MN/Today: Hodge unapologetic

this morning (tuesday 7th), 12.01-12.03am (repeated from 10.02pm on the world tonight), 6.02-6.03am, and 6.32-6.36am, on bbc radio 4
midnight news (presented by ritula shah) and today (presented by mishal husain and john humphrys) include …

“A fresh row has erupted between the Labour leadership and the high-proflie backbencher Dame Margaret Hodge, despite the party dropping its investigation into her. She has strongly objected to suggestions it was abandoned because she regretted angrily criticising Jeremy Corbyn over his approach to anti-semitism.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jessica parker
• rebecca long-bailey mp
• bbc reporter ben wright

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Today: Labour anti-semitism

this morning (wednesday 25th), 7.14-7.18am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“The complaint about Margaret Hodge: bave you said to Jeremy Corbyn, why don’t we just let this go?”

including interview with …
• john mcdonnell mp
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(if you missed it, available from 1:14:00 to 1:18:15 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbn6yc#playt=1h13m57s)

Today: BBC on Gaza suicides

BBC bias: The BBC implies Israel to blame for suicide and wife-beating in Gaza, with no mention that mental health services are among those affected by the deliberate under-funding of Gaza health services by the Palestinian Authority.

this morning (wednesday 25th), 6.47-6.52am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain) includes …

“The deteriorating mental condition of nearly two million Gazans … Suicide is a terrible sin in Islam, and yet Fathi Harb chose to do it , out in the street, in front of dozens of people. He was clearly desperate. And so it seems are more and more people here.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter paul adams
• rada al jerdah, gaza community mental health worker
• dave hutton, head of the unrwa gaza community mental health programme
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(if you missed it, available from 0:47:15 to 0:52:00 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbn6yc#playt=47m15s)

Today: West Bank death

this morning (monday 23rd), 8.52-8.54am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain and martha kearney) includes …

“Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank, in the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter tom bateman

Today: Labour anti-semitism

this morning (monday 23rd), 6.01-6.02am, 7.00-7.02am, 7.49-7.58am, 8.00-8.02am, and 8.40-8.47am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by mishal husain and martha kearney) leads with …

“A group of Jewish Labour MPs will urge Parliamentary colleagues to accept a more thorough definition of anti-semitism than that adopted last week by the party/s National Executive Committee … for example, if Labour members likened Israel’s policies to the Nazis, it would not be considered to be anti-semitic.”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter ian watson
• bbc reporter norman smith
• margaret hodge mp
• nick thomas-symonds mp

Today: Prince William

this morning (tuesday 26th), 6.12-6.15am, 7.20-7.24am, and 8.08-8.09am, on bbc radio 4
today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) includes …

“Prince William is continuing his trip to Israel. He’ll lay a wreath at Yad Vashem …”

including contributions from …
• bbc reporter jonny dymond
• bbc reporter yolande knell
• israeli ambassador ron prosor
• “british israeli” linda lipschitz
• hanan ashrawi
• jerusalem tattooist wassim razzouk

Today/Newshour: Netanyahu in UK

today (wednesday 6th), 7.25-7.29am and 8.01-8.03am on bbc radio 4, and 2.31-2.35pm on bbc world service radio
today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) and newshour (presented by julian marshall) include …

“The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting Theresa May today as part of a visit to Europe to try to persuade leaders to give up backing for the Iran nuclear deal.”

including contributions from …
• analyst nathalie tocci
• bbc reporter jeremy bowen
• john baron mp, vice-chairman, all-party parliamentary group on iran