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14/03/2016

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

3 hours

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Mon 14 Mar 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

George Osborne will announce the budget on Wednesday, but he must fill a financial black hole thanks to lower than expected earnings and close to zero inflation. Paul Johnson is director of IFS.

0655

French investigators have called for medical confidentiality to be relaxed for pilots, in the wake of last year's Germanwings disaster. Jim McAuslan is chief executive of the British Airline Pilots' Association.Ìý

0710

A car bomb has exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 32 people and wounding more than 100, the health ministry has said. Nadhim Zahawi is Conservative MP who sits on the foreign affairs select committee – he was in Turkey three months ago.

0715

Germans voted in three regional state elections on Sunday. According to exit polls, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel was defeated in two of three states. Jenny Hill is the 91Èȱ¬â€™s Berlin correspondent and Elmar Brok is chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.

0720

The European Space Agency's mission blasts off this morning, searching for life on Mars. British scientists and engineers have played a leading role in the technology which will examine levels of methane on Mars - which may be an indication of life. Speaking on the programme is Dr Manish Patel, a senior lecturer in Planetary Sciences at Open University and co-lead on the NOMAD instrument on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

0730

Can anyone stop Donald Trump becoming the Republican candidate for the American presidency? Justin Webb has been to New York - the place that made TrumpÌý- to speak to the influential people who know him.

0740

The busty, bawdy, brassy Nell Gwynn is best known as the courtesan of Charles II - she wasÌýalso, perhaps, the first feminist to take to the West End stage. We have been speaking to actor Gemma Arterton, who is currently playing the role of Nell in the show of the same name.

0750

A freedom of information request sent by the 91Èȱ¬ to all police forces in England and Wales shows that 510 people were arrested for neglect after leaving their child / children at home alone in England and Wales in the last financial year. Speaking on the programme is Angela Moores, a family law solicitor, and Tim Haines, who was prosecuted for leaving his two-year-old daughter alone in a car for 10 minutes.

0810

A car bomb has exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing 32 people and wounding more than 100, the health ministry has said. We have been hearing from Ertugrul Kurkcu, former MP and honoury president of the HDP. Speaking live on the programme is Fadi Hakura, associate fellow and Turkey expert at Chatham House and Onur Oymen, former Turkish ambassador to NATO.

0820

A master player of the game Go has won his first match against a Google computer program, after losing three in a row in a best-of-five competition. Demis Hassabis is founder of Deepmind - who developed the computer programme Alphago - and is an artificial intelligence research neuroscientist and computer game designer.

0830

Al-Qaeda-linked militants have killed at least 16 people in a gun attack on a beach resort in southern Ivory Coast. Charline Burton is a 32-year-old Belgian national living in Abidjan with her husband and two daughters - she was having lunch on the beach when this happened and had to hide in a hotel bathroom for several hours. Rafaello Panutucci is director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute.

0845

Syrian peace negotiations resume in Geneva today. Speaking on the programme is Haid Haid, board member of the Syrian NGO Badael which is committed to strengthening civil society and peace building.

0850

The financial watchdog and Treasury last year decided to explore how, why and if people need financial advice. Speaking live in the studio is Nick Hungerford, CEO of investment firm Nutmeg - he was on the panel of experts for the review.

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All subject to change.

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  • Mon 14 Mar 2016 06:00