04/08/2017
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0650
Fourteen farming organisations have issued a joint statement calling on the government to reassure the industry as Brexit and the end of the Common Agricultural Policy draws closer. Minette Batters is the deputy president of the National Farmers Union.
0655
Tourists and residents in Italy, Spain and large parts of southern Europe are being urged to stay indoors and drink plenty of water after suffering from the hottest sustained heat wave for more than a decade. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Gavin Lee reports from Sicily.
0709
Marcus Hutchins, a British computer expert who was hailed as a hero in May when he helped halt the cyber-attack that paralysed parts of the NHS, has been arrested in the US. Tor Ekeland is an attorney who specialises in computer crime.
0712
Five years after hosting the Olympics, the London Stadium will once again welcome the sport's biggest names including Mo Farah and Usain Bolt. Ed Warner is head of the organising committee of this World Athletics Championships and former chairman of UK Athletics.
0720
One of Britain's most senior judges Sir James Munby has said βthe state will have blood on its handsβ if a suicidal 17-year-old girl girl is released from custody, without being supervised properly.Β Sir Munby said the situation was "utterly shaming". Sue Mizen is chair of the Medical Psychotherapy faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
0730
The Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar will make a speech about Brexit later today in Belfast as part of his first official visit to Northern Ireland since becoming Taoiseach.Β Daniel Mulhall is the outgoing Irish ambassador to the UK.
0740
Both Usain Bolt and Mo Farah will attempt to sign off with gold at the World Championships which begin today in the London Olympic park. Todayβs Zoe Conway has been finding out what makes a great Olympian.
0750
Five years on from the London Olympics many of its stars are back in the city for the World Athletics Championships. More than 650,000 tickets have already been sold for the event organised by the the International Association of Athletics Federations. Lord Coe is the IAAF president.
0810
The special counsel investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the US presidential election has put together a grand jury in Washington. The panel of citizens has been working for several weeks already according to US media reports. Jon Sopel is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs North America editor and Congresswoman Jackie Speier is a member of House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
0820
One of the world's tallest residential buildings, the Torch tower in Dubai, has been engulfed in flames for the second time in two years. Officials in Dubai say the Torch building has been evacuated successfully and firefighters are working to bring the blaze under control.
0830
The deadline for submissions on what the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry should cover will expire later today. Hundreds of suggestions have been received with the total expected to hit around 300 by the 5pm cut-off. Β Emma Dent Coad is the Labour MP for Kensington and was a councillor in the area.
0835
One of the pleasures of going on summer holiday is having an empty diary but are we Brits too obsessed with having a full one in our society where we plan our lives months in advance?Β Federico Bianchi is the head of Cultural Affairs at the Italian Embassy and Kit Opie is an evolutionary anthropologist at University College London.
0845
Mass protests are expected in Venezuela today as President Nicolas Maduro prepares to inaugurate a new "constituent assembly" with the power to re-write his country's constitution. State prosecutors will seek to block him in court after allegations of voter fraud in a poll boycotted by the opposition. John Simpson is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs world affairs editor and Eva Golinger is an attorney and the author of The ChΓ‘vez Code.
0850
The process of correcting fauIty DNA potentially opens the door to preventing 10,000 heritable disorders but how ethical is it? The author Ian McEwan is a man who is no stranger to discussing science and genetics.
0855
The World Athletics Championships in London will see one of Britain's all-time greatest athletes Sir Mo Farah bowing out from the track. We reflect on his achievements with British athlete Roger Black, whoβs won two gold medals at the World Championships.
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