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25/02/2017

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 25 Feb 2017 07:00

Today's runnning order

0710

Several major news organisations, including The New York Times, CNN, the 成人快手 and the Los Angeles Times, have been excluded from a press briefing at the White House. The 成人快手鈥檚 Tulip Mazumdar reports from Washington.

0712

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will give a speech later today as he is throwing a party for his 93rd birthday. The 成人快手鈥檚 Shingai Nyoka reports.

0715

Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mark D'Arcy reports with the news from Yesterday in Parliament.

0720

The UN's new climate chief has admitted she's worried about President Trump but confident that action to curb climate change is unstoppable. Roger Harrabin is the 成人快手鈥檚 environmental analyst.

0730

Jeremy Corbyn has said he won鈥檛 be stepping down as Labour leader after the loss at the Copeland by-election. Gerard Coyne is a Unite leadership contender.

0740

On this week's Meet the Author, we have a powerful novel about loneliness and human frailty. Jim Naughtie reports.

0750

The Government says we need to build 1,000,000 new homes by 2020 to address our broken housing system. Today鈥檚 Sophie Long reports and Neil Jefferson is managing director of the National House Building Council.听

0810

Iraq is widening its campaign against Islamic State, with its ground troops entering western Mosul and its air force striking targets across the border in Syria. The 成人快手鈥檚 Wyre Davis reports and Mike Stephens is a research fellow for Middle East studies and head of RUSI in Qatar.

0820

The Oscars are tomorrow night, will the shadow of Donald Trump darken the ceremony? The 成人快手鈥檚 arts editor Will Gompertz reports from LA.

0830

Jeremy Corbyn says he will not step down following Labour's Copeland by-election loss to the Conservatives. Mick Whelan is Aslef general secretary and chair of the Trade Union and Labour Party Liaison Organisation.

0840

After President Trump addressed a conservative rally in Maryland in which he claimed that some media outlets are enemies of the American people, he has excluded several major news organisations from a press briefing at the White House. Jeff Mason is the president of the White House Correspondents Association.

0850

The British Women鈥檚 American Football League starts today with 20 women's teams competing. Great Britain have also qualified to compete in the world championships. Jim Messenger is the head of women鈥檚 development at the British American Football Association and Jo Kilby is the quarterback for Great Britain.

0855

The victory of the Conservative candidate in Copeland on Thursday was the best by-election performance of a governing party since January 1966, in terms of increase of share of the vote. Lord David Willetts worked for No 10 under Margaret Thatcher and Philip Collins is a columnist from The Times and was chief speechwriter to Tony Blair.

All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Feb 2017 07:00