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Cyber security and computer hacking is rarely out of the news - in the last few weeks, a French TV channel was taken off air, Sony Film studios had more of its internal emails published and the White House accused Russian hackers of going after the Pentagon. The new trend worrying experts is the shift towards not just stealing information but destroying things in the real world using computer code. In the first of two reports our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera looks at this shift towards causing physical destruction and how vulnerable we are.

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A huge international rescue operation is underway in Nepal, where hundreds of thousands of people are spending another night in the open following Saturday's earthquake. The Nepali government says the country is short of everything from paramedics to electricity and has deployed almost all its security forces to the rescue effort. Aid workers say almost no help has reached villages near the epicentre, where it's feared entire communities have been destroyed. James Jackson is a Professor of Active Tectonics at Cambridge University who was in Kathmandu last week at a meeting discussing regional preparedness for earthquakes.

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What would elections be like without opinion polls and how much credence should we give to seat predictions? For the first time we have constituency polls commissioned by Lord Ashcroft, but are they shedding any more light than the national polls? David Cowling is the 91Èȱ¬â€™s Political Research editor.

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A huge international rescue operation is underway in Nepal, where hundreds of thousands of people are spending another night in the open following Saturday's earthquake (see 0650). Saleh Saeed is the DEC Chief Executive.

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Google has signed a deal with European newspaper groups to try to help them make more money online. The search engine company will invest over a hundred millions pounds in new digital news projects and has admitted it has made mistakes in dealing with news organisations. Google says it aims to promote innovation. Peter Barron is the Vice President for Communications in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Google.

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The price of milk paid to farmers reached an 8-year low earlier this year, dipping below 20 pence-a-litre. For many dairy farmers that is well below the cost of production, and with little sign of improvement more and more are bowing to the inevitable and hanging up the keys to the milking shed.  As part of our look at 100 constituencies in 100 days Tom Feilden has been to Monmouth on the Welsh border, an area once famous for growing lush green grass and producing some of the best milk in the country.

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A state of emergency is in place in Baltimore after rioting that began after the funeral of an African American man who died after being injured in police custody. Twenty five year old Freddie Gray died 9 days ago after spending a week in a coma. An investigation into what happened is underway and six police officers who were involved in the case have been suspended - but this has done nothing to quell the anger. Our correspondent Aleem Maqbool is in Baltimore and spoke to the city's mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

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A Church of England school has decided to stop selecting pupils on the basis of faith after the local vicar got fed up with parents who attended church purely to get their child a place. They are removing the need to attend church as an admission prerequisite in the hope they can give places to a cross section of children living near the school. Caroline Wyatt is the 91Èȱ¬ Religious Affairs correspondent and Father Martin Hislop is a vicar at St Luke’s church and school in Kingston Upon Thames.

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A huge international rescue operation is underway in Nepal, where hundreds of thousands of people are spending another night in the open following Saturday's earthquake (see 0650). Kaji Sherpa is the President of the Buddhist Community Centre UK.

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David Cameron will announce today that a future Conservative government would create an additional 50 thousand apprenticeships, using money from the fines imposed on Deutsche Bank for its involvement in the Libor rate-fixing scandal.  Priti Patel is Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.

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A huge international rescue operation is underway in Nepal, where hundreds of thousands of people are spending another night in the open following Saturday's earthquake (see 0650). Divya Arya reports from outside Kathmandu and Baroness Valerie Amos is the UN Under-Secretary-General of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

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A Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast tonight tells the story of the Queen and Princess Margaret's night out in London on VE Day, 8 May 1945.  The sisters slipped out of Buckingham Palace to party in secret on London's streets. For the first time, eyewitnesses who were with Elizabeth and Margaret that night reveal what happened as the princesses joined the thousands of revellers celebrating the end of the war. Alistair Pegg is a producer at Blast Films; Diana Athill is a publisher and writer who was in London on VE day and Correlli Barnett is a historian who was in London on VE day.

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The programme’s series of leader interviews ahead of the election continues with the Democratic Unionist Party leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson.

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Later today we'll get the last big bit of economic data before the election, when the latest GDP figures are published. While the last two years have brought growth, productivity levels in some parts of the country have remained stubbornly low. In the latest of our visits to a hundred constituencies, Hywel Griffith has been to Ynys Mon - or Anglesey in North Wales, which has the unenviable title of being - "on one measure…. the least productive part of the UK... “

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A controversial artificial sweetener is being removed from Diet Pepsi in the US amid consumer concerns about its safety. Aspartame-free cans of the drink will go on sale from August in America, but not in Britain. Regulators in the UK and the US insist aspartame is still safe to use in soft drinks. Catherine Collins is the principal dietician and St George’s Hospital  NHS trust in London.

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Are we all curators? That is the premise of a new book, which says that curating is now the primary way we organise and give value to content. The author suggests we all do it- from festival organisers to sandwich makers. David Balzer is an art critic and author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over The Art World And Everything Else Is and Lauren Parker is an independent curator and former head of contemporary programme at the V&A.

 All subject to change.