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The U.N. Security Council yesterday approved a French-Russian resolution urging the immediate deployment of U.N. monitors to watch over the evacuation and "the well-being of civilians'' remaining in Aleppo. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Mike Thompson reports and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is one of the directors of Doctors Under Fire.

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Figures from hospital trusts in England show that overseas patients not entitled to free health care left the NHS with an unpaid bill of £30m last year. Robert Pigott is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s health correspondent.

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A truck crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the heart of the German capital Berlin, killing at least nine people and injuring 50 others. Reverend Katerina Stifel is from the Kaiser Wilhem Memorial Church.

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A drug activated by laser light successfully destroys early prostate cancer while avoiding side effects that commonly occur with surgery, trial results have shown. Professor Mark Emberton is lead investigator on this report.

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Culture Secretary Karen Bradley is currently considering Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox £11.7bn takeover bid for European pay-TV firm Sky. Martin Gilbert is deputy chair of Sky and CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management.

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A Turkish policeman shot dead Russia's ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, apparently in protest at Russia's involvement in Aleppo. Andrei Kortunov is director general of the Russian International Affairs Council and Onur Oymen is former Turkish ambassador to Nato.

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Rabbi Lionel Blue spent many years presenting Thought for the Day on this programme. A few years ago, in anticipation of his death, he decided to return to the places and people that mattered to him most over the years - in this extract, he's in Oxford with his old friend Robin Gilbert, reflecting on the origins of his faith.

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At a time of desperation and illness, there is an argument that being close to friends and family is essential to getting better. But in recent months, we have heard about a growing number of cases where patients suffering from mental health problems are being sent far away from their homes because there are no available beds in nearby hospitals. Today reporter Sima Kotecha has been speaking to a 17-year-old girl who is suffering from anorexia and her mum Rachel. Jon Goldin is a child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist. 

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A truck crashed into a crowd at a Christmas market in the heart of the German capital Berlin, killing at least nine people and injuring 50 others. Germany's Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, said there were many signs suggesting it had been a deliberate attack. Julie Lenarz is executive director at the German Human Security Centre and Stefan Mayer is home affairs spokesperson for the CSU parliamentary group led by Angela Merkel.

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The last schools are breaking up today and tomorrow. At the end of term and with Christmas coming is a present for your child's teacher on your list? Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian, father and former secondary maths teacher and Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist, mother and self-described ‘assiduous gifter’.

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The Scottish government is to publish its proposals for Scotland's future relationship with the EU after Brexit. Jim Naughtie is Today’s special correspondent and Stephen Gethins is SNP's Europe spokesperson at Westminster.

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We have heard repeatedly that the Birmingham prison riot was the worst since Strangeways in 1990. The report into that disturbance was led by Lord Woolf who believes the lessons of his investigation went largely unheeded. Now he thinks the government is evading the key issue – reducing the number of prisoners. Lord Woolf is chair of the Prison Reform Trust.

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A drug activated by laser light successfully destroys early prostate cancer while avoiding side-effects that commonly occur with surgery, trial results have shown. Peter Girguis is professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

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2016 has been a dramatic year for news - but how does it compare to momentous years of the past? Historian Andrew Roberts gives his perspective.  

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