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Good morning. Today’s presenters are Nick Robinson and Sarah Montague. Follow the programme and have your say via #r4today.

Today's top stories:

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Zimbabwe's military has read out a statement after taking over the national broadcaster, ZBC, saying it has taken action to "target criminals". However, it said this was not "a military takeover of government" and President Robert Mugabe was safe. Author of The Last Days of Mugabe, Peter Godwin joins us.

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David Coltart is the former Zimbabwean Minister for sports, arts and culture from 2009 – 2013

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Few will forget the moment the US ambassador to the United Nations under president Obama confronted Syria and their backers Russia about what was happening in Aleppo. Samantha Power joins us on the programme.

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When police searched a cottage in a pretty Gloucestershire village they discovered 66-year-old Paul Edmunds had been making bullets and adapting antique guns which have been linked to more than 100 crime scenes. Martin Parker is the National Ballistic Centre’s chief scientist and joins us from Carlisle

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Zimbabwe's military has read out a statement after taking over the national broadcaster, ZBC, saying it has taken action to "target criminals". The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Africa Correspondent Fergal Keane joins us.

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It will be the largest famine the world has seen for many decades with millions of victims. That was the warning given to the UN Security Council about what is happening in Yemen. The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief is Mark Lowcock.

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Polly Ross was allowed to leave Westlands Mental Health unit in Hull to go and buy cigarettes. Within hours she had killed herself. Acoroner ruled yesterday that the decision to allow her out unchaperoned had beeen a "very serious failure" that "had a direct causal effect" on her death. Genna Rourke was a friend of Polly Ross. Dr Gillian Strachan is a consultant psychiatrist from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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