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21/02/2015

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

2 hours

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Sat 21 Feb 2015 07:00

Today's running order

0710

Police say they are hopeful that three teenage girls who left the UK on Tuesday - possibly to join Islamic State in Syria - may still be in Turkey. The two 15 year olds and one 16 year old boarded a flight to Istanbul. Commander Richard Walton is head of counter terrorism command at the Metropolitan Police.

0715

Greece has won a four month extension to its bailout, but the cost will be economic reforms that will have to be approved by the rest of the Eurozone. Gavin Lee is our reporter in Brussels.

0720

How involved should politicians get in the way Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs handles investigations? The Chancellor said yesterday it wasn't for him to interfere on prosecutions, Ed Miliband has said a Labour government would order a review of HMRC's approach to tax evasion and avoidance. The background is of course the HSBC files on Swiss bank accounts. Conservative MP Richard Bacon is a member of the Public Accounts Committee.

0725

The Kenyan economy grew 5% last year but, like most of Africa, youth unemployment is high. Many young Kenyans are turning to music to make a living. Kenyan born DJ Edu saw an opportunity when he was growing up in Nairobi. Edu actually made his start selling mixtapes on Nairobi's buses, or 'matatus'. He's now a DJ on the Â鶹Éç's music network, Radio 1Xtra, and he returned to his old neighbourhood of Buru Buru in Nairobi to meet the aspiring young DJs.

0735

The Ukrainian government has been marking a year since the street protests in Kiev brought down the last president and began the political upheavals that have led to the crisis with Russia. Formally, there is a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, but it hasn't stopped the fighting. Viktor Kovalenko is a former journalist who has been fighting with the Ukranian forces in Debaltseve for the last month. Yelena Sokovenko lived in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine for twenty years but is now based in Kiev.

0750

One of the fastest growing religions in the US is Islam. Three quarters of its 1,200 mosques were built in the last 12 years and American Muslims are, in some cases, putting their own slant on an ancient religion. In Los Angeles the first ever prayers just for women has been raising questions about the role of women in Islam, and in its mosques. Alastair Leithead is our correspondent in Los Angeles.

0755

The government has agreed to, temporarily; tighten up the way that police use the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, or RIPA. The move comes after it was revealed that journalist’s records were accessed in two high profile cases, the Plebgate affair involving Andrew Mitchell, as reported in the Sun, and Chris Huhne's speeding offence, as reported in the Mail on Sunday. In an interim measure, police will now have to go to a judge in any further attempt to access journalists' phones or email. Lord Falconer was Lord Chancellor under Labour and played a role in the introduction of the legislation.

0810

More analysis on Greece (see 0715). The Greek government is spending the weekend on a package of economic reforms that's been demanded by the Eurozone, led by Germany, in return for a four-month extension to its bail-out. They'll have to be approved at the start of next week if the deal is going to be finalised. Gavin Hewitt is the Â鶹Éç’s Europe Editor in Brussels and Romano Prodi is the former president of the European Commission.

0820

Doctors at the Birmingham hospital where Malala Yousafzai was treated are operating today on another young Pakistani victim of the Taliban, a 15 year old boy who was seriously injured in the school attack in Peshawar last December. Ahmad Nawaz survived because he pretended to be dead after the gunmen opened fire. Ziauddin Yousafzai is Malala Yousafzai’s father.

0830

More analysis of the missing girls (see 0710). It is now four days since three east London schoolgirls arrived in Istanbul, the fear is they chose to use their half term break to begin a journey to Syria, possibly following in the footsteps of a 15 year old friend who made that journey in December. Rushanara Ali is the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow.

0835

More analysis on Ukraine (see 0735). It's been almost a week since the two sides in the fighting in Ukraine agreed to an internationally mediated ceasefire. A week in which the government has suffered its worst defeat in months: the loss of the town of Debaltseve, which was recaptured by pro-Russian rebels after weeks of fierce fighting. Dr Liam Fox is the Former Defence Secretary.

0850

Fifty years ago today the radical American black civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot dead in Harlem, New York. It was an event that had a particular significance for some people in Smethwick in the West Midlands, because Malcolm X had been there the week before his assassination. Avtar Singh Jouhl was Secretary of the local Indian Workers Association and showed Malcolm X around Smethwick.

0855

How realistic do we like our hospital TV dramas? Sky are hoping very because it's new show 'Critical' aims to be as close as possible to a real accident and emergency department. Jed Mercurio created ‘Critical’ and was a junior doctor for three years before taking up writing for television. Damon Kamming is Consultant Anaesthetist at University College Hospital London and a script adviser for Â鶹Éç1's 'Holby City.'

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  • Sat 21 Feb 2015 07:00