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23/12/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 23 Dec 2014 06:00

Today's Running Order

Subject to change.

0630

Sony Pictures has pulled the film The Interview, which is a comedy about a plot to kill the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Alistair Leathead reports.

0635

The human rights charity Reprieve is calling on the Britain to rethink the funding it gives Pakistan to mount anti-drugs operations, after the Pakistani government decided to resume executions.

0640

The finances of Councils in England discover how much money they will receive from central government in the next financial year.

0650

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Nick Bryant went to Miami to speak with Cuban Americans about Obama's plans to normalise US relations with Cuba.

0710

There's going to be a church service in Glasgow this morning to remember those who were killed in that shocking accident in Glasgow yesterday afternoon. Zoe Conway reports.

0715

The funeral has taken place of Tori Johnson, one of the victims of the Sydney siege. Phil Mercer reports.

0720

A Russian politician has suggested that women who are struggling to afford imported beauty products should opt for using beetroot instead of lipstick. We speak to Sally Pointer, historian and author of 'The Artifice of Beauty'.

0730

The first Western journalist ever to be given access to the 'Islamic State' has just returned. We hear an extract of an interview with Jurgen Todenhofer and speak to IS expert Michael Stephens.

0750

Joe Cocker died yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 70. We speak to his brother, Victor.

0810

Should the police work with or do more to help members of the public who go online to catch paedophiles? We have spoken to Brendan Collis who set up a fake internet profile of a teenage girl to attract the attention of child sex abusers.

0820

Joe Cocker was perhaps best known for his 1968 cover of the Beatles track 'With a Little Help From My Friends'. We discuss the best reinterpretations and covers of all time with Robert Webb, Writer and Author of "100 Greatest Cover Versions: The Ultimate Playlist", and Pete Paphides, Music Journalist and Broadcaster.

0830

Four militants have been hanged since Pakistan lifted its moratorium on executions last week. Shaima Khalil reports and we speak to Maya Foa director of the Death Penalty Team at Reprieve.

0840

Pope Francis has used his Christmas speech to cardinals, bishops, and priests to make a scathing attack on the Vatican's bureaucratic machine. We hear from Christina Odone, former editor of The Catholic Herald and Paul Handley, Editor of The Church times.

0845

An orangutan in a zoo in Argentina is to be released and sent to a sanctuary after a court ruled that the animal is a 'non-human person' which had been unlawfully deprived of its freedom. We hear from Dr Sharon Redrobe, the CEO of the zoo, and Ashley Leiman, founder and director of the Orangutan Foundation.

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  • Tue 23 Dec 2014 06:00