17/03/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
President Trump is due to meet the German Chancellor, Angela
Merkel, at the White House. Matthew Qvortrup is
a professor of applied political science at Coventry University and author of a
biography of Angela Merkel.
0710
There are "no indications" that Trump Tower was under surveillance by the US government before or after the election, a Senate committee has said. Gordon Corera is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs security correspondent.
0715
The UK government is to reject calls for a Scottish independence referendum before Brexit after Theresa May said "now is not the time". The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Dave Howard reports.
0720
Next Wednesday the argument over the controversial new funding formula for schools in England will begin to come to a head, when the consultation on the proposals closes. Geoffrey Clifton-Brow is a Member of Parliament for The Cotswolds.
0730
The Marine Conservation Society has removed haddock, caught west of Scotland and in the North Sea, from its list of sustainable fish to eat. Bernadette Clarke is Good Fish Guide manager from the Marine Conservation Society.
0735
The fertility regulator has given doctors in Newcastle the first UK license to create three-person babies. Proffesor Sir Doug Turnbull is director of the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University. Louise Ormrod is the mother of a son, Freddie, who has maternally inherited mitochondrial disease.
0740
The Labour MP Dawn Butler has been praised for using sign language to ask a question in the House of Commons about giving signing legal status. Tom Levitt is former MP for High Peak, who signed in The Commons in 1998.
0750
Next Wednesday the argument over the controversial new funding formula for schools in England will begin to come to a head, when the consultation on the proposals close. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Ross Hawkins reports.
0810
The UK government is to reject calls for a Scottish independence referendum before Brexit after Theresa May said "now is not the time". John Swinney is Deputy First Minister of Scotland. Sarah Smith is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Scotland editor.
0820
How have cultural and artistic interpretations of the American dream changed over time, and what does that say about the U.S. at different points in history? ΜύSimon Schama is an author and art historian. Heβs giving a lecture this evening as part of the British Museumβs new exhibition on the American Dream.
0830
Hungary is pressing ahead with the construction of two container camps for asylum-seekers on its border with Serbia, despite a chorus of international criticism. Erno Simon is UNHCR spokesperson in Hungary.
0840
President Trump is due to meet the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the White House today. Dr Norbert Rottgen is chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Alex Sundstrom is a board member of the UK Brank of the Republicans Overseas.
0850
For the first time a collection of fan letters written to JRR Tolkien will go on display in a new exhibition about his life. Richard Ovenden is head librarian at the University of Oxfordβs Bodleian Libraries.
0855
Roger Gale MP caused a sexism row by referring to his female staff as "girls" on our programme yesterday. Debbie Hill works in Roger Galeβs constituency office and is one of his βgirlsβ. Dr B.J. Epstein is a senior lecturer in literature and public engagement at the University of East Anglia.
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