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24/11/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Mon 24 Nov 2014 06:00

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0650

According to the Campaign to Protect Rural England there is enough brownfield land to build almost a million new homes. It has raised concerns that new national planning rules don't prioritise brownfield development and, as a result, greenbelt and green field land is being used instead. We hear from Shaun Spiers, Chief Executive of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, and Mark Littlewood, the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs

0710

On 8am Monday morning thousands of NHS workers in England went out on strike. NHS staff in Northern Ireland will be following them.听 Midwives, nurses and paramedics won鈥檛 be working again until 11m this morning. The strike, the second in a matter of weeks, is over pay. Dave Prentis is the leader of UNISON.

0712

Eurosceptics are stepping up the pressure on David Cameron on Monday. The think tank Open Europe is publishing a report that says people coming to live and work here for very low-paying jobs should not be paid tax credits.听 Mats Persson is the Director of Open Europe.

0720

Police in America have shot dead a 12-year-old boy who had what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground. Police in the US city of Cleveland asked the boy, Tamir Rice, to raise his hands but he didn't and they shot him in the stomach. Timothy Kucharski is the family鈥檚 lawyer.

0722

The government wants new laws which, it says, will make it easier to stop terrorists raising money and easier to track them on the internet. The Internet Services Providers' Association told us that it would cost hundreds of millions of pounds for internet service providers to retain this data. And that it wasn't consulted by the 91热爆 Office. Mark Rowley is the Metropolitan Police's Assistant Commissioner.

0734

A British man who has joined Kurdish forces in Syria to fight against Islamic State militants has told the 91热爆 that he had not been paid to do so. Speaking from a battlefield in Syria, Jamie Read from Scotland said his motivation had been to defend the Kurdish people. A month ago, an American citizen told the 91热爆 that hundreds of military personnel were prepared to fight against IS in Syria and Iraq alongside the Syrian Kurdish militia. We speak to Guney Yildiz, the 91热爆's Kurdish Affairs Analyst, and Sir Edward Garnier, QC and Conservative MP.

0740

A museum in Switzerland will announce on Monday whether it will accept a collection of art bequeathed to it by German collector Cornelius Gurlitt shortly before his death. Gurlitt was the son of Adolf Hitler's art dealer and the hundreds of paintings and drawings include Nazi-looted art that once belonged to Jewish collectors. Many were feared lost or destroyed before tax investigators uncovered his priceless collection in 2012. Chris Marinello is Director of Art Recovery International.

0745

A big computer security company, Symantec, has discovered what it says is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malicious software they've ever detected. Sian John is their Chief Security Strategist.

0750

The family of the British-Iranian student, who was imprisoned in Iran after trying to watch a men鈥檚 volleyball match, says she has been released on bail. Ghoncheh Ghavami, was arrested in June during a protest outside a stadium in Tehran, where the national volleyball team was about to play. Women in Iran are banned from attending men's sporting events. She was sentenced to a year in prison for spreading anti-government propaganda and went on hunger strike. We hear from Rana Rahimpour, 91热爆 Persian reporter, and Iman Ghvami, Ghoncheh Ghavami鈥檚 brother.

0810

David Cameron will come under fresh pressure on Monday to harden his position on Europe - as he seeks to renegotiate the terms of British membership of the EU before an in/out referendum in 2017.听 The former Conservative cabinet minister, Owen Paterson, will tell a meeting of Eurosceptic business leaders in London that Britain could flourish economically outside the EU's political structures, while negotiating access to the single market. One option the Prime Minister is thought to be considering is to prevent EU migrants from claiming in-work benefits like tax credits. We speak to Witold Sobkow, Polish Ambassador to London, and Bernard Jenkin MP.

0820

How can cartoons help us understand complex ideas? Radio 4 has commissioned a host of 90 second animations to explain key philosophical concepts like Plato鈥檚 dialogue on beauty, JS Mill鈥檚 views on freedom and the 鈥淗arm Principle鈥. The animations accompany a 60 part History of ideas series running on Radio 4 at the moment exploring some of life鈥檚 big questions. Andrew Park is the man behind the job of distilling these complex ideas into a 90 second hand drawn animations.

You can see the animations are on the Radio 4 website now.

0830

There's been a big rise in the proportion of adults under 25 in poverty, and a big fall among the over 75s, according to a Joseph Rowntree report 'The State of the Nation' out today. It also reveals there are more people in poverty who live in a working household. We speak to Julia Uunwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and David Willetts, former Minister for Universities.

0835

If you are Muslim you will know it as "al-Haram al-Sharif". If you are Jewish you'll call it "Temple Mount". 91热爆 to the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, this holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem is the focus of rising tensions between the two communities. Kevin Connolly is our Middle East Correspondent.

0850

One of the effects of Ebola in West Africa has been to stop people being able to farm. The UN World Food Programme is now worried about the availability of food in parts of West Africa, where food markets are not working because communities have been quarantined. Ertharin Cousin is the Director of the UN's World Food Programme.

All subject to change.

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  • Mon 24 Nov 2014 06:00