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15/12/2014
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Mon 15 Dec 2014
06:00
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National Air Traffic Service: 'Flight chaos not down to funding'
Duration: 02:46
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UKIP "We've grown up" after Kerry Smith resignation
Duration: 03:17
Today's running order
0650
A UKIP general election candidate who was recorded making homophobic and racist comments has resigned. Kerry Smith, who had been due to stand for election in South Basildon and East Thurrock, in Essex, said he wanted real issues discussed. He had initially apologised, explaining he'd been taking strong painkillers when he made the comments.
0710
Customers and staff were taken hostage in a cafe in Sydney on Monday morning by at least one man reportedly armed with a gun. Chris Kenny is a Sky news Australia reporter who happened to be in front of the Lindt cafΓ© when the siege started.
0718
Ed Miliband is making a speech about Β foreign workers in this country on Monday, but it's been overshadowed by a document leaked to the Telegraph Β from Labour Party headquarters warning them not to fight the "UKIP threat" Β by concentrating on immigration because they won't win.Β
0720
Carpetright are the biggest UK retailer of all manner of floor coverings and they've just announced their latest half year financial results. Β Wilf Walsh is the new Chief Executive.
0730
The defence secretary has confirmed that we will be sending British troops to Iraq and they may end up fighting. Their job is to protect other British troops who are there to train Iraqi soldiers trying to hold back ISIS forces, but are the risks worth taking? Rory Stewart is the Chair of the Defence Select Committee and Bayan Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government's High Representative to the UK.
0750
The government's benefits cap sets a rate of no more than Β£500 a week in total benefits payments for couples and families, equivalent to Β£26,000 a year. It was introduced in 2013 and according to the department for Work and Pensions, Β it's working: Β there is research published on Monday which suggests that since the policy started 50,000 households have had a cut in benefits and of them 12,000 have found work or stopped claiming housing benefit. Β Carl Emmerson is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Mark Harper is the Work and Pensions Minister.
0810
A UKIP candidate for one of the seats thought most likely to win at the general election has been forced to stand down because he's been using racist and homophobic language. Our Political Editor is Nick Robinson and Steven Woolfe is the UKIP MEP for the Northwest and he's their candidate in Stockport at the General Election.
0820
There will be an independent inquiry into the computer failure that caused widespread disruption of flights over southern England at the weekend. Β One of the suggestions being made about NATS, the National Air Traffic Service, is that the computer failure was a symptom, and Β the cause or causes were more deep seated. Β On Saturday we heard from Martin Clipp who has just taken voluntary redundancy from NATS.
0830
Β What would happen to our banks if interest rates went up to four percent and house prices crashed by 35 percent? Β That's among the questions being asked in stress tests of our banks that the Bank of England has been conducting, the results will come tomorrow. Β Paul Sharma is the former Deputy Head of the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority. Now he's Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal.
0840
The Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on Monday to hammer out fishing quotas for next year. There are fears that some quotas, the first to be set under a reformed Common Fisheries Policy, will be too low and damage the fishing industry, especially in the South West of the UK. Celtic Sea cod and Celtic Sea haddock, for example, have got huge reductions (around 60%) proposed. Barrie Deas is the Chief Executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations and Linnea Engstrom is a Swedish Green MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries.
0845
Crystal Palace have teamed up with Mumbai City FC of the Indian Super League in a ground breaking initiative to find a future footballing star. Β Representatives of the club have been there this weekend watching the best 16-19 year-olds in the region show off their skills. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Rahul Tandon was there in Mumbai to see the "Play for Palace" trial.
0850
For a handful of musicians, the run up to Christmas provides the annual pay-cheque in the form of royalites. The man who penned Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine pulled in Β£120,000 last Christmas, while Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' is ranked as the top earner. This year it's already netted more than Β£284,000 for the frontman Noddy Holder and the bassist Jim Lea, who wrote the track.
0855
A new behind-the-scenes documentary film charting the life of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is out in cinemas. It shows the internal workings of a great old museum trying to move into the modern age, with curators, who care only for the artefacts and their deep history, jostling with the marketers and business people over the soul of the institution. Johannes Holzhausen is the Director of the film - The Great Museum and Susan McCormack used to be a museum curator and is now the Director of Public Engagement at the Ashmolean Museum.
Running order subject to change
A UKIP general election candidate who was recorded making homophobic and racist comments has resigned. Kerry Smith, who had been due to stand for election in South Basildon and East Thurrock, in Essex, said he wanted real issues discussed. He had initially apologised, explaining he'd been taking strong painkillers when he made the comments.
0710
Customers and staff were taken hostage in a cafe in Sydney on Monday morning by at least one man reportedly armed with a gun. Chris Kenny is a Sky news Australia reporter who happened to be in front of the Lindt cafΓ© when the siege started.
0718
Ed Miliband is making a speech about Β foreign workers in this country on Monday, but it's been overshadowed by a document leaked to the Telegraph Β from Labour Party headquarters warning them not to fight the "UKIP threat" Β by concentrating on immigration because they won't win.Β
0720
Carpetright are the biggest UK retailer of all manner of floor coverings and they've just announced their latest half year financial results. Β Wilf Walsh is the new Chief Executive.
0730
The defence secretary has confirmed that we will be sending British troops to Iraq and they may end up fighting. Their job is to protect other British troops who are there to train Iraqi soldiers trying to hold back ISIS forces, but are the risks worth taking? Rory Stewart is the Chair of the Defence Select Committee and Bayan Rahman is the Kurdistan Regional Government's High Representative to the UK.
0750
The government's benefits cap sets a rate of no more than Β£500 a week in total benefits payments for couples and families, equivalent to Β£26,000 a year. It was introduced in 2013 and according to the department for Work and Pensions, Β it's working: Β there is research published on Monday which suggests that since the policy started 50,000 households have had a cut in benefits and of them 12,000 have found work or stopped claiming housing benefit. Β Carl Emmerson is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Mark Harper is the Work and Pensions Minister.
0810
A UKIP candidate for one of the seats thought most likely to win at the general election has been forced to stand down because he's been using racist and homophobic language. Our Political Editor is Nick Robinson and Steven Woolfe is the UKIP MEP for the Northwest and he's their candidate in Stockport at the General Election.
0820
There will be an independent inquiry into the computer failure that caused widespread disruption of flights over southern England at the weekend. Β One of the suggestions being made about NATS, the National Air Traffic Service, is that the computer failure was a symptom, and Β the cause or causes were more deep seated. Β On Saturday we heard from Martin Clipp who has just taken voluntary redundancy from NATS.
0830
Β What would happen to our banks if interest rates went up to four percent and house prices crashed by 35 percent? Β That's among the questions being asked in stress tests of our banks that the Bank of England has been conducting, the results will come tomorrow. Β Paul Sharma is the former Deputy Head of the UK's Prudential Regulation Authority. Now he's Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal.
0840
The Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on Monday to hammer out fishing quotas for next year. There are fears that some quotas, the first to be set under a reformed Common Fisheries Policy, will be too low and damage the fishing industry, especially in the South West of the UK. Celtic Sea cod and Celtic Sea haddock, for example, have got huge reductions (around 60%) proposed. Barrie Deas is the Chief Executive of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations and Linnea Engstrom is a Swedish Green MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Fisheries.
0845
Crystal Palace have teamed up with Mumbai City FC of the Indian Super League in a ground breaking initiative to find a future footballing star. Β Representatives of the club have been there this weekend watching the best 16-19 year-olds in the region show off their skills. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Rahul Tandon was there in Mumbai to see the "Play for Palace" trial.
0850
For a handful of musicians, the run up to Christmas provides the annual pay-cheque in the form of royalites. The man who penned Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine pulled in Β£120,000 last Christmas, while Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' is ranked as the top earner. This year it's already netted more than Β£284,000 for the frontman Noddy Holder and the bassist Jim Lea, who wrote the track.
0855
A new behind-the-scenes documentary film charting the life of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is out in cinemas. It shows the internal workings of a great old museum trying to move into the modern age, with curators, who care only for the artefacts and their deep history, jostling with the marketers and business people over the soul of the institution. Johannes Holzhausen is the Director of the film - The Great Museum and Susan McCormack used to be a museum curator and is now the Director of Public Engagement at the Ashmolean Museum.
Running order subject to change
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