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10/09/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Thu 10 Sep 2015 06:00

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William Kentridge has been called South Africa's greatest living artist - his work is collected by and shown in museums around the world, and he has an opera opening at The Met in New York. He's particularly known for his political engagement - his lawyer father defended Nelson Mandela.听 Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz went to meet William Kentridge - on the eve of his latest show in London.

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Apple held a launch event in San Francisco yesterday to unveil new products including the iPad Pro, which can be used with the new Apple Pencil, as well as revamped Apple TV and its latest smartphones, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. What are the new features and how significant are these new upgrades and products? Our Technology correspondent Dave Lee.

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A new study has identified a theoretical possibility that people could contract Alzheimer's disease through surgical procedures. Researchers writing in the journal, Nature, said that instruments contaminated with a protein associated with the disease may pose a rare but potential risk. They stress their findings are not conclusive, and do not mean Alzheimer's is infectious. Dr Eric Karran is the Chief scientist at the charity Alzheimer's Research UK.

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In last few days thousands of refugees have arrived in Germany - which is already receiving a record number of asylum seekers. The country's government insists it can cope but, as towns and cities start trying to integrate the new arrivals, one German MP has told the 91热爆 that Britain should be doing more to help. Our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill reports.听

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The community of Scoraig has launched a search for a teacher after two rounds of recruitment by Highland Council failed to find a suitable candidate. The school has five pupils aged 5-10. Access is by boat or a 3-mile coastal path - currently supply teachers are being brought in by boat each day but that may become unsustainable as the weather worsens in the winter. Zoe Fothergill is the administrator of the charity Scoraig Teaching Group.

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Friends of the Earth鈥檚 former climate change campaigner has urged environmentalists to drop their 鈥渋n principle鈥 opposition to shale gas. Bryony Worthington 鈥 now Labour鈥檚 shadow energy minister - will tell a debate in the Lords today that it is more energy efficient to frack our own gas in the UK rather than to compress gas in Qatar and ship it thousands of miles to heat Britain鈥檚 homes. But she will insist that shale gas development should only be allowed if the resulting CO2 emissions are captured and stored underground. Baroness Bryony Worthington is Labour's Shadow Energy Minister, formerly Friends of the Earth campaigner听 and Craig Bennett is Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth.

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As summer turns to autumn the arrival of rare and exotic moths flocking to Britain from the continent peaks.听 People across Britain are being asked bait their gardens with special traps to attract moths, particularly the extraordinary palm-sized Convolvulus Hawk-moth. It鈥檚 all for Moth Night, a bid to measure how many moths are coming to our shores over the coming three nights. Dr Zoe Randle is the Surveys Officer at the Butterfly Conservation charity.

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NHS Employers and ten hospital trusts from around England have taken the unusual step of writing to the 91热爆 Secretary, warning that immigration rules are restricting visas for nurses they want to recruit from outside Europe. They鈥檙e calling on Theresa May 鈥渢o relieve the pressure on the NHS鈥 as it prepares for winter, by putting nursing on the official list of occupations which have shortages. Our health correspondent Jane Dreaper reports from University College Hospital and Danny Mortimer is Chief Executive of NHS Employers.

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This Saturday we will know the outcome of the Labour Leadership election. Former policy chief John Cruddas described the 2015 defeat as the worst crisis the party has ever faced. With Corbyn the favourite to win how does he see the future of the Labour party? John Cruddas was policy coordinator for Labour under Ed Miliband and Laura Kuenssberg is the 91热爆鈥檚 political editor.

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When a young man called Antonio was struggling to pay for healthcare for his sick daughter, he gave up his secure logistics job to get unemployment pay for six months and went to ask the local drug don for a loan, paid off by working for his gang in one of Rio's favelas. Within a few years that man had become known as Nem da Rocinha and was in charge of the gang itself and the effective prime minister of a favela of 100,000 people. He's now in Brazil's most high security prison having confessed drug trafficking charges and awaits trial for the murder of two women. He has given author Misha Glenny hours of interviews inside the prison while shackled to a desk bolted to the floor.

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Labour will announce its next leader on Saturday but first we get the result of another election in the party - its candidate to be Mayor of London. Boris Johnson's second term as the capital's figurehead runs out next year. Amongst the favourites to win the Labour nomination is Dame Tessa Jowell; a proud admirer of Tony Blair. So why - when to be seen as a Blairite has apparently been the kiss of death in Labour's leadership race - do some Labour activists in London seem to see things differently? Our Political Correspondent Chris Mason reports.

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The television programme Hunted starts on Channel 4 tonight.听 14 volunteers go on the run and try to avoid being found by a team of professional trackers.听 But in an age when we leave such a vast digital footprint, is it really possible to get off the grid?听 Brett Lovegrove is a former Head of Counter Terrorism for the City of London police and the man in charge of the Hunted task force.

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A new Africa is breaking free - resurgent politically and economically after centuries of oppression but it still has to confront "the false prophets who would keep it in its bonds 鈥 Islamist extremists, dictators and aid workers", according to a new book by former Africa Time magazine bureau chief Alex Perry. Alex Perry is the author of 鈥楾he Rift: A New Africa Breaks Free鈥 and Manji Cheto is a risk analyst specialising in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • Thu 10 Sep 2015 06:00