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0607 | Now that the fake rock in Moscow has been shown to the world, what will the Russian authorities do with the British diplomats accused of spying? | |
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0609 | Canada's prime minister has admitted defeat to the Conservatives of Stephen Harper in the general election. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0631 | Plans to get up to 1.7 million incapacity benefit claimants back into work are to be unveiled by the government. | |
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0634 | Chancellor Gordon Brown has pledged to try to persuade MPs that the prime minister's school reforms are essential. | |
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0637 | The Commons committee which monitors DEFRA, the department for the environment, food and rural affairs is savagely critical today of the working of the new farm payments scheme. | |
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0640 | Saddam Hussein's trial is set to resume in Baghdad under a new chief judge, following a resignation. | |
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0643 | A review of today's papers from the UK and Georgia. | |
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0649 | A look at the events of yesterday in Parliament. | |
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0653 | A building collapsed on scores of people in Nairobi with at least seven dead and 70 injured. Our correspondent Karen Allen followed the rescue efforts throughout the day, and into the night. | |
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0709 | Gordon Brown backs Tony Blair's education reforms. Alan Whitehead is one of the backbenchers who is unhappy about the plans; he's also a strong supporter of the Chancellor. | |
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0713 | The Work and Pensions Secretary, John Hutton, will announce how he plans to reform the system of incapacity benefits this afternoon. Lorna Reith is the Chief Executive of the Disability Alliance.
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0718 | We hear from the medical director of the hospital trust which wrongly gave 22 women the all clear from breast cancer. How serious is the delay in their diagnosis? | |
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0721 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0724 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0731 | The farms minister, Lord Bach, and the president of the National Farmers Union, Tim Bennett, on the government's new farm payments scheme. | |
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0742 | The writer of the BBC drama "spooks" gives us his version of the tale of the fake rock in Moscow. | |
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0745 | Thought for the day with Dr Mona Siddiqui. | |
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0748 | More on the Canadian elections, where the Liberals have just conceded victory to the Conservative Party. What lessons are there to be learnt on this side of the Atlantic? | |
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0810 | Work and Pensions Secretary, John Hutton, tells us about his plans to replace incapacity benefit with a single payment called the Employment and Support Allowance. | |
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0822 | Our own controller Mark Damazer on why he's decided to drop the UK theme music. | |
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0828 | A sports update with Garry Richardson. | |
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0835 | The human rights body, the Council of Europe, has just published its report into allegations of secret CIA prisons and rendition flights today. Nick Clegg is the Liberal Democrats' acting Foreign Affairs spokesman.
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0840 | A business update from Greg Wood. | |
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0843 | How do we know whether historic portraits are accurate? | |
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0849 | A BBC documentary which is being broadcast this evening includes the first ever interviews with the Mossad agents who executed the Black September terrorists involved in the killings of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. We speak to the programme's producer. | |
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0852 | African leaders are to postpone Sudan's presidency of the African Union. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Catholic Church in Scotland is there. | |
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0855 | James Bartholomew, author of 'The Welfare State We're In' and Polly Toynbee, the Guardian columnist, on the government's Green Paper on Welfare Reform unveiled today. | |
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