01/03/2016

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A final warning has been issued to the government to drastically reduce air pollution, or face renewed legal action. James Thornton is an environmental lawyer and chief executive of Client Earth.

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Fourteen members of an organised crime gang have been convicted over their roles in stealing artifacts worth up to £57m from museums and an auction house. Dr Donna Yates is lecturer in Looting and Trafficking of Antiquities and Cultural Property at the University of Glasgow.

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Today at midday the Investigatory Powers Bill – the new version of a so-called ‘snoopers charter’, will be published. James Blessing is chairman of the Internet Service Providers’ Association.

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Yesterday a crowd of migrants broke down a barbed-wire fence on the Macedonia-Greece border using a steel pole as a battering ram. Stelios Kouloglou is a Syriza MEP.

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Pupils in England will find out today whether they will get into the secondary school of their choice. Bernadette John is advisor at the Good Schools Guide.

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It is St David’s day and the new Welsh national poet has been announced: Ifor Ap Glynn. We speak live to Ifor.

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The Conservative Party is divided over Europe and the Labour Party is sitting calmly on the sidelines. Or is it? Zoe Conway has been to the constituency of Thurrock in Essex and we speak live to Gisela Stuart, Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston and on the board of Vote Leave.  

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This week we are broadcasting a special series about what life is like inside the capital of the so-called Islamic State - Raqqa, in eastern Syria. It is based on a diary kept by an activist from a group based there called Al-Sharqiya 24. Yesterday he took us back to when IS first arrived in his city and he was arrested and told he would face 40 lashes. Today he tells us what happened next.

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The UK's first Drowning Prevention Strategy is launched today by the National Water Safety Forum (NWSF). It aims to halve the number of fatal incidents in or near water over the next ten years. Dawn Whitaker is lead officer for water safety at the Chief Fire Officer’s Association and Jackie Roberts is the mother of Megan Roberts, who died after falling into the River Ouse in York.

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There is chaos again at Europe’s borders: Migrants yesterday broke down the fence border between Macedonia and Greece and in Calais, there were clashes at the so-called Jungle migrant camp as demolition teams tried to dismantle part of the camp. Despite this, former Cabinet Minister and EU commissioner, Lord Mandelson will try to make the case for the UK remaining in the EU in a speech later today about EU and trade. We speak live to Mandleson, who is joined by Anna Holligan, the BBC’s correspondent in Calais and Danny Savage, the BBC’s correspondent on the Macedonian border.

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It is Super Tuesday, with voters going to the polls in 12 states. For Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton this is the day when they believe they can make their nominations as their parties' presidential candidates look overwhelmingly likely - although three or four Republicans and the Democrat Bernie Sanders insist they can still trip them up. James Naughtie is on the scene in Washington.

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A final warning has been issued to the government to drastically reduce air pollution, or face renewed legal action. Richard Daniel is environment reporter for BBC Look East and Professor Paul Monks is from the University of Leicester and chair of the Air Quality Expert Group.

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Former army officer Harry Parker almost died when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2009. He lost both his legs, which he describes as being “quite similar to losing someone you really loved.” He has since used this traumatic period as the basis for his ambitious debut novel Anatomy of a Soldier. We speak live to Mr Parker.

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The crime drama Trapped is the latest Nordic Noir to hit British screens, and - like The Killing and The Bridge before it – it is proving to be a critical success. It is the most expensive Icelandic TV show ever made, showing on Saturdays at 9pm on BBC Four. Speaking live in the studio is the star of Trapped, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

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Three brothers who groomed, raped and sexually assaulted 15 teenage girls in Rotherham were jailed last week. The gang's convictions marked the first successful prosecution of a grooming gang in Rotherham since the Jay Report, published in August 2014, found at least 1,400 girls had been sexually exploited in the town. Sarah Champion is MP for Rotherham, and Dr James Thompson is a psychologist and trauma expert at UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences.

All subject to change.