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11/11/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 11 Nov 2014 06:00

Today's Running Order

Subject to change.

0630

Very big changes to be announced in half an hour's time in the area of payday lending. Simon Gompertz reports.

0635

A court in South Korea is about to deliver its verdict on the captain of a ferry which sank, killing more than 300 people. Our Seoul Correspondent, Steve Evans reports.

0640

The UN's special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said the Assad government is considering very seriously his plan to halt the fighting between its forces and rebels in the city of Aleppo. Lyse Doucet reports.

0650

The options for airport expansion in south-east England have been narrowed down to two possible extensions at Heathrow or a new runway at Gatwick. Richard Westcott reports.

0710

The Adoption Leadership Board (ALB) believes that local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies may be misinterpreting a number of court judgments on adoption. We hear from Sir Martin Narey, Chair of the Adoption Leadership Board.

0715

President Obama is in Beijing this week; a summit of leaders from the Asia-Pacific Region ends today, then he goes into talks with the Chinese president Xi Jinping. On the table are many of the familiar disputes over trade, cyber espionage and security. Carrie Gracie reports.

0720

The report into what happened to a dossier of allegations about child abuse carried out by prominent people comes out this morning. We hear from Don Hale, an investigative reporter who was given some home office documents by the former labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle.

0730

All three short-listed plans for a new runway in south east England will cost substantially more than the bidders claim, according to a report just published by the Airports Commission. We hear from Sir Howard Davies, Airports Commission Chairman.

0740

The bus operator First Group is appealing against a lower court ruling that when a company offers disabled access it must ensure that disabled people genuinely have priority. We hear from Doug Paulley, a wheelchair user involved in the case, and blogger Sally Whittle.

0750

The government managed to avoid a major back-bench rebellion in a Commons vote on whether to recommit to a batch of EU justice measures - but has been widely criticised for failing to include the controversial European Arrest Warrant in the vote. We hear from Conservative MP Liam Fox and our political editor Nick Robinson.

0810

The Financial Conduct Authority is expected to announce a cap on cost of payday loans - they have proposed limiting the cost to no more than 0.8% per day, and the overall cost to cost no more than two times the original loan. We hear from Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive Financial Conduct Authority. And Zoe Conway reports.

0820

The Cenotaph, where the two minutes silence will be observed today, is inscribed with just three words - The Glorious Dead. Those three words sum up a rather old fashioned notion of death in war - one that people today might feel somewhat ambivalent about. We hear from James Milton, former Army Officer who has written poetry inspired by Kipling. And Professor Jan Montefiore, a Kipling scholar and editor of the Kipling Society Journal.

0830

Yesterday a former Royal Airforce intelligence officer was sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexually abusing children in the 1980s. Sima Kotecha reports.

0845

Prompted by the Tin Drum author Gunter Grass's revelation in 2006 that he had been in the Waffen SS, a German investigative journalist has spent 5 years investigating the Nazi pasts of leading public figures who helped found post war federal Germany - such as the former foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and the writer, Martin Walser. We hear from Malte Herwig a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic.

0850

The Financial Conduct Authority is expected to announce a cap on cost of payday loans - they have proposed limiting the cost to no more than 0.8% per day, and the overall cost to cost no more than two times the original loan. We hear from Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney, and Dr Stephen Davies, education director at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

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  • Tue 11 Nov 2014 06:00