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12/11/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 12 Nov 2016 07:00

Today's running order



0710

Donald Trump has suggested he might retain parts of President Obama's healthcare reforms, despite previously pledging to abolish it. Our Chief Correspondent Matthew Price has more.


0715

There has been a third night of protests across the USA against Donald Trump. In Portland, police used flash grenades to disperse demonstrators. Doug Brown is a reporter at the Portland Mercury.


0720

An explosion inside Bigram Air base - the biggest US military facility in Afghanistan - today killed four people and wounded 14 others. Waheem Masud is our reporter in Kabul.

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0725

A row has broken out between Tesco and a mother who was refused a free parking voucher at her local store because the product she had bought – baby milk formula – didn’t qualify. Patti Rundall is policy director at Baby Milk Action.


Μύ0730

Silvio Berlusconi was a newbie when he started his political career and won a surprisingly large majority in the 1994 election, but what did he actually achieve? Lucio Malan is an Italian senator and Loretta Napoleoni is an economist.

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0750

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the terror attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people. Our Chief Correspondent Matthew Price has been back to the Bataclan concert venue and senator Nathalie Goulet is vice president of the French Senate committee on Foreign Affairs.

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0810

Anyone with a sore throat should go to their pharmacist instead of their GP to get a test to see whether they need antibiotics, the head of the NHS is to announce. Dr Adam Roberts is a microbiologist and Claire Ward is chair of Pharmacy Voice.


0820

What sort of President will Donald Trump be? His supporters believe he will transform America and his opponents fear that almost a decade of Democratic policy will be reversed. Our chief correspondent Matthew Price reports.


0825

Are penguins really sweet, loyal and caring creatures? Footage broadcast by National Geographic showed a male penguin attacking a love rival, leaving them both bloodied and battered. Iain Staniland is a wildlife biologist and Tom Michell once had a pet penguin.


0835

Will Donald Trump find it difficult working with Capitol Hill? Ron Johnson is a Republican senator who won re-election in a seat many expected his party would lose to the Democrats.


0850

Walnut the dog will be put to sleep today after a last walk on Porth beach in Newquay later this morning. His owner Mark Woods made an online appeal for people to join them.


0855

How much impact will Donald Trump have on the world order? Stefan Halper is a former White House official and Radek Sikorski is the former Polish Foreign Minister.


All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Nov 2016 07:00