16/08/2016
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0650
The Resolution Foundation has produced a report arguing that Brexit will not significantly increase the wages of low paid workers. Torsten Bell is director of Resolution Foundation.
0655
The time of day influences our susceptibility to infection, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Professor Akhilesh Reddy is a neuroscientist at the university.
0710
Rail fares have increased at double the speed of wages since 2010, according to new analysis released today by the TUC and the rail unionsβ Action for Rail campaign. Paul Plummer is chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group and the Association of Train Operating Companies.
0715
The Labour MP Gisela Stuart, a leading figure for the campaign to leave the European Union, is to chair a research project looking at how to protect the rights of EU nationals in the UK after Brexit.
0720
This summer we are following the progress of the Polar Ocean Challenge, an expedition that hopes to circumnavigate the Arctic to highlight declining sea ice during the summer months. At this point the expedition has passed the Arctic cape, but it's not been without danger.Β
0730
Residents of the besieged rebel-held suburb of Darayya on the outskirts of Damascus are accusing the Syrian government of continuing napalm attacks there. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Mike Thomson has been speaking to a resident in Darayya and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is a chemical weapons expert working in Syria and Iraq.
0740
How could a new UKIP leader follow the success of Nigel Farage? The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs political correspondent Ross Hawkins went to a hustings in Wolverhampton to hear how their pitches were going down with UKIP's grass roots.
0750
A lot of comparisons have been made over the last few days between Team GB's woeful performance in the Atlanta Games in 1996 and the stunning performance in this year's Games in Rio. What has made the difference? The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Emma Wilson reports and Rod Carr is chair of UK Sport.
0810
Patients in England who need planned NHS surgery are facing longer waiting times, according to a campaigning charity. Liz McAnulty is trustee of the Patients Association and Nick Hulme is chief executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust.
0820
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the role of police officers in the death of former footballer Dalian Atkinson, who was shot with a taser at his fatherβs house. Sophie Khan is a lawyer specialising in taser injuries.
0825
The German embassy in London has received several hundred requests from Britons about German citizenship since the EU referendum, including some from descendants of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany. They are looking use a little known provision in German law which allows for refugees and their descendants to have their citizenship restored. One of them is the British Jewish author Thomas Harding who has written about his familyβs experience in fleeing from Germany in the 1930s.
0830
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made a foreign policy speech in which he said that he would do βextreme vettingβ of immigrants to combat Islamic extremism, including a new screening test for arrivals to the US, and backpedalled on his previous threat that the USA might not meet its Nato treaty obligations with allies. Kurt Volker is former US ambassador to Nato.
0835
As the search for the heir to Nigel Farage continues, we have been speaking to UKIPs leadership candidates. UKIP Lambeth deputy chairwoman Elizabeth Jones is the latest in the series.
0840
There is an emerging trend of galleries allowing visitors to watch the restoration of paintings. Some conservationists have expressed concern that visitors can distract the delicate process of restoring a painting. Richard Cork is an art historian and critic.
0850
A village mayor in Corsica has banned full-body swimsuits known as βburkinisβ. This follows on from authorities in the French Riviera also banning the outfit. Remona Aly is a journalist and commentator and Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is a Telegraph columnist based in Paris.
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