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07/04/2017

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 7 Apr 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650

President Donald Trump has said the US military has carried out a cruise missile attack on an airbase from which Syrian government planes staged a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. Colonel Peter Mansoor was adviser to General David Petraeus during the Iraq troop surge of 2007.

0655

Scientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time. John Southworth is a lecturer working in the astrophysics group at Keele University.

0710

Overnight the United States has attacked an airbase in Syria with 59 cruise missiles. John Sopel is the 成人快手鈥檚 North America editor and Dai Wittingham was air commander for air operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

0715

From today Facebook will feature alerts warning about fake news. Nick Robinson reports.

0720

Cadbury has found itself under fire from church and state this week over its removal of the word Easter from its annual egg hunt with the National Trust. Glenn Caton is president of Cadbury in Northern Europe.

0730

Overnight the United States has attacked an airbase in Syria with 59 cruise missiles. James Jeffreys is former US ambassador to Iraq, Turkey and Albania and听Jeremy Bowen is the 成人快手鈥檚 Middle East editor.

0740

Last month the head of British Cycling apologised for "failings" following accusations of bullying and sexism against top-level cyclists. Now the organisation is announcing that it has created the role of 'people director' as it seeks "to transform the organisation by putting the welfare of athletes and staff at its core". Michael Chivers is British Cycling鈥檚 people director.

0750

From today Facebook will feature alerts warning about fake news. Amol Rajan is the 成人快手鈥檚 media editor and Lord Allan is Facebook鈥檚 director of policy in Europe.

0810

President Donald Trump has said the US military has carried out a cruise missile attack on an airbase from which Syrian government planes staged a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. General Jack Keane is former vice chief of staff of the US Army and Michael Fallon is UK defence secretary.听

0820

Yesterday morning the Today programme reported on how rare furnishings and fabrics adorning properties run by English Heritage are at risk of an epidemic of moths. Shortly afterwards a new hashtag #Notallmoths started to be used on twitter, used by people keen to point out that we were in fact talking about clothes moths. Zoe Randle is survey officer for Butterfly Conservation and Jeremy Angel is a costume designer.

0830

Overnight the United States has attacked an airbase in Syria with 59 cruise missiles. Reza Afshar is from the Independent Diplomat, a group that advises the Syrian Opposition, and Crispin Blunt is chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee.

0835

President Trump has met the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida in what was expected to be a difficult encounter. Carrie Gracie is the 成人快手鈥檚 China editor.

0840

Welsh language public service broadcast S4C, the UK's fourth oldest television channel, releases its "vision for the future" today - outlining what they feel they need to succeed and survive in this modern digital era. The 成人快手鈥檚 correspondent in Wales, Tomos Morgan, has been exploring the options.

0850

From today Facebook will feature alerts warning about fake news. Alex听Krasodomski is a researcher of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and Kate Bevan is a freelance writer and broadcaster who specialises in technology and social media.

All subject to change.

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  • Fri 7 Apr 2017 06:00