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0607 | Paul Hill, the man who murdered two people outside an abortion clinic in the United States, was executed a few hours ago. Our Correspondent at Starke Prison in Florida, isÌýFergal Parkinson. | |
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0609 | The Palestinian Prime Minister is making a difficult appeal to his legislative council today. Our Correspondent, ÌýJames Reynolds is in Jerusalem. | |
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0615 | Greg Wood has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | The Hutton inquiry ends today - for the time being. Torin DouglasÌýlooks forward to what may lie ahead. | |
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0635 | The American Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's begun negotiations on a draft resolution that could lead to a greater role for the UN in Iraq. Our Washington Correspondent, Justin Webb has more details. | |
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0637 | The British Embassy in Iran is still closed - shots were fired at it yesterday. Our Correspondent in Tehran is Jim Muir. | |
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0640 | Tony Blair gives his monthly news conference today - what will he say? Our Political Correspondent is Jonathan Beale.
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0645 | The World Press Review comes from Phil Mercer in Sydney. | |
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0650 | Scientists at Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital have discovered that obese people have lower levels of a certain hormone. They believe that regulating this hormone could control the hunger pangs. Professor Steve Bloom explains their findings. | |
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0655 | A new elephant has been discoveredÌý- a pygmy elephant. Christy Williams is the elephant specialist at the Worldwide Fund for Nature. | |
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0709 | The Daily Telegraph reports today that Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has told Tony Blair to send more troops to Iraq or risk "strategic failure" there. Former Defence Minister, Lewis Moonie. | |
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0715 | A man who filmed himself raping a 13 month old baby has been sent to jail in Scotland for five years. Margaret Mackay is the Chief Executive of Children First.
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0720 | AÌýlarge cache of surface to air missiles has been discovered in Saudi Arabia. The revelation of the find, near Jeddah, last month is more evidence of the unstable security situation in the country. British Airways flights to Saudi are still suspended. Our security correspondent FrankÌýGardener and Dr Sa'ad al fag-ih. | |
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0725 | A strike is looming at the RSPCA. It's the first time it's happened at any big charity.ÌýWhat's behind the unrest?ÌýJackie Ballard is the Director General of the RSPCA andÌýBryn Paff is the Amicus union representative. | |
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0730 | Brendan Barber has described attempts to improve relations between unions and the Government as like trying to turn around a supertanker. Mr Barber says there is "real frustration" among trade unionists at some of the Government's policies - frustrations that are likely to surface at the TUC's annual conference next week.ÌýOur Labour Affairs Correspondent, Stephen CapeÌýreports. | |
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0740 | Patrick Muirhead has a review of today's papers. | |
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0745 | The Bull Ring shopping centre in Birmingham is as much a symbol of the West Midlands as car plants and the Black Country dialect. And it's been closed for a very long time to be redeveloped. Now it's opening again... after they've spent £50 million on it.ÌýOur reporter Bob Walker is there. | |
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0750 | The NATO supreme commander General James L. Jones is in London - at a moment of delicate manoeuvering for the alliance. French and German hopes for a stronger EU military capability are seen by the Americans as a threat to NATO. Britain is trying to intercede by insisting that any European military plans must be fed through NATO headquarters. | |
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0810 | We were told the Hutton inquiry could end up destroying Tony Blair... or the 91Èȱ¬ ... or both. There's never been anything quite like it. An endless procession of the great and the good - from the prime minister down - have taken the stand and disclosed the sort of detail about the way the govt is run that we have never heard before.ÌýHow much damage has been done by what has come out so far? Donald Anderson, Chair ofÌýthe Foreign Affairs Select Committee andÌýBernard Jenkin, the Shadow Defence Secretary. | |
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0822 | There's going to be a new dictionary of ancient greek, the first one since Liddell and Scott's nineteenth century one. The project started as a revision of the 1871 lexicon but now it's turned into something more fundamental. The scholar in charge is Prof James DiggleÌýof Cambridge University and Peter Jones isÌýfounder of Friends of Classics. | |
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0830 | The final Test of the summer, between England and South Africa, starts today at the Oval, and there's a rather dark cloud hanging over it. A former top administrator in the game is issuing dire warnings about its financial health. Lord MacLaurin was chairman of the England and Wales cricket board until last year. He says cricket must prepare for a slide in the value of TV rights by cutting back on the number of county teams and professionals. He has even told this programme that cricket risks becoming a lesser sport "like croquet". Our Business Correspondent, Hugh Pym reports. | |
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0836 | 25% of us dabble incomplementary medicine. Some cures might be quackery - some may be efficacious. Should the government pay to research what really works? Roger Harrabin reports from a healthy living festival in Warwickshire and Professor Edzard Ernst joins us in the studio. | |
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0848 | What was the Victorian's most influential invention? Well, a new book argues that it was.. the 'limited company'. Author and American Editor of the Economist, John Mickelthwait and commentator Hilary Wainwright. | |
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0855 | The first part of the Hutton inquiry ends today and it won't start up again until the week after next. Then the lawyers will get a chance to cross-examine witnesses who will be called back. Will anything new emerge? Anthony Scrivener is a QC and Mary Anne Seighart of The Times. | |
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