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0607 | A bomb has killed at least seven people in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Andrew North is there.
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0610 | The French foreign minister Michel Barnier has gone to the Middle East to try and negotiate the release of two French journalists. | |
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0615 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0628 | The sports news with Rob Nothman. | |
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0632 | The deadline set by the UN for the Sudanese government to deal with the violence around Darfur expires today. | |
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0635 | The Republican Party convention starts in New York amid protests against George W Bush's policies. Jim Naughtie. | |
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0640 | The Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won the presidential elections in Chechnya. | |
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0643 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and France. | |
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0650 | More protests are expected tonight in East Germany to demonstrate against German President Gerhard Schroeder's economic reforms. | |
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0653 | The European Commission has issued an EU wide rabies alert after a rabid dog has been found in southwest France. | |
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0708 | The Republican Party Convention opens in New York later today. Jim Naughtie is there. | |
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0715 | Bob Ward from the Royal Society on the attempts by America to ban all forms of human cloning. | |
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0718 | Adrian McIntyre from Oxfam, who is in North Darfur, on whether the situation is improving in the country. | |
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0721 | Former Labour MEP Peter Truscott on the Presidential election results in Chechnya. | |
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0724 | Author Ahmed Rashid, on the US government's warning to its citizens in Afghanistan to keep a low profile. | |
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0732 | Sports minister Richard Caborn reflects on Britain's Olympic performance. | |
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0741 | Is our countryside cluttered with ugly road signs? The Campaign to Protect Rural England thinks so. | |
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| Should there be a new 50% tax rate for people earning over £100,000? Sunder Katwala from the Fabian Society and Helen Liddell, former economic secretary to the Treasury, discuss. | |
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0810 | Leslie Lefkow from Human Rights Watch on whether aid is getting through in Darfur, plus, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn. | |
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0820 | A. L. Kennedy with the next chapter of the Today novel.
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0830 | Jim Naughtie with a preview of what's to come at the Republican Party Convention in New York. | |
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0839 | A business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0842 | Dr Nick Finer, a consultant in obesity medicine, on the weight-loss drug rimonabant, which could be available within two years. | |
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0846 | Writer Neal Ascherson and Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr centre for Human Rights at Harvard, discuss the impact of terrorism on our democratic institutions. | |
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0852 | Former media director for Iain Duncan Smith, Nick Wood and MP John Redwood, discuss Michael Howard's political future.
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