19/01/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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Scientists are warning that almost two-thirds of primates, from gorillas to lemurs, are threatened with extinction and three-quarters are suffering declines in numbers. It is the "11th hour" for many species, and without immediate action to protect them, human's closest relatives face mass extinctions. Anna Nekaris is a professor in anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and one of the reportβs authors.
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Business Correspondent Kamal Ahmed talks to Pierre Moscovici, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, about what Brexit will really mean for the UK.
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The Government is being urged to introduce legislation to ensure all victims of crime have the opportunity of making a statement about the impact it has had on their life. Last year only 15 per cent of victims in England and Wales had been offered the chance of writing a statement, almost the same proportion as three years ago. Lady Helen Newlove is Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
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Is President Erdogan of Turkey a democrat or a dictator? Jeran Bayash was a correspondent at IMC TV, which was recently shut down by the government. Veysi Kaynak is one of Turkey's three Deputy Prime Ministers.
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The former England women's cricket captain, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, has died at the age of 77. She was one of the MCC's first women members and the first elected to the full committee at Lord's. Clare Connor is the England and Wales Cricket Board's director of women's cricket and also a former national captain.
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After the UK gives up full membership of the EU's customs union exporters' goods could be facing checks and delays at Britain's border. Sylvie Goulard is a French MEP and part of the Liberals group.
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Turkey has taken in at least 2.7 million Syrian refugees and the country with the most child refugees in the world. Todayβs Matthew Price reports from a UNICEF supported camp on the Syrian Turkey border.
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The 'Clean Eating' diet is a load of rubbish, so says a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ documentary airing tonight. In the programme, Clean Eating: The Dirty Truth,ΜύDr. Giles Yeo investigates the trend. Dr Giles Yeo is a Horizon documentary presenter and geneticist from the Medical Research Councilβs metabolic diseases unit in Cambridge. Ella Mills is author of Deliciously Ella a natural healthy food cookbook and took part in the documentary.
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An increasing number of Democratic lawmakers have said they plan to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday. Mark Takano is a Democratic Congressman for California. He is boycotting Trump's inauguration.
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The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Simon Jack reports and speaks with the CEO of Barclays.
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Russian and Turkish jets have carried out their first joint strikes on so-called Islamic State (IS) inside Syria, the Russian defence ministry says. IS was targeted in the suburbs of the town of al-Bab, Aleppo province, where Turkey suffered heavy casualties last month battling the group on the ground. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβsΜύTurkey Correspondent Mark Lowen reports.
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The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has accused the EU of considering Nazi-style βpunishment beatingsβ on Britain in revenge for Brexit. He isn't the first politician to use events around the Second World War to illustrate a political point. Juliet Gardiner is a social historian and author and Sir Simon Jenkins is a Guardian Columnist.
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