23/05/2016

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Yesterday the junior armed forces minister Penny Mordaunt stated that the migrant crisis would speed up talks over Turkey’s EU membership bid and claimed that Britain did not have a veto to stop Turkey joining the EU. However the UK and every other member state can vote to refuse Turkey membership of the EU. Dr Turhan Ozen is chair of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD).

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Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne are warning that Brexit 'would spark year-long recession'. They point to a Treasury analysis to be published today that suggests that GDP would plunge by as much as six per cent and thousands would lose their jobs. Sajid Javid is business secretary.

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Around a half of young people held in custody were once in care. A review led by the former chief inspector of social services, Lord Laming, says that there needs to be changes in the way police and prosecutors handle children in the care system. Lord Laming explains his findings.

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This year the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower show features a ‘low-allergy’ garden. The idea is to give people who suffer from hay fever some ideas of how to enjoy their outside space. Dr Joanna Sheldon is an immunologist from St George’s Hospital who put the garden together and Andy Doughty is a professional gardener who suffers from hay fever.

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Austria's presidential election remains too close to call.  Last night, the interior ministry said that the far-right candidate, Norbert Hofer, was slightly ahead of his rival, the former Green party leader, Alexander van der Bellen, who is standing as an independent. Franz Obermayr MEP is a member of the Freedom Party of Austria.

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Ken Loach's film "I, Daniel Blake" has won the Palme D'Or which is considered the highest honour at the Cannes film festival. It tells the story of a 59-year-old man who is unable to work after a heart attack and struggles to navigate the welfare system, and a single mother of two who moves to Newcastle and tries to sign on job seekers allowance. Director Ken Loach joins us on the programme.      

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Public Health England has strongly criticised claims by two charities that national dietary guidelines are to blame for a rise in obesity and diabetes. Susan Jebb is professor of diet and population health at Oxford University.

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More on the Vote Leave campaign and Turkey's EU membership: Iain Duncan Smith is former work and pensions secretary and a member of Vote Leave. 

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The President of Hungary is in the UK this week and he brings with him a rather unusual gift: part of St Thomas Becket's elbow. The relic was taken to Hungary more than 800 years ago shortly after the then archbishop was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Peter Szabadhegy is the Hungarian Ambassador and Cardinal Vincent Nichols is head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.    

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Turkey, the EU and the US classify, the armed Kurdish separatists, the PKK as a terrorist organisation. But the UN wants to send investigators to look into disturbing evidence emerging from the Kurdish town of Cizre. Local people, and human rights groups, say Turkish forces massacred around 100 civilians there. The BBC’s Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from south-east Turkey.

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Earlier this year James Clapper, the US director of national Intelligence, said the cyber threat had overtaken terrorism as the foremost threat facing the United States. He has since warned that the US presidential candidates are being targeted by cyber-hackers working for foreign governments. Christopher Painter is coordinator for cyber issues at the UK department of state.

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More on the review about children held in custody: Darren Coyne is from Care Leavers Association and Olivia Pinkney Is chief constable of Hants Police and National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on children.