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12/11/2014

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

3 hours

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Wed 12 Nov 2014 06:00

Today's running order

0632
Yolande Knell reports from one of the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan.

0635
City regulators the FCA are set to impose huge fines on a number of banks for the alleged rigging of the foreign exchange market.

0645
The project to find the key to a number of rare diseases has reached another milestone. Genomics England, which has gene data from hundreds of families with rare conditions is inviting doctors and researchers to work with them to try to unlock the secrets of how they come about. Professor Mark Caulfield is Chief Scientist for Genomics England.

0652
The refugees around me here in this camp number a few dozen of the 10 million Syrians - almost half the country - who've been uprooted because of the conflict there. But the flow of refugees from Syria has slowed in recent weeks with border restrictions being introduced. Bryce Perry is International Rescue Committee here in Lebanon.

0655
The Chancellor's claims for the benefits of 'fracking' to extract shale gas and oil have been questioned by the UK Energy Research Centre, which works on sustainable energy systems. George Osborne has talked of a 'sovereign wealth fund' for the North of England paid for from the revenues of fracking, but the UKERC says the evidence is thin. Jim Watson, Research Director of The UK Energy Research Centre.Ìý

0709
When you hear the term 'refugee camp' you probably think of an organised settlement, run by an aid agency. But in Lebanon where we are this morning, the camps are more ad hoc - the Lebanese fear a repeat of the big Palestinian refugee camps and do not allow anything that might become a permanent base to be built. The Â鶹Éç's Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet has been there over the past few days and joins us now live from Damascus.

0713
The Home Secretary says she can't rule our a cover-up in her department over child abuse between 1979 and 1999 after an inconclusive report into what happened to sensitive files led by Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC. His investigation, with Richard Whittam QC. They say they found no evidence that any files had been removed or destroyed...and say that their report shouldn't be taken as concluding 'one way or the other' that there was organised child abuse that has yet to be fully uncovered. In their report they say the only evidence for the destruction of files was the testimony of Tim Hulbert, a consultant who worked with the Home Office in the 80s.Ìý

0716
Business news with Simon Jack.

0719
A church in the Vale of Glamoragan is running an unusual social media campaign. Trying to find mourners for a funeral. It's a touching story. Harold Morgan, a former Welsh Guardsman, had lived in a care home in Barry for 14 years, before his death at the age of 85. His funeral is taking place tomorrow, and it was proving difficult to track down friends or family who might be there. The Rev Rachel Simpson, assistant curate ay the Church of St Thatchan in St Athan.

0729
If you had visited Syria four years ago you would have found it to be relatively prosperous for a developing country - universal basic education and health services for its 20 million citizens - a pride in its rich cultural heritage. It was also a police state where few dared to cross the Assad government. Today, half of the Syrian population has been uprooted - the urban landscape scarred by the fighting. The rebels have not only failed to depose Bashar Al Assad - he appears to be stronger than ever, watching US-led air strikes target one of his opponents - the Islamic State. Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen is in Damascus.

0739
An unmanned probe may land on a comet today, for the first time. The probe is called Philae is due to make a seven-hour journey from the Rosetts space craft, 13 miles above the comet - which has the unromantic name, 67P. If it all works, we will get pictures from the surface and information about the terrain. Monica Grady is Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University.

0746
The Financial Conduct Authority has fined five major banks including UBS and Citigroup £1.1 billion for failings in currency trading in a landmark settlement. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has also imposed fines totalling $1.4 billion dollars on five banks. Martin Wheatley is theÌý Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority.

0810
A debate has been raging for many weeks on what - if anything - Britain should do to combat the rise of Islamic State extremists - join in air strikes on Syria as well as Iraq, once again put 'boots on the ground' in the Middle East. But there is a much bigger crisis engulfing the region - one that's developed over the last three and a half years and has the fight against Bashar Al Assad at its heart. The UN says Syria's war has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory - 10 million people displaced - and half of all Syrian refugees are children. In the camp in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. To date 50 Syrians have been re settled in the UK through the official programme for refugees.

0821
Is there anyone left in Britain who can make a sandwich? A question on the mind of the Daily Mail this week, when it ran a story saying that one sandwich company was recruiting in Hungary because it was hard to recruit anyone at home.Ìý The 11th Earl of Sandwich, who is - of course - a director of the sandwich making company which bears his name.....(it was a job made for him, really....) John Sandwich is the 11th Earl of Sandwich and director of Earl of Sandwich Licensed Co Ltd, a sandwich making company. Sir Michael Darrington is the former chief executive of Greggs.Ìý

0832
How is the Philae probe getting on? It's making a 13 mile journey from the Rosetta space craft to the surface of a comet 0- the first time it's been done. Let's get the latest.... David Shukman is the Â鶹Éç's science editor and Mark McCaughrean is from the European Space Agency.

0836
It was the beheading of Western hostages by extremists of the Islamic State that drew the United States and its allies into action on targets in Iraq and Syria. There is still a British hostage John Cantlie, being held by the group. But kidnapping is being used to devastating effect against Syria's neighbours too. Three months ago, more than thirty Lebanese soldiers were abducted by militants from bases close to the Syrian border. Some were beheaded - others are being held hostage and paraded in videos released by their abductors. Here is the story of one of those soldiers, Ziad Omar, as told to the Â鶹Éç by his wife Sabrine...

0839
Business with Simon Jack.

0842
Are the benefits of fracking being oversold? The UK Energy Research Centre thinks so. As we heard earlier in the programme, it's cautious about the predictions being made by the Chancellor of the economic benefits that might flow from fracking - extracting shale gas and oil under enormous pressure. Well Jim Ratcliffe chairman of INEOS, the chemicals firm which owns licenses for fracking in Scotland...

0846
The Â鶹Éç speaks to three young Beirutis in one of that cities many outdoor cafés to find out what impact the conflict has had on them. Lyna Comaty is from the political party the Democratic Renewal Movement, Habib Battah is a journalist and editor of the blog beirutreport.com - and first researcher and civil society activist Carmen Zahaa
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  • Wed 12 Nov 2014 06:00