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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700
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TheÌýcoup is Fiji has been condemned. New Zealand's Prime Minister, Helen Clarke, has said that Commodore Bainimarama is "deaf to any reasoning or any attempt of a proper dialogue". |
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0715 |
Demonstrations in Beirut could threaten the stability of the country. We speak to Edward Stourton. |
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0722 |
Business News with Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
Sports News with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Dutch soldiers have been awarded a Ìýmilitary honour for defending the Bosnian town of Srebrenica - the scene of the 1995 massacre. |
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0735 |
The government saysÌýNHS reforms - including the closure of some A&E departments - will save lives, but is this true? We speak to Professor Roger Boyle. |
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0740 |
We speak to Alex Thomson and Mike Golding, the two sailors involved in the extraordinary rescue a thousand miles from land in the southern oceans. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Dr Indarjit Singh - Editor of the Sikh Messenger. |
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0750 |
In the wake of the Stern report, we speak to President Bush's adviser on climate change. |
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0810 |
We ask two campaigners why they are continuing to fight for theirÌýlocal A&E departments when experts claim more than 1000 lives could be saved by greater centralisation. |
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0823 |
Mel Gibson's new film Apocalypto has been getting excellent early reviews. So have the actor's recentÌýanti-semitic remarks been forgiven? |
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0825 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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0832 |
We find out from our correspondent ÌýAndy GallagherÌý what everyday life is like for an English-speaking doctor in Baghdad. |
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0835 |
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has won a third term in office. We speak to America's assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere, Tom Shannon. |
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0840 |
Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
ShouldÌýanonymity be lifted on those who falsely cry rape? We speak to Lord Campbell-Savours. |
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0850 |
UN investigators in the Congo have discovered a mass grave containing more than thirty bodies. We hear from our correspondent Karen Allen. |
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0855 |
The investigation intoÌýSaudi arms deals by the Serious Fraud Office has turned into a difficult political problem for the government. We speak to former Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken. |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.ÌýA great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
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Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists thatÌýthe ±«Óãtv Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the ±«Óãtv Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot. |
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The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) |
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Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon. |
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The uncut interview with Sir Peter Hall, the first director to stage the play in 1955, with the last surviving member of the original main cast, Timothy Bateson who played 'lucky', and playwright Ronald Harwood. |
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Jim Naughtie speaks to the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Idowu Fearon, about the Anglican Church in Africa and tensions between Christians and Muslims. (25/05/05) |
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Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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First ±«Óãtv interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign for five Britons still there to be freed. |
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Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) |
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Tony Blair speaks to Jim at the British Embassy in Washington, following his controversial Rose Garden press conference with Bush. The Iraq war, the Middle East and the first hints of an EU constitution referendum u-turn. (17/04/04). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. |
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