29/10/2016

0710

Hillary Clinton says she is ‘confident’ a new FBI probe linked to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted. The BBC’s North America correspondent Kim Ghattas reports.

0715

A London employment tribunal has made a landmark ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed contractors, meaning they will be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage. Frances O'Grady is the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.

0720

This weekend is Diwali, when the biggest Bollywood blockbusters are released, and one of the biggest has been caught up in controversy. The BBC’s South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports.

0730

The UN says that so-called Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted tens of thousands of civilians from around the Iraqi city of Mosul to use as human shields. The BBC’s international correspondent Ian Pannell reports. Ali Khedery was an adviser to a string of American ambassadors in Baghdad.

0740

On this week's Meet the Author, Jim Naughtie talks to award winning novelist and screenwriter Lynda la Plante about her latest work, Hidden Killers.

0750

Ten years since he published his review into the economics of climate change, Lord Stern says a continuation of polluting, high-carbon growth will lead to self-destruction. Does he therefore believe a third runway at Heathrow will make the government’s climate change targets even harder to achieve? Lord Nicholas Stern is chair of the Grantham Resarch Institute at the LSE and president of the British Academy.

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A London employment tribunal has made a landmark ruling that Uber drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed contractors, meaning they will be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage. Jason Moyer-Lee is general secretary of the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, and Benita Matofska is the founder of People Who Share, a social enterprise that helps people and companies participate in the sharing economy.

0820

The oldest photography studio in the world is holding an exhibition showcasing never before seen photos dating back to the First World War. Brigitte Lardinois is curator of the exhibition.

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Hillary Clinton says she is ‘confident’ a new FBI probe linked to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted. Congressman Doug Collins is a Republican member of the Judiciary Committee. James Rubin is a former assistant secretary of state in Bill Clinton’s administration.

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A group of MPs says it's unacceptable that visitors to Britain often get better mobile phone coverage than people who live here. In the report they also point to hundreds of places across the UK that have no mobile service. Lisa Stubbs is director of Greenlight Property Management. Grant Shapps is chairman of the British Infrastructure Group of MPs, and Hamish Mcleod is a spokesman for Mobile UK.

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Sexist behaviour has been exposed at the top of British cycling after the sport’s governing body upheld complaints made by Jess Varnish against the former technical director Shane Sutton of “inappropriate and discriminatory language”. Jeremy Whittle is the Times’ cycling correspondent.

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Is the age of the tech insurgents and disruptors coming to an end? Twitter has announced it will close its video sharing service Vine about four years after it launched. It comes in a week when Twitter announced falling profits, and Uber lost a big battle over worker rights in an employment tribunal. Sally Broughton-Micova is a lecturer in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia, and Riyaad Minty is the manager of digital strategy at TRT world.

All subject to change.