12/10/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
Yesterday the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called for mass protests at Russian embassies to protest at the countryβs action in Syria. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Sean Curran reports on the parliamentary debate on the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Chris Nineham is vice chair of Stop The War.
0710
Labour has challenged the government to answer 170 questions on the details of its Brexit plans - one for each day until the end of March, when Theresa May plans to trigger Article 50. Emily Thornberry is shadow secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs.
0715
The National Audit Office has criticised the government's efforts to improve children's services in England since 2010, saying their approach is uneven and often late.ΜύMeg Hillier is chair of the Public Accounts Committee and Dr Ruth Allen is chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers.
0720
The maximum pension you can buy within the government's rules has fallen by more than two thirds since the financial crisis, according to calculations made by the former pensions minister Steve Webb.
0730
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News has found evidence the Islamic State group is losing the support of foreign fighters. Quentin Somerville is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Middle East correspondent.
0740
Yesterday on the programme we had lots of emails about your experiences of speaking to receptionists at your GPβs surgery - but what is it like being on the frontline? Debbie Mainwaring is receptionistΜύand Caroline Brown is practice managerΜύat South Hermitage surgery in Shrewsbury.Μύ
0750
Could there be more tapes of Donald Trump with similar - or worse - comments than the ones heard at the end of last week? A former producer on the US version of the Apprentice has said there are βfar worseβ behind the scenes tapes from that show. Gene Folkes is a former contestant on The Apprentice.
0810
Russian warplanes resumed bombing rebel-held districts of Aleppo on Tuesday in what activists say are the heaviest air strikes in days. Oum Mudar is a headteacher and mother of three in Aleppo and Sir John Sawers is former chief of MI6.
0820
In his new film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change, Oscar-nominated director Josh Fox travels to 12 countries on six continents to find out what there is that climate change canβt destroy. We speak live to Mr Fox.
0830
The Environment Agency is holding an exercise today to demonstrate how they will deal with a major flood. Sir James Bevan is chief executive of the Environment Agency.
0840
Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood will visit Saudi Arabia today - a sign of the increasing concern in the UK government about the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in Yemen. Frank Gardner is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs security correspondent.
0850
Do the problems with Samsungβs Note 7 highlight a bigger issue with all technology β that batteries arenβt good enough, and that our ever more-powerful modern devices are pushing them too far? Fevzi Turkalp is editor of the technology website GadgetDetective.com.
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- Wed 12 Oct 2016 06:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4