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0607 | A verdict is expected soon in the trial of a man accused of leading a terrorist group that planted the bomb in a Bali night club last year. Our Correspondent in Indonesia is Rachel Harvey.
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0609 | Hong Kong is bracing itself for the arrival of a Typhoon, our Correspondent in the region is Chris Hogg. | |
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0615 | Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | Senior trade union leaders will meet Tony Blair today to tell him what they're worried about. Our Labour Affairs Correspondent is Stephen Cape. | |
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0635 | The burial will take place today in Iraq of the Shi'ite cleric who was killed, along with 80 others, in a car bomb last week.听Peter Biles is in Baghdad. | |
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0637 | The Hutton inquiry will be told today about the search for Dr Kelly after he disappeared. Our Political Correspondent is Sean Ley. | |
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0640 | The World Press Review comes from James Reynolds in Jerusalem. | |
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0645 | The Greek island village of Faliraki has now become synonymous with the drunken brawling of British tourists. British police have spent the weekend on Rhodes advising their Greek counterparts on how to deal with anti social behaviour by drunken British tourists. Chief Superintendent听Andy Rhodes听from Lancashire Police. | |
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0650 | Should the goverment be doing more to tackle the problem of arson? That's the view of the Liberal Democrats who have carried out new research. Matthew Taylor is their Treasury spokesman. | |
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0655 | It's a tired old cliche: the great geniuses of jazz were booze-soaked, drug crazed characters who could barely manage their lives. It also happens to be true. There's a report about it today in the British Journal of Psychiatry written by Dr Geoffrey Wills.
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0709 | The burial will take place today of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim - the Shi ite cleric who was killed, along with more than 80 others, in a car bomb last week in Najaf. Many in the region believe that Iraq has beome a 'New' Afghanistan for many who see themselves as Mujhadeen. We speak to Kenneth Adelman, a member of the Pentagon Defence board and a former aide to Donald Rumsfeld. | |
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0715 | The Hutton inquiry will be told about the Bahai faith today. Dr Kelly had converted to Bahai some years ago. Manoocher Samii was a friend of Dr Kelly and a member of the same Bahai community. | |
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0720 | Colonel Tim Collins was accused of mistreating prisoners of war in Iraq.听 Now after an investigation by military police, Colonel Collins has been cleared of the allegations which were made by听a U.S听major. General Patrick Cordingley was commander of the desert rats in the 1991 Gulf War. | |
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0730 | Downing Street's new communications chief, David Hill is to give up his share options in his public relations company. Number听10 says that they'll lapse, all 95,000 of them, the moment he hands in his letter of resignation. So that's that. But is it? Some MPs think he must do more to avoid facing accusations of potential conflicts of interest. Our Political Correspondent, James Landale, reports on what Alastair Campbell's successor must do to stay within the rules.
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0738 | Charlotte Green has a review of today's papers. | |
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0744 | You might want to bear in mind that a very big asteroid is on course for the earth round about 2014. This could affect your plans quite a lot if it lands in your back garden. Kevin Yates is the project manager at the UK Near Earth Orbit Information Centre. | |
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0748 | Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shias are expected to gather in听Najaf today for the funeral of Ayatollah Muhammed Baqr Al Hakim. He died in a massive car bomb last Friday.听 Dr Hamid Al Bayati is the London representative of Ayatollah Hakim's organisation - and Ken Clarke is the former Chancellor. | |
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0810 | There is a new generation of union leaders, some of whom are deeply unhappy with what they see as a government devoid of any real socialist ideology. They're off to Downing Street today ... not for beer and sandwiches but for some serious talk about the public services. They're unhappy with plans for reform - especially foundation hospitals - mhich they say are being pushed through without consulting the workers. Health Secretary, John Reid.
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0822 | Not听all superheroes are busy saving the world. The latest to be turned into a cult film is 'American Splendor' by Harvey Pekar '. It charts the mundane trials and tribulations of his life which turn out to be pretty complex stuff in their own right. It'sand won a string of awards at Cannes and Sundance. Our reporter Nicola Stanbridge met the 'blue collar Mark Twain'. | |
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0830 | A new play opening today in the East End of London tells the story of the Hackney Siege which started on Boxing Day last year, through the words of people who lived through it. The actors hear clips of interviews through headphones and repeat them word for word. Sanchia Berg reports. | |
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0840 | The听Hutton inquiry has given us an intriguing glimpse into the hidden world of British intelligence. Their role was transformed dramatically after the events of September 11 - a change explored by Henry Porter in his new thriller, Empire State. We also speak to Dame Pauline Neville Jones, a former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee. | |
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0850 | One of the fathers of gene technology has urged the government to spend less money on genetically-tailored medicines - and more on public health education. Professor Sydney Brenner, a Nobel prize winner, told this programme that genetic drugs research was simply putting profits into the hands of pharmaceutical firms - and public health education could save more lives for less cost. | |
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0855 | The problems in Iraq continue.听We ask: 'Is freedom desirable at whatever cost'? Michael Ignatief, the American writer and academic and Dr Ghada Karmi from the Institute of Arab-Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. | |
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