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Medical experts from across the world have called for the Olympics not to be staged in Rio in August because of the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil. They’ve written a letter to the World Health Organisation. The virus which is spread by mosquitoes has caused serious brain abnormalities in more than a thousand new born babies in the country. Rio is one of the worst affected cities. Speaking live on the programme is Professor Edwin Van Teijlingen, signatory of the letter from the Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health.

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Over a quarter of children referred for specialist mental health services in England in 2015 failed to get any treatment, according to the Children's Commissioner. The figures include children who had attempted suicide or had anorexia. Some of those that were treated had to wait months for help; one NHS trust told the Commissioner their average waiting time was 200 days. NHS England says the data in the report does not support the conclusions drawn. Speaking live on the programme is Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield.

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National commemorations to mark 100 years since the Battle of Jutland and highlight the important role of the Firth of Forth during WWI will be held today in Rosyth and South Queensferry. Events will commemorate the contribution and sacrifices made by all those who served during the most significant naval engagement of the War where more than 6,000 British and 2,500 German lives were lost. Speaking live on the programme is Nick Jellicoe, grandson of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, commander of the British Grand Fleet

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The military operation to retake Fallujah from IS has been going for five days now. On Friday the US announced that the leader of IS in the city had been killed in an airstrike. Civilians trapped in the Iraqi city face mounting threats as humanitarian conditions worsen and Iraqi forces press their offensive. We’ve been speaking to Missy Ryan, The Washington Post’s Pentagon Correspondent.

0730

This week 14,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe. Aid agencies say that since the EU deal with Turkey curbed the numbers of people reaching Europe via Greece, the crossing between Libya and Italy has become the main route for migrants – that doesn’t mean the numbers are up however, they are running at roughly the same level as they were last year. What is causing migration from the African continent and is anything being done to curb its causes? Speaking live on the programme is Mary Harper, is Africa Editor of the 91Èȱ¬ World Service and Dr Laura Hammond, head of Development Studies at the School of African and Oriental Studies.

0740

In this week's Meet the Author Jim Naughtie meets the writer David Mitchell to talk about storytelling, childhood memories and the future of the modern novel.

0750

The grassroots EU campaigns on both sides are out in force today. With only a few weeks to go until the referendum, have the campaigns failed sufficiently to reach everyone with their message and how can they be diversified? Speaking live on the programme is Green Party MP who is on the board of Britain Stronger in Europe, Caroline Lucas and Dreda Say Mitchell, a crime author and broadcaster who will be voting to leave the European Union.

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Over a quarter of children referred for specialist mental health services in England in 2015 failed to get any treatment, according to the Children's Commissioner. The figures include children who had attempted suicide or had anorexia. Some of those that were treated had to wait months for help; one NHS trust told the Commissioner their average waiting time was 200 days. Speaking live on the programme is Ellie Fogden, age 19; she spent 6 months on a waiting list to find a counsellor when she was 16, James Morris, Conservative MP who's chair of the All-Party Group on Mental Health and Natasha Devon, formerly the Government’s mental health champion.

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66-year-old Geraldine Largay set out on a three-day hike on the Appalachian Trail in the eastern US with a friend in 2013. When her friend went home to deal with a family emergency, Geraldine Largay continued alone. Her husband reported her missing when he went up to pick her up and she didn’t turn up. Two years later, in October 2015, her body was found. This week, papers documenting the final days of her life have been released by investigators. Speaking live on the programme is Dr Lisa Fenton, is a bush craft and survival skills instructor and Keith Foskett is a long distance hiker who hiked the whole Appalachian Trail.

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Medical experts from across the world have called for the Olympics not to be staged in Rio in August because of the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil. They’ve written a letter to the World Health Organisation. The virus which is spread by mosquitoes has caused serious brain abnormalities in more than a thousand new born babies in the country. Rio is one of the worst affected cities. Speaking live on the programme is former British Olympic Pentathlete and now freelance journalist Heather Fell and Dr Chris Smith, Consultant Virologist, Cambridge University.

0840

A revolutionary type of food delivery truck takes to the streets today on trial with Sainsburys. It looks like any other food lorry, but it's cooled not by diesel - the normal fuel - but by liquid nitrogen stored in tanks at -200C. It's one of many new inventions in what's become known as the Cold Economy. 91Èȱ¬â€™s environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.

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Gumplewink, grobbled and sleep squiggler, three words you won't have heard of, until now were invented by Roald Dahl, who scribbled them on yellow pages from the American legal pads he used to write in. Now, thousands of words like those, made up by Dahl, are being brought together in a new dictionary, as part of celebrations to mark the centenary of the writer's birth. Speaking live on the programme is Dr Susan Rennie, author of The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow.

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Whether it’s the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in the US, electoral success for the far right in Europe, or Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of UK Labour, recent shifts in Western politics are often attributed to voters losing faith in the capitalist system. There is a sense that middle classes no longer trust the economic system and are seeking refuge in populism and extremism. Can the centre ground fight back? Speaking live on the programme is Liam Byrne MP, former Treasury minister and Deirdre Mccloskey, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World.

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