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Israel prepares Iran attack retaliation – vows ‘to do everything necessary’
Iran’s President has warned that the tiniest attack by Israel will provoke a massive and harsh response. The rhetoric and the drums of war are getting louder. It’s not a question of if, it’s when and what Israel decides to attack. We understand Israel’s guidance to its allies is that its action will be “narrow…
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Israel war with Iran has begun says former Israeli air defence commander
With Iran promising massive retaliation, could Israel count on repeating Saturday’s successful shooting down of nearly all the Iranian missiles and drones – especially when around a third are thought to have been downed by Israel’s Western and Arab allies? Brigadier General Zvika Haimovich was Commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces until 2018. We…
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Iran ‘ready to take harsher measures against Israel’, says Iranian political analyst
We’re joined by Iranian political analyst Mohammad Hashemi, who is in Tehran.
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Rwanda asylum bill returns to Lords after MPs reject amendments again
The standoff between the Commons and the Lords over the Government’s Rwanda Bill is continuing. The Lords have just started another debate on the Bill after MPs rejected amendments they had put in yesterday. Some peers are threatening to defy the Commons again. If they are successful, the row could continue into next week.
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Inflation falls to lowest rate since 2021 in UK
Inflation has fallen to 3.2%, the lowest rate since September 2021 and driven by prices dropping for food items like meat, crumpets and chocolate biscuits. But forecasters had hoped it would fall by more. And that’s intensified concerns that the Bank of England may delay any interest rate cuts to later in the year.
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Post Office Scandal: what did top executive know?
She’s been described as the Post Office executive who knew more about the Horizon IT scandal than anybody else. Angela van den Bogerd personally oversaw complaints about Horizon problems since 2010 and was part of a mediation scheme that was supposed to get to the bottom of why so many subpostmasters were being accused of…
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Hugh Grant settles privacy lawsuit against The Sun newspaper publisher
Hugh Grant has reluctantly settled a lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun newspaper over claims journalists used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house. The actor said he’d been offered “an enormous sum of money” to keep the matter out of court, which he accepted to avoid being stuck with a…
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Proposed law change could strip parental rights from paedophiles
A proposed law change is set to end an anomaly that protects other people’s children from paedophiles, but not the offender’s own. The current rules allow people convicted of raping a child to retain the right to be involved in key decisions about their children’s lives, with devastating consequences for many families, as we’ve previously…
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Netanyahu ‘survival’ depends on ‘expanding war’ says head of Palestinian National Initiative
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote on a Palestinian request for full UN membership on Friday. Israel’s ally, the US, is expected to block the move because it would effectively recognise a Palestinian state. It comes as the UN appeals for more than £2.2 billion to help people in Gaza and the…
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Windrush scandal: returning to the UK after a forty year wait
Imagine going on a family holiday and being told you have no right to return to the only place you have ever called home. That’s what happened to 70-year-old Richard Black, who went to Trinidad from the UK 40 years ago to visit his in-laws. He’s thought to be one of the earliest victims of…
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FactCheck: the Angela Rayner house row explained
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is at the centre of an ongoing row about her former living arrangements. FactCheck takes a look.
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Police try to shut down right-wing event as Nigel Farage speaks
There have been chaotic scenes in Brussels where the local mayor and the police tried to shut down a right-wing conference where Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were giving speeches.
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‘Many things Netanyahu has done I disagree with, but I’m not giving up on Israel’, says top-ranking Democrat
We spoke to Gregory Meeks – a Democrat who has been against selling F15 fighter jets to Israel.
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Could US House be about to vote on Israel, Ukraine aid bill?
The White House has been vocal in expressing support for both Israel and Ukraine.
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Number of people out of work due to long-term sickness at record high
Unemployment is up; employment is down. The UK jobs market is not in great shape according to the latest official figures.
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Creating deepfake porn to be made a criminal offence after C4 investigation
Creating sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales.
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‘Over 70 per cent of the public’ support anti-smoking bill, says Public Health Minister
We spoke to Public Health Minister Andrea Leadsom about the Prime Minister’s anti-smoking bill.
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MPs vote in favour of toughest smoking laws in world
MPs have just finished debating and voted in favour of a plan to stop young people born after 2009 ever buying a packet of cigarettes.
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‘We are not interested in a regional war’, says former Israeli PM
We spoke to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak.
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Israeli society seems divided on how to react to Iran’s missile strikes
As politicians and the military work out their response to the Iran attack, Israeli society seems divided on how best to react.
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As the world focuses on Iran’s attack on Israel, bloodshed continues in Gaza
As the world waits to see how Israel will respond to Iran’s attack, in Gaza, the bloodshed continues.
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Year of civil war in Sudan ‘a nightmare of hunger and displacement’
What’s happening between Israel, Iran and Hamas may be vexing the international community, but for a full year now another war has been creating what the UN Secretary General today described as a ‘nightmare of hunger and displacement’. The Sudanese civil war is only a year old today but it has already displaced over 8…
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Israel fears repeat Iran attack, says former editor of Jerusalem Post
We are joined by author and former editor of the Jerusalem Post, Yaakov Katz.
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How long could it take to clear the Rwanda asylum seeker backlog?
Official figures show that while we enjoyed a calm sunny Sunday yesterday. More than 500 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats – the busiest day so far this year. So if the flights do eventually take off – how will the government’s Rwanda plan cope with these sorts of numbers?
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Rwanda asylum boost for Sunak as bill expected to become law
After a protracted battle with the House of Lords, the government’s Rwanda legislation is finally expected to become law this week. With flights blocked at least until that happens, the Commons Public Accounts Committee was today taking evidence about the policy and its cost.
