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05/11/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 5 Nov 2016 07:00

Today's running order


0710

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will call on the government to bring their plans for negotiating Brexit to the Commons β€œwithout delay”, at a conference in London this week. Meanwhile Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to calm the backlash sparked by the ruling. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s politics correspondent Ben Wright reports.

0715

It is the final weekend of the American presidential camapaign. The polls have Donald Trump closing in the polls over recent weeks, but the end is finally in sight. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s special correspondent Jim Naughtie reports.

0720

A panel of independent experts in Germany have called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to negotiate to stop the UK leaving the EU. The annual report, handed to the Chancellor this week, calls for constructive negotiations to minimise damage on both sides. Dr Jochen Andritzky is secretary general of the German Council of Economic Experts.

0730

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will call on the government to bring their plans for negotiating Brexit to the Commons β€œwithout delay” at a conference in London this week. Meanwhile Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to calm the backlash sparked by the ruling. Ann-Marie Morris is the Conservative MP for Newton Abbott and a supporter of the Leave campaign.

0740

This week FIFA provoked outrage by banning players from wearing poppy armbands on Remembrance Day. It is not the first year that there has been controversy over the poppy. Newsreader Jon Snow famously refuses to wear a poppy on air, and footballer James McClean has been attacked on Twitter for not wearing them, but has the argument over the poppy gone too far? Patrick Hennessey is a former army officer who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and John Nichol is a former RAF officer who was shot down during the first Gulf War in 1991.

0750

It is the final weekend of the American presidential camapaign. With the polls tightening, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Jim Naughtie spoke with Joel Benenson, an American pollster working with the Clinton camp.

0810

A 10-hour ceasefire by Russian and Syrian government forces in Aleppo came to an end last night, in what Russia described as a final chance for rebels to leave besieged areas. However, according to activists no-one left and Russia and Syria are now expected to resume attacks on the city’s eastern side. Jean-ClΓ©ment Jeanbart is Melkite Catholic archbishop of Aleppo.

0820

On Sunday Theresa May lands in the Indian capital, Delhi. India is the fastest growing large economy in the world and the Prime Minister is expected to explore the prospects of a free-trade deal. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports.

0830

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will call on the government to bring their plans for negotiating Brexit to the Commons β€œwithout delay” at a conference in London this week. Meanwhile Conservative MPs have called on Theresa May to calm the backlash sparked by the ruling. Hilary Benn is the chairman of the Select Committee for Exiting the EU.

0835

There are 27 million Latinos eligible to vote in the US election this year, the most there has ever been. Polling shows that they are far more likely to support Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but historically turnout has been low among the demographic. Jorge Ramos is a presenter for Univision, an American Spanish language television network.

0845

Marks and Spencer is expected to announce the closure of a number of UK stores next week as part of plans to turn around the business. George MacDonald is executive editor of Retail Week.

0850

Western intelligence officials have warned that the coming days could see the Russians mount a final offensive on Aleppo. The bombing campaign on the city has led some, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, to liken it to the sieges of Grozny by the Russian army in 1994-1995 and 1999-2000. Janine Di Giovanni is the Middle East editor of Newsweek, who was in Grozny when it fell to the Russians in 2000, and Keir Giles is associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House.

All subject to change.

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  • Sat 5 Nov 2016 07:00