14/09/2017

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The government has been warned about the "rapid" growth of a police intelligence database which holds 19 million digital photographs of offenders and suspects. Paul Wiles is biometrics commissioner.

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The UN Secretary General says the military operation in Myanmar that has triggered a mass exodus of Rohingyas must stop. The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt has been down to the river separating Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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The headlines from state television in Russia this morning announcing the start of a major military exercise reportedly involving 13,000 Russian and Belarussian troops. Justin Webb has been talking to the former US ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, who is now the US envoy on Ukraine, about the Russian exercise - and how we should interpret it:

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In March, when John Lewis announced full year results, the bonus for staff was 6%, down from 10% the year before. The Partnership warned of "uncertainty" in the market and said the business was facing price pressures and intense competition. Charlie Mayfield is chair of the John Lewis Partnership.

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James Ward is to be released from prison. He was given a 10 month minimum sentence for arson in 2006 and served more than 11 years in prison. April Ward is James’ sister.

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Sir Mark Walport is standing down tomorrow as chief scientific adviser to the government. He is going to be head of the new umbrella group for publicly funded research councils - the UKRI.

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'Callous unemotional traits' is the term psychiatrists give to a set of symptoms that they see in some children - children who go on to be over-represented in prison populations and sometimes in extreme cases become what the adult world knows as 'psychopaths'. We have been talking to a family who are calling for more to be done to help those struggling with a problem that doesn't receive the attention that other mental health conditions in children do.

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Extensive carbon dating research commissioned by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, into the ancient Bakhshali manuscript, has revealed it to be hundreds of years older than initially thought. Marcus Du Sautoy is professor at the University of Oxford.

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The first cohort of engineering undergraduates will begin their degree studies at the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology in Malmesbury, Wiltshire today. Sir James Dyson is founder and chief engineer of Dyson.

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A leading psychiatrist is calling for more investment in child and adolescent mental health services. Professor Stephen Scott from the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London, says children who exhibit the most severe and persistent anti-social behaviour are being failed by the system.

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Swan Lakem, which will be part of the Royal Ballet's performance in Hull this weekend, is re-opening the Hull New Theatre after a major refurbishment, marking the company's first visit to the city for 30 years. Kevin O'Hare is director of the Royal Ballet.

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A public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed at least 80 people in June, officially opens later. Miguel Alves lost his home in the fire. John Healey is shadow housing secretary.

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Yesterday morning you might have heard Nick reporting from Silicon Valley - but what is the state of the British tech sector? Mike Lynch is co-founder of Autonomy Corporation and the founder of Invoke Capital.

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Experts are warning that Afghanistan is once again at risk of becoming a base for international terrorism. Frank Gardner is the BBC’s security correspondent and Said Tayeb Jawad is Afghanistan's ambassador to the UK.

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Are children exhibiting severe and persistent anti-social behaviour being failed by the system? Graeme Fairchild is associate professor at Bath University for developmental psychopathy and Patricia Lockwood is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

All subject to change.