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0607 | The Labour conference tackles one of the government's most difficult issues today - student fees. Our Education Correspondent is Kim Catcheside. | |
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0610 | A Belgian court will today rule in the trial of 23 alleged Al-Quaeda militants.The charges range from attempted attacks to the murder of the Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Masood in 2001. Tim Franks听is our Europe Correspondent. | |
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0615 | Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | Some are saying that today's address at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth will be Tony Blair's most difficult speech since becoming leader. Our Political Correspondent, Norman Smith. | |
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0633 | A Kurdish Muslim man has been jailed for life for cutting his daughter's throat because he didn't approve of her relationship with a Christian. It's been called an "honour killing". Lesley Ashmall has been following the case.
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0636 | Members of the European Parliament are meeting families of Guantanamo Bay detainees from the EU today. Nine of them are British. Emma Jane Kirby is our European Correspondent. | |
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0643 | Today's World Press Review comes from Caroline Wyatt in Paris. | |
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0646 | Petrol goes up 5p a gallon tomorrow. Critics say Britain has the dearest fuel in Europe, that motoring costs have been soaring and that the increase will hit the poorest in society hardest. Roger Harrabin has been investigating. | |
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0650 | Should there be a new category of refugee - for those forced to leave their homes due to environmental damage? It's an idea put forward by the New Economics Foundation think-tank -听Andrew Simms is the Policy Director. | |
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0709 | The Government's plans for increasing university tuition fees have stirred up considerable opposition in the labour party, as well as in the country at large. Bahram Bekradhnia is the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, and Anne Campbell, MP. | |
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0715 | The former chief inspector of prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham has written about the prison system in his new book called Prisongate. It has the subtitle "The shocking state of British Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change".
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0722 | President Musharraf told the UN last week that the dispute over Kashmir was the most dangerous facing the world today. India insists it won't hold talks with Pakistan until its neighbour 'cuts support' for cross-border terrorism. Matthew Grant has spoken to key military leaders. | |
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0730 | What is the Prime Minister's task at conference today? He is unlikely to be able to change the minds of Labour delegates in Bournemouth who're profoundly opposed to war in Iraq. Editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan and former Labour Leader, Neil Kinnock. | |
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0740 | Patrick Muirhead has a review of today's papers. | |
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0744 | If you hear someone shouting "House!" or "bingo!" during Tony Blair's speech in Bournemouth today, blame the Fabians. Their General Secretary is听Sunder Katwala.
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0750 | A Kurdish muslim man was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering his 16听year old daughter. He killed her because she had a christian boyfriend. It's called an "honour killing".听Ram Gidoomal is chair of the South Asian Development Partnership and Commander Andy Baker is Head of the Met's Serious Crime Directorate. | |
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0810 | The Government believes that students should pay fees up to 拢3000 a year, to be paid back by graduates in work, starting in 2006. But it's unpopular -139 Labour MPs have protested in a Commons motion the opposition parties say it won't be fair to students and public opinion seems sceptical. Education Secretary, Charles Clarke. | |
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0824 | A proposed windfarm over-looking the M6 motorway in Cumbria is massive. It's made up of 29 turbines,听150 metres听tall, spread out over four miles, generating sixty-seven mega-watts of electricity. Not suprisingly, it's divided opinions in local communities. Our reporter is听Huw Williams. | |
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0830 | The changes and rows over homosexual bishops going on in the Anglican Church at the moment are as bitter - and profound - as the Reformation was in the 16th Century. Diarmaid MacCulloch听has just written the book听"Reformation". | |
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0840 | Making one of his last appearances at annual Labour conference figures is听Sir Bill Morris, the retiring General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union. | |
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0843 | An ancient building in England is in danger of falling down. The problem was that the roof had to be suitable for its occupants.. a rare species of bat, protected by law. Our correspondent Peter Lane has been to see them. | |
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0848 | Iraqi defectors were a valuable source of information for America's intelligence services in the run up to war with Iraq. But now, according to a report in the New York Times, it seems the Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded听 most of the information was of little use and exaggerated. Entifad Qambar is听spokesman for Ahmed Chalabi.
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0852 | What reaction can we expect to the Prime Minister's speech later today? Our reporter Iain Watson has been assessing the mood. Back in studio Abdel Bari Atwan is Editor of the London based al Quds newspaper and Warren Hoge is NY Times' London Bureau Chief.
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