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08/01/2015

News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.

3 hours

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Thu 8 Jan 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

More than 80% of the world's coal needs to stay in the ground if global temperatures are not to rise more than 2 degrees. Scientists at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources claim that means half of gas reserves and a third of the world's oil should also be left untapped. Professor Paul Ekin is one of those behind the research at UCL.

0710

Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack. Three masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. The gunmen shouted "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad", witnesses say. President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack "of exceptional barbarity". Nabila Ramdani is a French Journalist and commentator.

0712

Tesco and Marks & Spencer, two of the retail strugglers, both release their trading data with the all-important Christmas numbers. The big focus will be on Tesco: new Chief Executive Dave Lewis unveils his plans for getting the business back on track after a series of drastic profit warnings and a damaging accounting scandal. Business editor Kamal Ahmed reports.

0715

PMQs was a spat about A&E. The government has "betrayed patients", Labour leader Ed Miliband said. The PM accused Lab of using the NHS as a "political football". Data for the last three months showed waiting times in England had dropped to their worst levels for a decade. Professor Keith Willett is the National Director for Acute Episodes of Care for NHS England.

0720

Paris last night was awash with people who wanted to raise their voices, in protest, and in sympathy. Our reporter Beth Mcleod was listening to them.

0730

Yesterday’s Paris attack reminded everyone of the controversy that engulfed a Danish newspaper in 2005 for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Danish diplomatic missions were attacked as a result, and journalists threatened. We speak to Kurt Westergaard, one of the cartoonists involved in the Danish controversy, as well as the Times cartoonist Peter Brookes.

0740

The film Testament of Youth is out next Friday. It's based on the classic 1933 memoir by Vera Brittain of the First World War. She lost her fiance, her brother and two close friends in the war and became a pacifist and campaigner. By the Second World War her views were unpopular and she became something of a pariah. But in the late 70s her work was televised and she was back in vogue. Something she never lived to see. We speak to Vera Brittain's daughter Lady Shirley Williams.

0750

Two drug companies have attacked as "arbitrary and disappointing" a decision to remove cancer treatments they make from the list covered by a special fund in England. The Cancer Drugs Fund provides treatment which wouldn't routinely be available to thousands of NHS patients, because they're deemed too expensive by the watchdog NICE. Gary Hendler is president and CEO of Eisai Europe Middle East and Africa.

0810

Gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack. Three masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. The gunmen shouted "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad", witnesses say. President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack "of exceptional barbarity". Sylvain Courage is editor in chief at Nouvel Observateur. Asiem El Difraoui, political scientist who specialises in jihadism.

0820

Thursday marks what would have been Elvis Presley's 80th birthday. An 'Auction at Graceland' is taking place to mark the occasion, which sees the sale of authenticated third-party Elvis artefacts, including a 78mm disc of his first ever recording, produced in 1953, Elvis' first driving license, and a jacket from the film 'Viva Las Vegas'. Suzi Quatro is a rock star and huge Elvis fan.

0840

Further analysis of Wednesday’s Paris attack (see 0710, 0730 & 0810). Professor Tariq Ramadan is professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. Bernard Henri Levi is a French philosopher.

0845

The latest film by the American director Frederick Wiseman is a three-hour documentary taking us behind the scenes at the National Gallery in London. The film reveals the challenges faced by curators to make artworks by old masters relevant to contemporary audiences. Charles Saumarez Smith is secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy. Betsy Wiseman is an expert in 17th century Dutch and Flemish art and the curator of the current Rembrandt exhibition at the National Gallery.

0850

Further analysis of Wednesday’s Paris attack (see 0710, 0730, 0810 & 0830). Chris Morris is our Europe correspondent and Lyse Doucet is our chief international correspondent.

All subject to change.

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  • Thu 8 Jan 2015 06:00