot in a gun rampage blamed on an Uber driver who was picking up passengers in between the attacks. Gene Kopf, is victim Abigail Kopf鈥檚 father.

0740

In our new weekly Meet the Author interview, Jim Naughtie speaks to novelist Sophie Hannah. 聽

0750

Salah Abdeslam was the ringleader of the deadly attacks on Paris four months ago. He was caught in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, the area suspected of harbouring so many radical Muslims over the years. Michel Eylenbosch, chairman of the Molenbeek city council joins us live from Brussels.

0810

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Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing 拢4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". Baroness Phillipa Stroud who worked with Iain Duncan Smith for five years and is now Executive Director of the Centre for Social Justice which Iain Duncan Smith founded, joins us live in the studio.

0820

Kevin Connolly is the 成人快手鈥檚 Middle East Correspondent and has been travelling through the Moroccan capital Rabat where a new centre has opened for the training of Imams from West Africa whose job will be to return to their homes and preach against violence and extremism.

0830

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing 拢4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". 聽Laura Keunssberg is the 成人快手鈥檚 political editor and Michael Fallon is the Defence Secretary.

0840

Pope Francis is marking the third anniversary of his election today by joining Instagram. Dr Mariann Hardey from Durham University specialises in marketing at the Business School in Durham University and Mike Wendling is a journalist with 成人快手 Trending.

0850

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, denouncing 拢4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". 聽Isabel Oakeshott is the political editor at Large at the Daily Mail. Matthew D鈥橝ncona is Guardian and Evening Standard columnist.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Mar 2016 07:00