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14/01/2016

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

3 hours

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Thu 14 Jan 2016 06:00

Today's running order


Breaking news:Μύ

A series of bomb blasts have rocked the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, with continuing gunfire and reports of further explosions. We will be covering this throughout the programme.

0650

As we know it doesn't take much snow to bring life here to a standstill in the UK, but snow is a very different thing in Russia. This week storms hit central Russia, including the capital Moscow, where nearly half the January norm for snow fell in just one day. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took to the streets to see how Russians have been coping.

0655

Pollution levels in parts of London have already exceeded their legal maximum for the full calendar year. Frank Kelly is professor of Environmental Health at Kings College London.

0710

Leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling has written a piece in the Telegraph saying that staying in the EU with the current terms of membership would be β€œdisastrous” for Britain. Damian Green is Conservative MP for Ashford, former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Office minister and part of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.

0715

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will announce an expansion of the Frontline programme to recruit the best graduates into children's social work today. Francesca Moran is a former social worker from the North West who left the profession after seven years and Josh MacAlister is founder and chief executive of the training charity Frontline.

0720

A new report published today by NatCen Social Research and authored by leading psephologist, Prof John Curtice, suggests that the polls called the General Election wrong primarily because the samples of people they polled were not adequately representative of the country as a whole. We speak live to John Curtice, professor in politics at Strathclyde University.

0730

Transgender people in the UK face "high levels of transphobia" on a daily basis and have "a long way to go" to achieve equality in the UK. Tara Hudson is a 26-year-old transgender woman who was placed in an all-male jail in 2015 before an online petition gained enough support to have her transferred. Also speaking live is Susie Green, chief executive of the charity Mermaids - she contributed to the report and has a transgender child herself.

0740

Music Moguls is a new three-part series exploring the untold history of the producers, managers and PR people behind the bands we love. Speaking live from the studio is Alan Edwards, whose clients have included Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, The Stranglers, Spice Girls, Bowie and The Who - he is the narrator of the series' third episode.

0750

The World Anti-Doping Agency presents the second part of its report into doping at a news conference in Munich. Brendan Foster is a former track and field runner who broke two world records during his athletics career.

0810

The Metropolitan Police is set to announce today that hundreds of extra armed officers will be trained to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London. Speaking live in the studio is Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation and Chris Phillips, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office.

0820

Nearly a quarter of a million people have signed a petition trying to stop Apple getting rid of its headphone socket in the iPhone 7. Tom Bateman has prepared a short obituary for the mini headphone jack whose origins date back all the way to the late 19th century and we hear from Will Harris, former chief marketing officer for o2 and Nokia and Ingrid Lunden, news editor at website TechCrunch.

0830

Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization today, effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the disease. Professor of infectious diseases Dr Jeremy Farrer worked on the Ebola vaccine and is director of the Wellcome Trust.

0835

Yesterday on the programme the Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten, defended the institution's historical relationship with the 19th century imperialist, Cecil Rhodes. Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is an Oxford University student and one of the founding members of Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

0840

Next month will see the release of Trumbo, a Hollywood film starring Bryan Cranston that tells the story of Dalton Trumbo, one of the Hollywood Ten, who refused to testify before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during its investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. Speaking live on the programme is Christopher Cook, a cultural historian.

0845

The Al Jazeera Media Network is closing down its American TV news channel Al Jazeera America. Tony Burman is former managing director of Al Jazeera English.

0850

The Bank of England meets for the first time since the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates. Will the UK follow? Marian Bell is former member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor Nick Crafts is economic historian at Warwick University.

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All subject to change.

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  • Thu 14 Jan 2016 06:00