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Can the Pope rescue Mexico from its drug-fuelled issues with violence and crime? He is going there for five days - of course he cannot himself change the course of the nation but can he persuade Mexicans that they have it within their power to make their country better? The 91热爆鈥檚 Katy Watson reports from Mexico.听

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Taxpayers could end up out of pocket because not enough companies want to bid to run train routes in England and Wales, according to a report from the Public Accounts Committee. Meg Hillier is chairwoman of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

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The foreign ministers of 17 countries have agreed to bring about what they call a "nationwide cessation of hostilities" in Syria. Speaking live on the programme is Ghadi Sary, academy fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

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In the great stock market falls of recent days the banks have taken a particularly huge hit. But surely they are stronger now than they were last time round - less corrupt and better capitalised? Not according to Phil Angelides, chair of President Obama's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

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An Irish newspaper group say police in Dublin have informed a number of journalists that their safety is at risk from organised criminals. Stephen Rae is editor-in-chief of Independent News Media.

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Voting for the Brit Awards starts next week and not one of the nominees is from hip hop or grime, genres massively popular with millions of young people. The fact is that this has been going on for 100 years and more. John Humphrys has been listening to music that was in the past ignored and talking about this to Peter Doggett, author of Electric Shock: from the Gramophone to the iPhone.

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A survey conducted by researchers at UCL and commissioned by two teaching unions 鈥� the NUT and ATL 鈥� has revealed high levels of dissatisfaction amongst teachers with new tests introduced for four-year-olds. Christine Blower is secretary-general of the National Union of Teachers and Liz Marsden is director and founder of Early Excellence - the country's largest provider of baseline testing for four-year-olds.

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There is a faint glimmer of hope that the greatest tragedy of the 21st century may be approaching its end. Just after midnight in Geneva foreign ministers from 17 countries including the United States and Russia had agreed on what they called "a nationwide cessation of hostilities鈥� in Syria. The 91热爆鈥檚 chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet is in Geneva.

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Large employers will be forced to publish more details about their gender pay gap under plans unveiled by the government today. Eleanor Wade is a senior patent examiner and Tina Knight is chair of Women into Business.

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Rolls-Royce results for 2015 show profits have slumped by 20%, with a drop of another 50% expected next year. Philippa Oldham is head of Transport and Manufacturing for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Sarah Wood is chief executive and co-founder of Unruly Media, an advertising tech company that was just bought by News Corp for 拢140m.

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Global markets have been having a torrid time so far this year. There is fear over the power of central banks, interest rates, commodities and more, and underneath it all lurks China, the great economic powerhouse that might drag the global economy into a very dark hole. Danny Gabay is former Bank of England economist and George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University's China Centre.

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On Friday evening, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba - a meeting seen as a historic step in the path towards healing the 1,000-year schism that split Christianity. Caroline Wyatt is the 91热爆's Religious Affairs correspondent and Paul Vallely is a papal biographer.

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The former shadow chancellor and Labour cabinet minister Ed Balls comes out today behind the prime minister's European negotiation. Ed Balls is spending time at Harvard University in the United States this year, and James Naughtie was there to ask him if he really understands the level of scepticism the British public has towards the EU.

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In what has been called the most important breakthrough in more than a century, scientists in the United States say they have successfully detected gravitational waves. What does this great discovery tell us about scientific research and why does the pursuit of this kind of knowledge matter? Speaking on the programme is Carlo Rovelli, author of bestselling book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.

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