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0607 |
Michael Jackson is innocent, but nearly everyone involved in the case seems to be poring over it still. Daniel Lak has been talking to the prosecutor who failed to convince the jury. |
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0609 |
City academies are a big part of the government's school policies. There's a report out today that says there's real problems with them. |
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0615 |
Today'sÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood. |
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0625 |
Gary Richardson keeps us up to date with events in the sporting world. |
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0632 |
A report by the national audit office says there is a potential crisis in Britain's armed forces. |
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0635 |
Tony Blair's visit to the Elysee has revealed how fraught relations are at the top of theÌýEuropean Union and itsÌýtomorrow thatÌýall the leaders are in Brussels for a summit. |
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0638 |
Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, has alwaysÌýmaintained thatÌýhe did not know about his son's involvementÌýin the so-called oil-for-food scandal in Iraq. Now there's new evidence that suggests he did. |
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0640 |
A summery of theÌýnewspapers from Britain and from South Africa |
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0643 |
A summery of Yesterday in Parliament from Sean Curran. |
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0650 |
The government claimsÌýCity Academies are doing a great job. But there have been vote of "no confidence" and whispers of big problems. Quentin Smerville has been looking into it while Sunny Varney sets out his own ideas for an education revolution. |
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0713 |
The national audit office identifies nearly forty per cent of the forces as having "serious weaknesses" in their readiness for action. Lord Garden, former assistant chief of the defence staff; now defence spokesman for the Liberal Democrats in the Lords explains what this actually means and how it might have come about. |
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0722 |
Conservative MPs are meeting tonight to vote on whether to accept changes proposed by their leader Michael Howard. It seems they will NOT approve them.Political reporter Iain Watson and Conservative Party Chairman Francis Maude. |
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0724 |
MoreÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood. |
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0728 |
If you eat a lot of red meat you have a greater risk of getting bowel cancer. Professor Sheila Bingham of Cambridge University explains the big study run by the medical research council and Cancer UK.Ìý |
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0739 |
The latestÌýsporting news from Garry Richardson. |
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0742 |
It's ten years since the massacre of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica. One of the two most wanted men, Mladic is now the subject of intense speculation in Serbia and Montenegro about Mladic. Jon Manel has been to Belgrade to find out why. |
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0746 |
The singer, poet, and radical political campaignerÌýPatti Smith has been a figure on the American rock scene for more than thirty years now she's in London as the centrepiece of the Meltdown festival at the Royal Festival Hall. |
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0751 |
Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. |
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0655 |
Liberal Democrat spokesman Ed Davey and Schools Minister Jacqui Smith both talk about the troubled state of City Academies. |
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0810 |
Are Britain'sÌýarmed forces stretched beyond the limit? The answer to that question seems to be yes. Shadow defence secretary Michael Ancram and Armed forces minister Adam Ingram. |
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0821 |
David Calder and Dr Susan Sydney-SmithÌýdiscuss the return of Dixon of Dock Green. |
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0831 |
The man who's job it was to prosecute Jackson was Santa Barbara District Attorney Tom Sneddon.Ìý But in an interview for this programme, he defends the decisions taken by him and his team. |
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0840 |
A finalÌýbusiness update from Greg Wood. |
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0847 |
The big prize for non-fiction - theÌý±«Óãtv Four Samuel Johnson Prize - has gone to a writer more used to winning prizes for his fiction. |
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0850 |
E-Bay has backed down to Bob Geldof's outrage at their allowingÌýLive8 tickets to be sold for profit on their site.Ìý But is LIVE8 a form of moral bullying? George Trefgarne. |
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0655 |
ReutersÌýwill today be theÌýlast big news agency toÌýleave Fleet Street today.Ìý A church service will be held to mark this death of an era. |
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