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19/11/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 19 Nov 2015 06:00

Today's running order

 

0650

The so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris and those in Beirut a week ago, as well as for the bomb that destroyed a Russian airliner in Egypt last month. Karen Abu Zayda is the commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria.

0655

The Parliamentary Labour Party is reported to have given the leader Jeremy Corbyn a hostile reception at its weekly meeting on Monday after he told the BBC he was "not happy" with police operating a shoot-to-kill policy. Joining us on the programme is James Schneider, the organiser for Momentum – a grassroots network rising from the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

0710

Scientists have warned the world is on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era after discovering bacteria resistant to drugs of last resort, which are used when all other treatments have failed. Dr Elizabeth Tayler is from the World Health Organisation's Secretariat for Anti-Microbial Resistance.

0715

There is a huge row going on about cuts to police budgets in England and Wales. Our Home Affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw has more.

0720

The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended Russia's anti-doping authority for non-compliance. Joining us on the programme is Michele Verroken, formerly director of Ethic and Anti-Doping at UKSport and now director of Sporting Integrity.  

0725

The resources behind the recent attacks in France and Beirut show the work of a terrorist organisation which is able to finance itself. Dr Matthew Levitt is a fellow at the Washington Institute and a former counterterrorism intelligence analyst at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

0730

An investigation into stillbirth has found that hospitals are missing key opportunities to save the lives of hundreds of babies in the UK. Joining us on the programme is Elizabeth Draper, professor of Perinatal and Paediatric Epidemiology at University of Leicester and Shavon Perkins, who lost her baby boy to stillbirth in 2014.

0740

The Globe Theatre is making short film versions of Shakespeare's 37 plays to be shown on giant screens along the Thames next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. We're joined by Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe.

0750

The Parliamentary Labour Party is reported to have given the leader Jeremy Corbyn a hostile reception at its weekly meeting on Monday after he told the BBC he was "not happy" with police operating a shoot-to-kill policy. Lord Blunkett is the former Labour Home Secretary.

0810

The Paris prosecutor has said the fate of the suspected organiser of Friday's attacks remains unknown after a police raid on a flat ended in bloodshed.  Joining us on the programme is Senator Nathalie Goulet, vice chairwoman of France's Senate foreign affairs committee and Shiraz Maher, lecturer at King's College London and a contributing editor for the New Statesman magazine.

0820

Sir Peter Blake is probably best known for the artwork on one of the most famous album covers of all time, the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Now, after a career spanning seven decades, there is an exhibition dedicated for the first time to his portraits. He has been speaking to our Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones.

0830

What do powerful Russians think about Putin's rhetoric on uniting with the West to defeat IS? Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev is a Russian-born British chairman and owner of Evening Standard ltd.

0840

Talks are being held today between care home owners, council leaders and charities amid warnings that a large number of providers are preparing to pull out of the care sector. Joining us in the programme is Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England.

0845

A series of debates at the LSE over the next fortnight will ask how we can live better together in urban areas and question whether or not urbanization in recent years has been a good thing. Ricky Burdett is professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Lucy Musgrave is the director of Publica.

0850

Anonymous, the activist group claims to have shut down more than 5,000 Twitter accounts its hackers believe are linked to the so called Islamic State since it “declared war” on the terror group earlier this week. Joining us on the programme is Parmy Olson, staff writer at Forbes magazine and author of We Are Anonymous, a book about the hacking group, and Euan Lawson, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.  

 

 

All subject to change.

 

 

 

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  • Thu 19 Nov 2015 06:00