15/04/2013
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A rundown of stories from Monday 15 April including programme highlights and comment.
Life Inside ‘Islamic State’: Diaries
An activist based in Raqqa, Syria describes the horror of everyday life in the city.
Arctic Diaries
From the leader of the Polar Ocean Challenge, an expedition circumnavigating the Arctic.
Monday 15 April
Four London boroughs will introduce a cap on benefits today, before it is rolled out across the rest of the UK. The head of BBC News programmes discusses tonight's controversial Panorama programme on North Korea. And the police and military have had a run-through of Baroness Thatcher's funeral.
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Our editors this morning were Clare Thorp and Dave McMullan. Coming up next on Radio 4, Start The Week with Jonathan Freedland. We'll be back from 0600 tomorrow. Good morning.
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Four London boroughs will trial the government's plan to cap benefits from next month. Residents in Enfield, Haringey, Croydon and Bromley will see welfare payments capped at £500 a week. Camilla Cavendish, associate editor at the Sunday Times, and Hilary Cottam, founder of Participle, a social enterprise which works on designing and implementing future models of the welfare state, discuss whether the changes will change behaviour.
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Thousands of British troops are expected to lose their jobs in the coming year as a result of the latest round of cost-cutting by the MoD. Bernard Powell, a Buchanan Trust tenant farmer since 1985, and Paul Newman, ex-soldier who left the army in April and has struggled to find work, discuss new that a small rural charity in Herefordshire wants to help those leaving the forces to settle back into civilian life by encouraging them to become farmers.
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One of the people who alerted the world to the genocide in Darfur is now warning about Syria. The former UN humanitarian coordinator for the Sudan, Professor Mukesh Kapila explains that the international community is completely paralysed and its ability to stop crises such as that in Syria has gone backwards in recent years.
