05/04/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
Japan has reacted angrily to North Korea's latest missile launch, calling it extremely problematic. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, told a news conference that his country could not tolerate what he called North Korea's repeated provocative actions. James Mckeon is a policy analyst at the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
0709
The UN security council will meet in emergency session today to discuss a suspected gas attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.Μύ The US has accused President Assad of brutal, unabashed barbarism. Abdulhai Tennari is a doctor with the Syrian American Medical Society in Sarmin, Idlib province.
0715
A cross-party committee at the House of Lords has said there is a shocking lack of long term strategic planning in the NHS.Μύ The group, made up of medical experts as well as peers from political parties, was set up to examine the long term sustainability of the NHS in England. Lord Patel is a cross bench peer, obstetrician and chairman of the House of Lords select committee on the long-term sustainability of the NHS.
0720
UK passports should allow people to define themselves as "X" as an alternative to male or female. Itβs part of a five year plan announced today by Stonewall, a LGBT rights group, which argues it would benefit people who face difficulties at passport control. Tara Stone is a member of the Stonewall Trans Advisory Group and one of 17 who drew up this plan and Lord Carlile is a crossbench peer who presented the first transgender rights bill to the House of Commons in 1995.
0730
The former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has been suspended from representing the Labour party, after the National Constitutional Committee found him guilty of making controversial comments about Hitler and Zionism. Lord Levy was the chief fundraiser of the Labour party under Tony Blair.
0740
There are 60,065 species of trees in the world, according to a comprehensive study of the world's plants. Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) compiled the tree list by using data gathered from its network of 500 member organisations. Dr Paul Smith is secretary general of BGCI.
0750
The Prime Minister has indicated that free movement of EU citizens across British frontiers may need to continue in some form for a period after Brexit. Theresa May told journalists a shift to a new immigration policy could be part of any implementation period before Britain adjusts to life outside the European Union. David Mcallister is a German MEP and chair of the European Parliament foreign affairs committee and Ashley Fox is MEP for south west England and Gibraltar, and Leader of Conservative MEPs.
0810
The UN security council will meet in emergency session today to discuss a suspected gas attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.Μύ The US has accused President Assad of brutal, unabashed barbarism. Lyse Doucet is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs chief international correspondent. Dr Anne-Marie Slaughter is former head of policy at the US State Department under Obama and Clinton.
0820
The author James Baldwin described in a letter his idea for a new book Remember This House, which would tell the story of America through the lives and successive assassinations of his friends, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Baldwin died before he could ever write the book, but an unfinished manuscript and other notes survived. Now a new film uses these texts as a structure to explore the legacy of the civil rights movement and the state of race relations in America today. Itβs in cinemas from Friday. Raoul Peck is the director of I Am Not Your Negro and Bonnie Greer is an American-British playwright.
0830
The head of GCHQ has called on technology companies to do more to tackle extremist content online. Gordon Corera is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs security correspondent.
0840
South Sudan's only children's hospital is struggling to cope with the
country's recently-declared famine. Its executive
director has described conditions there as
βshockingβ and βalarmingβ.Μύ Anna Foster is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs correspondent.
0850
A project begins today giving people the chance to try out driverless cars. Todayβs Nick Beake reports.
0855
Yesterday, a development of luxury houses in Cambridge was sprayed with graffiti in Latin, with the words βLocus in Domos Loci Populumβ. Graffiti, once a common sight in most built up areas in the UK, is apparently becoming something of a lost art form or at least, a sanitised one. Nicola Harding is a sociologist and associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and Charlie Uzzell-Edwards is a graffiti artist and gallery owner of Pure Evil.
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