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19/06/2015

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

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Fri 19 Jun 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0710

President Obama says the killing of six women and three men inside聽Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church聽in Charleston, South Carolina raises questions about a dark part of America's history. He also called for a collective change in American attitudes to gun violence. Jon Sopel reports.

0715

Google鈥檚 Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has hit back at claims by the company鈥檚 chief rival Apple that Google has a disregard for its users鈥 privacy. He was speaking at an exclusive gathering of the world鈥檚 most senior tech company founders. Rory Cellan-Jones reports.

0725

It is World Yoga Day this Sunday and India is marking the occasion with what it boasts will be the biggest yoga session ever. More than 35,000 people are expected to turn out to tie themselves in knots on the vast ceremonial lawns outside the Indian parliament. But it has put the country into religious contortions. Justin Rowlatt speaks to leading Yogi Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

0730

The Royal College of General Practitioners says that there are 'huge swathes' of England where GPs are struggling to provide a five day service because of a shortage of doctors, while the government says it's going to make it possible for everyone to have a seven-day service. The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt says he plans to increase the workforce in general practice by 10,000, half of which would be doctors. Jeremy Hunt joins us today.

0745

Some of Yves Saint Laurent鈥檚 most famous outfits are coming to the Bowes Museum in County Durham for the first major exhibition about his life and work in the UK. Rebecca Jones speaks to Pierre Berg茅, the man who knew Yves Saint Laurent better than anyone.

0750

On Monday there will be an emergency summit of EU leaders in Brussels that will determine Greece鈥檚 future in EMU. At a meeting of EU Finance ministers yesterday, the Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis said he had brought to the negotiation table a set of proposals that were both radical and comprehensive, which could solve the Greek crisis once and for all. Valdis Dombrovksis, European Commissioner for the Euro, was at the meeting.

0810

President Obama says the killing of six women and three men inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina raises questions about a dark part of America's history. In a televised address, shortly after police arrested a young white male suspect, Mr Obama said hatred across races and faiths posed a threat to American democracy and ideals. Thomas Mcelveen was a colleague of Clementa Carlos Pinckney, who was a state senator as well as Pastor of the church, and who died in the gun attack.

0820

The architect Lord Rogers is calling on the government to designate a controversial 鈥淏rutalist鈥 housing development in the east end of London as a building of special architectural interest. Robin Hood Gardens, which was finished in 1972, has been threatened with demolition on a number of occasions. It was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, the inventors of the New Brutalist style of the 1950s. Lord Rogers is the architect who designed the Millennium Dome and the Lloyds of London Building.

0830

Thursday was billed as crunch day, except it wasn鈥檛. European finance ministers of the 19 countries sharing the euro currency, the Eurogroup, and the IMF met in Luxembourg as Greece faces a new deadline to unlock aid payments. James Reynolds reports.

0832

NATO has deployed its new Rapid Reaction Force for the first time. It was set up after the NATO summit in Wales last year as a response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.聽 Britain will eventually contribute three thousand troops to the new military unit and will take command of it in 2017. Jonathan Beale reports.

0835

The head of UK Anti-Doping, Nicole Sapstead, has said it is "not common" for an athlete to miss two tests. The Daily Mail had reported that Mo Farah, the double Olympic champion, had missed two tests ahead of the 2012 Olympics, making him one missed appointment short of a possible ban on competing. Michael Rimmer is an English middle-distance runner.

0840

A new eyewitness account has emerged of the German fleet being scuppered at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys in 1919. It was the single greatest loss of warships in history, and the sailors killed that day were the last fatalities of the First World War.聽聽 A soldier who was on board a British naval vessel wrote detailed notes of what happened which his family have now made public. Andrew Choong is curator of ships, plans and historic photographs at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

0850

A government watchdog is warning that some companies may be breaking the law, by posting fake reviews or cherry picking only positive ones. Yesterday, a 麻豆约拍 investigation revealed evidence of a worldwide trade in bogus online customer reviews, paid for by firms to improve their image. Nisha Arora is senior director, Competition and Markets Authority.

0855

How much influence do the partners of politicians have over their politics and what role can they play? Well, apparently quite a lot on the Greek crisis, if a quote from Francois Hollande in French satirical paper Le Canard Encha卯n茅 is to be believed. The French President apparently said that Tsipras told him that "if he gave in to too many of the troika's demands, he risked not only losing his party but also his partner, who is a fierce militant and is much farther left of him." Sonia Purnell is author of 鈥淔irst Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill鈥. Lady Howard is wife of Lord Howard, Conservative Peer and former Leader of the Conservative Party.

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  • Fri 19 Jun 2015 06:00