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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
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The White House has published the main findings of aÌýreport on global terrorism compiled by its intelligence agencies. |
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0715 |
Business News with Greg Wood. |
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0720 |
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has admitted heÌýreceived the equivalent ofÌý£33k from business friends in the early 1990s to pay his legal bills during his marital separation. |
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0728 |
We speak to Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, about the interest he has shown in the position of Deputy Prime Minister. |
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0730 |
Sports NewsÌýwith Steve May. |
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0732 |
The Taliban were forced from power by the American-led assault on Afghanistan. Today, the country is once again facing a resurgent Taliban. |
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An opera house in Berlin has cancelled it's production of Mozart's Idomeneo for fear of offending Muslims. |
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0737 |
After his speech yesterday, which had some members of the Cabinet in tears, Tony Blair went on the traditional tour of parties around the conference, to the equally-traditional post-speech adulation. |
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Thought for the Day with Reverend James Jones. |
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Independent analysts DatamonitorÌýthink we owe on average just over £3000 each - that's almost twice as much as our European counterparts and makes Britain responsible for a third of all unsecured debt in Western Europe. |
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In his speech yesterday, Tony Blair said there has to be the mostÌýradical overhaul of energy policy for more than 50 years. We speak to the Environment Secretary,ÌýDavid Miliband. |
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0820 |
The race forÌýGovernor of Texas is closely watched as the last man to hold the job is now the President of the United States. This year the race features the colourful newcomer Kinky Friedman. |
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0830 |
Sport Update with Steve May. |
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0835 |
We speak to Bob Geldof about the Prime Minister's claim that everyday his government has been in powerÌýchildren in Africa have lived who would otherwise have died. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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Ten years ago the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. Despite the war lead by the U.S in 2001, it is clear from what we've seen recently, they are still a strong force in the country. |
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0845 |
The American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld plays squash every day. His colleagues say the way he plays reflects the way he runs the department. |
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0850 |
Tonight, on Radio 4, the programme "Letters from Guantanamo" gives an exclusive glimpse from insideÌýthe world's most controversial prison - Guantanamo Bay. |
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Tony Blair has said the Labour Party should be defined as being progressive, rather than left or right. |
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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 Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã 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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First Ö÷²¥´óÐã 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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