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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
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has produced its first enriched uranium. That means that it could go on to produce a nuclear bomb should it want to. Dr Ali Ansari is an expert on Iran at Durham University, and General Uzi Dayan is a former head of the national security council in Israel.
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has doubled since 1997 and will have almost trebled by 2008. But in recent weeks around seven thousand job losses have been announced as NHS trusts have battled financial difficulties. Chief Executives from 16 trusts are joining the Prime Minister and the Health secretary at downing street today to discuss the crisis.
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TheÌý with Greg Wood. |
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The Energy company Npower is to see if it can capture the carbon dioxide from its coal-fired plant at Tilbury in Essex.Ìý and storage is being touted as one of the main technological solutions to climate change. |
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are in trouble. They are being killed for their skins and for Chinese medicine. That is according to the environmental campaigner and former MEP, Stanley Johnson, who has just returned from India. |
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The sports news with Steve May. |
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Romano Prodi, Italy's centre-left opposition leader, has been declared the official winner of theÌý there. But his majority is so small that the Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is refusing to admit defeat. We are joined by the former labour cabinet minister, Tony Benn, and by the director of the New Politics Network, Peter Facey. |
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A special exhibition of original private letters written byÌý - " Her Life In Letters" - opens today at the Amsterdam Historical Museum. The letters reveal the independent spirit of the Jewish girl whose diary of life in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made her world famous. Our reporter Geraldine Coughlan went along to the preview of the exhibition.
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with the Reverend Dr Colin Morris. |
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35 senior local councillors from across all the parties have written a letter to the Times criticising the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary Charles Clarke for pressing ahead with plans to . The letter was put together by the leader of Essex County Council Lord Hanningfield. |
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Huge deficits, debts estimated to top 623 million pounds, tens of thousands of job cuts. That is the modern NHS according to recent headlines. But the Government insists there is no health crisis, just problems with a slow pace of reform in some areas. We have been speaking to the . |
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, which makes it one of the world's oldest national flags. But it has never been declared our national flag. In fact it's only supposed to be flown at sea. Michael Farrow is President of the Flag institute, and Jeremy Hildreth is a branding expert from Saffron Brand Consultants. |
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TheÌý with Steve May. |
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Remember ? He is the former US ambassador who claims he told the White House there was no move by the Iraqis to buy uranium from Niger in West Africa yet saw mention of that very accusation included in the President's State of the Union address in 2003 before the Iraq war. After he publicly questioned the statement, his wife was unmasked as a CIA agent. This is now the subject of an investigation involving Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis Libby. |
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TheÌý with Greg Wood. |
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AÌý has been threatened with expulsion form the England Cricket Board Premier League because of its sponsorship deal with a company called Nice 'n' Nasty, a chain of adult shops selling hardcore pornographic videos and sex toys. The club's chairman is Colin Maxwell. |
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The Deputy head of a primary school is putting a motion before the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference urging his fellow teachers to beÌý as a way of improving discipline. Ralph Surman joins the programme with Digby Anderson who has written a book called "All Oiks now." |
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We have been hearing about that meeting in Downing Street - the Prime Minister, Health Secretary and 16Ìý trust chief executives getting together to thrash out the latest financial problems. The shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, talks to the programme. |
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is 60 years old today. It is the judicial body used by the United Nations to pass judgement on disputes between states not people. Its supporters say it is growing as a voice of impartial justice. But critics say it is has no power to enforce its decisions. Dame Rosalyn Higgins is the court's new president. |
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Prince Harry formally completes his training to be an officer atÌý today when he "passes out". What good will the experience have done him? The historian Sir John Keegan taught at Sandhurst for 26 years and Piers Hernu writes for the Mail on Sunday's men's supplement, Live. |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.ÌýA great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
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Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists thatÌýthe 91Èȱ¬ Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot. |
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The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) |
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Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon. |
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The uncut interview with Sir Peter Hall, the first director to stage the play in 1955, with the last surviving member of the original main cast, Timothy Bateson who played 'lucky', and playwright Ronald Harwood. |
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Jim Naughtie speaks to the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Idowu Fearon, about the Anglican Church in Africa and tensions between Christians and Muslims. (25/05/05) |
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Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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Part 2 |
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First 91Èȱ¬ interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign for five Britons still there to be freed. |
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Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) |
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Tony Blair speaks to Jim at the British Embassy in Washington, following his controversial Rose Garden press conference with Bush. The Iraq war, the Middle East and the first hints of an EU constitution referendum u-turn. (17/04/04). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. |
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