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The US is to send 1,500 more non-combat troops to Iraq to boost Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State (IS) militants, the White House says. The 麻豆约拍鈥檚 Tom Esselmont discusses.

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0715

Three commissioners have been tasked by the government to work at Tower Hamlets in London for the next three years, after the government labelled it a 'rotten borough' in the wake of an auditor鈥檚 report into allegations of cronyism and corruption. Julie Kenny, one of the commissioners tasked with working in Doncaster after it was put under special measures, discusses.

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0725

Rules which denied about 4,000 war widows and widowers a military pension are to be changed next year. Anna Soubry, minister of state for defence personnel, welfare and veterans, discusses.

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0735

George Osborne's claim to have halved the UK's 拢1.7bn EU budget surcharge was "smoke and mirrors", Labour has said. Bjarne Corydon, the Danish Finance Minister, discusses.

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0745

What were the key moments in the development of some of the most famous inventions of our time - the light bulb, the telephone and the microscope? The path to their creation has taken some unexpected turns and its charted in a new book called How We Got to Now written by the cultural historian Steven Johnson, who speaks to Mishal.

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0750

A firm that will carry out capability assessments on benefit claimants for the government says it could take 18 months to reduce the existing backlog. Prof Malcolm Harrington, who carried out the first three independent reviews of the Work Capability Assessment for the government, discusses.

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0810

Is the solution to Ed Miliband's woes to get out on the doorstep and talk to voters? - that's what the Labour MP John Mann told this programme yesterday. Ian Davidson, Labour MP for Glasgow South West, discusses.

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0815

The ongoing war of words between EO Wilson and Richard Dawkins has flared up again, about the mechanism driving evolution. Tom Feilden explains

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0820

Mishal Husain speaks to cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar.

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0830

George Osborne's claim to have halved the UK's 拢1.7bn EU budget surcharge has been described as "smoke and mirrors" by Labour. The Chancellor speaks to Sarah Montague.

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0840

Many people tried to escape the Berlin wall. They tunnelled under it, flew across it or tried to climb over it. But one young man took a rather different approach. He and his girlfriend escaped East Germany - but only one of them made it to the west. Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill reports from the city's memorial to the victims of the Wall.

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0850

To what extent can police or criminologists predict what a serious offender is going to do through social media? Dr Elizabeth Yardley, a criminologist at Birmingham City University, and Stephen Kavanagh, the national policing lead on digital crime for the College of Policing, debate.